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I emphasised that I would attend any meeting on AIDS and that publishers and editors were not exempt. I stand before you today as promised. First of all, I want to say that at long last you the media have realised that AIDS is not somebody else's...

By Festus Mogae 01 December 2008

I Feel Good To Be At Thami Mnyele Concert In J'burg

On Tuesday and on Wednesday I sat before my toy Yamaha and went through the compositions that I would present to Jonas Gwangwa's band in Johannesburg. Steve Dyer would also be presenting a song or two. This was enough to exacerbate one's...

01 December 2008

Updates On Nutrition And HIV/AIDS: Getting The Most From Your Diet

As we all celebrate several victories accumulated over the course of the year, the end of the year is also normally a time to take stock of our achievements or lack thereof in health, wealth and connections with the greater universe. So where do you...

01 December 2008

Youth Recognised For Excellence And Achievements

There were seven categories namely business enterprise, visual arts, performing arts, sports and recreation, tourism, wildlife and environmental conservation, leadership and community development and science and technology. Each category had first,...

By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

Positive Reinforcement

Simple, unadulterated compliments and words that recognize and reward effort like, 'well done' or 'good job', 'thank you', or even 'I'm happy with what you've done', and 'you're a valuable team member' are hard to come by. It appears that...

01 December 2008

'17 CEDA Youth Projects Running Well In Kanye'

The Assistant Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Guma Moyo, said the CEDA office in Kanye has received 68 projects valued at P27.2 million since the CEDA Young Farmers Fund started operating in April last year. Out of these, 23 projects...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 01 December 2008

Chobe Posts Good Results But Gets Butterflies Over Air Botswana

Presenting the group's results for the six months ended 31 August 2008, Chobe Holdings Managing Director Jonathan Gibson said the privatisation of Air Botswana was expected to bring more confidence to the travel industry. The privatisation of Air...

By Brian Benza
Staff writer 01 December 2008

Tati Nickel Mine To Review Operations

"We have been affected by the global financial crisis and the fall in the metal prices in particular," says Tati Nickel's Manager (for) Organisational Capability, Peter Meswele. Tati Nickel Mine, which recovers copper, nickel and cobalt, is located a...

By Ryder gabathuse
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

SADC Must Give Mugabe The Apartheid Treatment

At the time, southern African leaders including President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe successfully fought for the end of racial discrimination in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia. It was a fight for respect, dignity, democracy and freedom, the...

Editor 01 December 2008

UB Shields Exam Paper-Peddling Dons?

This follows the announcement that third year Diploma in Accounting and Business Studies (DABS) students will have to re-write the economics and taxation and business tests this weekend to make up for the exam that was leaked in May this year, after...

By Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

Rising To The Top-Necessary But Not Sufficient Causes

If anything, it is the desire of most people to rise to the top of their chosen fields of specialisation or in their general pursuits in life. However, most people do not know how to turn this simple desire into reality. The truth is that there is...

01 December 2008

228-"Gains since the Launch of Education for All"

The Education for All agenda has remained a critical driving force since the major international conference in Jomtein, Thailand, in 1990. This agenda that was endorsed has enabled national governments to seek more opportunities for new networking...

01 December 2008

Moderate Drinking Is The Way To Go

What makes it so fascinating is who made it, to whom it was presented, and its relevance to the present time.It was made by a group of women in Scotland around 1895. Those Victorian ladies, in addition to their skill with needle and thread, were...

01 December 2008

A Clean Town With Hungry And Unemployed People

Whilst we acknowledge endeavors by the Government and the Gaborone City Council to regulate businesses as small as street vendors, we have to come to acceptance that such achievements will not be realised overnight. The decision reached by the city...

01 December 2008

Cartoon 01.12.08

01 December 2008

Billboard 01.12.08

01 December 2008

Kubara Denies Landing In The Money

He said claims that he arrived at the Botswana Football Association (BFA) offices with a briefcase bulging with cash are not true. Reports said that Kubara approached the BFA with an offer to sponsor a cup tournament or the First Division. However,...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 01 December 2008

Kelosiwang Tops Local Golf

He won the prestigious Championship Division at the Phakalane event to oust Diane Lucas who topped the competition last year. Kelosiwang scored 78, 75, and 76 gross in the two-day 54-hole event. Lucas of Orapa finished fifth with 79, 77 and 83 gross....

Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

Tsholofelo Retains National Boxing Crown

Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB) Boxing Club finished runners-up and got P7,000. Thebephatswa and Francistown Boxing Clubs shared the third position. The amount of money they will get had not been determined by the time of going to...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 01 December 2008

Rollers, Gunners Share Spoils

The new sponsors did their best to advertise themselves in Molepolole with banners in the village. Security was tight and only a couple of negatives spoiled the good job done by the be Mobile crew. First the game started at least an hour late....

By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

BNPC Boss Condemn Proliferation Of Unions

"I am saddened by some new developments in the local labour movement where as employers grow stronger, a good number of labour unions have grown weaker and weaker. Even where there is growth within the labour movement especially as a result of the...

By Mqondisi Dube
Correspondent 01 December 2008

Mayor's Onslaught Irk BLLAWU

During his address to the full council meeting last week, Billy blasted union members who pursue political careers under the guise of trade unionism. "Given that genuine trade unions would naturally represent workers from across the political divide,...

By Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent | 01 December 2008

Fake Drivers' Licenses

This follows a number of incidents in various DRTS offices in Gaborone in which a number of unsuspecting victims are reported to have been swindled of large amounts of money in what is believed to be a driving licence scam by some conmen in...

By Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

Phikwe Hit By MDR TB

He said patients have been referred to Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital in Francistown for isolation and treatment. He encouraged people to report to health facilities if they experience persistent coughing so they can be tested for TB and get treatment...

By Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

PPADB Stops CMS Rot

The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) said last week that it had rejected a decision by CMS to terminate the contracts because of the risk of lawsuits. CMS terminated the contract of their current supplier of pain-killers without...

By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 01 December 2008

BDP MPs Useless - Mabiletsa

Mabiletsa said this in Parliament on Friday when he was supporting a motion by Kanye MP Calvin Batsile, calling on the government to provide MPs' constituency offices with vehicles. The outspoken Botswana National Front (BNF) legislator said BDP MPs...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 01 December 2008

BDP Forgives Moatlhodi

The move came after a BDP Central Committee meeting held earlier in the day. The committee met with a delegation from Tonota, which was sent to apologise on behalf of the MP and seek clemency. Early last month, the BDP barred Moatlhodi from...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 01 December 2008

Motsumi speaks on HIV and AIDS

Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Over the last 20 years we have dedicated December 1st as the day in which we all pause to reflect on the global fight against HIV/AIDS and re-dedicate ourselves to achieving an AIDS free world. The...

02 December 2008

Defined not by chance but by a hunch

Apparently, the show has been running on Hungarian television since last month and the final episode was due on Sunday.The show came as a result of agreements between the government of Botswana through the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and...

BACK STAGE
SASA MAJUMA 02 December 2008

Don B, the creative genius

Don B, as he is called in music circles, has never been afraid to try anything new and you should have been at Lions Park on Saturday night to see just how creative he can be in his dance. How many of us knew what a good rapper he is? Well,...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 02 December 2008

Hugh Masekela thrills revellers despite the hiccups

However, the South African maestro did not disappoint the faithful as he demonstrated that despite his age, he has not gone over the hill yet. But for the revellers and performers alike the nightmare started as our own Socca Moruakgomo was...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 December 2008

Chinese firm to build ambitious Mmamabule project

MEP promoters CIC Energy yesterday announced the selection of Shanghai Electric Group Co. Ltd. (SEC) as the preferred Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for the first power station to be built at the Mmamabula coalfields.CIC...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 02 December 2008

Investors in selling mood ahead of Christmas

For the greater part of this last quarter of the year, share prices have been tumbling much to the detriment of investors who had taken positions on the local bourse. The mainstream index DCI finished the week 0.92 percent softer at 7,820.41 points...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 02 December 2008

BDP and Moatlhodi are no heroes

In our considered view, the event marks, in very graphic terms, a number of patterns, all showing a dramatic turn for the worst in our democratic development. The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) would like to define government as an executive...

