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Dibotelo replaces Nganunu
He has been acting Chief Justice since last November after Nganunu was taken ill and subsequently hospitalised in South Africa for over a month. Accepting the appointment, Dibotelo commended his predecessor for working tirelessly for the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Lippe vows to clear the air this week
Lippe was suspended on Monday in unexplained circumstances. Yesterday, he refused to give reasons for his suspension and referred all questions to the BTC board with the promise that he will spill the beans before the end of the week. "You will have...
BRIAN BENZA and MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writers 03 February 2010
Culprits must be flogged, says Kgosi Makgasane
Speaking to Mmegi during an interview, Makgasane said that flogging is the right way of dealing with youth delinquency in his village, which he says is fuelled by drunkenness. "My people are okay with flogging and they say that both male and female...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Bailiffs to administer corporal punishment
In the past, officers from the now defunct Local Police used to administer this form of punishment. The department has said that they expect to employ 322 assistant court bailiffs by the beginning of the next financial year, which starts in...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Lack of employment haunts Lentsweletau youth
A quick survey of the village revealed that most of the youth laze about doing nothing; some walk about aimlessly while others are gathered around drinking spots in the village drinking their sorrows away. When Mmegi arrived at Lentsweletau...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Understanding the challenge of being a transsexual
Her parents noticed this and causally talked about it but it was not of major concern to them, after all there were many girls who were tom-boys in the neighbourhood so they thought she was just like them. They always laughed off the fact that she...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Goodbye Nganunu, Welcome Dibotelo
Not a long time ago this newspaper called on Nganunu to quit his post. This was after he allegedly tried to get a Broadhurst Magistrate to release from custody Nganunu's nephew who was convicted by the Magistrate court for failure to pay a...
03 February 2010
Investors flock back to buy shares on BSE
Since the beginning of the year, the bourse has traded northwards coming from the profit-taking that characterised the market at the end of 2009. Yesterday, the mainstream Domestic Companies Index (DCI) pushed further ahead, adding 0.06 on top of...
STAFF WRITER 03 February 2010
Mmamantswe (1000MW) power project still on-Aviva
In a quarterly update, the company which is sitting on 1.3 billion tonnes of coal reserves in the central district near CIC's Mmamabula, says it is finalising the SRK mining studies for the Mmamantswe Integrated Coal and Power Project although they...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 03 February 2010
Miss Millennium Valentine donates to needy
On Sunday, Letsholo put a smile on the faces of some of the families in the village as she handed out donations at a ceremony held at the Millennium club. In all 10 families benefited from the project. Letsholo said she was assisted by social...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 03 February 2010
BOMU worried about slow take off of royalty body
Addressing a press briefing at the GICC, BOMU Secretary General, Seabelo Modibe said the musicians body has already expressed its dissatisfaction with the slow implementation of the collecting society. Modibe said it is worrying that two...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Local musicians paid P60, 000 for BOMU awards
BOMU received a whooping P750 000 cash in sponsorship from Mascom, as well as a further P200, 000 when Botswana Television (Btv) paid for the airing of the awards. The Department of Culture also contributed P50, 000 towards the awards, BOMU officials...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Musician says artists need more support
Teacher Moyo, whose first eight track album entitled Lenyalo and released in 2002 continues to appeal to local music lovers, has disclosed that government should create a formidable platform to enable local artists to excel in the music industry....
Martin Nyirenda
Correspondent 03 February 2010
SPORT CHAT
Finest athleteChiefs' striker, Sekhana 'Nandos' Koko was in sparkling form as he masterminded his team's victory over Rollers. The flying forward tormented the Rollers backline at will and scored the first goal, which brought his side back into the...
Mqondisi Dube 03 February 2010
Botswana politics and the leadership question
News of his impending stepping down from the party presidency and the speculation that ensues as to who will take over awakens a sense in one that we perhaps do not have many great leaders-not that Dr Zibani Maundeni would agree, if he still holds...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 03 February 2010
Practical realities and options for Barataphati
Perhaps it is now time to be charting the way forward for the faction that was cruelly maneuvered into a tight corner after it registered a hard-won victory at the controversial Kanye congress in July. We start this piece by looking at how young...
