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Mugabe's party blames Zambia's President for poll defeat
The ruling party, which is gearing up for a bruising presidential election run-off between Mugabe and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said it was disappointed with Mwanawasa because he had failed to call for...
KITSEPILE NYATHI 15 May 2008
BEDIA wants more powers in new law
Much of the review will affect Part V of the BEDIA Act which spells out the functions, powers and duties of the organisation. Malesu said the idea is to give BEDIA powers to negotiate deals and "seal them with potential investors without having to...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Iamgold triples profits but faces challenges ahead
The Botswana Stock Exchange-listed company is however faced with the challenges of either discovering or buying additional more gold resources and reserves if it is to replace output from several ageing mines and take better advantage of record gold...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Inflation reaches dreaded double digits
The national year-on-year inflation rate stood at 11.1 percent for April, up by 1.3 percentage points on the March rate of 9.8 percent. The inflation figures are now way above the 4 to 6 percent target band that Bank of Botswana (BoB) has set in...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Mob threatens man over Stompie kidnap plot
Yesterday, a mob nearly lynched a man who was seen looking for the musician in Old Naledi, while he (Stompie) was still at school. According to Stompie's mother Jennie, at around 11 am she received a call informing her that a stranger had been...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Socca comes up with 'Your Smile' album
Moruakgomo has been in Johannesburg to record the album. But before he left for the studio, Moruakgomo held shows where he gave his fans a sample of what he is offering. Judging from the response of the audience, he has...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 May 2008
SA promises succesful 2010 World Cup
Speaking at a media briefing moderated by Fionnuala Sweeny, a CNN anchor at the ongoing 2008 Indaba here, South Africa's 2010 World Cup Local Organising Committee chief executive officer (CEO) Danny Jordaan said that South Africa should not "feel...
KABO MOKGOABONE
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi
He said though they did not perform well at the just-ended Confederation of South Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament, Batswana benefited as the competition helped players to gauge themselves. Botswana lost 5-0 in their opening match...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Ndlovu proves critics wrong
But that is now water under the bridge and his critics have been made to eat humble pie as he helped the team stave off the relegation zone. Even his reception at the Selebi-Phikwe side was lukewarm. In fact, it went on to divide the team into two...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Gunners miss out on Kabelano again
The event takes place on June 28 at the National Stadium, Gaborone. While Gunners had always an integral part of the Kabelano tournament in the past, they have been missing out since the system of selecting the participating teams was changed. In...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Indiscipline troubles BFA
This comes in the wake of disciplinary action taken against Zebras' Jerome Ramatlhakwana recently. According to BFA technical director, Losika Keatlholetswe, Ramatlhakwana was rough-tackled during a training session at Lekidi Football Centre....
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Burglars terrorise schools
Shathiso Tambula said it is evident that measures in place are not enough as robbers continue to terrorise, especially boarding students. His comment comes in the wake of a Moshupa Senior Secondary School case where boarding students were attacked by...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Church folk and youth must vote
The importance of choosing people's representatives cannot be overemphasised. When elected leaders fail to deliver, the majority of citizens raise hell. Yet they would have failed, in the first place, to use their democratic right to elect the right...
EDITORIAL 15 May 2008
China welcomes offers of quake aid
But the Foreign Ministry did not say clearly whether China, whose role in recent years has shifted from aid recipient to aid donor as its economy soars, would accept the offers. "We express our welcome and gratitude. Relevant departments of China...
15 May 2008
'War veterans' are cowards
If indeed these people had fought dangerous wars in the bush, they wouldn't be so scared of a mere democratic change of Government. This makes me believe that those who parade themselves as liberators of Zimbabwe today are likely to have been hiding...
15 May 2008
The economic benefits of disease control
Indeed, millions of deaths in impoverished nations are avoidable with prevention and treatment options that the rich world already uses. This year, 10 million children will die in low- and middle-income countries. If child death rates were the same...
