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Monday September 30
Dismiss the appeal, Masisi urges BDP
The applicants, Sylvia Muzila and Peter Ngoma, had appealed to the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Central Committee against the conduct and ultimately the results of the August 30 primary elections, which Masisi won by 1, 263 against Muzilas 824...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Inflation stabilises after fuel price reduction
Food and fuel have been the drivers of the country's inflation, which has been on the surge since October last year. However, following the easing of crude oil prices on the international market in the past two months from US$147 per barrel in July...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
NBC achieves high implementation rate
"Eighty percent always gets implemented but what I am worried about is that the 20 percent will accumulate and that is why we are forming a committee to look at all the recommendations that were not implemented since the last conference," she...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
BDP receives protests from seven wards
An appeal from Botshabelo South ward has been sent directly to the Central Committee in Gaborone. Speaking during the BDP regional congress in Mogapi last Saturday, the regional committee treasurer, Joseph Dintwa, said no campaign materials are...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Boko takes over in case of wrong HIV diagnosis
Boko, who is also the chairperson of BONELA, takes over from another BONELA lawyer, Uyapo Ndadi, over the amount to be awarded to their client, Dikgakgamatso Sekgabetlela. The case was postponed last month to give lawyers for the two parties more...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Kidnap case set for October 30
The 39-year old woman from Serowe is alleged to have fetched the Standard Two pupil from Tapologo Primary School in Gaborone, claiming that the childs mother had sent her. It is alleged that she pleaded with the child to accompany her and to direct...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Three robbers killed in shootout
A press release from the Police Headquarters here says:The armed robbers died in a shoot out with the law enforcement officers this morning after allegedly robbing Trojan security of an undisclosed amount of cash in Francistown. The robbers...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Zambian woman DJ takes Gabs by storm
Kasalaba is one of the few women nightclub DJs in the country. Popularly known as DJ Crush, Kasalaba presents Africa Nite at the Shebeen nightclub on Sundays. The event was launched two weeks ago. As a result, revellers will every Sunday find DJ...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 September 2008
Ramco Records group comes up with hot Mmurubele
Eric Ramco Ramogobya the man behind the studio that has produced the phenomenal Machesa and Matsieng traditional groups, says that in naming the group Mmurubele (mulberry), he was looking for a name of a popular tree found in Botswana. He opted for...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
Let's emulate China, artist urges
Chibua says that during the conference, he was able to interact with sculptors from all over the globe and he learnt much about urban sculpturing and public art in general from some of the leading sculptors. The artist says that the conference has...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writers 17 September 2008
Woman releases wedding album
"When I got married I experienced a lot of things and honestly a lot of the things people can live with as a matter of compromise. I know that some things are irreconcilable, but some of them we can try once we get into marriage," she says. In this...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 September 2008
700 000! Is the BDP telling the truth?
Tafa first broke the news in a Mmegi interview last week, but the assertion has set tongues wagging, with critics saying the BDP must have made up the figure. The number appears all the more incredulous when put against the national population of...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 18 September 2008
Phikwe diversification plan receives shot in the arm
The Selebi-Phikwe Diversification Unit (SPEDU) acting coordinator, Disikalala Gaseitsiwe said the funding has been sourced from EU money meant to finance the mining industry in Botswana. "It was agreed between the government of Botswana and the EU...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Breweries hand over kindergarten
The facility has been built by the two brewing companies. At the handover ceremony, Serowe North West MP, Tshekedi Khama applauded KBL and BBL for helping government to tackle problems of interest. It is a great pleasure that from the assistance of...
STAFF WRITER 18 September 2008
Who deserves to be called producer?
It is appalling how many of our own artists do not know what a producer is or why they have credited someone in their CD sleeve as producer. Even some people who claim to be producers cannot explain what they mean by 'the producer'. This has often...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Finding the Third Mind...
In comparison to the dog-eat-dog, extremely competitive music industry of South Africa, Botswana is really not a very easy place to be forgotten. This is purely because it is so small in relation to its giant neighbour. How then did the ...
NEO MOKGOSI
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Ex-BDF captain releases album
The eight-track album includes songs like O No Nkisa Kae, Ga Ke Robale, Melaetsa, Mapodisi, Mpolelele, Ke Mmonye, Morwadi and Magae. Most of the tracks were composed by Mmereki except Ga Ke Robale, Morwadi and Magae. Ga Ke Robale was composed by the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Music industry loses genius in Richard Nkoshwane
Another founding music promoter, Dennis Alexander, in a message sent to the Nkoshwane family describes him as a committed contributor to the growth of the music industry, further describing him as one of the pioneers in this industry. Born in...
