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More Zims Are Coming
Well, what can be said about the Zimbabwe situation? It is getting worse everyday. The results won't come because President Robert Mugabe lost the elections. He now wants a recount, but it is quite clear that this is an excuse to buy more time while...
28 April 2008
Guilty
Other organisations that the two attempted to defraud are Botswana Life Insurance Limited (BLIL) and Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVAF). They spent the weekend in jail and will be back in court on May 12 when sentence will be passed. Deputy...
By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
FOOD FOR THE SOUL
When was the last time you ate a plateful of only refined carbohydrates and sugars? When was the last time you moved a muscle or two? And when was the last time you drank enough water, i.e. two litres per day. Not looking good hey. Overall it...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 28 April 2008
TALKING MUSICA
One would have thought that after years of comment in this column and others in the past 25 years, workers in the entertainment industry - and indeed in journalism - would have realised the advantage in building convergence of unions in the arts...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 28 April 2008
Liquor Laws: BOMU Says Dialogue Is The Key
Recently the association went on a soul-searching retreat in Molepolole and one of its resolutions towards the issue was to strategically consult widely so government can provide musicians with alternative venues. The new liquor and trading...
By Mogomotsi Moloi
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Six Acts Qualify For MAD Grand Finale
This year, the decor at the show was typically African - not surprisingly so because the founder of the talent search competition, Rosalyn Beukes, is back in the saddle. In this year's competition, there were three categories namely Song/Rap,...
By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
BRIEFCASE
The DCI lost 1.97 percent to close at 7339.03 points, while the Foreign Company Index (FCI) only lost 0.02 percent to close at 2347.87 points. The biggest gainer for the week was Discovery Metals, which picked five thebe to close the week at...
28 April 2008
OUT TO LUNCH
I know people say everything starts with building and managing your personal brand; others say you need to identify the gaps in your CV and find a way of filling them in preparation for the next big thing. Well, yes, that is true, but even before...
SHAMEELA WINSTON 28 April 2008
Letshego Makes Strides In The Market
Available data shows that from its launch in March 2004 to date, the company has increased its subscribers from 12,946 by end of its first year of trading to a huge clientele base that gives it the lion's share of the market. Currently the company,...
28 April 2008
VP To Commission BR Signalling System
BR spokesperson Alina Masenya they have been renewing their signalling and telecommunications infrastructure since 2005 at a cost of P165.5 million. Ansaldo STS, an Australian company is responsible for the project. The company recently opened an...
28 April 2008
Choppies Opens Store In Bobonong
While the opening of the chain store is seen as a threat to the survival of small and medium retailers, Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Shaw Kgathi believes such businesses should be innovative to survive competition. He said at the official...
By Mqondisi Dube
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Malaria Cases On Decline
Dr Shimeles Hamda said at the two-day malaria Zambezi expedition held at Kachikau and Kasane last week, that the national data has revealed that there have been fewer confirmed cases and deaths over the years. Hamda said that this decline has been...
By Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
FNBB Golf Clinics Pay Dividends
Speaking after the third leg of the clinics in Selebi-Phikwe, BGU trainer Gabriel Tjitjo said the exercise has been a huge success. He said the selection of Le Roy Pearmain, Shane Granger Junior and Tremaine Granger for trials with the junior...
By Mqondisi Dube
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Young Sensation Takes Golfing World By Storm
The young golfing sensation, has won major tournaments in Botswana and has broken into the junior national team. Only recently, Pearmain narrowly lost out on a chance to fly out to England to play in a youth tournament. But he is a youngster with...
By Mqondisi Dube
Correspondent 28 April 2008
BNOC In Olympics Funding Dilemma
Information reaching Monitor Sport indicates that the committee has been given money but it does not have any idea at all as to how to use it and it is still awaiting instruction from government. Apparently the committee had made applications for two...
By Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Morule Is Back As BSA Boss
Mukokomani succeeded Morule last year. On Saturday, he lost by 10-4 votes as Morule's allies swept the board unopposed. It was clear from the day Morule and his team announced that they would contest the elections that the time was up for Mukokomani...
By Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Naughty Boys Back
Naughty Boys made sure in emphatic fashion by outclassing the visiting Killer Giants 2-0 in the decider on Saturday in Tlokweng. The day belonged to Galefatoge 'Dilo Dilo' Kenaope who created the opening goal and scored the second. With only two...
By Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 28 April 2008
We Can Eradicate Malaria
Representatives in this group came from six countries - Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This is a good initiative by this group and it needs to be applauded. The group has distributed bed nets to communities in the...
EDITOR 28 April 2008
Culprits For The Zimbabwe Crisis
Four weeks since the Zimbabweans cast their votes there are still no signs of presidential results being released. As the situation for our neighbours worsens, SADC leaders are still dragging their feet in putting more effort to try to force the...
28 April 2008
Death Penalty Is Inhumane
I believe the death sentence is not given to every killer but it is given after very serious investigations and thought, thereby on rare occasions. There are cases we hear of people who have killed others and are walking the streets free because...
28 April 2008
DPAM Erred In Identifying Scare Skills - BOSETU
Though we understand and appreciate that certain skills or professions in Botswana are still scarce, our contention has always been and it is still that the problem cannot be solved in a piece meal approach like government is doing at the moment. We...
28 April 2008
Health Chat
Bo bakwa ke eng? Gago tlhomamisege gore tota bo bakwa ke eng. Lefa go ntse jalo, dilo dingwe tse di latelang di lemogilwe * Mogare wa vaerase jaaka Coxsackie virus* Mogare wa kgotlholo e tone (TB)* Mogare wa HIV* Kankere...
R .Chindomu
S. Chidzomba
K. Bhagat &
L. Kalantle 28 April 2008
Court Postpones Nightclub Owners' Case
The judge postponed the case to Wednesday this week, after an application by Isaac Kamwendo of the Attorney General's Chambers, that they be given time to file answering affidavits and heads of argument. The respondents in this matter have been cited...
By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 28 April 2008
ETCETERA II
The other was the long over due decision that 'all government ministries, parastatals, local authorities and wholly owned government companies' should purchase arts and crafts and related materials from citizens and citizen owned companies. Up to...
SANDY GRANT 28 April 2008
ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Being a victim of bullying is often not the choice of the person receiving the bullying. Many new students at the beginning of Form One or at the beginning of Form Four are bullied because they are new and vulnerable. In Botswana, the bullying and...
D. MOLEFE
O. PANSIRI &
S. WEEKS 28 April 2008
THE WINNERS CODE
A few years ago, who would have dreamt of a day in which the front runner in the US presidential elections would not be a white male but a black American and a white woman? Who would have foreseen a day on the commodities market in which the price of...
GEORGE CHINGARADE 28 April 2008
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28 April 2008
Phlebotomy Props Up Health Sector - Mampane
Dr Tiro Mampane said the World Health Organisation (WHO)recommends that one doctor should serve 250 patients and a nurse 100. Mampane, who is managing director of Boitekanelo Training Institute (BTI), said Botswana still lags behind in this regard....
By Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
Botswana Backs Namibian For IPU Presidency
Clerk of the National Assembly, Earnest Mpofu told Monitor on Friday. Mpofu said Balopi made Botswana's position known to the Vice President of the Cuban National Assembly, Jaime Crombet Hernandez-Baquero who was in Botswana last week....
By Tumelo Setshogo
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Companies Demand Compensation From Lawyer
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Phadi Solomon made an application to the court requesting it to order Mothusi to compensate the companies over P1 million. A representative from an unnamed company had just taken the stand at the Village...
By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
BIUST Will Not Duplicate UB Courses
The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) is envisaged as a purposeful place of advancing discovery and learning in science and technology "within a Botswana setting with an international perspective." This means that...
By Tumelo Setshogo
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Information Services Vacancy To Be Filled
Kebareng Solomon, the Chief Information Officer at Information, has been acting on renewable six-month contracts. Sources say though she has not been appointed director, "Solomon is effectively in charge as she is the entry point of the department....
