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Karatekas Bring Eight Medals From 'Club' Games
Addressing members of the press last week, the BOKA president said because of limited resources, they only managed to send one team in each category instead of two. Nkwe said though they have women who are doing well in the sport, the women are still...
By Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 09 June 2008
Miscellaneous Awaits NAB Decision
The Serowe-based Miscellaneous had to return home after GNT failed to appear for the game. Speaking to Monitor Sport over the weekend, Miscellaneous' spokesperson Warren Kewagamang said that they did all they had to do to honour the fixture. "At this...
By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
South Zone Netball League Off To Lacklustre Start
As usual, the games looked very disorganised as the first game kicked off an hour-and-a-half late. First on the line-up was a game between Kanye Swallows and Mochudi Centre Chiefs. Chiefs won the match 89-6. Chiefs were no match for the...
By Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 09 June 2008
High Court Cancels GNT/Miscellaneous Fixture
This was after GNT had instituted proceedings for the cancellation of its fixture against Miscellaneous FC scheduled for June 8 in Letlhakane pending the conclusion of the appeal lodged against the decision of the first respondent (Botswana...
By Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent
| 09 June 2008
Zebras Kick Mambas
The Zebras did the unexpected when they hammered Mozambique 2-1 in the 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifier before a strong 40, 000 crowd at Maputo's Machava Stadium yesterday. The win put the Zebras' campaign back on the track after a...
By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
Food For The Soul
And I tell you this one is so real it hurts us all, but more so for those who are managing chronic illness. I thought that for this week we all should take a moment to reflect on the importance of nutritional management in HIV and AIDS,...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 09 June 2008
Talking Musika
It has become evident over the past 10 to 20 years that the artists, and the larger civil society, have been unable to overcome the restraining burden of living in a predominantly feudal society even as it pretends to practise 21st Century...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 09 June 2008
Franco Launches Double DVD
His position as Botswana's best Rhumba musician was seriously threatened. But the king is back to claim his rightful place. His new album is due for release some time this year and many who stole the limelight are set to pay dearly. The track Koti...
By Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 09 June 2008
Tshepang Exits Elizabeth Excels
It is safe to assume that perhaps the praises that she was showered with after many good performances got to her head and did not put in enough effort in practising for the competition. That really cost her because it earned her the elimination. When...
By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
OUT TO LUNCH
I need to vent, and it's definitely not out of order. Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed with the sort of issues that prevail in our workplaces. Sometimes I find I'm frustrated or angry, or just depressed and discouraged by what goes on, and not...
SHAMEELA WINSTON 09 June 2008
BRIEF CASE
IDMA convenes biennially at the same time as the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and the World Diamond Congress. "The diamond industry in Botswana has had a remarkable few years with the establishment of 16 cutting and polishing factories,...
09 June 2008
Norilsk Shelves Tati Activox Plan On Cost Worries
Internal and third-party reviews had indicated "a substantial cost escalation" from a 2006 forecast of $498-million, the company said. Norilsk acquired the technology and 85 percent of the Tati mine when it bought Canada's LionOre Mining last year....
By Liezel Hill 09 June 2008
Market Dominated By Sellers
Towards the end of the month, activity picked up with most counters recording some gains as investors took advantage of the dip in prices. But in its monthly economic bulletin, Motswedi Securities said the release of impressive financial results...
By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
Stanbic Relaunches Broadhurst Branch
The Managing Director of the bank, Dennis Kennedy, told clients at the launch that his unlisted outfit plans to open new branches in Palapye and at Gaborone's new Central Business District (CBD), west of Nelson Mandela Drive. Kennedy said the...
By Business Reporter 09 June 2008
Botswana Brand Board Appointed
The Board was launched on Friday by the Assistant Minister of Trade Duke Lefhoko at a function at Phakalane Golf Estate. The CEO of BEDIA Dorcas Makgato-Malesu is the Chairman of the Board which has a three-year mandate. It has one rather...
By Business Reporter 09 June 2008
Botswana Sends 50 Zim Poll Observers
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Phandu Skelemani, announced this at a press conference last week. He said that the April Lusaka SADC Heads of State Summit that followed the disputed March 29 elections, agreed that should...
