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Embatlled BBA hold OGM
The committee faces hostility from three clubs which have made clear their intentions of passing a vote of no confidence in the top leadership. Sports View, Lefika Athletics Club and New Vision hope that their intention receives support from other...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
The return of Black Peril
It lost its First Division status following its deregistration by the BFA and that marked the death of one of the best known clubs in Botswana football. However, a number of years in limbo, the spirit of Black Peril is set to be reincarnated in...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 25 September 2009
FIRST CUT
In other words, the BNSC, Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) and the Department of Sports and Recreation are not working in tandem. My question then is; whose responsibility is it to see that these organisations work in sync. I am sure that...
DENNIS KEAGILE 25 September 2009
Insurance companies to stop insuring imports?
It is understood that major players in the insurance industry will soon meet to decide on the fate of the imports and some models from China such as GoNow, citing shortage of spare parts as a major concern. While a number of insurance companies...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
No Swine Flu deaths in Botswana
She said the Ministry of Health is waiting for many results from the specimen sent for testing in South Africa. She stated that the World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory that is testing the H1N1 specimens from the region has not brought...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
NBB quashes Btv/RB rebuttals
Responding to Mmegi queries NBB board member Dr Thulaganyo Mogobe said that according to the Broadcasting Act's section 10, a) and b) the NBB's functions include; "* to issue broadcasting licences; * to exercise control over and to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Sino-Botswana relations scale greater heights
Addressing guests in Gaborone at an event held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of his country, Chinese ambassador, Liu Huanxing said that Botswana and China have cooperated well in education and human resource development. He said...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff writer 25 September 2009
DPP studies docket on Maun fatal shooting
DPP Public Relations Officer Agbail Hlabano confirmed that they are still studying the docket, which has just been forwarded to them by the police. "The office of the DPP acknowledges that they have just received the docket, regarding the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
'Victorious' Magama to be launched by Moupo
Magama buried the hatchet with the BNF leadership recently following an acrimonious legal battle. A few months ago, it was inconceivable that Moupo would launch Magama as a BNF candidate. Magama nearly did not make it as a BNF candidate...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Churches top conflict-ridden societies - Siele
He said this when officially opening the African Mission Church annual conference in Tlokweng on Wednesday. The minister revealed that his ministry is worried about the escalating problems that pollute the religious, and particularly, Christian...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
HIV: Hope of finding vaccine rises
The discovery of two robust antibodies that can disjoint the virulent virus has kept patients and activists' optimism spiraling upwards. Researchers led by the International AIDS Vaccine Institute (IAVI) said the two new antibodies revealed...
VICTOR MULANGISI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
BPP fields six parliamentary candidates
BPP president and parliamentary candidate, Bernard Balikani said that even though they have fewer parliamentary candidates, they have more people contesting at council level. He said the BPP has fielded 40 council candidates. "I am confident with...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
The BNF Manifesto
The BNF Manifesto at a glance is quite updated, the foreword by the party president Otsweletse Moupo takes cognizance of the recent political squabbles within the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP); and in an admirable sense of introspection,...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Acting BONELA chief Ndadi off to America
He is in a group that has been invited on a tour of the US in recognition of their outstanding achievements so far. BONELA's Media Advocacy Officer Doris Kumbawa says the International Visitor Leadership Programme, which is administered by the US...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Women's Affairs dept partners with police
The department's official, Bakane Bakane said women have often complained about the unfair handling of gender related cases like rape by the police. Addressing non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) forum in...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Moeng College celebrates 60th anniversary
SELEBI-PHIKWE: Preparations for Moeng College 60th anniversary commemorations tomorrow are underway with P82,000 already raised for the function. About 3,500 people are expected to turn up for the occasion. Organising committee chairman,...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Semantics, obfuscation and executive privilege
When the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) approached the National Broadcasting Board (NBB) to complain about the reading of President Ian Khama's speech addressing ruling party feuds on the state-owned Btv and Radio Botswana, there were no indications...