By Tumelo Setshogo
Correspondent 28 April 2008
Bobirwa Leads In Rape Cases
The area reported 36 rape cases in 2006 but the number dropped to 21 last year. However, the area has recorded 10 rape cases during the first three months of this year. Officer Commanding Senior Superintendent Diana Marathe said this when briefing...
By Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 28 April 2008
NEWS BRIEFS
According to eyewitnesses, who did not want to be named the old man was among a crowd that was preparing for a wedding ceremony that was to be held in the afternoon. Apparently the man who was given the gun to shoot the cow missed it and the...
Compiled by BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Nkate takes the blame
The problem forced the school to close a week early. Nkate said he authorised the opening of the school despite the fact that he was advised that the infrastructural development was not complete. He defended the decision saying that if he did not...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 29 April 2008
Ex-New Era student was not a child
Seleka, a former New Era English Medium School student, was appealing on grounds that he was young when he committed the offence and that he wanted to start a new page by going back to school and becoming a responsible citizen. He argued that his...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
BDF clowns thrill F/town youngsters
Though there were adults in the audience, it was the children who filled every nook and cranny of the stadium, laughing their lungs out at the hilarious displays by lumbering clowns and cowering under an intense eardrum-splitting bombardment in a...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 29 April 2008
LSB to decide fate of Mothusi, Sikhakhane
Boko would not discuss details of the meeting nor shed light on what possible steps the LSB council were going to take. We will release information at the right time after we have met, he said yesterday adding that the decisions would be in...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Moupo must go BNF commissions
Speaking on condition of anonymity, an insider told Mmegi yesterday that if the commissions stance on the leadership issue is anything to go by, then the writing is on the wall that Moupos time is up. The party leadership circulated a...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Artistes angry at show stoppage
On Saturday, the police in anti-riot gear ordered the closure of a jazz festival that Selolwane had organised. The festival featured top local acts Matsieng, Shanti-Lo, Maxy, Punah Gabasiane, Lister Boleseng, Ndingo Johwa. Foreign...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 April 2008
Zims seek refuge in Botswana
Reports reaching Mmegi indicate that over the weekend asylum seekers from Zimbabwe crossed the border into Botswana at an ungazetted point of entry in the Bobirwa Sub-District. The Zimbabweans entered Botswana near Bobonong, the administrative centre...
RYDER GABATHUSE and
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writers 29 April 2008
Private radio stations rock Francistown
Gabz FM, Yarona FM and Duma FM opened the airwaves in Francistown last week. Mmegi took to the streets of Francistown to find out what dwellers have to say about the development. Most people asserted that it is a welcome development,...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Police abort jazz festival
The festival, which was expected to be a massive show, was organised by local musician John Selolwane on Saturday. But he burnt his fingers after failing to abide by the new liquor regulations. The regulations state that...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 April 2008
VPB boss joins Africa venture capital board
In a statement yesterday, the company said Siwawa was nominated during the AVCA AGM. The move came after the associations conference co-hosted by VPB and the IFSC in Gaborone recently. Siwawa was nominated and appointed to the AVCA board with five...
STAFF WRITER 29 April 2008
New milk processor predicts no shortages
In a statement released on yesterday the investment partners of Delta Dairies, VPB said that after the acute shortages of last year will not be experienced again. The private equity and venture capital firm said Delta Dairies opened the first...
STAFF WRITER 29 April 2008
Stage set for CSD launch by BSE
The move is meant to achieve the objectives of the Committee of the SADC Stock Exchange (COSSE) to harmonise regional stock market trading. The CSD forms part of the road map by Hiran Mendis, the Sri Lankan who was roped in by government to help put...
KABO MOKGOABONE
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Entertainment suffers
Over the weekend, hundreds of music lovers thronged Boipuso conference hall to enjoy live music and to see their idols. Some of the superstars who came included South African-based Tshepho Tshola and Zimbabwes Oliver Mtukudzi amongst a galaxy of...
EDITOR 29 April 2008
AS I SEE IT
It is natural, the defeat at the hands of one Bantsi must have rankled party President Moupo to make him sound intolerant at disparaging comments by the media. Loss of anything to anybody at anytime frays the nerves, and intolerance is always skin...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 29 April 2008
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