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Hayashi-Ha donates to Tlamelong
The donation is the club's initiative to give back to the community and make a difference especially to the less privileged people. Club spokesperson Jerry Ditlhong said sports people never give back to the community so they felt it was time...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Kalakuta turns heads
Owner and producer Eric Ramogobya has helped launch the careers of such house-hold names as Jonny Kobedi, Kgobola, Machesa as well as Third Mind. Third Mind's popular 90s number Sesotho ke Sechaina was from the golden hands of the then young...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Back Stage
It is the third movie in a series of British Classic films being shown in May. The English love their stories - and movies - about the fall and recovery of the British family in all its splendour, the decline from riches to rags and the subsequent...
20 May 2008
Cheers to pensioners health
Our position has always been that policies, especially those that deal with cost-recovery, should not be imposed across the board because this country consists of various social classes with a variety of needs. Pensioners find themselves in a...
EDITOR 20 May 2008
Xenophobia in SA is shameful
I thought the South Africans were the last in the world to treat foreigners the way they do now, I am saying this looking at your very sad history. President Thabo Mbeki and others are the ones that were out of South Africa for the better part of...
20 May 2008
The male species is a danger to this world!
I was really impressed and wanted to embrace you for your insightful thoughts and comments on a topic that seems to always evoke strong emotional responses between and among sexes. You are my partner in crime in that you are one of a few men who...
20 May 2008
AS I SEE IT
The phrase, comes from a West Indian slave, who anticipating Einstein's transfusion of the categories, coined a proverb, "Time longer dan rope." Any keen observer of historical developments will certainly subscribe to the adage. Time is always...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 20 May 2008
Cartoon 20.05.08
20 May 2008
Bakwena ba Mogopa get king
At this opening, Molewa was handed a report by Judge Herbert Hendler regarding a chieftainship staleate of Bakwena ba Mogopa near Rustenburg over the rightful heir to the throne. The commission was appointed in September last year and has received...
EDGAR TSIMANE
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Khama can't be serious - BNF
The advice came hardly a week after some opposition parties dismissed Khama's initiatives as not being a threat to their survival and as only "aimed at giving the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) political mileage" at the next general election. But...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Ntlo ya Dikgosi to hear 40 questions
He was filling a position that fell vacant after the death of Kgosi Matinanga Matinanga in December last year. Former president, Festus Mogae nominated Ozoo just a few days before he left office on April 1. Welcoming Kgosi Ozoo, Kgosi...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
Measurements in sport vital - BOBS
The event will start with a parade followed by a seminar at Mokala Lodge in Jwaneng. Metrology is defined as the science of measurement, embracing both experimental and theoretical determinations at any level of uncertainty in any field of science...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 20 May 2008
BNFYL paralysed by Moupo split?
The lack of quorum according to the source was necessitated by the division of committee members on whether BNF president Otsweletse Moupo to resign or not. The source is however, against the idea of those calling for Moupo to step down. The same...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Refugee centre houses 109 exiles
Welcoming Khama, Francistown District Commissioner and Refugee Advisory Committee chairperson, Richard Oaitse, said there were 109 asylum seekers accommodated at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants. Of this number, 47 are children, 34 are...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Kgosiemang's expulsion splits church
Earlier on, it was business as usual as the congregants went through their service and singing joyously. But things nearly went out of control when one of the officials stepped on the podium to announce that the church's first female priest...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Law society bungles the law
The fresh application follows a meeting held yesterday between the affected lawyers and the law society. It is understood that the lawyers were querying the decision of the Registrar of the High Court, Godfrey Nthomiwa to strike the two off the...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
No plane for Tsvangirai
A South African weekend paper, City Press published a story reporting that Tsvangirai, who was in South Africa, was travelling using an aircraft supplied by President Ian Khama. "By late Saturday the MDC leader and party secretary-general, Tendai...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
Athletics team scoops 12 medals
The haul includes two gold, seven silver and three bronze medals. Additionally one gold medallist, 400m runner Thapelo Ketlogetswe, qualified for the World Junior Championships slated for Poland in July. He joins Pako Seribe and Shaka Ntsimako who...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 20 May 2008
Miscellaneous banking on play-offs
Few days ago, people of the Central District were hopeful that after many years of waiting, they would have a team in the elite league. Miscellaneous who were not given a chance at the start of the league, stunned many when they gained form at a time...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
Rollers in crucial fight for survival
Rollers have two games left and are currently lying in the 10th position with 36 points. While they have a superior chance of avoiding relegation, there is fear among some supporters that should they lose their remaining games, they might find...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
Orange Botswana opens branch in S/Phikwe
Officially opening the branch, the Minister of Lands ande Housing Nonofo Molefhi said it was a significant value adding service and an investment in the economy of Selebi-Phikwe and that the presence of Orange here meant that customers would no...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 20 May 2008
'Pocket-turning' fuel price hikes take hold
As from last month, fuel prices are now being adjusted on a monthly basis in line with the continued increase of oil prices on international markets. In a statement released on Sunday, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Gabaake Gabaake, said...
STAFF WRITER 20 May 2008
Seventh bank to be launched
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of what will be Botswana's seventh commercial bank, Jagdish Gokhale, said this in an interview with Business Today last Friday. "We are aware of the general perception in the market that Botswana is an...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
Adopt national monuments, Batswana urged
According to the Director of National Museum, Monuments and Art Gallery Gaogakwe Phorano, there is need for Batswana to positively exploit heritage sites and monuments found countrywide. During the International Museum Day to be celebrated on...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 May 2008
The battle for Moscow
Moscow will be raved for a totally English-showcase after the two giants beat off strong contenders from European elite for a first all-English finish. Going into this finale - these two teams have proved harder-than-steel to break and opened...
