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Of Khama, opposition and The Guardian
Addressing a rally in Mahalapye West at the launch of Vice-President and area MP Mompati Merafhe, Khama said the opposition has been fragmented by power struggles. "There are two parties in Botswana. There is BDP and BNF (Botswana National Front)....
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
Chobe Holdings move to mitigate downturn
The company has been hit by a downturn soon after releasing a fair set of financial results. "Whereas once lead times (time between booking and actual travelling) could be measured in years, we now face lead times of months and in some cases days,"...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
Ministry out to preserve culture - Kokorwe
Kokorwe was speaking at a colourful National Culture Day held at Masunga Sports Complex on June 6 under the theme "Culture is my business"."The ministry will continue to give prominence to the promotion and preservation of our culture and the...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
"Shanti Lo" dazzles at Maitisong
The exciting 90-minute performance organised by Local Theatre and Music Production, Brincat Productions and Streethorn Promotions was also a chance for local fans, supporters and the general audience to see what Shanti Lo and his cast will be...
WANJA NJUGUNA
Correspondent 09 June 2009
Big Brother: The Revolution auditions today
After the Gaborone auditions the auditioning crew will jet out to Francistown for the second leg to be held tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Cresta Marang Hotel from 09:30 to 19:00. For the first time in the history of the reality series, M-Net...
STAFF WRITER 09 June 2009
Back Stage
Persepolis (2007) is being shown today only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. This unusual personal history presented through an award-winning animated feature is surprising and challenging, entertaining plus being extremely somber and...
SASA MAJUMA 09 June 2009
Killer Giants accomplish mission
"I have waited so long for this moment and it looked like it would never come but here we are today. I am so happy that I finally helped the team, which discovered me, to gain promotion to the elite league. We have made history today," Mopako said as...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 09 June 2009
Santana gets full support
The win reduced the pressure on Bafana Bafana coach Joel Santana who was highly criticised by some quarters after announcing his 23-man squad last Thursday. Some South African football fans told Mmegi Sport that they were not happy the coach left out...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
World Cup dreams in tatters
The team finished the tournament without a win. The technical crew, led by Carlos Orta acknowledged before leaving for Nigeria that it was going to be an uphill task to qualify for the next stage. Pitted against continental powerhouses, Cameroon,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
IEC officer probed for 'nocturnal' registration
A source, who requested anonymity, says the incumbent Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor for Mmaphashalala/Dovedale in Mahalapye East approached the officer after working hours about registering six people whose ID numbers he had....
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
Barataphathi snubs Merafhe
One did not have to be a rocket scientist to feel and read the abuse hailed at Merafhe. In fact, this was part of the grand plan by the Kedikilwe-Kwelagobe faction to deliberately snub Merafhe, whom they associate with the officially disbanded...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
Kwelagobe is power-hungry, says Khama
Speaking in Mahalapye over the weekend, Khama said a deal was made in the BDP in 2007 for Kwelagobe to assume the party chairmanship without challenge from Vice President, Mompati Merafhe. However, Kwelagobe has refused to return the favour and give...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 09 June 2009
Khama is anexpensive bachelor Saleshando
Speaking at a rally at Block 1 in Gaborone on Sunday, the sole MP of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) said the BDP team that recently launched the ruling partys parliamentary candidate for Tati East Guma Moyo and his council candidates in...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 09 June 2009
BDP condemns DKs fundraising venture
Education minister and BDP secretary general, Jacob Nkate, has condemned the advert saying there is a concerted effort to sell the view that President Ian Khamas rule is a threat to democracy. It is unfortunate that BDP members are falling for this...
OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 09 June 2009
BDP divisions bad for
Kwelagobe was defending the partys constitution in tandem with what his supporters have been advocating. Ironically President Ian Khama at the weekend also spoke about the current events in the party. Khama indicated that he is also interested in...
09 June 2009
AS I SEE IT
Botswana is a middle income country in which approximately 25 percent of its nationals subsist on less than $1 dollar per day. Government officials, however brag, "No Motswana has ever died of famine..." the hallmark of poverty. They contrast our...
09 June 2009
Cartoon strip 09.06.09
09 June 2009
Puso turns down Kgafela
Kgosi Kgafela is trying to crystallise civic society against extra-judicial killings that have taken place over the past year in Botswana. The Bakgatla sovereign confirmed yesterday that Kgosi Gaborone had told him that his Kgotla would not be...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Maternal mortality on the rise
Sheenaz El- Halabi stated that the 2006 Botswana Demographic Survey revealed an Infant Mortality Rate of 51 deaths per 1,000 live births and an under five year-old mortality rate of 76 deaths per 1, 000 live births. "If this trend continues, Botswana...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Council accused of sidelining businesses
Businessman, Palalani Moithobogi of Kgwebo Management and Secretarial Services has complained that the council is not playing its role as a facilitator of entrepreneurship. He said that support structures that were available during the time of the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 June 2009
Drilling success for A-Cap at Letlhakane uranium project
In a statement posted on the BSE, the company said drilling was undertaken as part of a planned resource upgrade which will occur in the second half of 2009. The Letlhakane Uranium Project has a JORC Inferred Resource of 98 million lb uranium oxide...
