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Police Air Arm Lifts Off In January
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...
OUT TO LUNCH
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
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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
P2m worth of stolen copper cables seized
Selebi-Phikwe Police Station commander Superintendent Victor Nlebesi, said officers raided a scrap metal yard on Friday and found 15 tonnes of copper cables stacked in sacks in the storeroom. Nlebesi said the value of the copper cables could not be...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 07 October 2008
Nigeria's Uti out of BB3 race
Uti left on Sunday, following Namibia's Lucille Naobes, 21, the second housemate to be evicted, after Tanzania's Latoya Lyakurwa, 21, who was the first to leave the house. Unlike the other two evictees, Uti, however was kicked out of the house...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Mos and Ghanzi group release gospel album
Moses, who is also known as Double Mos in music circles, said that the group was formed in 2001 and consists of six members. Moses explained that five members of the group are from Ghanzi and he is from Tsamaya village in the northeast. "The group...
ISAAC PHEKO
Correspondent 07 October 2008
'Defamed' duo threaten to sue radio station
Madumo has just left Yarona fm for the government commercial radio station, RB II.In a letter to the radio station, Tshesebe and Abram's lawyers stated that the two presenters claimed that their clients were found having sex with a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 07 October 2008
The bike is the Devil's work
I ran has a film industry that includes 500 male directors, but only 10 female directors. Of those who are female, three are related to the great director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, his sons and daughters, the most famous being Samira Makhmalbaf, and...
BACK STAGE
SASA MAJUMA 07 October 2008
FSG empowers local investors
FSG's Initial Public Offer (IPO), which ended September 22, 2008 was overwhelmingly supported with total applications amounting to 20.2 million shares for the eight million shares on offer. "We are extremely proud," said an elated FSG Chairperson,...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Where is the MABC tv sponsorship?
The league was supposed to have been launched over the weekend, but this has since been postponed indefinitely. Those in charge have indicated that the postponement was for a good reason. They want to launch when all else has been put in place....
Editor 07 October 2008
It's touch and go down South!
The question is controversial, when you listen to those who say Mbeki was denied the principle of natural justice. The NEC recalled Mbeki without hearing his side. The Republic of South Africa constitution, one of the best constitutions in the...
AS I SEE IT
MICHAEL DINGAKE 07 October 2008
Banks Ndebele must stop his hooliganism
In his fabricated and inquisitive so-called rebuttal to my previous article on David Sebudubudu's predictions, Ndebele conveniently decided to disregard the context under which my article was made and decided to launch an unsubstantiated diatribe...
07 October 2008
Torture by train - a true story
It is obvious that as the long distance bus fares continue to rise owing to escalating fuel prices, most people have resorted to travelling by BR coaches between Francistown and Gaborone, which is the cheapest. Travelling by BR coaches is cheap,...
07 October 2008
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07 October 2008
ANC assures Botswana of power supply
The minister was addressing the press yesterday on the power supply constraints expected to hit Botswana from today until end of November. By 2012, Botswana is expected to be an exporter of power when its Mmamabula project starts...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Giants in impressive victories
Rollers hammered Naughty Boys 3-1 in a pulsating game at the National Stadium on Sunday night to register their best start of the season in recent years. Playing Naughty Boys was never going to be easy as the Tlokweng side had shown in the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Notwane woos Zambian coach
He said that at the moment, the tactician is finishing his assignments in Zambia. He added that at the moment, they are negotiating with former goalkeeper Tlhalefang 'Sheleng' Mogorosi to lead the team until the Zambian tactician arrives in the...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Sponsors reap rich after Gunners deal
On Saturday, a day after the launch of a P180,000 three-year-sponsorship deal, the company recorded booming sales during the match between Gunners and Mochudi Centre Chiefs. Vendors ran out of supplies after thirsty soccer fans snapped up all the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Major villages to pay high water bills
The WUC Annual Report raises concerns that the NSCW will come under tremendous pressure due to government plans to connect it to major villages. The NSCW was commissioned in 1999-2000 and has been hit with major leakages. The WUC Annual Report...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Botswana wants Mbeki to break Zim impasse
Botswana has expressed concern over the current cabinet posts-sharing impasse between ZANU-PF, MDC-Tsvangirai and MDC-Mutambara in the Zimbabwean government of national unity. The Botswana Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
Half a million Pula to rescue Tsodilo Hills from fires
The acting permanent secretary at the ministry, Moses Nkgowe, told Mmegi that when they learnt about the approaching fires last Thursday, an emergency meeting approved the P500, 000 budget for the construction of fire-breakers around the area amid...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
BNF struggles to douse G-North fires
There is a dispute as to who is eligible to contest the BNF primary elections in Gaborone North. The former chairman of the BNF Youth League, Gabriel Kanjabanga insists that he should be declared the party' s sole parliamentary candidate for the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 07 October 2008
Mmegi F/town toasts five great years
At a colourful event that was packed with clients, fellow media houses, the newspapers' avid readers and Mmegi staff from Gaborone, Francistown and Selebi-Phikwe, Mmegi Northern Bureau, which is one of the Dikgang Publishing Company (DPC) branches,...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
School turns challenges into opportunities
Deserving members of the school community were awarded certificates, trophies and presents in recognition of their outstanding work during the ceremony whose theme was Cultivating a Culture of Excellence. The General Manager of the Botswana Meat...
SYLVESTER WAPITSO
Correspondent 07 October 2008
Designer Abdoola motivated by Junk't
"I had wanted to enter the last two years, but the show always happened around exam-time and I missed out, but this time around, I made sure that I started preparations well on time," Abdoola says, adding that he entered the competition under his...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 07 October 2008
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