By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
AIDS Responsible for Child Mortality by 58%
The UNICEF Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Mareledi Segotso, said at a media briefing that the remaining 42 percent of deaths among children are caused by preventable diseases such as respiratory infections, diarrhoea and malaria in...
By Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
Polokwane: The City Of Love
This time around South Africans in the townships of Alexandra and elsewhere have taken up arms against brethrens from neighbouring countries. Foreign job seekers, especially from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, are mercilessly purged. However, for...
By Siki Motshwari Johannes
Correspondent 09 June 2008
Zim Police Attack US, UK Diplomats
War veterans who were at the roadblock reportedly threatened to burn the vehicles with the diplomats inside, as Harare's quarrel with the West took a turn for the worse. The diplomats were visiting victims of political violence in the countryside...
09 June 2008
Terry's Deco Curves A Niche
The company specialises in gardening design and maintenance, lawn, aquariums, outdoor plants, fruit trees and other related activities. Terry's Deco manager Bethuel Sesinyi said he resigned from the council in 2005 after realising the potential he...
By Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
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09 June 2008
Let's Use Water Wisely
The greatest interest is, of course, in the Gaborone Dam. According to the figures released on June 4, Gaborone Dam is at 67 percent. By any standards the level is low and it behoves all of us to use water with caution. In recent years, Gaborone Dam...
EDITOR 09 June 2008
Etcetera II
From early on, Gowenius recognised that managing the project would be a problem. He experimented with a local manager but dropped the idea when he realised the psychological problems involved when a younger villager purports to manage other older...
SANDY GRANT 09 June 2008
Health Chat
The body reacts to stress by releasing hormones such as adrenaline, which prepare the heart and body to respond to a challenge. Unfortunately stress can also have unwanted physical and emotional effects. Stress is a word we hear a lot. Stress...
R. CHINDOMU
S. CHIDZOMBA
K. BHAGAT
L. KALANTLE 09 June 2008
Issues In Education
This is a sign of credible political will, an essential ingredient in any nation's developmental progress. Throughout the world too many good ideas lie fallow because of the absence of "political will" to ensure their future. The major objective of...
D. MOLEFE
O. PANSIRI
S. WEEKS 09 June 2008
The Winners Code
He gave each one of them a newspaper and asked them to count and tell him how many pictures were in the newspaper. The people who believed that they were lucky took an average of a few seconds to tell him the correct answer while the unlucky lot on...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 09 June 2008
The Travesty Of Botswana Football
The national executive of the BFA fired coach Colwyn Rowe after citing poor results and the safety of the coach, which they could no longer quarantee. In every organisation, prudent management is vital but for the BFA it seems as though they do not...
09 June 2008
From Woman To Woman
Let me point out that it is interesting that now some bold Batswana are taking a daring stand of seeking love through this medium. I will reserve my opinion as to what I think about the practice as I will only bring a biased perspective of a hard...
09 June 2008
The Empire Of Human Rights
The French junior Human Rights Minister, Rama Yade, declared that the United Nations' principle of the "responsibility to protect" should be applied to Burma, forcibly if necessary. And the Malaysian opposition leader Lim Kit Siang has said that...
By Ian Buruma* 09 June 2008
Tlapeng Rises from Rags To Riches...
He is 30-year-old Dr Oteng Tlapeng, who was raised in Selebi-Phikwe's impoverished Botshabelo location. Tlapeng defied the odds as he embarked on his journey to academic excellence. He has always been an A-student since his primary school...
By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 09 June 2008
Girlfriend Testifies Against Boyfriend
Miriam Michael, 25, told the court that her boyfriend of one month brought a government voucher asking her to cash it for him at the Bank of Botswana (BoB). The accused, David Moamogwe, 35, is being tried for fraud and forgery after allegedly...
By Taboka Bachibili Nfila
Correspondent 09 June 2008
Ntuane U-turn Bad Omen - Opposition Chiefs
Ntuane made headlines when he openly declared his support for bar owners taking government to court over the new liquor law. His solidarity with bar owners and all those opposed to the new laws seemed to have been short-lived following a retraction...
By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
Government Gives More Rights To Children, No Responsibilities
The Bill has 17 parts and 122 clauses and is yet to be brought before cabinet. Minister Nasha explained that the intention of the Bill is to domesticate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the African Charter on the Rights...