STAFF WRITER 10 June 2009
Election fraud: This is a wake up call
After nine general elections conducted in this country since 1965, we thought we were too smart for this type of base election chicanery. When the Zimbabwean elections were marred by violence, most of us thought it will not happen here. In the...
EDITOR 10 June 2009
Capitals of capital
An ambitious goal, which may or may not be achieved. But China's aspirations also underscore a worrisome and increasingly pervasive new reality: political officials are making decisions normally left to markets on a scale not seen in decades. Like...
* IAN BREMMER 10 June 2009
Enough is enough!
They believed that problems such as unemployment, inadequate shelter, lack of clean water, reduction in levels of income and closing the gap between the rich and the impoverished would be a thing of the past. In his inauguration speech, the...
10 June 2009
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10 June 2009
Bad weather won't deter BB-Africa enthusiasts
As a result, not even the weather could deter the young men and women from streaming to the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) for a chance to participate in the popular M-Net reality show. The fact that ultimately it will only be one...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Ras Jesus seeks rematch after Kang debacle
Reggae musician Ras Jesus was yesterday expected to lodge an appeal to the office of Culture and Performing Arts. Ras Jesus, a music activist in Kang, lost to Obsa and Surrounding in the second Presidential Music Awards regional finals held in...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
DJ Bunz, KBL tug-of-war rages on
This was after the two parties had attended a Case Management Conference (CMC) at Justice Modiri Letsididi's chambers yesterday. Gaetsewe is demanding P390, 000 for unlawful dismissal. The DJ says the exceptional trial was raised by KBL laywers...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 10 June 2009
Khama can't attack me - Kwelagobe
In an interview yesterday, Kwelagobe said that he does not expect Khama, his friend to say such things about him. "I come from afar with him ke mo rata and I respect him as my leader and as a friend. It's becoming difficult for me to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff writer 10 June 2009
Motlakase finally gets stadium plot
The club is working round the clock to ensure that it has a new stadium before the start of next season after it was finally allocated a plot to build the facility. Motlakase faces a dilemma, as their current home ground is deemed unsuitable for...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
BVF close to clinching sponsorship
"Our negotiations with the potential sponsor are at an advanced stage and we are hopeful that we will clinch a deal very soon," BVF vice president in charge of technical affairs, Waboraro Mokgatla said yesterday. He explained that though...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 June 2009
BMC breaks Motswadi's heart
The crafty player who has not been training with the team for the last four months, told Mmegi Sport that he learnt of his release through the media. "This team has made me and I have also played a big part in shaping its future and to be ditched...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 June 2009
FIFA empowers African scribes
Speaking at the end of a five-day FIFA-AFP media workshop in Johannesburg at the weekend, FIFA media officer Alain Leiblang said that since the World Cup is coming to Africa, it is important for African journalists to have a better understanding of...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Let us not hurl abuse and cast aspersios on other democrats
In October, we will be contesting the 10th general elections when we seek another fresh mandate from Batswana. Since our first electoral victory in 1965, we have been...
*DK KWELAGOBE 10 June 2009
Our heritage
The first such exhibition was, in fact, held at the Bechuanaland Training Centre in Gaborone (now BIAC) 44 years ago and was organised by myself on behalf of the Botswana Teachers Union as was reported by the November 1975 Kutlwano. Those were bust...
Sandy Grant 10 June 2009
I have no plans to 'unseat' Khama - DK
"I have worked with the current President"s father, the late Sir Seretse Khama, former presidents, Sir Ketumile Masire and Festus Mogae cordially. I supported them through and through," explained a visibly worried Kwelagobe, who is affectionately...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Barata-phathi stake their campaign on democracy
The Kedikilwe-Kwelagobe faction, as Barata-phathi are otherwise known, has apparently decided to take on their more formidable Nkate-Merafhe adversaries who count on President Ian Khama to reinforce their fortress. The factions are using rallies to...
10 June 2009
Limkokwing's SRC engages lawyer over allowances
According to the letter marked 'urgent' and delivered to the Ministry on Friday, the students complain that they had been assured through a June 1, 2009 letter, signed by the deputy permanent secretary Golekanye Setume, that they would be paid...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Pastouchencko to be retried for defilement
The 39-year old Russian will be re-tried on a single count of defilement after High Court judge David Newman found that there was nothing on the record of trial proceedings that any of the prosecution witnesses had taken an oath or made an...
ISIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Crime landscape changing too fast - Tsimako
The commissioner said that new trends like transnational organised crime continues to give them headaches, but he maintained that their efforts will be rewarded with significant reduction in crime some day. Speaking during the opening of a...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
Confusion over suspended BDP youth
Motsaathebe, the BDP Youth Wing's chairman, Secretary General, Nshakazhogwe-Masunga and the treasurer, Kgakge were in April suspended from the party for two months for financial transgressions involving close to P120, 000. However, information...
OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 10 June 2009
Politics gets murkier in Mmaphashalala
Magowe told Mmegi by telephone from Mahalapye yesterday that the IEC officer, Moitse Sefedile, was trying to tarnish his name by saying that he (Magowe) was responsible for the inappropriate registration of voters last week. It is alleged that a...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 June 2009
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