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Zim arms ship heads for Angola, says Mozambique
The ship left South African waters on Friday after a court refused to allow the weapons to be transported across South Africa, the South African Press Association said. Mozambique Transport and Communications Minister Paulo Zucula told Reuters that...
22 April 2008
Album promotes road safety
Though this is not the title track, it carries a good message which, if heeded, could help save many lives in Botswana. With her backing-up vocalists, Yaya, as she prefers to be called in the music industry, laments how road accidents have claimed...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 22 April 2008
Botswana fields five contestants in M-Net's Idols
While quite a number of those who believed they could sing thronged the Grand Palm to take a shot at making it into the talent search's theatre stage, it was only Samantha Mogwe, Ammara Brown, Everlyn Mokgadi, Joseph Dipatane and Kgomotso Perekisi...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 22 April 2008
Life is never that easy
Run, Lola Run is by the German director Tom Tykwer. He says he began by wanting to make a movie about energy. In this he has eminently succeeded. It has become a popular film among the youth. Tykwer has mixed nearly every possible technique known to...
22 April 2008
Bank Rate unchanged despite inflation breach
In one of their quarterly meetings held yesterday, the MPC admitted that the current inflation levels are above the Bank's targets, but decided to leave the bank rate at 14.5 percent nonetheless. "In a meeting held today, the Bank of Botswana...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 22 April 2008
Journos sample luxury SAtrain
The locomotive made a stopover at Gaborone Station on Thursday night. It was en route to Victoria Falls on a journey that started in the South African capital, Pretoria, on Wednesday night, coasting at an easy 60 km/hr. Its sumptuous coaches...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 22 April 2008
A victory of good over evil
And thus what should have been a quiet acquisition by the government of President Robert Mugabe has been exposed by an alert media, an outspoken political movement, a radically independent judicial system and an active NGO community. While the media...
Editor 22 April 2008
President Khama breaks a new ground
In the past, this column portrayed SADC as a circus particularly at the time they met in Dar-es-Salaam after the assault on Morgan Tsvangarai. President Thabo Mbeki was appointed, nay re-appointed, as mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis which he now...
22 April 2008
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22 April 2008
Masitaoka frustrate Killer Giants
After the weekend results, Killer Giants are only ahead of Naughty Boys on goal difference at the top of the log. Both sides have 39 points and will be meeting in the last game to decide who gets automatic promotion to the Premier League. The...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 22 April 2008
UB BNF branch tells Moupo to quit
"In recent months, we have witnessed serious setbacks in the BNF which we attribute to the BNF leadership. (It is these) setbacks that have compelled us to make our position known. To us young lieutenants of the party, the question of whether comrade...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff writer 22 April 2008
Naughty Boys improve promotion chances
Against Tlokweng United, Naughty Boys wasted several scoring chances with striker Galefetoge 'Dilo Dilo' Kenaope as the main culprit. The former Township Rollers man did not despair as he kept muscling his way between Tlokweng United defenders. He...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 22 April 2008
Nico call for Phuthego's resignation
Nico appealed the PLC's decision to reschedule the game, but the Botswana Football Association (BFA) Disciplinary Committee (DC) rejected their case. Nico wanted three points and two goals after the fixture against GU was cancelled last December. The...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 22 April 2008
BTA holds training camp for juniors
The week-long camp started yesterday and ends on Sunday. BTA's sports development officer, Mthandazo Sibanda, said that the players were selected last December during the Botswana National Sports Council's (BNSC) junior development programme. He...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 22 April 2008
Ex-military chief joins UB
Fisher retired from the BDF in 2006 and joined South Africa's Wits University as a lecturer. He told Mmegi that he has decided to come back home to do his PhD research after enrolling at Wits last year. "My research proposal is defence policy...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 22 April 2008
OLIVER MODISE
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He rejected a bid by principal public prosecutor Moakofi Seilane for the warrant to be issued yesterday. Kanjabanga and his secretary Boitshwarelo Mooremang, Tumelo and businessman Kudzani Gaabopiwe face several counts of corruption. Yesterday only...
Magistrate warns Kanjabanja and co-accused 22 April 2008
Red Cross 'rescues' Gweta, Nata floods victims
Floods devastated the three villages that lie on a saltpan early this year, with Gweta being particularly hard hit. The floodwaters destroyed homes and contaminated rivers and stream from which villagers get their potable water. The...
UYAPO KGOSI
Correspondent 22 April 2008
Nightclub owners to sue govt
Gaborone attorney Lone Masire confirmed that he has been engaged by the nightclub owners and would be filing an urgent application at the Lobatse High Court this week. But Masire would not specify what exactly they are challenging, stating that...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 22 April 2008
Peace is indivisible
That you are presiding over this meeting is indeed a clear testimony of your commitment and the determination of your country, South Africa, to consistently use its membership of the Council to elevate to a global level the African agenda for...
MOMPATI MERAFHE* 22 April 2008
Burglaries go up
He said that during the same period, they recorded four cases of burglary and theft (during the day). "It is surprising that in these cases the perpetrators stole things like fridges, stoves, linen and chairs. We wonder why people would...
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Staff Writer 22 April 2008
Bosa: He who sings for the Lord
But he does not sing ordinary party songs. He sings for the Lord.When he was a student at Lobatse Secondary School, Bosa used to sing for rest of the students and teachers during the school's morning assemblies. As a student, he...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 22 April 2008
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