* PHILLIP MAKGALEMELE 18 September 2008
Lady luck smiles on Kgokgonono
The youngster is relatively an unknown and his album has only sold a few hundreds of copies, but already it has caught the attention of a prominent South African music promoter, Bae Pane, who has bought the rights to distribute it in South...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Rastafarians to mark Tosh's death
Situated at the Tlokweng Border Gate, organisers say the Karibu Tena Garden is set to offer thrills and spills as Rastafarians get together to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the death of Tosh for the first time in Botswana. According to Danny...
MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Motiganz prize-giving is a yawn
The Botswana football league, which follows this pattern, has not started. Except for a few people in the football league committee, nobody knows why the league has not commenced and when it will. The little information that filters in to members of...
EDITOR 18 September 2008
When 'sovereignty' risks global health
Political leaders around the world should take note - and take very strong action. The vast majority of avian flu outbreaks in the past four years, in both humans and poultry, have occurred in Indonesia. At least 53 types of H5N1 bird flu viruses...
*RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE AND
LAURIE GARRETT 18 September 2008
Khama steals the show in Harare
The Botswana leader had stayed away from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit held in South Africa last month in protest over the presence of Mugabe whose leadership following the controversial presidential run-off elections last...
NOZIPHO MASEKO 18 September 2008
Where are Botswana's best brains?
These are people who passed PLSE, JC, Cambridge and University degrees with flying colours. By flying colours, I mean first class, not the popular second class synonymous with bookworms. The brilliance of such students permeated all corners of any...
18 September 2008
Sebudubudu is right -BNF is in shambles
He seems to have a tendency to disregard the norms of the setswana culture which emphasis BOTHO and good manners. I have observed that in most of his writings to newspapers, his language is morally crude, profanely indecent, unpalatable and socially...
18 September 2008
Cartoon Strip 18.09.08
18 September 2008
Our Heritage
On the face of it, plaques are not such an exciting subject that it is worth mentioning when next sending a post card to Auntie. They are, after all, merely a record that someone appropriately important, a President or a Minister, had, on a...
SANDY GRANT 18 September 2008
BNOC in Olympics appearance fee dilemma
Early this year, President Ian Khama issued a directive that national team players should be paid appearance fees for national duties. However, Olympic games were left out as the directive was only issued to the Botswana National Sports Council...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Botswana boxer to fight in South Africa
Khubamang and his assistant coach, Obinna Ihenacho together with the manager of professional boxers in Botswana, Dusan Cakic will leave with Phelane on Wednesday for the fight in South Africa on September 26. Khubamang and Inehacho as well as...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 18 September 2008
Nyerere Drive upgrade begins
The GCC, which has been criticised for its lacklustre approach to the maintenance of roads, plans renovation of the city's busiest roads, Nyerere Drive and North Ring Road. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony performed recently by Local...
18 September 2008
Prodigal Mudanga returns to BPP home
Mudanga joined the BPP after defecting from the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) where he did not stay for a long time. Mudanga was also a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor but after losing the 'bulela ditswe' primary elections in 2003, he...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Another Bulela Ditswe appeal in Bobirwa
He claims that there has not been a free and fair poll. Letsweletse Mathape, who garnered 916 votes against Kgathi's 3,142 sent his appeal to the party's central committee. In the appeal addressed to the party's executive secretary, Comma Serema,...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 18 September 2008
Muzila loses BDP primaries appeal
The appeal was dismissed because the appellants applied in a group and all of the applicants except Muzila had accepted the results. "If you are going to appeal you do not accept the results, but all of these applicants except Muzila had accepted...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 18 September 2008
ACHAP promises to double efforts against AIDS
Launching its renewed partnerships with BONASO, BONEPWA and YOHO, ACHAP in Gaborone on Tuesday this week, voted P5, 045 million for the development of the initial 18 months of the project. ACHAP managing director, Dr. Themba Moeti, announced at the...
MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Farmers query stock theft law
They are concerned that thieves exploit the loopholes in the country's constitution and get away with stealing their animals. This arose at a farmers' meeting especially for stock theft in Mathangwane at the MP's office yesterday. The stock theft...
ISAAC PHEKO
Correspondent 18 September 2008
Another fuel price cut looms
Yesterday, the price of crude dived by more than four percent to a seven-month low of $91.70 a barrel. This gives hope that the meeting of energy department officials this week will recommend a reduction of prices to Permanent Secretary (PS) in the...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 18 September 2008
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