Editor 02 December 2008

What is happening to christianity?

All happening, is it not as predicted in the holy scripture, the end of the world and mankind? I remember Andy when he was just an ordinary man then doing some accounts or IT work for a firm of lawyers. He was with another fellow from Zimbabwe. Poor...

02 December 2008

Thanks BDP executive committee for swallowing your pride

Gratitude of thanks once again goes to the public, community of Tonota Village and opposition parties, who strongly poured scorn on the move that was taken by the BDP to recall the MP. The recent move by the latter really demonstrates a...

02 December 2008

Moatlhodi saga portrays the BDP as undemocratic

A majority win by a party in general elections legitimises a democratic government; a majority win in the primary elections legitimises the candidate as a popular representative of the party. What the general and primary elections do, is to...

AS I SEE IT
MICHAEL DINGAKE 02 December 2008

Khama castigates Tawana

Khama said Tawana has disgraced the country. "O digile leina larona le flaga yarona. (She has the disgraced us as a nation)," he said during World AIDS Day commemorations yesterday in Selebi-Phikwe. He added that Tawana had let the country down and...

MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 02 December 2008

Cartoon 02.12.08

02 December 2008

Naughty Boys hold BMC

However, Naughty Boys should be worried by the failure to expose the evidently rusty BMC defence. Alex Matshameko and Chakadza Pharo committed some schoolboy errors, which Galefetoge 'Dilo Dilo' Kenaope and Kgaodi Odirile failed to exploit. There...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 02 December 2008

Be mobile transforms football

During the launch of the sponsorship, the company proved what marketing is all about. At the Sunday game between Gaborone United and Mochudi Centre Chiefs, the University of Botswana Stadium was painted be Mobile colours and everything was organised...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 December 2008

Ramotswa clubs fight over 'muti' again

The clash between the two sides on Saturday was full of drama and the referee had to stop proceedings three times because of crowd trouble. Eventually, Letlapeng won the duel 2-1. On two occasions, the game was stopped when some supporters started...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 02 December 2008

The going gets tough for Chiefs

By this time last season, Magosi were riding the crest of the waves, brushing aside opponents with contemptuous ease and sauntering away with the title unbeaten. But this time, things are difficult for Chiefs, which lost its second match on Sunday....

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 December 2008

ARV patients to double by 2016

Speaking yesterday at the World AIDS Day commemorations in Selebi-Phikwe, Khama said that the figure is expected to escalate by nearly 100 percent in 2016, going by the current rate of infection. Khama said the government will continue to explore...

MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 02 December 2008

A rejuvenated Moatlhodi vows to 'prove his mettle'

"Now I know that my main challenge is to prove to the party leadership and everybody else what I am capable of. It is my plan to ensure that the opposition is not given the slightest chance at all." As expected of the man, whose penchant for...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 02 December 2008

Moatlhodi promised hero's welcome in Tonota

After confusion that was created by the BDP Central Committee's recall of Moatlhodi from running for the 2009 general election on the party ticket because of his involvement in the acts of "indiscipline", the party has since rescinded its...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 02 December 2008

Mogae addresses Stockholm AIDS conference

The conference was organised by the two organisations' Swedish Workplace HIV/AIDS Programme in Stockholm. The programme aims at contributing to the establishment and support of HIV/AIDS programmes at the workplace by engaging Swedish companies and...

02 December 2008

Botswana team at UN climate meet

Botswana is a signatory to the climate change treaty and the Kyoto Protocol, which prescribes targets and modalities for the implementation of the Climate Change Convention - UNFCCC. Under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries have...

EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 02 December 2008

BDP cracks the whip again

The BDP disciplinary committee has punished the controversial politician for slamming those who are opposed to the party holding elections next year. Education Minister and BDP secretary general, Jacob Nkate, told Mmegi that Morwaeng has acknowledged...

OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 02 December 2008

ARV programme unsustainable - Khama

In a speech to mark World AIDS Day commemorations in Selebi-Phikwe yesterday, Khama said the nation needs to understand the cost implication of the ARV programme. Khama said the only sustainable way to help in the fight against HIV and AIDS would be...

STAFF WRITER 02 December 2008

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