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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
Cartoon 29.04.08
29 April 2008
BMC slips in relegation battle
The Lobatse side had hoped to get maximum points to ease their relegation worries ahead of a tricky match against Boteti Young Fighters away in Orapa next weekend but things did not go their way. The BMC-Santos game sparked to life in the last 30...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 29 April 2008
No easy walk for Notwane
Since the start of the Premier League, the Mochudi giants have been on fire going 27 games without a loss. Chiefs are sitting at the summit of the log with an unassailable 67 points. With Magosi having won the title, there is a feeling that they...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 29 April 2008
Bank investors suffer at the bourse
On the back of a price correction that began in October last year, financial institutions continue to lose ground in the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) and the trend appears to be persisting. However, in last week's trading Standard Chartered Bank...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Expert points to changing times in primary resources sector
Ndaba Mpofu, chief investment officer of VPB, a local equity and venture capital firm, said the financing of the sectors is now firmly in the private equity spotlight in the region. He was speaking at an investment seminar organised by the South...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Zim opposition members freed
They were detained after police raided the office of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in search of people alleged to have committed arson attacks. "All the 185 have just been released without being charged. I presume they are all now going...
30 April 2008
Unions and political activism
About two weeks ago a ship laden with arms destined for troubled Zimbabwe sought to dock at Durban, South Africa. On its way from China, the ill fated An Yue Jiang had been under the media spotlight and as it approached Durban, manoeuvres were...
30 April 2008
Khama on justice
For access to justice is essentially about service delivery, an issue which is very close to my heart. As I observed recently in my inaugural speech, our country has achieved much in the field of democracy and development, but we still face many...
30 April 2008
Laughter session in court
In a situation where some actions or what is being said calls for laughter, the gallery can only emit sniggers and titters lest they incur the wrath of stern court orderlies. But on Monday, Acting Chief Magistrate, Lorraine Makati-Lesang seemed to...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Zimbo charged with murder of compatriot
The 24-year old Gibson Shumba alias Satane of Gweru, Zimbabwe, is accused of the murder of Ruregarero Bhangu on April 26, 2008 at Area 9 in Monarch. It is alleged that Shumba stabbed the deceased during a Chibuku beer binge after a misunderstanding....
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Auditor fumes over 'truant' barman
A year after he had absconded from his job as a barman he continued to draw a salary from government. "Although he had not reported for duty since August 2007,his wages were credited to his bank account and the advice slips routinely forwarded to...
STAFF WRITER 30 April 2008
Railways, postal services fare badly in audit report
Though Botswana Post received qualified accounts, it was disaster for Botswana Railways whose accounts were not audited at all. "I am required to audit the accounts of Botswana Railways within four months of the end of each financial year. However,...
STAFF WRITER 30 April 2008
BDP accuses Sebele of 'intermeddling'
The constituency's secretary Boitumelo Kgabo has wrote to Sebele, the son of BaKwena Deputy Chief Kgosi Keineetse Sebele, bidding him to explain why he has been campaigning behind closed doors. "It has become clear to us that you have been busy...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
BNF reels from leadership Forum blues
The mood was tense and it was clear that comrades had made their minds that it was over for their trouble-prone leader. The stage was set when Balopi was called to welcome the delegates. Balopi outlined some of the challenges they meet on the...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Botswana participates in Zim trade fair
Traditionally, the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA) mobilised Batswana companies to exhibit at the ZITF, but this year, for the second successive year, no Batswana firms participated at the Zimbabwean show. Instead, the...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Kline scoops top HIV award
Kline was left speechless for a moment after he received the award from former president Festus Mogae at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) last week. The award is the Baylor International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) Network...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Zim attorney visa requirement invoked
Moyo used to practise under the name and style N Mafa Moyo Attorneys. But the minister has declared Moyo "a person who is required to obtain a visa to enter Botswana". The move, which is often seen as being tantamount to one being declared a...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Gaborone speaks for Moupo
Gaborone said an incessant amount of time, energy, emotion and resources have been expended on discipline in the party. "Indiscipline in the party becomes more worrisome when it plays itself out through factions as it seems to be the case at...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Tertiary education must improve - Molutsi
Speaking in an interview at the official launch of the new tertiary education policy held at Gaborone Sun on Monday, Swartland said that by investing in people, Batswana can also go anywhere in the world. He said the policy would play a part in...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
University Of Botswana and University of Pretoria in Partnership
The signing ceremony was performed at the University of Pretoria in South Africa last week. The University of Botswana was represented by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Bojosi Otlhogile and the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs,...
