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'I was hired to kill Kalafatis,' says former agent
He says the old man sought his services though his 'bosses' in the DIS. Sanderson and his DIS partner engaged in the project because, he says, the bosses knew and agreed to it since the customer was a friend to influential people. Sanderson,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Daggers or peace beckon, Nasha entreats Bakgatla
The current session of Ntlo ya Dikgosi ends today after two weeks of deliberations during which the BaKgatla were not represented. The front row seat that Kgosi Mothibe used to occupy remained empty throughout as a constant reminder of the absence...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Accused car thief accuses police of torture
Sibanda Sebekile is facing two counts of theft of a motor vehicle and entering the country through an illegal point. On the first count, Sebekile is charged with stealing a Ford Courier pickup registered B 559 ABC valued at P20,000. The vehicle is...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Lionjanga clears the jungle of corruption on appeal
The former Executive Chairman of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) was convicted on a single count of corruption by the Village Magistrates Court early this year. He was sentenced to a three-year jail term wholly suspended for...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
MoE regrets crossed wires over allowance
According to information received from the principal public relations officer in the ministry, Nomsah Zuze, the students will not be paid their allowances for June and July. The ministry is aware that it had earlier on communicated with the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
The Patriot: A slave or a free spirit?
Is patriotism the slavish devotion to thy motherland? Is it cautious devotion? Is it blind intercourse and defence of the status quo? Do the conservatives own it? The question surrounding what constitutes a true patriot is perhaps at its peak in...
05 June 2009
Govt hacks P10 billion from NDP10
Implementation of the NDP 10 should have begun in April, the beginning of the financial year, but was delayed for 12 months because the government was still assessing the extent of the financial crisis. NDP 10 will now only be debated at the opening...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Botswana and other SADC countries sign EPAs without SA
Information reaching Mmegi is that Moroka, who was in President Ian Khama's delegation to Belgium this week, remained in Brussels to sign the interim deal. The EU office in Gaborone says the interim EPA was in place but not signed, hence yesterday's...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
PPC to expand Botswana Business
PPC told Engineering News on Tuesday that its aggregates unit had moved its semi-mobile crushing plant from a quarry in Mooiplaas in South Africa's Gauteng Province to the Kgale Quarry near Gaborone, allowing it to increase its production from 500,...
STAFF WRITER 05 June 2009
Dust is still the blight of the BOCCIM show
This year's BNTF was held under the theme "Competitiveness: Strategy for Growth". It was held at the BOCCIM Fair Grounds here from May 28 to 31 and was officially opened by the Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Duke Lefhoko. Exhibitors have...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Government splashes P65 million on diamond valuer
According to a notice of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) published on Tuesday, a US$9,427,409.00 tender submitted by the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources on April 27 was approved at a PPADB board meeting on May...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
The Sanderson tapes
In Tape 1 Sanderson says the person he is speaking to is an agent of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (Name known to Mmegi). Two things are clear - One is Sanderson, the other is a male person's voice with a Botswana accent. The two greet...
05 June 2009
Consumer Watchdog
Say it out loud, go on. Well, I think it's funny.Some of the people close to me think I'm obsessed. They think I've developed a slightly mad devotion to certain subjects, certain groups of people and certain things that the consumers of...
05 June 2009
The Bakgatla-baga-Kgafela's initiates' rites and the modern society
Chieftaincy among the Bakgatla is hereditary as it is inherited by the eldest son of the Chief's great wife. Initiation rites (bogwera for males and bojale for females) were very important agencies of socialisation among the Bakgatla. However,...
CHRISTIAN JOHN MAKGALA
(University of Botswana) 05 June 2009
Thapong hosts Ngoni's Meloko Exhibition
Ngoni, who is famous for his captivating and thought-provoking surrealistic works, decided to mount more realism paintings this time round. Most if not all of the paintings at the exhibition are oil on canvas and there is no doubt that the artist has...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Back Stage
Changeling (2008) is now available as a DVD. It is one of the latest in the reality cinema efforts of Clint Eastwood. It is a powerful film that confronts the evil in humans, a movie that stalks the truth, and may be fearful to some. It stars...
SASA MAJUMA 05 June 2009
The digole came with independence
Reviewed bySHERIDAN GRISWOLD Correspondent "Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana" is an unusual volume that will appeal to a wide variety of people with diverse interest. It is an historical study, but with strong ethnographic...
05 June 2009
Informal sector blossoms
FRANCISTOWN:Every morning, Mavis Ncube walks into town to start her day under the corridors of Chinese shops on Blue Jacket Street. That has been her routine since 1999 when she was "chased away like a dog" from her job as a maid. She remembers the...
05 June 2009
Francistown West: Portrait of traumatised electorate
FRANCISTOWN: Many Francistown West voters, speaking early this week, threatened not to vote in the October general elections, most of them saying that they have no confidence in the political system.Francistown West consists of seven wards and the...
05 June 2009
ICC president praises Botswana
Mmegi Firstly explain to us how the court came to the conclusion to give out an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir? Song Let me first start by explaining that the International Criminal Court is the first independent and...
