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Council pursues Moupo and Saleshando for debt
Botswana National Front (BNF) president, Otsweletse Moupo and his Botswana Congress Party , (BCP) counterpart Gilson Saleshando are among the top names who have reported ly defaulted in paying rates to the town council. Moupo is cited for owing...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
Man drags pawn shop owner to High Court
Takavarasha Mharara is demanding compensation of over P50, 000 for the truck he pawned last year when he was desperately looking for P30,000. Justice Abednico Tafa is presiding over the case. The owner of the pawn shop, Ilan Zilberman, told the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
BDP MPs call for constitutional review
Moyo vowed that pushing for constitutional reforms is going to be his main task in the current Parliament. He told Parliament that Africa does not need strong leaders but strong institutions. "We need to make sure that we have strong...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI and BAME PIET 19 November 2009
Poor records deny MoE millions
Deputy permanent secretary responsible for Tertiary Education and Funding, Golekanye Setume said on Tuesday that loan recovery has always been a challenge for the ministry because of poor data. He said that as a result, some students who...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
TCE students on hunger strike over 'bad' bread
According to the students, they have been eating the poorly baked bread since Monday last week, when a Shashe-based bakery, Leomboko was engaged as the college's new supplier. They said all along they have been eating the bread that was supplied by...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 19 November 2009
Masisi appointed BDP Whip
He said that in his new role, he will make Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) MPs toe the line after a party caucus decision. "If it is a constitutional matter, I must discuss it with them and caucus to ensure government bills pass smoothly," he said....
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
Of the Okavango Delta, its people and the merciless predators
The people of the swamps who are mainly from the Hambukushu, Dceriku, Wayeyi and Bugakhwe merafe (nations) entirely depend on it to supply them with everything from food to materials that they use for different purposes. In fact, the poorest of the...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
Botswana is least corrupt country in Africa
Botswana was ranked 37 out of 180 countries included in the 2009 survey, with a composite score of 5.6, showing little change from the results over the past five years, which have oscillated between 5.4 and 5.9. Botswana's standing once more placed...
DR JEFF RAMSEY 19 November 2009
Forest resources regulation must strike a balance
There is no question that we need to protect the environment from over-exploitation by unscrupulous individuals, especially business people who have no environmental concerns. The world has become more and more aware of environmental issues and most...
19 November 2009
Silencing the defenders in the Commonwealth
CHRI will be distributing hard copies of its report during the proceedings of the human rights assembly organised by the Commonwealth Foundation and Commonwealth Human rights Initiative, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, November 23-24 2009. The...
* HEATHER COLLISTER 19 November 2009
Our Heritage
Here is the village capital - as it was then described by visiting British journalists - with the Central Police Station on Botswana Road in mid centre, the demolished Capitol Cinema immediately beyond it, the President Hotel, the Barclays Bank...
Sandy Grant 19 November 2009
The Great Contraction of 2008-2009
The Great Recession was turbo-charged by a financial crisis, making it a far more insidious affair that typically has far more long-lasting effects. As Carmen Reinhart and I argue in our new book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial...
* KENNETH ROGOFF 19 November 2009
Cartoon Strip 19.11.09
19 November 2009
Budget cut for 2011 population census
Launching the census yesterday, Minister of Finance, Kenneth Matambo said that the Central Statistics Office (CSO) will do everything in its power, despite the limited resources to make the exercise a success. The economic recession has affected...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
BCL Mine chief calls for suppliers' support
BCL Mine General Manager Montwedi Mphathi made the plea during a recent suppliers' pitso held at Travel Inn Hotel. He said one of the problems that they have with suppliers is that when oil prices rise, they increase their prices but when they go...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 November 2009
Uranium explorer identifies big target in Botswana
Impact Minerals said yesterday that its Kekobolo prospect has a geological setting similar to the Letlhakane uranium deposit, owned by another Australian explorer A-Cap Resources Ltd. Lekobolo is 20 km along strike to the south west of the large...
