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SA lawyer engaged to fight Khama
The 60-year-old lawyer has an impeccable record of handling high profile cases. He represented respected former South African president, Nelson Mandela in his divorce case against Winnie-Madikizela Mandela. Another prominent client is current South...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Health PS warns hospital superintendents
The meeting is meant to come up with some service level agreements and checklists to improve performance quality of hospital services. "The era of talking is over. If you do well you will be rewarded and if not, you will get a demotion or termination...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Our heritage
But before he left, he patted his pockets and finding them empty, surprise, surprise, he asked if I could perhaps give him some cigarettes. This request startled me because I had recently moved from a Mochudi which had a few scattered stores but...
Sandy Grant 20 August 2009
Specially elected MPs are unacceptable
That onerous task fell to Nasha, the Minister of Presidential Affairs. And so this week, she found herself defending the indefensible. She is trying to prop up the empty and unsustainable and explaining the sheer twist in logic at the heart of the...
20 August 2009
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20 August 2009
Stimulate or die
That question, however, would make sense only if Keynesian economics had really been tried. Indeed, what is needed now is another dose of fiscal stimulus. If that does not happen, we can look forward to an even longer period in which the economy...
*JOSEPH E STIGLITZ 20 August 2009
Tati Nickel undertakes to promote localisation
Addressing journalists after a tour of Phoenix Mine, TNMC manager for organisational capability, Peter Meswele, said his company promoted localisation. "During the construction of the Dense Medium Separation (DMS) plant and other newly acquired...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
CEDA chief calls for progressive law on citizen empowerment
"There is a need for deliberate legislation and for an agency that can speak authoritatively about issues that concern citizen economic empowerment because right now we are just playing an advocacy role," Matsheka said at a media briefing on...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Premier League clubs in five-a-side tourney
Police XI, Uniao Flamengo Santos, Mochudi Centre Chiefs, Township Rollers, Gaborone United, BDF XI, Notwane and Extension Gunners have been selected to vie for the P10,000 top prize in the four-day football feast. The runners-up will get P5,000 while...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Cricket team trains in Sri-Lanka
One player from the Under-19 side, Karabo Motlhanka has been included in the team to gain experience. The team is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka this afternoon and play three warm-up matches with the Sri Lanka cricket board academy on Saturday,...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Women football cries for money
It is not even clear if this year's edition will start next month as was initially planned. It has since emerged that some clubs have indicated that they are unable to take part in the league because of financial constraints. Since its revival...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Ministers disagree on dissolution of Parliament
She told Mmegi yesterday that Parliament is completing its business today but that does not mean it will automatically be dissolved. "It can be dissolved next week, next month or even a few days before the date of elections," she said. ...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Itekanele give Kutlwano tough assignment
Reikeletseng has told the club to win all titles on offer this year after the company increased its sponsorship by P10,000 to P70,000. The sponsorship was launched in Gaborone on Tuesday. At the launch, Reikeletseng said his company is young and...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Nico keen to re-sign Kelebale
Majombolo have already started negotiating with Gunners to get the towering player but his contract with Mapantsula seems to be a stumbling block. Nico spokesman, Malepa has told Mmegi Sport that Kelebale's contract with Gunners runs out next year...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Skavenja actor,dancer,designer and singer
He is an actor, designer, choreographer as well as a singer. But above all this, it is Skavenja's dancing moves that have endeared him to his followers. The imaginative Manyana born artist has made dancing look so simple with his magical moves....
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Orange Botswerere 2009 awards postponed
"The decision between the Department of Culture and Youth and Orange Botswana not to hold the Botswerere Awards was a mutual one as both parties had some constraints with regards to the implementation of the awards programme. In future we will...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 20 August 2009
Limkokwing students boycott classes
The Student Representative Council (SRC) secretary general, Aldo Motsemme said it is evident from previous communication with the ministry and the university that there are discrepancies in the information pertaining to their allowances. He said the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Murder trial starts afresh
Justice Thomas Masuku tried Hussein Musa partially before he returned to his home country last year. Musa's case has been allocated to Justice Moses Chinhengo who is hearing it afresh. The prosecution alleges that Musa and seven others, not before...
