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Botswana's stance on Zimbabwe
*Our two countries are united by a common historical and cultural heritage which has brought our people together over centuries. * Botswana, like other Frontline States, played an important role to promote the cause of Zimbabwe's struggle to...
03 July 2008
Mhlanga releases eight-track album
You may call his music Afro jazz/pop because even Mhlanga himself has no precise definition for his beat. He leaves that to the discerning listener. To him, music is music and he did not want to restrict himself to a particular genre....
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 03 July 2008
De Beers hosts leaders in Africa Summit
Guests included Former President of the Republic of Botswana, Festus Mogae and Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of the De Beers Group. The event was organised by the DTC, the distribution arm of the De Beers Family Of Companies. The aim of the...
03 July 2008
Debswana donates to agriculture
Orapa Mine Manager Sebetlela Sebetlela presented the cheque to the Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Shaw Kgathi at the Bobirwa agricultural show in Bobonong last Saturday. When officially opening the show, the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs...
BILLY CHIEPE
Correspondent 03 July 2008
HIV group wins awards at women's expo
This year's theme was 'Innovation and Creativity; the Key for Women Entrepreneurs to Penetrate the Global Market.' Among the exhibitors was 40-year old Lebalang Otshidile from Lesenepole (60km from Palapye), together with her support group Lesea...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
Our reputation is at stake
We never expected anything from a bunch of leaders, most of whom are in power through means that would make Mugabe's one man run-off elections a heavenly affair. What should you expect from the likes of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Swaziland's King...
EDITOR 03 July 2008
AS I SEE IT
They argued passionately that the African traditional government system was democratic and delivered satisfactory services to the community. The system was the kgotla system. Under the system, community adult male members met, deliberated community...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 03 July 2008
Cartoon 03.07.08
03 July 2008
Notwane atone Kabelano setback
Toronto failed to defend the Kabelano Charity Cup on Saturday when they lost to Mochudi Centre Chiefs in the semi-final but rose to the occasion in the Tuesday event. Notwane lifted the Merafe Cup after overcoming Extension Gunners 5-4 in post-match...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 July 2008
Irate Gunners fans harass Mohambi
Mohambi was watching his club play Notwane in the final of the Goitsemang Merafe Charity Cup when fans accosted him. "I had to leave at halftime against Notwane because people were harassing me. Some were asking me questions while others made...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 July 2008
Ngwenya worried
Against ECCO, Rollers conceded two quick goals in the opening 10 minutes and for the entire game, the defence was reduced to a laughing stock. Things were not helped by the fact that Boniface Makolo, who was played out of position in central defence,...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
Let's have congress - BNF Boteti North
Boteti North constituency held a general meeting on June 14 at Mopipi and resolved to request the CC to call a congress. The constituency says the BNF constitution creates the national congress and stipulates its intervals. "In terms of clause 11.8...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 03 July 2008
Change attitude to curb road carnage - MVAF chief
Officially opening the Southern Region Road Safety Campaign in Kanye on Saturday, Kgosidiile said most of the accidents are due to bad attitude by road users. "We can educate both at driving schools and in campaigns like this one but it is important...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 July 2008
House to debate Media Bill soon
The Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, recently published the Media Practitioners Bill in the Government Gazette. The Bill, which has been on the drawingboard for a number of years, seeks to establish a...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
Girlfriend drops charges to save children
The complainant, Miriam Matole, says the 28 days the boyfriend has spent in prison have been rough as her health is failing. Anthony Sibanda, 32, a Zimbabwean, is said to have threatened his girlfriend on 2 June and has been in prison since then....
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
Nurses train in ARV prescription
The training was done by Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP)-PEPFAR Master Trainers for the Ministries of Local Government and Health. A BHP pharmacist master trainer Oyenuga Olusola explained at the recent Pharmaceutical Society of Botswana congress...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
DCEC and DSI fight reaches crisis point?