STAFF WRITER 19 November 2009
Vee, Slizer team up for December album
Vee Sento, the inventor of the House/kwaito kwasa genre, has joined forces with the hottest selling muso, Slizer one Time, of O tswa Kae fame, for a dance album that started circulating yesterday. Titled Tsikitsiki, the album also...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
We voted for ourselves - Barwakgodumo
The group owner Orometswe Mautwanyane says they invested a lot of money towards voting for their album, a relatively unknown quantity, hardly visible on local music shelves as well. However, he declined to say how much they put aside for the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
Tinto part two will set clubhouses on fire
This time around the story of Tinto, a loafer who keeps producing children whereas he has no means of maintaining them, is wrapped in a house tune. Here the studio owner took the traditional song and reworked it in an effort to reach out to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
Revamped Barney's Bar stirs to life
It was a place to be if you wanted to catch up on current affairs. It was mostly frequented by mature patrons. It was the joint where the enlightened town folk preferred to have their drinks. It was a kind of a pub where there was no...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 19 November 2009
Yarona FM Fat Boy Challenge on
This year's participants and their weight at the beginning of the challenge are; Station Manager: Dumi Lopang - 93kg, Programmes Manager: Owen Rampha- 103kg, Radio Presenter: Tumie Ramsden- 59kg, Radio Presenter: Kgosi 'Dollar Mac' Kgosidintsi -...
STAFF WRITER 19 November 2009
Toldo cleared to join Chiefs
The goalkeeper has been inactive since the season started after Rollers stalled his move to the Kgatleng giants, demanding P20,000 compensation. The matter was brought before the Players' Status Committee, which ordered Rollers to produce evidence...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 19 November 2009
BMC to employ SA coach?
The club's public relations officer, Themba Stimela has said the coach has been interviewed though he has not secured the job. Mtengwana has been in charge of a Vodacom League side in the North West Province. "I do not think it would be right...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 19 November 2009
Botswana to host 'special' football
Other countries are South Africa, Mauritius and Namibia. The initiative is meant to expose the intellectually-challenged children to football. It is sponsored by FIFA through Special Olympics International. The Special Olympics Movement director in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 19 November 2009
The Multi million Pula chicken fight
The ban was to take effect todayAt the centre of the saga, that was likely to push chicken meat prices skyrocketing, are three major players - Irvine's Botswana, Ross Breeders and Richmark Poultry. In an affidavit Peter Kirby, Managing Director of...
20 November 2009
Kwelagobe attacks presidential immunity
He said that for example, a president can confiscate the cattle of legislator Kentse Rammidi, who would have to wait for 10 years to seek legal remedy. Kwelagobe called for a review of the constitution and said the clause on presidential immunity...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 November 2009
Nineteen maintenance cases a week in Phikwe
Pule said during a Women's Affairs Department-arranged workshop on Wednesday that the police are so overwhelmed with such cases that they have set aside Fridays to process them. He noted that this is an indication of how cruel men can be in that they...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Meeting slams FCC human resources department
At a meeting convened by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Thato Raphaka yesterday, there was unanimous agreement that something must be done about the rot at the department. The meeting heard that officers at the...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 20 November 2009
Party representatives reject early voter registration
Speaking at a workshop to evaluate the last general elections, the representatives said voter registration should be as close to the polling as possible. They said the first registration for this year's general elections was in 2007 and after this...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Drama as rivalry plays itself out in Parliament
It started off as a normal session and you would not have expected sparks to fly around in the August House. The honourable men and women of the House trooped in and took their seats and thereafter got down to serious business, which included the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Balikani leaves a happy man
The 44-year-old father of two said that during his six-year reign, he raised the profile of the party and made it known to more people. He stated that he built offices for the party at Francistown Block One Location, near Chedu Choga shopping...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 20 November 2009
Men demand laws thaat punish women
Because men tend to sweep such abuses under the carpet, it appears as if the available programmes exclude them. During a gender-based workshop on Wednesday male participants who were drawn from BCL and Botswana Prisons indicated that they succumb to...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Woman in car was hacked to death - Police
Officer Commanding District Number 15, Senior Superintendent Chabaesele Kesupetswe said that their investigations have revealed that Haniffa Dube was not involved in a car accident but was rather murdered. "It wasn't an accident, the deceased was...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 20 November 2009
State of the nation - a response
DemocracyThe international observer missions have made their pronouncements on the conduct of the elections. Unfortunately they usually come at the tail end of a long process and evaluate the event. Some come from political cultures where the concept...
