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Itekanele bankrolls karate tournament
The company will avail P30,000 this year to finance the tournament and the amount is meant to increase anually in subsequent editions. The sponsorship was launched in Gaborone on Tuesday. This year's edition of the event is billed for August 1 in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 July 2008
Pinagare great for home ownership
But there are some critical issues that one has to examine in order to appraise the new scheme. Pinagare will go a long way in inducing a culture of investment among Batswana youth rather than their frivolous spending on luxuries. BBS should be...
EDITOR 17 July 2008
Response to Mmegi
This Ministry therefore wishes to make the following response stating some facts, in response to the concerns raised by Modiri Mompoloki Modisaotsile and for the benefit of your readers. The allegations contained in the article are against Cash...
17 July 2008
Media Bill: A sustainable step towards the professionalisation of journalism in Botswana
Two schools of thoughts characterise the Media Bill debate. On this end of the continuum is the section of the society, which sees it as a step in the right direction and those at the end of the continuum viewing it as an autocratic instrument...
17 July 2008
A cry to the trouble-torn BNF
At centre stage of the debate is whether the party should hold a National Congress or a National Conference and whether comrade Moupo must stay on as the party President. This has pitted those who support the party president and the Central...
17 July 2008
Stop! Venson-Moitoi!
Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi seems to be the only who admires President Mugabe's undemocratic tendencies. Venson-Moitoi wants to outshine Mugabe by bringing a bill that gives her political office control over the press. Other than allowing...
17 July 2008
Promote a healthy lifestyle - GUS
He noted that as economies develop and societies meet their needs for sanitation and for maternal and child health services, life expectancy increases and lifestyles associated with injury and chronic diseases tend to become more frequent. Speaking...
MARTIN NYIRENDA 17 July 2008
F/town targeted for legal year
The event's publicity secretary, Letsweletse Mophalane said yesterday that preparations for the event to be held next year February have started. Although the exact date for the legal year is yet to be identified, it is certain that it will be held...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Mourning a fallen HIIV/AIDS soldier
On 29 July 2007 has died, Zambia's Sunday Post ran a story that shook the country to its core. It revealed that Mildred Mpundu - veteran journalist and HIV/AIDS campaigner - was, herself, HIV positive. Through the platform of a prominent Zambian...
17 July 2008
Green pastures for Africa at NEPAD
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) secretariat official, Sloans Chimatiro, said during the Malawi National Stakeholder engagement that Africa is constrained by lack of common and strategic understanding of the scientific challenges...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Africa worst hit by oil prices
"Transport, energy, water and telecommunication infrastructures in Africa also lag far behind the rest of the world," Lipenga said. It is through these unimpressive prevailing socio-economic conditions of Africa that heads of state and government of...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Still no contract for Mohambi
Mohambi finished the season as second top goal scorer with a tally of 17 and many would have expected Gunners to jump at the opportunity to sign a new deal with their most valuable asset. But that has not been the case a month after his contract with...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 17 July 2008
Sebele hits back at Emang Basadi
The man, who hailed from Gantsi, died in December after the couple had lived together for three years. Kgosi Sebele said that it is regrettable that some people continue to ridicule Dikgosi for doing their work and vowed that they (Dikgosi) will...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Btv blackout in Francistown
The blackout started last Thursday evening, a day after a Btv programme, The Eye broadcast the press conference by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Phandu Sekelemani, in which he berated Zanu PF for not adhering to the SADC electoral processes. The...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 17 July 2008
'Shame on offenders' - Ombudsman
Ronald Phetlhe, from the Selebi-Phikwe West constituency office had asked if the government watchdog was not considering exposing to the public some of the issues that it investigates. Public relations officer at the Ombudsman's office, Greg...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 17 July 2008
Identification critical in Mathokgwane's appeal
Mathokgwane, a social worker by training, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison by Broadhust Principal Magistrate Nehemiah Mugoni for raping a nine-year old girl near Gaborone Dam at Old Naledi. Rwelengera made his ruling after listening...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Friends fight over Moloi
Molebatsi said that Molome is trying to sell Moloi without the consent of Notwane. However, Molome has denied the accusations saying that Molebatsi gave the deal his blessings. It is understood that Molome tried to use underhanded tactics to sell...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 17 July 2008
Garogwe releases second album
Garogwe said the album reveals his growth as a Christian. The young Christian says he has faced a lot of difficulties but still managed to focus on his Christian life, hence 'going further'. Garogwe says as a Christian one should be able to learn to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 July 2008
New era dawns for GBC-TV
The Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, etv chief executive officer (CEO) Marcel Golding, board members and senior management of GBC-TV and the chairman and members of the Broadcasting Board of Botswana...