It is reported that the new Directorate of Security Intelligence (DSI) has irked the DCEC by moving to take over the case where government was defrauded of millions through corrupt dealings at the CMS. The DCEC was said to be on the verge of wrapping...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
Government gets fare ultimatum
Infact, the bus operators wanted to "park" their buses yesterday, but government officials had to run helter-skelter convincing the operators that something would be done. "Officials of the Department of Road Transport and Safety held a...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 03 July 2008
BACK STAGE
The festival was officially opened before the showing of Shower on July 8 by Chinese Ambassador to Botswana Ding Xiaowen. Books and DVDs on the history and culture of China and Beijing Olympic Games souvenirs were provided for free. Following each...
SASA MAJUMA 03 July 2008
BACK STAGE
Forgetting Sarah Marshall plods along tried and true formulae. There is nothing really new or shocking anymore in full frontal nudity, or strings of hurled expletives, or faking orgasms to impress someone who might be listening on the other side of a...
SASA MAJUMA 04 July 2008
BOOK REVIEW
Pula, Pula, Pula: Two years in search of money, rain and blessings for Botswana is a new memoir from a personal vanity press "Wild Dog Publishing" (in the book no address is provided for this entity - it is also confusing as there already is a Wild...
04 July 2008
Gare: The artist who likes playing with colour
His grandmother was a good weaver while his mother Maopene Gare was into basketry. Gare says that both her mother and grandmother greatly encouraged him as an artist and that whenever the latter came back for holidays from South Africa where she...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Cartoon 04.07.08
04 July 2008
Media Bill must be rejected
It was once withdrawn before it could reach Parliament by the then minister of Communication, Science and Technology, Boyce Sebetela after it was rejected by media organisations and civil so,ciety. Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi obviously believes...
EDITOR 04 July 2008
NITTY GRITTY
It has been a long day, and towards the end of this long day of deliberations several members are antsy and edgy. The reason for this antsiness and edginess is because some members feel that certain issues have not been adequately dealt with, but...
BAROLONG SEBONI 04 July 2008
Basketball is not a sport for the elite
Contrary to belief, basketball is not an elitist sport. In fact, in most countries, the USA included, basketball is played in the most poor of places and represents a way to escape the daily grind of poverty and squalor. These countries that have...
04 July 2008
Mbeki played a role in the Zim mess
This sham of an election did not come as a surprise, not when you have a mediator who fails to call a spade a spade and takes sides like Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki's parliamentarians in Cape Town can take hours debating the Israeli/Palestinian crisis, but...
04 July 2008
BDP, BNF, BCP got it wrong on Zim
The Zimbabwe law requires maintenance of the status quo and to call for a run-off between the two leading candidates, in this case President Robert Mugabe and Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai. Our Previous Call When this situation became clear, we immediately...
TEMBA JOINA 04 July 2008
ZANU-PF and BDP have an uncanny resemblance?
This is quite refreshing especially as the country is emerging from a battered international image following the mishandling of the relocation of the Gana and Gwi from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The Botswana government must be...
*KESITEGILE GOBOTSWANG 04 July 2008
Hindrances to SADC free trade area
It was agreed during a SADC meeting in Lusaka, Zambia in August last year that the sub-region should transform itself into an FTA and have a comprehensive customs union. These are some of the strategies that have been mapped out for economic...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 04 July 2008
The sacred 'payslip' and marriage conflicts
Some consider its contents a sacred secret that should never be revealed to their husband or wife, and would rather die than divulge what all those deductions mean to the family. Others believe that when your spouse knows how much you earn and how...
NYAKWAR BARA
Correspondent 04 July 2008
The 'Passion' of the Zezuru
Growing up in a small village in central Botswana back then, the grandest pieces of household furniture were wooden sideboards and wardrobes made by a Zezuru man, Rra Kurasha, a stocky man with a long beard and clean-shaven head. He peddled...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 04 July 2008
Furniture mogul shifts to manufacturing
Pitso's involvement in the furniture industry goes a long way back. "I have been doing furniture business from 1972, as a freelance salesman for Barnetts in Zeerust (South Africa). I was the external representative of Barnetts in Botswana,"...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 04 July 2008
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
I mean naive. Naive is used by psychologists to mean a creature that is new to a situation or an experience. It is used by doctors to mean a patient who has not taken a particular drug before. Websters Dictionary defines it as "showing unaffected...
