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Former presidents appeal to Khama again over Motswaledi
The meeting is another attempt to bring peace in the strife-torn Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Motswaledi was suspended by Khama for 60 days and recalled from contesting the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat. Khama said he punished...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
Another boon for borrowers as BoB cuts bank rate again
BoB said in a statement that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had decided to cut the bank rate by a further 0.5 percentage points from 11.5 percent to 11 percent, the fifth time the central bank has cut interest rates since December 2008. The...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 27 August 2009
Bannister takes over as BEMA President
Bannister takes over from Tarsem Kumar, the Group Managing Director of Dinesh Textiles who stepped down after two years at the helm when the organisation held its Annual General Meeting last week where a new seven member Executive Committee was...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Mhlanga to star at Thapama Pleasure Island grand opening
On Friday, Street Horn will be launching the Thapama Hotel jazz joint, Pleasure Island. On Saturday the company would be hosting renowned South-African based guitarist, Louis Mhlanga at the Thapama Lodge. This will not be Mhlanga's...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Promoters plan an action-packed month-end
In Gaborone, the fun starts today with a specially designed 18-rated show at Maitisong, Shaken, not stirred, dubbed as a show for every kind of man who likes every kind of woman. The top drawer for jazz lovers is tonight at...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
Mtukudzi son to rock Gabz
Although Sam will be performing in Botswana for the very first time the youngster has seven years of performance experience. Revellers can expect to be serenaded with the young jazz artist's music from his album, featuring his band, Ay Band,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
It's all systems go for Mtukudzi, Dyer show
It is expected that Dyer will be backed by two of his old buddies Rampholo Molefhe and Lister Boleseng in the show that should rekindle old memories for the trio. Dyer was with the two artistes when they were still members of the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Nico expels senior players?
The sacked players include former international, Eric Molebatsi though Nico chairman, Kitso 'Jomo' Nkoborwane professed ignorance of the development. The players received their dismissal letters last week. The letter to Molebatsi dated August 20 says...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
World netball event exposes Under-21 deficiencies
The team returned home on Sunday after finishing a disappointing 18th out of 20 countries at the just-ended World Youth Championships in Cook Island, Australia. Lebotse said players lacked basic game skills. Botswana was in pool C with neighbours...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Rollers discard Zambian duo
The former Boteti Young Fighters' man is linked with a move to South Africa. A source close to Phiri said the player is leaving for South Africa this week. "There is a club that is interested in him in South Africa and he should be leaving anytime...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 August 2009
'Erring' Btv, radio must not go unpunished - BCP
The BCP wants the board to "penalise the two broadcasters for violating the conditions of their licences". This followed last Friday's incident when the director of Broadcasting Services, Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo, went on air to read Botswana...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Can the President be sued as BDP leader?
However, there are complications in the impending court action because one of the respondents - the main one - happens to be President Ian Khama. There is talk that the case will die at the High Court even before it gets to the merits stage because...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
Lawyer quits group sex case
Hence the two former Special Constables, Sydney Ntope and Phethogo Gaanakobo appeared before Justice Gabriel Rwelengera of the High Court yesterday for sentencing without representation. They told the judge that they expected to meet the lawyer in...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 27 August 2009
What are the powers of Ombudsman?
Addressing a full Francistown council session yesterday, Ipeleng Tshetlhana explained that, " We have powers of investigations but the ombudsman does not interfere where not necessary." Subsequent to her presentation, councillors still posed more...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 27 August 2009
Poor showing in sports calls for soul-searching
It is always sad to wake up to the reality that we are far from world beaters, 43 years after independence. Batswana have most of the times taken defeat with remarkable grace. But it is time for serious soul-searching after perennial defeats in the...
27 August 2009
Does "curing" cancer kill patients?
A century ago, the German Nobel laureate, Paul Ehrlich, introduced the concept of "magic bullets" - compounds engineered to target and kill tumor cells or disease-causing organisms without affecting normal cells. The success of antibiotics 50 years...