30 April 2008
May Day: Workers rights are human rights
On May 1st PSI affiliates across the globe will be organising marches, demonstrations and rallies to call for the observance of trade union and human rights and to highlight the severe injustices that trade unionists remain subjected to, including...
30 April 2008
Workers brace for May Day
BFTU said in a statement released in Gaborone yesterday that this theme was carefully chosen by focusing on the current global challenges facing employees, governments as well as the International Labour Organisation (ILO). These challenges call for...
30 April 2008
BACK STAGE
The fault probably lies equally with the script and the direction. The script is frivolous to the extreme, having started with a serious premise, it gets lost in its own sophistication. It is based on the book of the same name in 2002 by Nicola...
SASA MAJUMA 30 April 2008
BOOK REVIEW
Last year the Rough Guides celebrated their 25th year with the production of 25 low-cost, miniature A6 books on 25 Ultimate Experiences worldwide. Each of these tiny pocket guides is about 78-pages long and each contains information on 25 unique...
Reviewed by SHERIDAN GRISWORLD
Corespondent 30 April 2008
Mogae wants Palapye museum in place
Speaking during the occasion to view the late traditional music legend Ratsie Setlhako's tombstone, Mogae said with a museum, the village's history and culture would be preserved for posterity. He said the museum would not only preserve his but also...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Warm winter expected at Odipeca launch
On Friday, Odipeca will launch the Woodpeckers range that includes Odi and Peca lines and they have roped in some of the best talents in Botswana and South Africa. Although the organisers say they are confident that the line -up of artists set to...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Mr Positive Living pageant preps on course
Although the pageant started two years ago as an annual event it could not be held last year because of financial constraints. However, the organisers are adamant that it will go on as planned and will be more appealing than the previous one. The...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 30 April 2008
Motswana rap artiste excels in Sweden
The formidable 26-year-old Quraishi has managed to overcome all challenges she faced as a foreigner to become a celebrity in a land thousands of kilometres away from her birthplace. The multi-talented artiste is also a notable businesswoman in the...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 30 April 2008
Searching through the maze
FRANCISTOWN: It is like a scream from a cold winter night. Please give us jobs. We are suffering, is the forlorn message written all over the faces of people who congregate daily in front of the Labour Department premises in Francistown's Light...
30 April 2008
Debating the Botswana logo
This year marks the 86th year of contribution by graphic design to the current world's socio-economic status, peace and stability. On a daily basis, we are constantly bombarded with visual information of all kinds, transmitting messages in different...
30 April 2008
More power to workers
Various government staff associations have transformed into unions following the ratification of progressive conventions of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO). This was a significant gain for labour in Botswana. The transformation of...
EDITOR 30 April 2008
Localisation at Tati Mine/BMR is questionable
Circulating rumour indicate that a number of foreigners from Bendura Mine in Zimbabwe are waiting at the border to occupy senior posts which they have been promised by their counter parts (ex Bendura workers) working at the Tati and BMR. Most of...
30 April 2008
Khama is a boost to informal sector
Like his father in the early 70's who abolished local tax, radio and Chibuku licence with a stroke of a pen, Ian Khama abolished harassment of poor Batswana who are trying to make ends meet by his empowerment directive, which will put food on the...
30 April 2008
Management of Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) could tarnish Botswana's good name
It is becoming increasingly important for members of the public to critically examine the way BPOPF is managing government employee pension funds. As our government has embarked on privitisation of state assets, there is need for members of the...
30 April 2008
Cartoon 30.04.08
30 April 2008
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