25 September 2009
Expelled GIPS students head to Cuba
The BCP secured scholarships from the Cuban government for Onkgopotse Mogende and Edwin Mogologolo after they were expelled from GIPS for engaging in student politics. The 25-year-old Mogende, a former Student Representative Council (SRC) president...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
WUC to supply entire country - PHK
Speaking during a Kgotla meeting in Mmadinare recently, Kedikilwe said the process of relieving Water Affairs Department (WAD) of the burden would, however, take three to four years because "government intends to do thorough preparations"....
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Could this be the magic anti-fat drug?
Only in your fantasies, right? Maybe not. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, USA and Kyoto University in Japan, working together, have come up with a drug they have named fatostatin that does just that. Mice that were given the drug...
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Gene therapy could cure colour blindness
They used a harmless virus to carry genes that would cause the retina of the monkeys to begin to produce a pigment that would be able to absorb light in the red-green range. In squirrel monkeys, all male monkeys are colour blind for red and green....
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
COMESA all set to usher in new era
While the surrogate demand from the population of about 400 million people will benefit the whole region, there are some challenges to overcome. Common customs unions are formed by countries in a region implementing a common tariff against goods...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Recession: The worst not over yet for the consumer
On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers 'died', sending already unstable markets into an uncontrollable tailspin, shortage of credit followed, commodity prices plummeted and the worst global recession in the past 70 years ensued. Botswana was not...
25 September 2009
Private sector taps into EU's P185m fund
BOCCIM and BEMA are business sector organisations representing a large section of Botswana-based private entities of various sizes and engaged in diverse industries. Botswana, together with Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland, signed an Interim...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Construction jobs go begging despite boom
According to a formal employment report from the Central Statistics Office(CSO), as at September 2008, the industry topped the charts with 26.4 percent followed by central government with 15.8 percent. As at September last...
STAFF WRITER 25 September 2009
Maun, Ghanzi, Kuke, CKGR next Copperbelt
Separated only by the Kuke cordon fence, the exploration camp of Canadian junior explorer Hana Mining is a stone's throw away from Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) Tsau gate whilst Discovery Metals' camp is a mere 30km from Maun. The two...
25 September 2009
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
It's your job to decide my guilt or innocence and then to decide on my punishment. It's a heavy responsibility I know but I'm sure you'll cope.So, are you ready to sit in judgement? Here goes. This is a strange case because I am going to...
25 September 2009
Every cloud has a silver lining
At Stanbic Investments, however, we believe that in spite of the current storm that is raging through financial markets, every cloud has a silver lining and each storm is followed by a rainbow. At times like these it is difficult to know where to...
* THABO MOIPOLAI 25 September 2009
Conclusions and way forward from the ITUC-Africa conference
We note that the current global crisis, which began in the United States of America and other industrial countries, is rooted in the exploitative relations and the neo-liberal contradictions of the capitalist model, which have been imposed on our...
25 September 2009
Supa Ngwao Museum rich with Francistown history
Close to the museum is the police canteen where my mother used to buy groceries during my formative years because it was cheaper. Even though I visited the canteen at least once a month, I now realise that I somehow did not understand the...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 25 September 2009
Seretse play set to premier in Europe, Africa, Brazil
Seretse, Blue, Black and White, tells the story of Seretse including his controversial marriage to Ruth Williams in 1948 that caused a storm and divided the Ngwato kingdom. So what is the Seretse play all about? "In Seretse Khama: Blue, Black...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
BACK STAGE
This is one of the best-rated movies of the fading northern world's summer season. It is also one of the better films from the Pixar stable (the renewal began with Finding Nemo (2003), the best of the lot and their "pot of gold". It was followed by...
SASA MAJUMA 25 September 2009
Mande culture and birds are honoured
A Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi Ball and the Art of West African Masquerade is the culmination of 30 years of involvement by Patrick R. McNaughton in this unique Mande art form. He first watched Sidi Ball perform the bird dance in Dogoduman in...