*ROBERT A GATENBY 27 August 2009
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27 August 2009
BSE suspends Olympia for flouting accounting rules
Mmegi Business has learnt that on the 31 May 2009, Olympia published unaudited preliminary accounts for the year ended 28 February 2009 which showed a profit after tax of P377, 429 but failed to report a loss of approximately P17 million. The...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff writer 27 August 2009
The real battle begins
Motswaledi wants the court to do the following: set aside his suspension by Khama, stop the party effecting the suspension holding a new primary election in Gaborone Central; and to prevent the respondents from taking any steps to approve anyone,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff writer 28 August 2009
HIV on the rise in Phikwe
Addressing councillors on Wednesday, Mantswe said during the initial Botswana Impact Aids Survey, Chobe District had the highest prevalence rate while Phikwe was second. However, the mining town shot to the top during the second and third surveys....
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
Remembering the ninth Parliament
Otsweletse Moupo (Leader of Opposition)The Gaborone West North MP said the ninth Parliament was more civilised than previous ones in the manner in which debates were handled. With half of the MPs in possession of tertiary education qualifications, he...
28 August 2009
The state media is at the heart of the BDP campaign
"A e gana go bala molaetsa. Ya o go bala dinyonywane tsa Pandamatenga," joked radio presenter and comedian Dignash (Michael Morapedi) on Wednesday about how the powers that be would have reacted had Broadcasting Services director Mogomotsi...
28 August 2009
Church hosts US prophet
The overseer of New Season Ministries, Apostle Francis Sakufiwa said the visit by Prophet Dixon is necessitated by Botswana's mounting moral decay, family breakdowns and pressures brought by the current economic recession. Apostle Sakufiwa said that...
STAFF WRITER 28 August 2009
ECZ gives thumbs-up to cross-border power project
ECZ's approval of the construction of the electricity inter-connector would ensure collaboration between the Zambia Electricity Corporation (ZESCO, the Botswana Power Corporation and two other utility companies in Zimbabwe and Namibia. Zambia, which...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Along came Gaositwe
To all intents and purposes, the story of Dr Gaositwe Chiepe cannot be adequately told in the context of a profile. For it is much larger than that. The task seems impregnable when one considers her many accomplishments. How does one do justice to a...
28 August 2009
Gold Mine murder case resumes
Raymond Leshomo and Arnold Masango are jointly charged with the murder of their supervisor Mario Lottering at Mupane Gold Mine in the North East District on May 27, 2006. Leshomo had wanted to be represented by some of the high profile South African...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Councillor queries state of Ipelegeng projects
Speaking in full council, Tabengwa questioned the progress report that shows that some projects are 99 percent complete and called for a review of the report. "How could they be at 99 percent while electricity boxes in some schools are not fixed?,"...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 28 August 2009
All is not well in journalism with ICTs
While the new world order demands that everyone should be averse to the use Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), the journalism profession has found it to be a blessing in disguise when it comes to day to day operations of a...
28 August 2009
Nano technology could be used to cure brain cancer
Titanium dioxide nano particles were used since they are sensitive to light, and the sensitivity used by the scientists to kill the cells. The new therapy works a bit like the Trojan horse. The titanium dioxide nano particles are guided to the...
Lauri Kubuitsile
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Why BDP negotiation efforts crumbled
The details of the negotiations have been sketchy, but what is obvious is that the task was an arduous one for the two party veterans, meeting Khama more than three times in the space of a week. First meeting him at his office then going on motor...
STAFF WRITERS 28 August 2009
Microbes may hold key to malaria control
They say that when anopheles gambiae mosquitoes have bacteria in their intestines, an immune response is activated that stops them from being infected with plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly species of the micro-organisms that cause malaria. The...
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Of political issues and the courts of laws
Politics has always been a game of conflict, appeal to the masses, public opinion appealing reasoning and numbers; not the stiff-necked logic of technicalities that plays itself out in the courts. Politicians have to be equipped with the art of...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Setswana dishes had everyone salivating
In 2007 Botswanacraft in collaboration with the then Department of Youth and Culture published its first edition of Botswana Traditional Recipes, which were taken directly from the dishes served during Letlhafula celebration. Last Wednesday,...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
Back Stage
Religulous (2008) is now on circuit in Southern African cinemas and may come to Gaborone. If not, it will be available on DVD soon. Comedian Bill Maher has travelled the world to try to find out a bit more about what makes various organised...