By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
When Schizophrenia Becomes Unethical
It is jabs and barbs as the prosecution and the defence seek to outdo each other in legal pyrotechnics in the case in which former Debswana Managing Director Louis Nchindo and others face a battery of charges involving corruption, fraud and abuse of...
09 June 2008
Children's Bill Under Attack
The MPs' objections include the right to privacy for the children and government's plan to have a birth certificate bearing the names of both parents of the child. MPs argued that children are exposed to many things such as drug abuse hence parents...
By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 09 June 2008
News Briefs
Superintendent Andrew Bosilong of Molepolole said it seems the man met the woman in the bush and stabbed her with a knife. He then reported the matter to some people. His clothes had bloodstains. Bosilong said that there is no indication...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 June 2008
Iron my Skirt: Hillary Clinton came so close
Hillary Clinton came this close. Nobody really understands why: why she stuck it out this long, given the math, and why she gave such a grudging, graceless version of her stump speech after the South Dakota primary clinched the nomination for Barack...
10 June 2008
'We built the city of Johannesburg together'
We are still where our forefathers left us over a century ago when our sub-continent endured a vicious cycle of poverty. In the last quarter of the 19th century, diamond and gold were discovered and exploited in Kimberley and the Witwatersrand...
SIKI MOTSHWARI JOHANNES
Corresponent 10 June 2008
Teaching is about serving not salary - Mutloane
These are the words of one of the teachers who received an award during Botswana National Teacher's Day celebrations held in Palapye last week. Germina Mutloane received the Long and Distinguished Service Medal award. She had been teaching for 31...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 10 June 2008
Leading Afro-jazz women collaborate
The project will see the women performing together in a series of concerts over a period of time. The shows will be both produced and directed by the versatile Brincat, while KTM choir founder Gomolemo Motswaledi will be the musical director. "It is...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 10 June 2008
G-West youth form drama group
Another objective of the group called Motlhaolosa Productions is to keep the youth off the streets. Group leader Lucky Nkhurutshi said yesterday that their organisation was established in 2004, under the Gaborone West Police Station but has since...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 June 2008
BACK STAGE
It is being shown today at 7 pm only at the Maru a Pula School audio/visual centre by the Gaborone Film Society. It is the second of three films in a series of Masters of Japanese Cinema. The next is Akira Kurosawa's great epic Kagemusha or Shadow...
SASA MAJUMA 10 June 2008
Diamantaires fuel demand for large, rare diamonds
Martin Rapaport, one of the world's leading diamond consultants whose price list is used as a benchmark for wholesale trade in polished diamonds, told Reuters that a fall in the value of the dollar, in which diamonds are priced, has increased...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 10 June 2008
Stanchart on a rebound
For the third week running, Stanchart has strengthened, bouncing back from the market correction-induced battering which the counter has endured since late last year. The DCI recorded gains on four trading days, spurred by gains in Stanchart (2.5...
BRIAN BENZA
taff Writer 10 June 2008
Discovery confirms more copper finds
The Quirinus prospect is located 15 kilometres from the current mineral resources at Zeta, Plutus and Petra in northwest Botswana. The prospect remains open along strike to both the northeast and southwest and at depth. These three...
STAFF WRITER 10 June 2008
Hunda, Moyo out of BMC
The team's public relations officer Parks Buthiyi told Mmegi Sport yesterday that the new committee would soon find its own coach. Hunda took over after the departure of Zambian Cosmas Zulu at the end of the Mascom Premier League first round and was...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 June 2008
Botswana sixth in WCL tourney
The overall winning team was Afghanistan, followed by the host team, Jersey. Placing third through 10th respectively at the Jersey tournament were: Nepal, the United States, Singapore, Botswana, Germany, Mozambique, Norway and Japan. Afganistan and...
10 June 2008
How they fared in Maputo
Modiri Marumo - 9He deserves the man of the match recognition for putting up a solid performance, which earned the Zebras an unexpected three points. Marumo led by example and his acrobatic saves inspired his teammates to go for broke. His telling...
10 June 2008
AS I SEE IT
Mugabe knows his party ran a poor second to the MDC. Confidential reports imply Mugabe would have conceded had his political lieutenants and army generals not put the trillion Zim dollar question: "You'll be fine, Mzee, Morgan Tsvangirai will give...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 10 June 2008
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