05 June 2009
African media must combat Western stereotypes - Kedikilwe
Officiating at the 5th English Department International Conference at the University of Botswana early this week, he said misinformation about Africa has become a growth industry in the West. Kedikilwe said it is time Africa developed its own...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Making gentle conversation in Tokyo
Travel is one of the ways in which one can extend one's horizons and break long-held stereotypes. There are fewer places around the planet that offer a lesson in deconstruction of ingrained myths than the island of Japan. Before I embarked on this...
05 June 2009
The Sanderson tapes
The two men greet each other. And then the following conversation unfolds. 1) Offer to kill Kalafatis Intelligence Agent 2: (unintelligible). Tell me something.... Sanderson: What is it you wanna know? Intelligence Agent 2: (laughs)... Why you...
05 June 2009
British parley, good model for Botswana
A letter written by his own Labour MP, calling for his immediate resignation, was expected to have been circulated and supported by fellow Labour MPs today. These interesting developments come within days of the British local government and elections...
05 June 2009
WHITHER BOTSWANA?
John Kalafatis was someone I (and no doubt many others) had never heard of before, still don't know, but will now never forget. Such is the intensity of the ongoing publicity and outrage about his death that it can't possibly continue to be business...
DAN MOABI 05 June 2009
Who guarantees Khama's peace?
Each described the elephant in accordance with the part that they happened to be holding. The one holding the tail said it was like a needle, the one holding the tusk that it was like a rock, etc. They were all wrong, but also all right in view of...
05 June 2009
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05 June 2009
NITTY GRITTY
As you read with your own eyes and heard with your own ears, dear readers whose five senses are always intact, Chicken is now the new Cock. The fellows of the Nitty Gritty are at this very moment discussing the issue of his new name, and as I open...
BAROLONG SEBONI 05 June 2009
And now fans threaten boycott
The game itself remained in serious doubt late yesterday although authorities were adamant it would go ahead. The supporters say they will instead engage in social football to pass time starting at 2.30pm. The Zebras' Supporters Club chairperson,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Zebras move up rankings ahead of NZ tie
The Zebras have been on a decline in the FIFA rankings since hitting their highest mark in September 2007. This was under the tutelage of Colwyn Rowe when the Zebras were 95th in the world. Interestingly, the Zebras' opponents tomorrow have moved...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
BFA to update media on NZ game
There has been speculation around the fixture, which was thrown into doubt after delays in resurfacing the UB Stadium, the venue for tomorrow's game. According to a media release from the BFA, the announcement will be made at Lekidi Football Centre....
MQONDISI DUBE and BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writers 05 June 2009
BRU denies racism charges
"Racism in rugby is totally unacceptable," he said. "If by any chance there have been any incidents, then none has been reported to us. Racial slurs against other players regardless of whether they are your teammates is punishable by suspension or in...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Clubs await grant balances
At the beginning of the season, clubs were each paid P38, 000 following the conclusion of a P3.5 million broadcasting rights deal between the PLC and state broadcaster, Botswana Television (Btv). Each club will reportedly get P82, 000, which means...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Opposition councillor demands millions from state
The case was scheduled yesterday after a case management conference (CMC) at Justice Phumaphi's chambers in the absence of the government lawyers. The councillor has confirmed this and added that he has been awarded costs for yesterday's CMC. Tawele...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
First Cut
Amid all the chaos and shenanigans surrounding the Zebras versus New Zealand international friendly soccer match, the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) failure to issue an apology for its incompetence on the stadium availability fiasco baffles...
DENNIS KEAGILE 05 June 2009
Exciting times for Ngubula's boxing stable
He is as excited as a toddler who has just been handed its favourite confections by an adoring mommy, or more aptly, like Mohamed Ali after defeating George Foreman in the 'Rumble in the Jungle' fight in Zaire. After that 1974 fight in present day...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
When the Red of the South goes North
This communality manifested itself recently when the red team from the South visited the red one in the North and then settled for a 1-1 draw in their second round be MOBILE Premier League encounter at the Francistown stadium. Beside the fact that...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Mystery convenor pilots truce between editors and Khama
He said he had convened a meeting between the President and the media through its Editors' Forum, with a view to ironing out differences between the two. When asked in what capacity he was acting it turned out he was neither a government officer nor...
EPHRAIM KEORENG and OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Magistrate stays firm on Nchindo date with court
Last week the magistrate reserved judgment after he was faced with a dilemma when deciding if the case should kick off as scheduled or wait for a High Court judgment on a review application that Nchindo's lawyers have put before it. The review...
OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
Even in death, John Kalafatisremais a mystery
Kalafatis was born 33 years ago and raised in Gaborone. According to his obituary, which was circulated at his funeral last weekend, he went to the elite Northside Primary School and went down south to pursue his secondary education in Grahamstown...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
Botswana-Walvis Bay rail line to start soon
Both countries represented by their Permanent Secretaries in the Ministry of Transport agreed to kick-start a feasibility study that will determine how the railway line would be aligned as well as the cost implications of the exercise, the officials...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 05 June 2009
In-service teachers go unpaid
We live in rented accommodation in and around Francistown. Accommodation in this city is very expensive and some of our landlords do not understand our situation, one said, adding that they face eviction. Reached for comment, the Principal of FCE Sir...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 05 June 2009
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