SASA MAJUMA 28 August 2009
An African journal going for nearly 50 years
Transition-Looking Ahead. Indianapolis, Indiana. Indiana University Press, 158 pages, paperback, US$18.50, pISSN 0041-1191. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Reviewed by SHERIDAN GRISWOLD Correspondent In these pages we have recognised...
28 August 2009
Job losses loom at DTC
Although the Diamond Trading Company of Botswana declined to provide details of a voluntary retrenchment package it has cobbled because negotiations with its employees union are currently underway, the company's Corporate Communications and Public...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
ISPAAD, contract farming make for a good 'yield' at BAMB
The profit realised has enabled the board to clear a long outstanding accumulated deficit which stood at close to P6 million and now holds retained earnings of P7 million. This is a remarkable achievement for BAMB, given that it has been...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Mohohlo attributes P200 bill to inflation policy
Speaking at the launch of new bank notes last Friday, the Governor of the Bank of Botswana (BoB), Linah Mohohlo, said the portrait on the new P200 bill recognises and celebrates women, children and the noble teaching profession. The other...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Govt projects run behind schedule
One of the projects visited was the P113 billion Dikgatlhong Dam that has fallen behind by eight months. The Principal Resident Engineer of the Bobirwa project, Boikanyo Mpho of Bergstan Gauff Consulting Engineers, attributed the setback to...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
BLIL to venture into unit trusts next year
The company's CEO, Regina Sikalesele-Vaka, says the unit trust offering forms part of their strategy to expand the business and diversify their product range, which is mainly life and funeral assurance. "Unit trusts are a combination of...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
BDP lawyers pronouncements on Khama's powers
President Ian Khama has said that at the heart of his decision to suspend the BDP secretary general Gomolemo Motswaledi was his comments regarding a press release from the law firm of Collins Newman and Company. However before the press release,...
28 August 2009
BancABC readies to go retail
The two will bring to nine retail branches ABCH plans to launch across six SADC countries under the BancABC banner before the end of the year. "We are currently accelerating the branch renovations and feel very strongly that our retail business will...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 28 August 2009
Statistics Bill due in November
Initially, the Bill was due to come before the Winter Parliament that was dissolved last Friday in preparation for the forthcoming general elections. However, the Bill, which has already been drafted, did not see the light of day due to the large...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 28 August 2009
Japanese firm trains Batswana in space age geology
The Japanese Oil, Gas and Metals Corporation (JOGMEC) signed the agreement with DGS for the training of Batswana geologists in remote sensing technology in 2008. It entails use of Japanese space satellites to survey for various minerals beneath soils...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 28 August 2009
The rise of the dragon
With all the mishaps that have been associated with travelling in the past few months, including plane crashes and the A(H1N1) virus, I am sure you will agree with me that now is not the time to travel, especially long distances. I found myself in a...
28 August 2009
Consumer Watchdog
A friend asked me a few days ago where she could go to find out about consumer rights in Botswana. Frankly, I didn't quite know how to answer. You might think that there would be a special section of the Government web site with a...
28 August 2009
A glimpse into performance of MPs
Pono Moatlhodi A'Sub Accountant' by profession, he always boasts. He is a good debater but not very independent. Sometimes can be disappointing. He recently refused to support a harmless motion calling on government to prescribe the date of election...
28 August 2009
Gabz fm should not pander to busybodies
There is nothing wrong with a party complaining when it feels that its rights are being trampled upon. However, the trouble is that in their jostling for political space and favourable coverage in an election year, nitpicking political parties will...
28 August 2009
We now embark on an extraordinary journey
It was an informal gathering that demonstrated once again that at the BDP, the democratic spirit is alive and receiving nourishment, a gathering whose debates invoked and polished the finest of our party's ideals. It was here that democrats spoke a...
NDABA GAOLATHE 28 August 2009
NITTY GRITTY
Last Friday, the Director of Broadcasting Services, Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo, went on air on both Radio Botswana and Botswana Television (Btv) to read a four-page political message from the President of the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)...
BAROLONG SEBONI 28 August 2009
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