MMOLOKI MARUMO
Correspondent 17 July 2008
It's all systems go for Presidential Awards
The competition and judging take place at Tsholofelo Park in Gaborone on Saturday with the awards ceremony slated for Ditshupo Hall the next day. Adrenaline is expected to rise as every contender tries to impress the judges and walk away with a...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 17 July 2008
Hana Mining appoints country advisor in Botswana
The company, which has the right to acquire a 70 percent controlling interest in the Ghantsi Copper-Silver Project, announced last week that Molosiwa joins the company at a time when encouraging results from drilling underscore Ghantsi's significant...
STAFF WRITER 17 July 2008
Botswana to sell ivory
Four countries, namely Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are permitted under a deal reached at The Hague last year to make one-off sales of registered ivory stocks. "China was accepted as a trading partner to import ivory from the four...
STAFF WRITER 17 July 2008
Cartoon 17.07.08
17 July 2008
Challenges of Botswana journalism
The passing of Workers' Day on May 1, and Press freedom Day two days later without much fanfare should have raised questions about the state of journalism, which is inextricably tied to that of labour in general. On the labour end of journalism...
18 July 2008
Killing the press softly
That is a relatively cheap price to pay for a victory at the next general election. It is also an ingenious way of disguising the dictatorial tendencies of the new regime now manifesting themselves in the form of retrieval of the old laws that...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 18 July 2008
BPP bemoans 'democracy under threat'
Botswana People Party (BPP) delegates will convene at Tonota College of Education under the theme: 'Our Democracy Under Threat'. The 46-year-old party expects about 250 delegates. According to the BPP publicity secretary, Kumbulani William, the...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 18 July 2008
BCP and BAM arrange to wed
The president of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Gilson Saleshando, is expected to officially open the BAM conference at Leseding hall at 9am. The BAM secretary general, Matlhomola Modise, disclosed that the leader of BAM, Ephraim Lepetu...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 18 July 2008
On scrutinising the state of the movement (final)
Apparently Lobatse and Gaborone South MPs were specifically targeted in this strategy. Against established rules Moupo has just contrived to nullify the primary elections won by Magama and once again another court battle beckons as a result of...
COMRADE MOORE 18 July 2008
The African revolution fails the second turn
The 'two stage' revolution has been one of the problem areas for both the theory and the practice of the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th Century. In the latter half of the century African intellectuals and revolutionaries discussed the subject...
18 July 2008
Talks on Zimbabwe should be on who goes to The Hague first
Can anyone believe these people? For a long time now, they have held these "talks about talks" to find a way of agreeing on what to talk about while people are being killed by one group participating at these talks. I think they are all just glad to...
TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE 18 July 2008
The trailer man
A few metres from them are their finished products in the form of about five trailers of various sizes. This is the home-cum-manufacturing workshop for 64 -year- old Thomas Chikore who is popularly known as 'Sesennye'. This man is a former Public...
DAN MOSEKAPHOFU
Correspondent 18 July 2008
The agony of travelling nowadays
Clutching his battered suitcase with a few belongings inside it, Batsalelwang Ntshupang, 76, stood with other passengers at the cacophonous Francistown bus rank, waiting for a Gaborone-bound bus. "Two of my children work in Gaborone. The other one...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 18 July 2008
Nkate blames students for MCE closure
The ministry ordered the closure of the college on Monday after a week's student class boycott. The students embarked on the boycott in protest over water and power shortages, among other grievances. But the minister said yesterday that he...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 July 2008
MISA rejects govt's Media Bill
In a statement released yesterday by MISA Batsho secretary Elite Nthoi, the media institution expresses dismay at the Bill's failure to recognise important aspects of journalistic practice, among them, the issue of self-regulation. MISA says...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
How Mugabe's 'press freedom' shames Khama's
Journalism has been a much talked about, often controversial, topic of the modern world. The number of quotes relating to journalism just reflects an attempt to put into words and proper perspective the giant of modern social and political...
