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Debswana acts to empower local investors
As a result, Debswana is looking for local investors to provide accommodation facilities, transport services and other amenities for the planned expansion of the Jwaneng Mine, in a move they hope will translate into huge savings for the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Botswana rocked by load shedding as Eskom fails to deliver
It is not known how long the problem on the other side of the border will take, but the BPC has confirmed they are short of 150 MW of electricity, after the Morupule Power Station's capacity was also greatly affected by the power supply from South...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Alleged cocaine peddlers appear in court
The suspects are Imran Silly, a Tanzanian, Tshepiso and Kagiso Morwamang and Chipo Hinanda, a Zimbabwean woman. The accused appeared before Ndegwa for the setting of trial dates which has been set for January 15 and the suspects will appear again...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Botswana ignores Zim threats over VOA
Zimbabwe government newspaper - The Herald - published a story this week acussing Botswana of hosting what it called 'pirate radio station' from Voice of America (VOA). The paper said that Zimbabwe will make a formal complaint to Botswana over VOA....
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Whipping: I've no regrets, says young Kgafela
Critics of Tswana laws and customs have always had a gripe with the traditional legal system faulting it for undermining human rights. A few days ago, Tselapedi Mooketsi was flogged on a bare back on orders of Bakgatla paramount chief's young...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Mogoditshane lands official explains allocation delays
He warned that the current land available in Mogoditshane is not enough to cater for everybody in the waiting list. He said that their work is made difficult by landlords who refuse to release ploughing fields for purchase and allocation by...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Moupo denies renewed pressure to resign
But Moupo denies ever being approached by anyone on such an issue lately. "I am not aware of any pressure being exerted on me to resign," he insists. "I don't know where you get this from. "What exactly do you want from me? I have discussed this...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Saleshando dismisses former lover
He stated that the 41-year-old Selebaleng Dintwa of Palapye is mentally unstable and lacking morals. The woman says the legislator promised to marry her but later went back on his word and chased her from a house they shared in Selebi-Phikwe from...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
BDP councillors plan to topple Mukokomani
The said councillors have written a letter to the Town Clerk, Kutlwano Matenge seeking nullification of last month's mayoral elections. In the letter, the four ruling party councillors are vying for the nullification of the recent mayoral...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
No food for patients-Marina Hospital
Patients expressed emotions of frustration and disappointment saying that they are not satisfied with the services that they get from the hospital. One patient who is currently admitted at the hospital, told Mmegi yesterday that they do not...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
OP reverses refugee work permits?
He was speaking after reports that the Office of the President (OP) has ordered that work permits for refugees working in Francistown must never be processed again and that they must go back to their camp in Dukwi. The 22-year-old Hassan came to...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Despite history Monarch wallows in poverty
Some of these notices are written or inscribed on kiosks or makeshift shelters that have long been abandoned. Even on a normal working day, you observe multitudes of people, both old and young, relaxing at the local shebeens or sitting nonchalantly...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Pemba Bay: the beach, the heat and heritage
Pemba's location is special as the thin earth crust that makes the town extend into the ocean so that it looks like it is completely surrounded by the ocean on all sides. Along the coast hotels and lodges all offering exquisite services are lined up...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Jamataka lags behind despite govt takeover
The pattern of dispersed settlements has remained unchanged for the past few years. Most of the dwellings are mud huts though some villagers have started building brick houses. Villagers take time to decorate and plaster their mud huts with...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Killer cop arrived in full police uniform - witness
The 57-year-old Sub Inspector William Kgathi appeared in court this week for the murder of 39-year-old Mpehe Sebele. This week, Sebele's friends and work mates described Kgathi as a possessive man who used to torment his lover. Sebele was...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Will the 10th Parliament live up to expectations?
The recently assembled 19th Parliament has begun its business in earnest, giving Batswana every reason to expect better and more effective representation from it. Unlike its predecessors, this Parliament enjoys some comparative advantage,...
04 December 2009
FNB donates to chidren in the wilderness
These funds are to cover the costs of hosting 96 children for a six-day camp out at Jacana Camp and Kingspool in the Okavango Delta. Inclusive in this funding are costs for eight follow-up sessions for these children at their various villages...
04 December 2009
SADC Creators/Artists Exhibition on at Thapong
Works of participants from SADC countries such as Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, the Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe are displayed at this annual event. One of the exciting...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
BOOK REVIEW
In this history of the Bakgatla we read of war, slave-trading, and marauders hacking off of limbs: not in some remote country, but here, in what is now one of the world's most peaceful countries. As Prof. Morton once observed, in the 19th century...
Reviewed by
BRUCE BENNETT 04 December 2009
BACK STAGE
New Moon is the second of four novels she has poured out to satisfy the cravings of a worldwide audience. The movie New Moon has been grossing billions of Pula since it was released on November 20 - so much for globalisation, and abstinence - as it...
SASA MAJUMA 04 December 2009
BOOK REVIEW
This is a very important book in the struggle to save the oceans, its oldest creatures and all the rest of life in the sea. "The remaining whales are threatened by Japanese whaling in restricted waters, by heavy metals, global warming pollution,...
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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Will fuel prices give motorists a Christmas cheer?
That is the question in view of rising international crude oil prices coupled a recent hike in fuel prices in South Africa. The government last increased fuel prices consecutively in August this year after a long break due to the global economic...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Botswana undecided on De Beers high stakes offer
De Beers has offered its three shareholders, itself included, different levels of raising their stakes in the world's largest diamond miner. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Gabaake Gabaake, confirmed in a...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
BCL to crack the whip on graft
A previous investigation of the mine's supply chain in 2004 recovered goods and cash worth more than P5 million and led to the dismissal of some employees and the termination of contracts for erring suppliers. The investigation, headed by BCL Mine's...
