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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
Who will preserve traditional poetry and song?
In the past poets were considered masters of the spoken word in the Tswana society and were held in high regard. For one to earn respect as a good poet, she or he would have been able to exploit all parts of speech such as metaphors, similes and...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Seitshiro Mosweu's longest ever recorded Setswana poem
The poem, which is published in Isaac Schapera's book, Praise Poems of Tswana Chiefs, has more than 200 verses. It was recorded in Setswana for the first time by Tomeletso Kgosi in 1940 when Tshekedi was at the height of his career as Bangwato...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Back Stage
Doubt (2008) should soon be playing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It had its worldwide release in December 2008. It is already available from some outlets as a DVD. The four top actors and the script were all nominated for Oscars this past...
SASA MAJUMA 21 August 2009
Various versions of family histories
Reviewed by SHERIDAN GRISWOLD Correspondent Everyman begins with a funeral and ends with the death of the person being buried. Roth is now 76-years-old. He is one of the great living American writers, along with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and...
21 August 2009
What happened to my father's Domkrag? A call to arms for BDP progressives and Motswaledi supporters
Not far behind will be the 2009 decimation of the A-Team. Like the year of Kgola Disana, Domkrag went to Kanye as two political parties in one, for all intends and purposes. The objectives of the two factions were clear to anyone who...
BAO RASEBOLAI MOSINYI 21 August 2009
For the sake of the country and for the people
There would be devastating hunger and starvation and from nearby you could hear the ever- rattling sound of machines guns. Brother would sell brother for a piece of bread, women and children would be trafficked to far away places where they...
OLOPENG RABASIMANE 21 August 2009
Moeng College gutted by fire
Head of Department Spencer Rantlaleng said the shocking incident took place around 10 am yesterday morning and they suspect that the fire could have been caused by a spark as it started at a time when somebody was wielding in the hostel. He said...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Hail our resilience!
However, the truth is that despite the challenges, there is an irrepressible spirit in us that defines us Batswana. Now is the time to tap into it and forge ahead. To that end, we are heartened that councils, the government, the private sector and...
21 August 2009
WHITHER BOTSWANA?
The BDP's ongoing crisis is serious indeed. The suspension of any political party's secretary general, let alone the secretary general of a party in power like the BDP - and with general elections due within two months - is no small matter. No wonder...
21 August 2009
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21 August 2009
Church to clean Letlhakeng village
As a church, we understand and recognise the aspirations of the nation, more especially on the sustainable upkeep of the environment and its resources. We therefore have committed ourselves to be part of Botswana of 2016 that would have reversed the...
21 August 2009
Remembering Gaberones
In those years, the Range was spotted at Westminister House or the then Matlapeng Ray Molomo and Mphoeng Khama. The place was simple alive. Rre Lenyeletse Seretse you would find having audience with taxi drivers near Central Police, The Late, I...
21 August 2009
Government for everything!
Botswana is a sick country where people call upon the government for everything. Truly, this is illness. Every individual that seeks to hold government responsible for everything is an irresponsible citizen. Of course I do not dispute the fact that...
21 August 2009
NITTY GRITTY
Mr. Kool got his name because he is the coolest. He is unflustered in any situation. In fact he is so cool that if he got any cooler he would freeze! You can literally wake him up at any hour of the night and take his blood pressure...
BAROLONG SEBONI 21 August 2009
Transfer window unusually quiet
Some believe the absence of the Kabelano Charity Cup has contributed to the slow start to the transfer window. The cup offer clubs a good opportunity to parade their new signings in the off-season. More than two weeks after the window opened, the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Vocal Ntshingane unwanted at BDF XI
Reports say the former Zebras' skipper is seen as a bad influence on players hence the decision to get rid of him at a meeting on Tuesday. "I can confirm to you that Abedi will not be playing for us next season if we maintain the same committee after...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Officials prescribe psychologists for Montsho
The Senegal-based runner went to Berlin as the African champion and lived up to expectations when she became one of the five women to run the 400m in under 50 seconds. This was her second major final after she reached the Olympic final last year,...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Saleshando to camp at UB on Monday
He said that the SRC, which is dominated by members of the Botswana National Front (BNF), has failed to meet him to discuss students' problems at the university. The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) MP told UB students at Notwane grounds yesterday that...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Uncertainty haunts delayed volleyball league
Initially, the league was supposed to start in July. After the latest postponement, the Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) president Daniel Molaodi and press secretary Godfrey Mudongo refused to state when the league will start. "I am not going to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
Nico tops chop and change charts
However, no club is likely to beat the record set by Nico United in the dismissal of coaches in the just-ended season after Majombolo used four men - one of whom lasted for only three matches - to survive relegation. Even during the current break,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 21 August 2009
Chiefs blame fatigue for barren season
The Kgatleng giants finished the season trophyless after failing to defend both the Premier League and Coca-Cola Cup titles. Mogomotsi said fatigue might have contributed to the club's declining form. He said there was added pressure on the players...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 August 2009
New Francistown side aims high
But Michael Belebese intends building a team from scratch and zoom all the way up to the Premier League. His Mega Com Safaris will be campaigning in the Francistown Regional Football League (Second Division) when the season starts. By the end of the...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 21 August 2009
First Cut
The line separating a champion and a loser can at times look so small yet in reality it is very big. Over the last couple of years, this has been the case with Botswana sport. Recently in football, Mochudi Centre Chiefs looked set to defend both...
DENNIS KEAGILE 21 August 2009
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