JOHN MAKGALA AND BANYATSI MMEKWA 03 February 2010
BSA, umpires' row continue
The softball League Committee chairperson, Harambe Ntsowe has said the BSA informed them to find alternative match officials as a result of the impasse, which has been dragging on for sometime. Although Ntsowe could not be drawn into disclosing the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 03 February 2010
Rollers-Notwane feud over player again?
Notwane have registered Paeye with the Premier League Committee (PLC) although Rollers have reportedly claimed he is theirs. However, Rollers' spokesperson, Monamodi Kgopana could only confirm that his club has shown interest in the promising player...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 03 February 2010
Licencing for state broadcasters disingenuous
While licencing is a move in the right direction, MISA Botswana does not see any reason to celebrate in this case. Firstly, because a precedent has been set where Radio Botswana (RB1) was licenced but is yet to operate like a true public broadcaster....
* THAPELO NDLOVU 03 February 2010
Government regrets Togo suspension
The Government of Botswana strongly condemns the insensitivity of the CAF decision in suspending Togo from the Africa Cup games. The Togolese football team suffered a horrific attack in Cabinda, whilst enroute to the 2010 Africa Games in Angola,...
03 February 2010
Cartoon Strip 03.02.2010
03 February 2010
Mogae is a liar - Nchindo
Mogae's remarks were prompted by the unfolding Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) - De-Beers scandal. In not so many words, Nchindo has called Mogae a liar: "With particular reference to the remarks about myself contained in last week's edition of the...
STAFF WRITER 04 February 2010
Sebele sentencing deferred to Monday
With the courtroom filled to capacity, mummers broke out when magistrate, Dumisane Basupi made the announcement that he will only pass sentence next Monday. The public came in large numbers to get first hand information on the future of their tribal...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Khama using DIS to purge BDP operatives?
This follows a controversial report that Khama, who is also the leader of the ruling BDP, allegedly presented at the Monday BDP central committee (CC) in Gaborone. The report, which amongst others recommended the suspension of legislator Botsalo...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Zim court to decide fate of Botswana officers on Monday
After a three-day trial and the testimony of three state witnesses, a magistrate in the Zimbabwean tourist resort of Victoria Falls said he will deliver the verdict on Monday. "It means another weekend in jail for the three officers. They are...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Human trafficking not a crime in Botswana?
Considered as the most "mysterious," the most difficult to investigate and the most easily overlooked criminal act by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), human trafficking could be thriving in Botswana as a result, analysts say....
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Discrimination against women still prevalent-CEDAW
This was revealed by the Botswana delegation at a convention of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) held in Geneva, Switzerland last week. The Permanent Mission of Botswana to the United Nations Office at...
STAFF WRITER 04 February 2010
Vegetation thwarts game viewing
"There are a lot of rains and there is water everywhere. Trees and grass are growing big and green, which makes it difficult to spot animals," he said. His advise is that winter is the best time for game viewing as animal life is...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff writer 04 February 2010
BOCONGO urge government to give effect to CEDAW
BOCONGO prepared and presented a shadow report and an oral statement to the 45th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sitting in Geneva from January 18 to February 5 2010. The oral statement focused...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Our Heritage-Morupule Mine 1972
But everything has to have a beginning. Perhaps this time around, it all be a bit clearer. It was as I previously mentioned, Tom Holzinger whose three part Peolwane Palapye articles which made me start thinking about the place again. Old...
SANDY GRANT 04 February 2010
President Mutharika got it right
African leaders have at an AU summit elected a new chairman without any incident. Prophets of doom had predicted that the continental body will be dragged into the mud as the out-going AU chairman Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was supposedly going to...