DEAN T. JAMISON
and BJORN LOMBORG 15 May 2008
Cartoon Strip-15.05.08
15 May 2008
Kopano House still grounded
The BNF has leased the plot to a car wash business and a container restaurant. The organisation was allocated the plot in the 1980s to build the party headquarters but over the years there have been no developments there. The plot has been lying...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 May 2008
'No' to Zim arms embargo - Skelemani
"Zimbabwe, like any other country is entitled to order arms to replace or to replenish if it thinks it is necessary to do so. That is the right of every state," said Skelemani. However, like many people believe, he conceded that the time...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
Incest, stocktheft cases postponed
Moakofi Seilane of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said they were unable to bring Hans Mojela to court because he is in Zimbabwe. Seilane said they believed that Mojela would be in Botswana in May when in fact he was in the country in...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 15 May 2008
BNF youth wrangle over Moupo
The division has reportedly reached the top leadership of the organisation. Yesterday, BNFYL secretary general, Tona Mooketsi told Mmegi that the central committee met on the 19th to 20th April 2008 in Kanye where the decision to call for Moupo to...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Unemployed graduates file 260 applications to DPSM
Graduates are required to fill in forms and email them to the DPSM at
[email protected]
. "We will continue to advertise vacancies while also considering those who have applied through the database," said Kgotlele. The Department of Culture...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Six weeks of power outages
Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) spokesperson, Thomamiso Selato confirmed that indeed the load shedding measures were mainly brought about by the shutdown of one of Botswana's major electricity suppliers, the Cahora Bassa power station. The...
STAFF WRITER 15 May 2008
AfDB 'empowers' Eskom for expansion projects
Eskom has, until recently, been battling to meet the electricity demand of a growing economy which the power utility has blamed on an inadequate coal-generated power. This has affected neighbouring states such as Botswana which imports over...
EDGAR TSIMANE
Correspondent 15 May 2008
Khama prompts debate on moral rennaisance
Most were left reeling in anticipation and others anxious and uncomfortable. When I read that President Khama spoke of the establishment of a joint advisory committee on social values made up of members of Ntlo Ya Dikgosi and the Botswana Council of...
JOWITT MBONGWE 16 May 2008
Search on for fake Zim lawyer
The LSB said Chiwuta decided to buy Chadwick, Anderson and Partners branch in Selibe-Phikwe. The organisation informed the parties to conductan audit and list all the files of the law firm at the mining town in 2006. The administration...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 16 May 2008
The power of mind key to success - Sikwane
The mind power workshop was meant to help participants make money by dissolving of stress. The facilitator Raphael Sikwane explained that stress is a dangerous element that diminishes the ability to make money. He said that stress is a result of...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
Asylum seekers setting home at Dukwi
Their move to the refugee camp has settled a majority of the asylum seekers who feared for their lives in the event the Botswana government and its stakeholders declined to welcome them. Bhekimpilo Weza, 29, from Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe was...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
Intruder gets rude welcome
The man entered in the company of another man who is at large. According to Superintendent Moithali Thokweng, one of the two men entered the house while the other remained outside. He found an old woman who was alone. The two did not know...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
MVAF 'fetes' F/town stakeholders
Speaking at a dinner hosted for the stakeholders who included the traffic police, doctors, media, Botswana Post, Department of Transport and Road Safety, paramedics and others, Kgosidiile said the origin of the MVAF Act dates back to around 1986. He...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
BCP celebrates despite wrangles
Francistown region secretary, Morgan Moseki disclosed that the whole day event will be held at an open space behind Galo Centre. Moseki said the three Francistown constituencies, Nkange, Nata/Gweta, Tati East and West and the two Tonota...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 16 May 2008
Basarwa banking on Khama for CKGR solution
"Maybe if he were to apply himself to the case with a fresh mind, he would realise that there is nothing to this case but government's intransigence," Boko believes. Boko says he has lost patience with what he calls the government's 'arrogant...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
Young farmer appeals to govt for marketing support
Agriculture, at one point a major contributor to Botswana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), now contributes just above three percent. Molefi Pilane runs a piggery a few kilometres south east of the mining town. He has set his sights on establishing a...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 16 May 2008
Tati Nickel hands second day care centre
The day care centre is the second after Matshelagabedi Village last year. The centre was upgraded with the help of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme that was formed in 2006 to promote a healthy well educated and skilled community...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
EPAs should promote regional co-operation - Skelemani
In a speech at the Europe Day Tuesday, Skelemani said such a situation "can only be achieved if the process respects already existing institutions in the SADC region" and the process must significantly contribute towards milestones and programmes...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
Should Africa abandon electoral politics?
