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Letebele's Escape Blinding Inferno
There were seven occupants in the house when a flame from a candle that was being used for studying by a child ignited the curtains and an inferno ensued. Unseeing Gabaakelwe Letebele, 76, and his common law wife, Pidia Ntungwana, were preparing to...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Cartoon strip 27 .04.09
27 April 2009
The Winners Code
There are two classic types of mindsets that are prevalent in people who seek to make something meaningful of their lives. These are the lone ranger or superhero mindset and the locomotive mindset. The superhero in most cases presents himself as a...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 27 April 2009
Issues In Education
The previous article considered Botswana's national principles and the influence of personality and values in the workplace. This Issues will examine the links between education, personality, attitudes and behaviour at the workplace. The overall...
D. MOLEFE
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S. WEEKS 27 April 2009
Etcetera II
The other day I picked up the new 2009 Getaway Guide Book to Botswana and was intrigued to find Gaborone described as,'one of the most healthy, pleasant of low rise cities you'll ever visit. It's like the perfect capital of a near perfect land and...
Sandy Grant 27 April 2009
Health Chat
This is the final column on the series which started last week discussing the subject of Parkinson's disease. Last week we revealed patients' insight and day-to-day changes when they first become aware of the disease. In this column we discuss how...
27 April 2009
Can Diet Help In Rheumatoid Arthritis?
It is therefore, in order to commend him for his relentless effort in raising awareness of diseases and in particular Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). NCDs are the leading cause of illness and death the world over, and it is projected that in the...
27 April 2009
Modubule Has Himself To Blame
I will focus on Modubule because he is my MP and will probably not be in the coming months - post elections. After getting all the limelight as Leader of Opposition (temporarily) a few years ago in 2003/4, the man started behaving like he owned the...
27 April 2009
Salomao Launches SADCAS To Boost Regional Trade
To be known as SADCAS (Southern African Development Community Accreditation Service), the SADC subsidiary will provide accreditation services and training in accreditation-associated activities in the region, SADC executive secretary Dr Thomas...
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
OUT TO LUNCH
I 'll be the first to admit that the interview process, as we generally conduct it in many of our working environments, is flawed. Actually, maybe it would be more diplomatic if I phrase that differently, which would be that, the interview process...
27 April 2009
Veteran Piper In 'My African Dream' Finals
He joins five other finalists, Esther Golakai (singer), Pearl Olefhile (poetry), Bollywood Girls, Jozi Victims, Makentacky (all dancers). With a makeshift flute made from a metal pipe, Kwela belted a popular Mbaqanga classic, Phalaborwa,...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Let Prisoners Vote - Tshireletso
The MP was speaking to Monitor on Saturday on her return from South Africa where she was an election observer. She said that the elderly, the sick, pregnant women, members of the armed forces and election officials in South Africa were allocated a...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Talking Musika
This uninformed reform of the Trade and Liquor Act, which proposes to turn the country into a Muslim fife, will compel the entertainment industry to be innovative in adjusting to the paranoia, which appears to be the motivating force at the new...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 27 April 2009
Food For The Soul
They say variety is the spice of life, and I couldn't agree more. But what do most of us do? We are stuck in a rut of a monotonous diet that ends up making everything dull. You see even if you have an excellent well-balanced nutritious and fulfilling...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 27 April 2009
Where Is First Division Sposorship Deal?
With the 2008-2009 season about to end, the league faces another bleak future. The First Division League has been without a sponsor for a long time. The last sponsor of the league was Med-Rescue. Early this year, the chief executive officer of the...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Dirang Moloi Torments Former club
Moloi who has been at the centre of dispute between the two clubs regarding his controversial transfer to Chiefs did not only deliver a good pass for the opening goal but scored a cracker in the match. The ball wizard was declared a free agent by...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Players Leave For Davis Cup
The players are the Under-23 John Pickles and Son winner, Matshidiso Malope and Lefa Sibanda, Thabiso Mabaka and Shingirai Muzondwa. The countries that will be in the competition are Botswana, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Rwanda and...
27 April 2009
Premier League Spared New Fines
The new rule took effect in January but has not been applied in the be MOBILE Premier League. The BFA president, David Fani told Monitor Sport that the top division has been spared after a request by the Premier League Committee (PLC) to be given...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Kgatleng BNF Wants Kgosi In 'The House'
At a Kgotla meeting, addressed by the Bakgatla paramount chief, Kgafela Kgafela, on Saturday, Mabiletsa said sometimes, political interferences in the traditional institutions leads to differences between the two. He gave an example of some western...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Bontleng Market Becomes Criminals Haven
The market still remains a white elephant even though the council had leased the structure to a private developer. The market, which has been lying idle since it was opened in the 80s, was leased to a retired soldier, Peter Molatedi, to develop...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Homeowner Spills Sheriffs Guts, Police Sued
Nyakaswa went to execute a court order to attach the mans house. He was stabbed with a knife in the stomach and left with his intestines hanging out. Nyakaswa was admitted to hospital. He is still nursing an ugly scar from the brutal...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Bakgatla In Scrap with Khama over Kgafela
Kgosi Kgafela, briefing the Bakgatla at the Mochudi main Kgotla on Saturday about their representation at Ntlo ya Dikgosi, said the president turned their delegation down when they asked for his intervention on the issue. Early this year, Kgosi...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Molefhabangwe Vows To Tackle Unfinished Business
"Molf," as he is popularly known, is the kind of politician who never hesitates to shoot from the hip. The outspoken Botswana National Front (BNF) legislator believes that he still has what it takes to be given another term in...