THATO MOSEKI
Correspondent 04 December 2009
AfDB loans ABCH $30 million for retail expansion
The line of credit is meant to benefit ABCH's banking subsidiaries in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and contribute towards financing the ABCH's pipeline projects totalling US$96 million (P630.7 million). In a statement on Tuesday, the...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
BCL to expand mine life to 2013
Speaking at a ceremony to honour both retiring and long service BCL General Manager, Montwedi Mphathi said how long after 2013 was not an issue - the announcement would be made in the first quarter of next year. BCL Mine is one of the most complex...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Queues at banks a bane for business
One of the entrepreneurs, Edward Setumo, says the banking services have been declining from year to year, especially when the festive season approaches. Setumo, a furniture retailer, says queuing at the bank costs his business as he misses making...
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent 04 December 2009
DTC Botswana and Union sign accord
The recognition and procedural agreement, DTC said , will now provide clarity on engagement rules; rights and obligations of the parties; matters subject to collective bargaining; the level of bargaining; procedures for negotiations and/or...
STAFF WRITER 04 December 2009
Tati Nickel donates P387 000 to Shashe village
The company's Divisional Manager (responsible for) Capability Development, Peter Meswele, said TNMC's corporate social responsibility programme was making these donations as its contribution towards the realisation of Vision ' 2016 aspirations....
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
This masterpiece of modern, rational and scientific thought forced humanity to reconsider and re-evaluate it's position in the grand scheme of things. At it's heart, Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is remarkably simple. Those members...
04 December 2009
Whither Botswana
Accordingly, Khama urged the people of Botswana to acknowledge this international affirmation as a challenge to them to respond to the pandemic "without prejudice and discrimination", which was the only way of tackling the pandemic in the most...
DAN MOABI 04 December 2009
Development journalism and good governance
In Botswana this is all the more important if we consider 'botho' as one of the core values that drive the country. As per Vision 2016 "botho' defines a process for earning respect by first giving it, and to gain empowerment by empowering...
*Dr Raphael Dingalo 04 December 2009
Time to introspect our democracy
He was like an excavator on the trajectory of clearing everything off the way to retaining the world heavyweight champion belt for ever. This was so until complacency surreptitiously homed in and its virus attacked his focus of purpose. My main man...
04 December 2009
Is it ethical for BONELA to fight AIDS by legalising prostitution?
According to the Mmegi (November 24, 2009), BONELA official, Annah Chalmas, was reported as saying the move would help sex workers as human beings and give them dignity. On the other hand, South African MP George Lekgetho has called for prostitution...
Don-Martin Takudzwa Whande 04 December 2009
Nitty Gritty
Nobody ever tells you what they stand for, and you dare not ask for fear of revealing your ignorance. There are only three such abbreviations that I know and understand; OBE which is the Order of the British Empire, MBE which stands for Member of...
BAROLONG SEBONI 04 December 2009
Indebtedness - a real and present cancer
We might just point out that it is not only public servants who are so straitjacketed; the entire nation is wallowing in debt, a nasty state of affairs that has the potential to wipe out all the good that this nation has achieved. And when we talk...
EDITOR 04 December 2009
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04 December 2009
Premier League clubs face de-registration
The Registrar has published a notice in the Government Gazette saying that the clubs are required to furnish proof of their existence within three months as per the law. A senior official at the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs, under which the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Dambe leaves Under 20 team at Rollers' request
Dambe was initially in the team but dropped after an agreement between Rollers and the Botswana Football Association (BFA). BFA technical officer, Philemon Makwengwe said Rollers agreed to release their two other Under-20 players Aubrey Kebonnetse...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
ECCO out for revenge against Chiefs
ECCO go into the game with their tails up after beating Nico United in Selebi-Phikwe last week, a result which saw them move into fourth position. Chiefs on the other hand were left to rue missed chances after Notwane scored a last gasp equaliser in...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 04 December 2009
Minnows get the ball-rolling in Coke Cup
Uniao Flamengo Santos are the defending champions after beating BDF XI on penalties in an exciting final. In tomorrow's fixtures, former First Division side, Ferry Wanderers play Combination Stars at Kasane Prison Ground. Desert Nxau confront...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
Depleted Notwane face high-riding Gunners
If the performance of Toronto this season against the big guns is anything to go by, then spectators are likely to be treated to a thriller on Sunday. Notwane have managed to prove many people wrong against big teams this season holding Gaborone...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
The rise and fall of Sithole
He left in a huff midway through the 2007-2008 season but he had already made his mark. Sithole is largely credited for laying the foundation that saw Chiefs' win their first ever title. At the time he left, Chiefs were unbeaten and went on to win...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
BoBA pleased with development progress
Speaking on the sidelines of a Youth Development Training camp in Moshupa, Modiradilo said their main aim this year is to channel their resources to grooming young boxers. "It is important to teach them the basics of boxing and familiarise them with...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 04 December 2009
First Division South introduces double-headers
Eastern Tigers, Young Strikers, Masitaoka and Prisons XI will have to dig deep into their reserves to survive the rigours of playing tomorrow and Sunday. First Division chairman, Charles Chilisa said the double fixtures this weekend are necessary to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 04 December 2009
South African tennis star tours Botswana
The tour is sponsored by security company, G4S. Maphanga and Kenosi toured Kenya early this year. The two, who are sponsored by G4S spent a week in Kenya under the mentorship of legendary Ethiopian long distance star, Haile Gebrselassie, who is...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 December 2009
First Cut
Many allege he hates anything from England with a passion. The English are adamant he is hell bent on sabotaging their football. One newspaper in Germany made startling allegations that when Chelsea were booted out of the UEFA Champions League...
TSHIMOLOGO BOITUMELO 04 December 2009
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