04 July 2008
BCL lauded for social responsibility
The Minister of Lands and Housing, Nonofo Molefhi, commended BCL during the handover ceremony of the house to Ikakanyeng Masilo who was left homeless after an early morning inferno burnt her house last October. Molefhi said BCL had set a good...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 04 July 2008
Russian envoy tours Norilsk projects
The copper-nickel mine is situated about 35 kilometres east of Francistown near Matsiloje village. Norilsk Nickel International is the Manager and majority shareholder at Tati Nickel Mine through its 85 percent shares. The Government of Botswana is...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Poorer countries at 'tipping point' - IMF
The IMF says that the impact of surging oil and food prices is being felt globally, but is most acute in countries that rely heavily on imports and poorer ones, which have a higher percentage of their incomes going towards food and energy. Already in...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Stanchart profits grow in first quarter
For the period under review, the bank's interest income rose by 12.8 percent against the comparable period last year to P303m, while interest expense went up by 8.9 percent to P181m. Net interest income rose by 19.2 percent to P122m. Other operating...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Two managers resign from Tati Nickel
The General Manager of Tati Nickel Peet Kotze heads back to his native South Africa to pursue other interests after a year at the helm of Tati. Kotze is a renowned metallurgist and mining engineer. He explained his reasons for exit: "What happened is...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writers 04 July 2008
Share prices head northwards
Stock prices on the Botswana Stock Exchange have just begun to bounce back from a weakening period that saw both the DCI and the FCI lose weight week in and week out since late last year, with bank stocks the hardest hit by a market correction...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Botswana ranked with the rich in governance
According to the 2008 Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) report compiled by World Bank researchers, Botswana is among over a dozen developing countries showing great progress in governance issues. "Botswana continues to set the example for other...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
FIRST CUT
This week it was announced that like South Africa, Botswana will have a board of governors running the soccer Premier League. This means the Premier League Committee will be no more. But what will be the role of the board of governors and what is...
DENNIS KEAGILE 04 July 2008
LKC lead schools rugby charge
It starts with a soloist shouting in a shrill and haunting voice. "Tlaa kwaaano! Tlaa kwaaano!," the soloist goes and the whole gang replies in a terrifying bulldog like growl: "Huuu Huuu!". After about four or five renditions, the boys launch a...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 04 July 2008
Chess team off to South African Open
The team, made up of five women and two men, is expected to use the tournament as part of preparations for the upcoming World Chess Olympiad. Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) treasurer Chadza Bontsi leads the team to the South African Open. Woman...
KENNETHBOIKHUTSWANE
Correspondent 04 July 2008
Sichola returns to Notwane
Sichola is said to have agreed terms with Rollers where he has been attending training. But Notwane maintained that they have a valid contract with the player untill July 2009 and hence his move to Rollers was null and void. When Rollers...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
Toronto rears monster?
Though Notwane failed to defend their Kabelano Cup crown when they lost to national champions Mochudi Centre Chiefs in the semi-final at the National Stadium on Saturday, there is no doubt that Toronto was the better side on the day. Those close to...
04 July 2008
Molefe ends veteran's reign in Phikwe
Onkabetse was ousted by former national player, Mike Molefe in elections held at Bosele Hotel last week. The ascendancy of Molefe to the top post is seen as a plus for BFA president, Phillip Makgalemele over his rival and predecessor, David Fani....
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 04 July 2008
Mogorosi, Mafoko can succeed at Pirates
There is no doubt that the success of Zebras' striker, Diphetogo Selolwane in South Africa has opened doors for other Botswana players. Selolwane returned from the United States some time back and became the third Botswana player to ply his trade in...
04 July 2008
Play-offs favour Matebele
The battle to fill the last slot in the 16-club Premier League pits BDF XI, Prisons XI and Miscellaneous. Tonight at the National Stadium, BDF XI take on Prisons XI at 6.30pm. Tomorrow, BDF XI travel to Lobatse for a tricky date with minnows...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 04 July 2008
'You have paradise here'-the Ambassador speaks
Mmegi: When did you come to Botswana? Matsuyama: We set up our mission in January but I only came into the country in June. I am new here. Mmegi: What are you responsibilities? Matsuyama: In addition to my responsibilities as Ambassador to...
04 July 2008
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