CORRESPONDENTS 20 August 2009
Btv storming case hits snag
BCP-YL president Lotty Manyapedza and secretary general Thato Osupile were dragged to court after allegations that they stormed Btv to protest unfair coverage by the state-owned TV. However, Bayford made an application before Broadhurst...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Zimbabwe arrests illegal immigrants from Botswana
A contingent of Zimbabwe police and soldiers arrested the group in the Kazuma forest. They spent a night in custody and were released the following day after paying P60 admission of guilt fine. Inspector Marks Masabae of Pandamatenda said the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Man gets 15 years for murder
Obakeng Marogwe was put behind bars after he was found guilty of killing his long time girlfriend in Jwaneng. It is said Marogwe used an Okapi knife to inflict multiple stab wounds on Gofaone Ntsi with whom he has a child. The two lovers lived...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
UB academic advises BDP Central Committee to suspend Khama
"As the Central Committee, if they feel the party president is not acting properly, they have the power to suspend anybody including the President," Maundeni told Mmegi on Tuesday evening. He stressed that if the Central Committee feels wronged by...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Kgathi dismisses Lentswe-Le-Moriti relocation allegations
"What has been said is that residents of Lentswe-Le-Moriti are staying in a freehold area, hence they are unable to access government assistance programmes like the Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agriculture Development (ISPAAD) and...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 August 2009
Khama! reinstate Motswaledi - BDP Gabs Central
-Area BDP members will not support any other candidate Yesterday evening the Motswaledi fiasco took another turn when Gaborone Central Botswana Democratic Party members gathered in an improptu meeting characterised by emotions and palpable...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Kokorwe explains programmes for the youth
Speaking during this year's commemoration of International Youth Day themed 'Sustainability: Our Challenge, Our Future' in Kasane last Saturday, Kokorwe said according to the 2001 Population Census, youth constitute about 40 percent of the population...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Defaulter warned to pay P64, 000 or else
Jerry Kgobogi, a debt collector in Palapye, was charged with 57 offences of failing to carry out the magistrate's court orders.Kgobogi's arrears stand at P64, 000 as he has been failing to pay since 2003. The court heard that the accused was to pay...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Merafhe urges BDP women to unite
Addressing a workshop organised by the BDP Women's Wing to empower women candidates ahead of the 2009 general elections, Merafhe said the party elections in Kanye are history and therefore the party should forge ahead. "We can't concentrate on it....
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
'The dagga is mine,' says accused
Gokgonamang Masisi, alongside two unemployed illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, Eunice Ndlovu (32) and Ndodana Ndlovu (25), are charged with possession of a green substance suspected to be dagga. Masisi stunned the court further when he said Eunice...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWEand KEEME MANGINA
Correspondents 21 August 2009
Khama salutes chief justices' role
He was speaking at the opening of the recent Southern African Chief Justices Forum (SACJF) conference in Kasane. The President observed that socio-economic development can only take place in the context of a robust, transparent, predictable and...
21 August 2009
Subdued Mfa could be on way out for good
These days Mfa hardly comments in Parliament. Even when there is a hot motion like the one calling for the amendment of the Constitution to increase the number of specially elected MPs, Mfa does not voice his views. In the past, he was...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Skelemani supports specially elected MPs
Speaking in Parliament this week, Skelemani said the amendment will not only benefit the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) but any party that is in power. He said the specially elected MPs are not going to boost the BDP majority in Parliament...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Rejection does hurt-Study
The study, which was published on August 14 in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the receptor genes that control people's sensitivity to physical pain are also associated with sensitivity to...
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Does finance business suffer in parley with minister not attending?
Matambo was appointed by President Ian Khama to act on behalf of Baledzi Gaolatlhe who is on sick leave. Matambo, who was appointed with effect from this month, will be acting for four months. But the acting minister does not...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Ivory dealer convicted
"You agreed to the facts and therefore you are guilty and convicted of unlawful possession of an elephant tusk," said Mokwadi. Facts were that 26-year-old Prince Sakurita was arrested after a tip-off at Savemore Shopping Complex, Borolong village,...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWEand KEEME MANGINA
Correspondents 21 August 2009
Motswaledi stabbed in the back?