Lekopanye Mookets
Correspondent 27 April 2009
Alleged Radio Thieves Turn On Each Other
Leatile Ntsima and Thsokolo Lekoko are accused of stealing car radio equipment from a vehicle that had had an accident around Molapo Estates last year in August. Giving his evidence in chief Lekoko told the court that on the day in question he went...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 27 April 2009
Where Is The President?
This is because of the recent announcement by government not to sponsor students who have not attained marks above 40 points for tertiary education. Everybody is asking questions about the future of this country if the government cannot afford...
27 April 2009
PPADB approves P57m 'extra cash' for consultants
In the last year, engineering consultants have increased their fees in various government projects leading to cost over-runs of millions. In some projects, cost over-runs have passed the hundred percent mark with others costing nearly twice the...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
The Cost of Dick Cheney
The autobiographies of political leaders are not a very elevated literary form. First, few leaders write well, though there are exceptions, like Nehru, Churchill, and de Gaulle. No wonder that most of them employ a "ghost," like the one in Robert...
*CHRIS PATTEN 28 April 2009
Cartoon strip 28 .04.09
28 April 2009
ICT sector grows at snail pace
Dr Phumzile Thobokwe of the Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) told an ICT seminar in Gaborone that the private sector is not doing enough to help the country to develop into a knowledge-based society with an industry that thrives on ICT...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Inflation rate to reach BoB target in third quarter
In the first quarter economic review of BIFM, Jefferis who is chairman of the financial institution's investment committee said that the annual inflation rate will go down because the consumer price index is expected to continue falling steadily...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Mmipi is Miss VIP Deaf
The only difference about the Miss VIP Deaf pageant was that the contestants were hearing impaired. But to the amazement of the guests, the fact that the contestants were hearing impaired could not deter them from showing off their deft dancing...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 April 2009
Distribution deal ahead for Maretlwaneng film
Maretlwaneng's award winning documentary, based on the emergence of Australian hip-hop, could soon be distributed to television channels around the world. The film owner says he is currently in negotiations with a USA distribution company, ITN...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Back Stage
Chihwaseon (2006) a.k.a Drunken Painting Master or Painted Fire is being shown today only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. Chihwaseon is the fascinating tale of one of Korea's greatest artists during the last decades of the 19th...
SASA MAJUMA 28 April 2009
GU dinner moved to May 27
The reason for the postponement is because it clashed with their league game with Uniao Flamengo Santos which is billed for Molepolole Sports Stadium on the same day. According to GU secretary general, Kagiso Sebele, they tried in vain to get the...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Gumbo attacks Matengu
"I just do not know how this boy (Matengu) can let in such silly goals. How can an experienced goalkeeper give away goals like that? We came here for three points and ended up having to fight so hard for a point. It is uncalled for," said Gumbo after...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 April 2009
Kutlwano tops Phakalane tournament
Each Kultwano club got P20,000 as champions. The Kutlwano women put-up an impressive performance to outclass Kalavango 3-0 while their male counterparts fought hard to win 3-2 against BDF VI. The runners-up got P8,000 each. Kutlwano men once again...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 April 2009
Bakgatla ba bolotsa bojale
On Saturday, Kgosi Mothibe Linchwe revealed that the first batch of women going for 'bojale' will be sent to the traditional school on May 30 and they will be expected back by June 20 this year. Kgosi Mothibe appealed to Bakgatla to respect culture...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
BDF XI lose ground in title race
The defeat has resulted in Matebele slipping to fourth spot from third after they were leapfrogged by ECCO City Greens who beat Uniao Flamengo Santos 1-0 on SaturdayBDF XI have 29 points from 21 games and trail ECCO on goal difference. On Sunday,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Industrial court awards employee P20, 000
Industrial Court Judge, Anna Mathiba, said that even though there was never a written agreement between the two, it is clear that he was employed under the terms that he told the court. Mathiba ruled that since the respondent who was not in court...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
AIDs kills 25 million worldwide
Officiating at the launch of a book on HIV and AIDS titled 'Male involvement in sexual and reproductive health: prevention of violence and HIV and AIDS in Botswana', Siele said that by 2007, an estimated 22 million adults and children in Africa were...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 28 April 2009
Fiasco at BDP councillor's launch
The two council candidates were launched on Sunday in Molepolole South, which falls under BDP chairman, Daniel Kwelagobe. Kwelagobe is also the MP for the constituency. One of the candidates, Jeffrey Sibisibi, who has been associated with the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 April 2009
BDF celebrates
But it was Botswana Defence Force (BDF) day and the spectacle was one of an array of events that the soldiers had lined up to entertain multitudes that thronged the Francistown Stadium last Saturday. The crowds could not help splitting in...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 April 2009
Youth should vote
The reduction of tertiary education sponsorship by government, without any prior warning for parents and potential students alike should cause young people and everyone concerned about the state of young people in this country, to pause and consider...
28 April 2009
Zuma rising
African politics has long been the exclusive domain of aristocrats, soldiers, and technocrats. Even with the spread of democratic elections, the region's leaders tend to come from the ranks of soldiers (Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe), family dynasties...
* G. PASCAL ZACHARY 28 April 2009
The youth must be their own liberators
But the care-free attitude of most of them exacerbates this pathetic situation. For example many youth in this country still do not see the need to participate in the democratic process of elections. They literally refuse to register for elections....
28 April 2009
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