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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 25 September 2009
Bantsi digs in for battle in Gaborone West South
Bantsi came in at the last minute to replace former MP, Robert Molefhabangwe who was expelled by the party. BNF publicity secretary, Moeti Mohwasa said BNF members in the constituency felt it was late to hold primary elections and they suggested...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
The plight of Gaborone-Metsimotlhabe commuters
Mmegi team joined scores of people who commute between Gaborone and Metsimotlhabe on Wednesday evening as they returned to their respective homes to get first-hand experience Our journey to Metsimotlhabe begins at the Phase II robots along the...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
Decentralise to curb rural-urban drift - BCP aspirant
Mudongo believes that the rural-urban drift is caused by the fact that everything is centred in Gaborone. He feels there is no need for all the government departments to have their headquarters in Gaborone. In his view, even parastatals like...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 25 September 2009
'Mercenary Tradition' in Colonial and Post-colonial Administration,
This is meant to better explain the situation that led to the current factional war in the ruling Botswana Democratic (BDP) and also chart the way forward for the humiliated Barata-Phathi faction of the party. Although the Barata-Phathi had...
JOHN MAKGALA and
BANYATSI MMEKWA 25 September 2009
BDP losing its tight grip
The fact, however, is that the BDP has over past nine general elections been ruling the roost in Molepolole. They have at every general election managed to brush the opposition aside. This past record notwithstanding the BDP cannot thump itself on...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
State of Botswana Trade Unions: Trials and Tribulations
A backgroundBotswana labour organisations' active participation in labour-related issues dates back to pre-independence days. During the colonial period, labour organisations were very vocal and in fact some contributed immensely to Botswana's...
25 September 2009
What independence?
Back at primary school, one of the most celebrated days, albeit for the occasional 'good food' and chance to go home earlier than usual was Independence Day. Then of course there was lots of dance and other forms of entertainment thus making it a day...
25 September 2009
Independence Day in Francistown
FRANCISTOWN: It is that time of the year again when we see balloons and other paraphernalia depicting the blue/black/white colours of our national flag in every crook and cranny of the country. These line highways, flyovers and the streets of major...
25 September 2009
WHITHER BOTSWANA
In its 44-year history of holding elections regularly, Botswana has always enjoyed generous praise around the world for its "free and fair" elections. But as I've argued in the past about other perceptions of Botswana's democracy, the fairness (as...
DON MOABI 25 September 2009
Botswana politics is dirty
Most of the people who won the so-called primary elections were suspended from their parties by party leadership so that they wouldn't contest in the coming elections because they somehow differed with the party leadership. We recently saw suspended...
25 September 2009
End state media monopoly
This is a welcome development, particularly at a time when the state institutions seem to be resolute in undermining other players in society. The NBB decision comes after Mogomotsi Kaboyamodimo last month read a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)...
25 September 2009
Nujoma must be charged with genocide
In breaking news Press Release, entitled Father of Nation Makes Crimes against Humanity Harangue, NSHR reported on September 20 2009 that Dr Nujoma had "once again demonstrated his apparent hatred for the white race". The human rights organisation...
25 September 2009
NITTY GRITTY
Both gentlemen claim that they are bringing something to the table, no matter how oblong it may be. But let me shed a little light on this whole saga, dear reader with whom I am always on the side of the truth. It's like this. Smooch has asked Mr...
BAROLONG SEBONI 25 September 2009
Broadcasting boss is clutching at straws
We believe this standoff is fuelled by some misguided elements in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) who want to sow confusion and deflect attention from the real issue. Kaboeamodimo is clutching at straws when he says he is seeking clarity...
25 September 2009
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25 September 2009
GU,ECCO seek first win
The game kicks off at 3pm. Both sides opened the league campaign with identical 0-0 stalemates. GU failed to crack the youthful Notwane in Molepolole last Friday, while ECCO could not get maximum points from their derby against TAFIC on Saturday. GU...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
What next for the 'dead' Zebras?
The man spent a short-stint here as head coach of Mochudi Centre Chiefs before moving to Angola. But the Botswana Football Association (BFA) ignored crititics and roped in Jelusic and national team coach and within no time, he had convinced...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 25 September 2009
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