* OLEBILE GABORONE 20 November 2009
Gaborone mayor debunks gender influence
"They believe in me looking at the qualities I have as a leader. I hate to fail people and if you give me a job, I want to see it done," the 56-year-old politician said yesterday. For the next two and a half years she will be the driving force in...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Water is not for all in Africa - IFAPA president
He said this at the summit which is meeting under the theme "Envisioning a Peaceful Africa: Water For All." "This focus on "Water for all" is a vision that in most parts of the continent is very far from the reality, a reality in which water is not...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Sata gets taste of his medicine as state revives case
Sata was dragged to court after former president Levy Mwanawasa came to power in January 2002 on charges that he stole two vehicles when he was Minister Without Portfolio in president Frederick Chiluba's government. Sata was detained at Kamwala...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 20 November 2009
The warrior kings of Botswana
Rather, it was hard work, great military and economic savvy, and the patient character inherent in its people that steered this once poor, dusty and mostly barren land into Africa's glittering success. But while we celebrate the coming of age of...
JERRY KAI-LEWIS
Correspondent 20 November 2009
The bother of morning traffic
Normally, the trip takes 10 to 15 minutes without traffic jams. I am one of those people who have been lured to Tlokweng due to the high cost of accommodation in Gaborone. However, I had not considered the traffic blues that I have to contend with...
LINDA SWIZA
Correspondent 20 November 2009
The two sides of 'Motokwane'
Is the grass greener on the other side? Depending on which zol/ganja/dope/splif/motokwane/marijuana/cannabis you are smoking, it is! If you are smoking either the (Toronto) BC bud, chronic, or hydro as opposed to Durban poison, Swazi, Malawian Gold...
20 November 2009
My 'fright' to Okavango with Norwegian Prince
When my editor assigned me to cover the tour of the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), last Wednesday Crown Prince Haakon of Norway to the Okavango, I was elated but then the thought of having to fly to my...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Shololo Koma: Should he be remembered or forgotten?
When we ask some Mahalapye residents where Dr Kenneth Koma's grave is we hit a blank. Some even suspect that he may not have been buried in Mahalapye at all. Maybe he was left somewhere else, not here for surely someone would know otherwise. "Was...
20 November 2009
NBFIRA boss unexpectedly quits
Hobart tendered his resignation around May 2009, just seven months into his three-year contract. NBFIRA acting board Chairperson Mmatlala Dube confirmed Hobart's resignation in an emailed statement, saying that his last day of service at the...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
Visiting Stanchart bosses defend risk averse strategy
At a media briefing that was held in Phakalane on Tuesday, Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive Officer of Standard chartered bank PLC, which is the major shareholder in Standard Chartered Botswana, said it's the banking group...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 20 November 2009
DTC Botswana sales improves, but still far from normal
The week-long sale of unpolished diamonds in November and December (Sight 9 and 10) are traditionally expected to be smaller than others but those Sights exactly a year ago, left Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Botswana shell shocked when they were...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
30 percent levy burns a hole in Sechaba
The combination of global economic recession and unusually cold weather and the levy cost the industry a fortune. The Sechaba group of companies Botswana Breweries (Pty) Ltd, (BBL) and Kgalagadi Breweries (Pty) Ltd, (KBL) Sechaba said...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
BoB Bank Rate should remain constant to boost growth - analysts
Inflation, which last week fell by 0.1 percentage points to 6.9 percent, has reduced dramatically from the highs of early this year, prompting the Bank of Botswana (BoB) to cut the bank rate by a cumulative 450 basis points since December last...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 20 November 2009
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
Athletics is for people who prefer steroids to beer. Golf is for people with enormous egos and no dress sense. Is there any sporting group I haven't offended yet?Ah yes, cricket fans. Cricket, in fact, is the only sport that has ever...
20 November 2009
African rugs and sculptures on display at Sakeng la Badimo
The sight of a variety of African rugs hanging from the fences of the Sakeng la Badimo orchard, which is about 500m before entering Kumakwane from Gaborone, is inescapable. If the name Sakeng la Badimo does not ignite one's African cultural sense...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 November 2009
Pretoria varsity choir to tour Botswana
Tawana will be touring the country with the University of Pretoria Choral Choir from December 3. The choir will also perform with Ndingo Johwa during the tour. They would play some of Johwa's songs that they have modified as well...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 November 2009
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