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He said the helicopter pilots who were trained in South Africa in the past two years will return home this month. In the meantime, they will practice at Botswana Defence Force (BDF). Bagopi revealed that the manufacturers were two weeks behind...

By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Govt Rapped Over Coupon System

Selebi-Phikwe councillors criticised the move following the recent failure by government to implement the coupon system. According to correspondence read during a special full Selebi-Phikwe Council meeting on Thursday, the government decided to...

By Mqondisi Dube
Correspondent 06 October 2008

Nkate Calls For Good Schools' Governance

He called on staff members and stakeholders to participate and help in the implementation of an effective school pastoral programme. "I am confident that this initiative will help meet critical requirements in terms of good school governance. The...

By Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Government Ups Wages For Unemployed

Government is starting to compile a list of unemployed graduates starting in November, a process that will see an unspecified number of the degree holders absorbed by several government and para-statal institutions for a maximum period of 12...

By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Kwerepe The Fire Fighter Extraordinaire

The acting director in the department of forestry and ranch land management in the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism is an office man. However, everything to do with fire disasters that have come to haunt this country of late revolves...

By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Bright Atang Lights The Skies

"Bright students get pushed toward engineering and medicine," he says. "If you achieve something in life, it has to be in the sciences". Gilika was accepted to study medicine, but he decided he wouldn't follow the path he was pressured to take....

06 October 2008

Okavango Delta, Tsodilo Hills On Fire

Botswana's only world heritage site, Tsodilo Hills, also caught fire last week. The extent of the damage has not been established. By late Friday, satellite images showed that raging fires had started destroying the world-acclaimed Okavango Delta...

By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Leburu Drops A Hot Jazz Album

The artist, who is best remembered as the prime tunesmith for the now defunct Dance Afrika, needs no introduction in the music industry having worked with leading artists such as Punah Gabasiane, Tumediso 'Shanti Lo' Loeto, and the contemporary...

By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Btv's Breakfast Show Commendable

While the breakfast show is commendable, a lot needs to be done to make it as engaging as its South African counterparts on SABC networks and etv. Having said that, it has to be mentioned that given that the television industry is in its infancy in...

By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

No Mathata With Footballs We Want Pianos

I missed the details, but I took particular note of the fact that there appears to be increased government interest in not only making policy and promissory statements about the development of arts and culture, but a conscientious initiative to...

06 October 2008

Breast Cancer: Dietary And Other Prevention Strategies

The world is growing bigger and it has nothing to do with climate change. I mean the inhabitants of the world are growing BIG, and Batswana are no exception. With this increase in weight comes non-communicable diseases (NCD) and cancer being one of...

06 October 2008

CIC Energy, International Power Seal Successor Deal

In a statement the company that is developing Mmamabula Energy Project, says the new agreement supersedes the Project Development Agreement signed by the two companies in March last year. Under the new accord CIC Energy and IPR intend to continue...

By Business Reporter 06 October 2008

BSE To Debate Rules Of Illiquid Assets Transfer

The conference will deliberate on how the BSE can develop the bond market and securatisation. The development of this instruments will help transform illiquid assets on the local capital market. The issue of securities provides companies with...

By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Stan-Chart Launches New Retail Products

"As an international bank, we have the advantage to introduce products that have been successful already in other markets. So we still going to introduce more accounts to cater for our customers different needs," said head of consumer Banking...

By Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Are You The Toxin Poisoning Everyone In The Work Place?

Have you ever walked into a room where the air wasn't fit for inhalation, perhaps because it was heavy with an overpowering smell of something rotting, or maybe the unpleasant smell of cigarette smoke? Have you ever been in a room where the...

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Shameela Winston 06 October 2008

Time To Invest In Fire Management Strategies

Fires from Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park and Namibia's Caprivi Strip have spread across the border to the tourists' attraction area of the Chobe. More fires are expected to spread to Botswana from South Africa anytime this week. It is obvious...

Editor 06 October 2008

Impulsive Decision- Making: Does The Government Have The Necessary Mandate?

In effect, such above-mentioned questions would inevitably include the issue of direct election of the president upon the resignation, retirement or passing on of the incumbent. Such a move or sometimes necessary democratic dispensation would give...

06 October 2008

Government Should Involve Citizens In Budgeting

Unfortunately, their suggestions during that time cannot alter what is contained in the budget speech. I do not blame newspapers because they have a prerogative to set agenda, which they think can sell their papers. But for the benefit of the...

06 October 2008

Wake Up Call For Africa To Start Measuring The Measured

It is as if we are back to the communism era USSR or USA. The financial crises do not by any chance mark the death of capitalism. Capitalism hits the weak spot in the human heart- the greedy spot, hence its triumph over communism. It is the greed...

06 October 2008

Registration And Accreditation Of Private Tertiary Institutions

A major purpose of accreditation is to protect students from bogus or fraudulent institutions, to ensure that the training the government supports through grants or loans is recognised through a process of accreditation, and to indicate to...

06 October 2008

Rescuing Zim

Whilst reports suggest that the draft rescue package will be conditional on a raft of reform requirements being first implemented, there must be concern that SADC seems to be going it alone. Whilst SADC should most certainly play a major role in...

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SANDY GRANT 06 October 2008

Bolwetse Jwa Tshoganetso Jwa Go Ema Ga Pelo

Bolwetsi jo bo bakwa ke eng? Sekganedi sepe fela mo ditshikeng, se kgoreletsa go ela ga madi ka thelelo. Mafura a a fitlhelwang mo teng ga ditshika a nyenyefatsa boleng jwa tsone mme di kibane ka jalo madi a seke a goroge kwa dinameng tsa...

06 October 2008

Start Turning Your Life Around

Fear of failure teaches us to be cautious, timid, and hesitant and in extreme cases it paralyses us into inaction. It teaches us to associate failure with negative consequences. It betrays us into being security minded rather than opportunity-...

06 October 2008

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06 October 2008

Chiefs Silence Gunners

Chiefs won the thrilling encounter that kept many spectators at the edge of their seats on Saturday night. Despite the game starting about 40 minutes late, it had all the ingredients of a grand opener of the season as both teams showed that this...

By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

Da Vet Cycle For Life

Briefing journalists on Friday, the leader of the group, Otsile Ramorwa said that they will be holding discussions with the youth as they travel along the country on issues that affect them including alcohol abuse, drugs and HIV/AIDS. They will...

By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 06 October 2008

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