How many times have we seen and heard presidents, with a hand on the Bible, utter the words "So help me, God!" as an affirmation of their dedication to upholding and protecting the constitution of their nation?It is no exaggeration that today, on a...
*TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE 16 May 2008
Bobirwa, Tuli Safari laucnh Molema
The project, named Molema, is a community based project in the Tuli Block launched on May 5, but it will open for bookings from 1st July 2008. Chris Butterfield, one of the shareholders of Tuli Safari Lodge explained that Molema is a tourism project...
STAFF WRITER 16 May 2008
Govt acts to contain world food shortages
Responding to enquiries from Mmegi on contingency measures to tackle the shortages, Director of Crop Production in the Ministry of Agriculture Molatlhegi Modise said government was working on a number of strategies, which are all in line with the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
Your mother probably did the same. Chances are that every mother in the world does this, regardless of race, creed or religion. Didn't cellphone store owners have mothers?I used to think that it was used car salesmen, taxi drivers and builders...
16 May 2008
BOOK REVIEW
Before anything can be typeset it has to be created. Yet there is a reputation that exists for some writers that their type is too hot to hold ... it burns the brain, maybe even will get the author in trouble. This collection of three-dozen...
Reviewed by
SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 16 May 2008
BACK STAGE
As one of the first of the northern hemisphere "summer" flicks, it got a good reception. Three more comic book movies will soon follow it, and may have difficulty in matching Iron Man in both quality and take. The name "Iron Man" belongs to the...
16 May 2008
Exhibition doesn't quiet strike a chord
Gopal is an art teacher at McConnel College in Tutume where he has been teaching the subject since 2004. He taught at a number of schools in India before coming to Botswana. He has won a number of awards including Lalit Kala Ackademy-Andhra, 1991,...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 16 May 2008
What lurks in our massage parlours?
And within every little free time, we hang out and party, spending exorbitantly like Hollywood superstars. The latest luxurious fad emerging is the visit to massage parlours. Every evening and weekends, men and women are seen lining up for massage...
NYAKWAR BARA 16 May 2008
The towering promise of the AU
ADDIS ABABA: When you walk into the African Union headquarters from the front gate, you see before you a giant tower. It'is a stoic thing, looking as it does like it has seen better times, and now it is nothing but purely functional. The passage of...
16 May 2008
What role for African journalists?
ADDIS ABABA: Dr Naison Ngoma of the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies implored African journalists to dedicate themselves to the collective effort of improving the African continent. Another speaker, Dr Abdel Haireche of the African...
16 May 2008
Times are tough in Mathangwane
That is, aside from the flimsy maroon pleated skirt and an equally porous T-shirt, she had earlier slipped into, and then tottered out of the small shack she shares with her two children to await the warm rays of the sun to thaw her benumbed...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 16 May 2008
Authorities 'unenlightened' about darkness at school
Disturbed by the blackout, which is affecting the teaching programme, especially of practical subjects, the parent is appealing to authorities to do something. But most of them, including the Chief Education Officer (North), say they are not aware of...
STAFF WRITER 16 May 2008
Of Chinese, tenders and labour relations
Countrywide, there are complaints of poor labour relations at Chinese businesses, particularly in the construction sector. The Chinese have won a P1billion tender for the construction of Botswana's largest dam, Dikgatlhong near Mmadinare in the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 16 May 2008
Treat Basarwa with dignity
Undoubtedly, the CKGR saga has been a source of embarrassment not only to the majority of patriotic Batswana, but also to friends of Botswana worldwide. The historic 13 December 2006 High Court ruling on the CKGR issue provided the government with a...
EDITOR 16 May 2008
NITTY GRITTY
After much ado about thanking the chairman for allowing free speech and open debate, he then thanked Ausi Maggie for the free rounds of chicken legs and gizzards they the fellows enjoy even now as we speak, as they deliberate and collaborate in the...
BAROLONG SEBONI 16 May 2008
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