EDITOR 04 February 2010
Culture Spears for Zim awards
Culture Spears, who have managed to release three smash hit albums in the last five years, were rewarded with the Presidential Award of Merit last year because of their exploits. In 2008 they were invited by the then South African president Thabo...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
GBC set to relaunch soon
The new name, e-Botswana, now relates well with South Africa's etv, which has a controlling stake at the Gaborone channel, where it also transmits one of its most sought after contents such as the UEFA Champions League, and hot...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
US Embassy ropes in hip hop stars to combat HIV
In an interview with Showbiz the embassy's deputy chief of mission Scott Hamilton said that they engaged 10 Botswana Hip hop artists like the notable Scar, Zeus and Kast to come up with a hip hop album that would carry the message of HIV/AIDS. The...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Trumpeter Mmusi will be sorely missed, says Boleseng
Mmusi died after his Nissan van overturned. He was thrown out of the vehicle. Mmusi, who was also a member of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) band was buried in Kanye last Saturday. A grief-stricken Boleseng said the death of the gifted...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 04 February 2010
Cartoon Strip 04.02.10
04 February 2010
African Copper loan deal completed
The facility placed ACU's borrowings from ZCI on a more permanent footing. The four-year credit facility would be worth more than $31-million and replaces the $7-million bridging and the $25,4-million bridging loan that ZCI provided to ACU in...
BRAIN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Selebi-Phikwe eyes 2010 World Cup benefits
BATSELF spokesperson, Moeti Mohwasa said they will hold a seminar next Monday in a bid to explore business opportunities presented by the World Cup to be hosted in South Africa in June. Mohwasa said they have invited representatives from the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Moloi, Maposa to rejoin Chiefs?
The pair joined the former Premiership side last August on a one-season loan. The curtain comes down on South Africa's National First Division on February 28 and that means the two will be free to come back to Chiefs or join another club. Chiefs'...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 February 2010
Nico soul-searching after poor run
Nico public relations officer, Patrick Gaofetoge said the club has decided to take stock of what has led to the decline in performance. He denied reports that coach Paul Gundani and his assistant Peter Muchina have left. He said Gundani is in...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 February 2010
League sponsorship tops agenda for BVF congress
The league sponsorship is expected to be unveiled on Faebruary 23 with the games kicking off four days later.BVF spokesperson, Godfrey Mudongo said the purpose of the meeting is to brief affiliates about the long awaited league sponsorship with...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 04 February 2010
Botswana politics and the leadership question
News of his impending stepping down from the party presidency and the speculation that ensues as to who will take over awakens a sense in one that we perhaps do not have many great leaders-not that Dr Zibani Maundeni would agree, if he still holds...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 04 February 2010
Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo: The lawyers' choice
I do so as a lawyer and a Motswana who takes much more than a casual interest in matters involving the rule of law and the administration of justice. First, it must be said that it is a matter for great sadness that the erstwhile Chief Justice,...
04 February 2010
Licencing for state broadcasters disingenuous
While licencing is a move in the right direction, MISA Botswana does not see any reason to celebrate in this case. Firstly, because a precedent has been set where Radio Botswana (RB1) was licenced but is yet to operate like a true public broadcaster....
THAPELO NDLOVU 04 February 2010
Practical realities and options for Barataphati
Perhaps it is now time to be charting the way forward for the faction that was cruelly maneuvered into a tight corner after it registered a hard-won victory at the controversial Kanye congress in July. We start this piece by looking at how young...
JOHN MAKGALA AND
BANYATSI MMEKWA 04 February 2010
Culture Spears for Zim awards
Culture Spears, who have managed to release three smash hit albums in the last five years, were rewarded with the Presidential Award of Merit last year because of their exploits. In 2008 they were invited by the then South African president Thabo...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Our Heritage - Morupule Mine 1972
But everything has to have a beginning. Perhaps this time around, it all be a bit clearer. It was as I previously mentioned, Tom Holzinger whose three part Peolwane Palapye articles which made me start thinking about the place again. Old...
SANDY GRANT 04 February 2010
Moloi, Maposa to rejoin Chiefs?
The pair joined the former Premiership side last August on a one-season loan. The curtain comes down on South Africa's National First Division on February 28 and that means the two will be free to come back to Chiefs or join another club. Chiefs'...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 February 2010
African Copper loan deal completed
The facility placed ACU's borrowings from ZCI on a more permanent footing. The four-year credit facility would be worth more than $31-million and replaces the $7-million bridging and the $25,4-million bridging loan that ZCI provided to ACU in...
BRAIN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
Sebele sentencing deferred to Monday
With the courtroom filled to capacity, mummers broke out when magistrate, Dumisane Basupi made the announcement that he will only pass sentence next Monday. The public came in large numbers to get first hand information on the future of their tribal...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 February 2010
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