LETSO MPHO
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Cartoon 21.05.08
21 May 2008
Is Rowe for real?
I want to suspect that he has been a ball boy at England games, all the gains that were accumulated by Mavesse-vesse have been reversed, we are back to squire one. Not sowing seeds of discord between the two coaches, Rre Vesselin's record has been...
21 May 2008
Threat to kill opposition is backward
It is derived by from the Greek (demokratia), "popular government" which was coined from (demos), "people" and (kratos), "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states,...
21 May 2008
Impotent America?
Amidst the celebrations and the soul-searching, no meaningful breakthrough in the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is visible. There are immediate reasons why this is so: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government is weak and...
* SHLOMO AVINERI 21 May 2008
Tshekedi Khama
(1905-1959)
Son of the renowned Christian Chief and reformer, Khama III, by his fourth marriage - ruled the Ngwato as Regent after the death of his senior half brother, Sekgoma II, in 1925. The heir, Seretse Khama, was still a minor at the time. Tshekedi's...
SANDY GRANT 21 May 2008
Doctors tour 'state of the art'
Six doctors were given an opportunity to see what the laboratory does and 'to put faces to the voices'. The laboratory manager, Desire Mhlabi said that they have come a long way since their humble beginnings in the early 1990s. "We have grown in...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
'This is my car, till death do us part' - motorist
They thought in order to discourage smoking and drinking, let us increase their prices. Hence, both beer prices and cigarette tariffs went up. But, to this day, a lot of Batswana still imbibe and a host of others still blow smoke through their...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 21 May 2008
BPP casts doubt on Khama's 'orders'
Boikhutso Ward Councillor, Motlatsi Molapise of the Botswana People's Party (BPP) said that the opposition members who said Khama's initiatives were not a threat to opposition were absolutely wrong. "How can people not flock to a party that gives...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Mfa spells out Khama's 'Riot Act'
Mfa is travelling around the country spreading President Ian Khama's message. The centrepiece is that those who do not perform up to standard within a given period will lose their jobs. "If you do not perform well in six months," he said, "and the...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Botswana under military rule - BCP
Gobotswang was speaking at a political rally on Sunday where he launched Annah Motlhagodi as the BCP's parliamentary candidate for the Gaborone West-North. Gobotswang lectured that in military traditions throughout history, an army could seize power...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
No more worries for Gunners
Unlike in the recent weeks during which they had been fighting tooth and nail to avoid relegation, for the first time Gunners will go into this game without such worries. The Lobatse side cemented their place in the Premier League for next season...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Another 'fraudulent' lawyer unmasked
The latest was the brief appearance of Michael Morwamang, a 'lawyer' working for the Attorney General, before the Extension II Magistrates Court in Gaborone on a charge of uttering false documents yesterday. "It is true that we suspect that we...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Doctors tour Diagnofirm
Six doctors were given an opportunity to see what the laboratory does and 'to put faces to the voices'. The laboratory manager, Desire Mhlabi said that they have come a long way since their humble beginnings in the early 1990s. "We have grown in...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Govt offers solution on SA law graduates
A legal advisor at the Government Implementation Coordination Office (GICO), Bongani Radipati, has called on citizen law graduates from South African universities to take advantage of government sponsorship to write attorneys' examinations conducted...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
BDP launches 'bulela ditswe'
The BDP central committee convened a meeting on yesterday morning specifically to vet parliamentary and council applications of party members interested in contesting the primaries. The BDP's executive secretary told Mmegi that the party has also...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Two colleges to lead teacher upgrade drive
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development's public relations officer Nomsa Zuze says Lobatse and Francistown teacher training colleges would be running the programme. She explained that this upgrading would help individual teachers in terms...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Villagers reject 'imposed' chief
Some concerned villagers and Kgosi Mosojane, who is also a member of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi, are apparently up in arms over this issue. Mulambakwena Village Development Committee (VDC) treasurer, Wangu Gordon said yesterday that as village leaders "we...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Why would I resign? - Rowe
Many supporters have been calling for Rowe's resignation after what they call a string of poor performances by the Zebras. But Rowe explained yesterday that he has done well since taking the reins. "We nearly qualified for the AFCON games that were...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Sechaba reports solid results
The group has declared a net final dividend of 23thebe per share payable on or about June 13, 2008. The company - which is the listed vehicle for both KBL and BBL - weathered the storm ahead of tough new liquor laws, rising inflation and growing...
STAFF WRITER 21 May 2008
Diamond polisher to expand
The piece of land is next to the Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB), the Director Shagi Hahshon disclosed on Monday during a guided tour organised by De Beers Botswana for journalists. Hahshon said by the end of this year, Suashish will have at...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Domestic business credit up 4.5%
On the back of increases in credit to domestic businesses, which went up by 4.5 percent to P243.1 million and a 1.4 percent increase to non-domestic businesses to P57.2 million, total credit went up from P13.53 billion in January to P13.83 billion in...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
The Shebeen re-opens tonight
It become a favourite destination for Gaborone's night revellers. The Shebeen featured live bands, including Abraxas, which at some stage was the resident band. Initially the Shebeen was patronised by decent patrons. But as time went...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 May 2008
Zim becomes second man in M-Net top 10 Idols
Last Sunday's displays were the best by far as all the contestants in group three gave sterling performances, making it hard for the public to pick only two for the top 10. The chosen two are none other than Nicolette Kiigi from Uganda, and the...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 21 May 2008
Stop lynching migrants
Some South African mobs are attacking Zimbabwean and Mozambican migrants and killing them in the most brutal and sadistic of ways. The international media is awash with these mobs armed to the teeth, scouting the streets of Alexandra looking for any...
EDITOR 21 May 2008
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