In a confidential letter to the BDP Disciplinary Committee, signed by sub-committee chairman Shaw Kgathi, and which has been leaked to Mmegi, Kgathi complains that Motswaledi has committed various offences. "He has conducted himself in office in a...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
When constitutional powers are a problem
The on-going furore in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) which has seen the Barata-Phathi faction squaring up against party president Ian Khama and in which they accuse the latter of abusing his powers by making unilateral decisions calls for an...
21 August 2009
BDP factional rivalry: Setting the record straight
I am quoted as having advised it to suspend Khama. I am neither an official nor a non-official adviser of Barata-Phathi. Neither has aBarata-Phathi ever sought my opinion on its recent rivalry with its president over the suspension of the newly...
DR ZIBANI MAUNDENI, 21 August 2009
The Khama logic and the fight for the soul of the BDP
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defence. They've got really short hair and they always go for the...
21 August 2009
'You can't tell deacons from demons from up here'
When Senior Superintendent Dipheko Motube confirmed that our request to fly with the police had been approved, I felt a wave of excitement rush through my body before he could even finish. It was something we had been trying to secure since the...
21 August 2009
Wachewa! The BDP in quagmire
Every time I approached one, they would conceal their faces from view. Everything looked like a black and white photo film. The world was without colour. It was a hideous world of spirits and kindred ogres and thokholoshes, short...
KEINEETSE KEINEETSE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Chinese equity firm eye Mmamabula
Speaking to Mmegi here on the sidelines of a briefing of African journalists, the Assistant Manager in the Fund's Southern Africa Investment department, Liu Xiaolei, said they have held talks with CIC Energy in the past and that though nothing has...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
G4S thrives in the midst of hostile conditions
Filotto Faloca, which was bought out by G4S on 1st August 2008, accounted for 16.4 percent of the group's P66 million total revenue growth for the six months ended 30 June 2009. "We are targeting viable businesses out there, some of which we are...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Bank of China appointed another lead arranger for Mmamabula
The Bank of China will join Absa Capital, a division of Absa Bank, and Standard Bank as MLAs for the energy project, the BSE-listed company said on Tuesday. In March, it was announced that Absa Capital and Standard Bank were appointed as the MLAs...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
CIC Energy to shed equity in MEP
The Canadian company has already signed off 35 percent equity in the project to International Power Limited, its partner in MEPs development. This 35 percent shareholding is in CIC Energy's wholly owned subsidiary, Meepong Resources, through which...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
BPC 's solar power dream takes shape
With a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for a 200-megawatt solar thermal power station completed, the Botswana Power Corporation's (BPC) pioneering solar power project is taking shape. The PFS confirmed expert opinion that Botswana has good solar...
21 August 2009
Presidents to discuss BDP crisis
Khama postponed the address after a brief meeting with the former presidents to discuss the turmoil in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Information reaching Mmegi indicates that it was agreed that the parties meet again today. Two days...
STAFF WRITER 21 August 2009
Brazil's failure boosts BMC sales
In the 2008 annual report, BMC chief executive officer, Dr Motshudi Raborokgwe hails the year as an excellent one for the corporation. Raborokgwe says the 2008 financial year produced the best financial performance to-date when good prices paid to...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
More airlines to come to Botswana next year
Already this year, two giant foreign airlines entered the Botswana market - South African Airways and Kenya Airways. Kenya Airways will offer direct flights between Gaborone and Nairobi three times a week beginning next month. The African continent's...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Botswana among 192 nations expected at world jamboree
The Shanghai Expo, in which Botswana and 50 other African centres will participate, is expected to attract over 90 million visitors - in addition to the city's 18 million inhabitants - between May and October next year.Since its inception in 1920,the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Consumer Watchdog
There's a nice quote from Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire. When asked how best to become a millionaire, he said you should "start by being a billionaire and then buy an airline". My point is that it is MUCH easier to lose money...
21 August 2009
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