18 July 2008
Wrangle erupts over Mwanawasa succession
Ben Tetamashimba spoke as the Zambian president entered the third week in a "stable condition" in a Paris Military Hospital in France where he has been admitted after suffering a stroke while attending a special African Union (AU) Summit on the...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 18 July 2008
Btv's Montlenyane shipped to trade
It is alleged that Baaitse was re-deployed following failure to cover the launch of the constituency league on Friday July 4 by Botswana Television. This is said to have annoyed President Ian Khama who officiated at the event. Baaitse was Head of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
S/Phikwe East split on eve of BNF conference?
It said the constituency is deeply divided over the issue of BNF leader, Otsweletswe Moupo's continued stay at the helm. A general membership meeting called by the constituency leadership on Tuesday, reportedly degenerated into a fracas as rival...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 18 July 2008
Botswana ponders bio-fuel production
As a result, the Botswana government has announced its commitment to explore bio-fuels, which have the potential to help reduce the country's high imports of petroleum products. Speaking at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) on...
TANDENDA MOYO
Correspondent 18 July 2008
NEPAD-ICT all set to link African states
The commission aims to accelerate development of ICT broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world. ICT infrastructure project manager Brian Cheesman says the ICT broadband...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
Liquor regulations verdict reserved
In May, Lobatse High Court Judge, Isaac Lesetedi, granted nightclubs a temporary relief to operate with the hours stipulated on their old special licences until when they expire. The old licences entitled nightclubs to operate between 8...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 July 2008
Rakhudu to table Freedom of Information motion
Rakhudu said his recent experiences when he was an election observer in Zimbabwe, where the government has banned the private and international press, would also assist his presentation. In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Rakhudu said that it...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
'Debswana 461' future bleak
It has emerged that the case should have been heard at the Court of Appeal this month but the lawyers for the two parties failed to reach an agreement on security of costs until the 2nd of this month. The deadline for enrolment of cases at...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
Lawyers coy over Nganunu
Further, it is suggested, the Chief Justice, wanted judgement against his relative altered. The controversy, which threatens to cast a dim shadow on the ability of the judiciary to act without fear or favour, broke when Mmegi reported the story in...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
Make or break for BNF
However, Station Commander Superintendent, Kebafethetse Mothubane, has categorically denied the report declaring that 'the BNF conference in Jwaneng was not a security threat'. "We are treating it as a normal activity," said Mothubane. He said that...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 18 July 2008
BACK STAGE
Rendition quickly establishes the three venues: Chicago; an unnamed North African city (filmed in Marrakech and later Casablanca); and Washington, DC. It opens misleadingly with a brief exit from Cape Town, where Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) has...
SASA MAJUMA 18 July 2008
BOOK REVIEW
For the Sake of Silence is the story of the Trappist monasteries and missions in South Africa, from their beginnings at Sunday Rivers in the Eastern Cape in 1880 to their amazing expansion and then demise in Natal through to 1922. The tale begins in...
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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 18 July 2008
National Art Exhibition on at the Museum and Thapong
The exhibition which is in line with President Ian Khama's directive that two programmes of performing and visual arts be held to celebrate National Heritage Day, has brought the country's most outstanding artists together in a display of their...
GASEBALWE SERETSE &
MMOLOKI MARUMO 18 July 2008
Impact partners with Impala to conquer southern Africa
The alliance begins with Impala having first right to earn equity in any projects identified. Some of the southern African countries included in the alliance's focus are Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Madagascar and Malawi. In Botswana, the...
STAFF WRITER 18 July 2008
CIC Energy makes a loss
The loss for the three and six month periods are attributable to non-capitalised exploration expenditures, administration and personnel costs, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Capitalized exploration costs amount to $105 million (P674.1...
STAFF WRITER 18 July 2008
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