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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
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
Tiffany's sticks with Botswana
As part of their ongoing new wave of campaign against the Botswana government for violating the rights of the Bushmen, Survival this week took its war to TIFFANY & CO stores in London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and San Francisco ...
05 February 2010
Nchindo trial set for April
Nchindo and his co-accused persons Jacob Sesinyi, Joseph Matome, Garvas Nchindo face multiple counts of corruption in the case that is before Regional Magistrate (South) Lot Moroka. Multiple appeals that have been dragging, both at the High Court and...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
BDP won't name its 'secret agents' yet
"That is an internal party matter and we are not going to disclose the names of the three men to the press as of now," declared BDP executive secretary, Dr Comma Serema yesterday. This has further raised speculation that Khama could have roped in...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
What are the presidents mumbling about?
According to the report, Mogae revealed that Nchindo threatened that if his wish was not carried out, he would expose the fact that former President, Ketumile Masire 'was bailed out' and that Debswana sponsored the BDP at general elections. The...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 05 February 2010
Madibelankwe speak about the floggings
When they graduated, Kgafela outlined his intention to use regiments to keep the peace in his chiefdom."I believe that this regiment will show the tribe the right way. It will also help in reviving our culture and protect it. They will also help in...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
Kgotla floggings and class among Batswana
Bakgatla-ba-ga-Kgafela are some of the leading merafe when it comes to being custodians of the Setswana culture and their dikgosi has publicly announced that they will uphold this practice which is an eyesore to some. The bone of contention among...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
I survived cancer-Mbalambi
Four years ago, Mbalambi was diagnosed with cancer, which is a global health problem and a leading cause of death around the world Her troubles started sometime in 2005 whilst she was in the employ of Barclays Bank in Francistown."There was a lump...
05 February 2010
Is the shining star, that is Botswana fading?
Back then, I vehemently argued that there has to be a voice of reason in a region consumed by madness. He maintained that 'that is the attitude one has come to expect from Batswana primarily because there are certain historical discomforts that they...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 05 February 2010
Is it fair to punish a third party for wrecked marriage?
Debatably married men or women, who are found guilty of having extramarital affairs, often escape unscathed. It is common that the so-called "marriage wreckers" are the only ones who get punished by jilted spouses in wrecked marriages, while the...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 05 February 2010
Mogae speaks on corruption in Nigeria
It is more pleasing to note that the Anti-Corruption Revolution concept is designed to provide a platform for citizens' participation in the fight against corruption, economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. This is an important recognition that...
* FESTUS G. MOGAE 05 February 2010
Book Review
Absent: The English Teacher is from the creative pen of John Eppel, born at Lydenburg, South Africa, in 1947, moved at four to Ndebeleland, educated in Bulawayo at Milton High School and then at what is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Eppel has...
Reviewed by SHERIDAN GRISWOLD
Correspondent 05 February 2010
Back Stage
If you liked the old style Walt Disney movies from 64 years ago (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1937), then this modern rendition, set in the 1920s in New Orleans (a time when African-Americans were still subjugated by Jim Crow laws...
SASA MAJUMA 05 February 2010
Pageant for African woman on tomorrow
For this one size does not matter much as the organisers have gone for what they say is an acceptable normal size of an African woman, size 32-36. According to pageant chief organiser, Seneo Sesenyi, they chose to run a pageant to celebrate...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
Heyns' Hazelwood shop holds some valuable lessons
Located at the Middle Star mall, Hazelwood houses a sizable retail store, as well as a workshop, and all the items sold in the shop - ranging from jewellery, household items to wall hangings - are manufactured in the workshop. A walk into the shop...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
Everything is relative - in Botswana, too
The avalanche of negative publicity pointing to many years of corruption in the higher echelons of Debswana, the world's largest diamond producer, is indicative not just of the depth of trouble, but of the determination to face these issues upfront...
* CHAIM EVEN-ZOHAR 05 February 2010
Consumer Watchdog
I got a grade A 'O' Level in Maths when I was only 14 years old. Boasting over, here comes the reality. That was the only A grade I ever got in anything, ever. My academic life was downhill from there. I've never had an A in...
05 February 2010
People's plea to Matambo
The country is currently recovering from the global financial crisis that brought lay-offs and closures especially in the crucial mining sector. In light of this, Mmegi newspaper set out to find out what people expect as far as the budget speech is...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 05 February 2010
Toyota car recall could spill over to Botswana
The bulk of Toyota vehicle dealers in Botswana buy their vehicles from Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM). South Africa media reported this week that Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is expanding the massive recall of some of its vehicles...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 05 February 2010
Organisation for young entrepreneurs formed
The company is the brainchild of Base Sebonego, who is a director with Mosele Legal Services. Sebonego says there is need for young people to have a business culture embedded in them from a young age.One of the company's mandates is to provide...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 05 February 2010
Energy minerals most sought after in 2009
The 50 percent increase was part of the 327 licences issued between January and December 2009 for various minerals. According to DGS statistics, by April 2009, there were 250 licences in issue for energy minerals, up from 118 in 2008, 50 licences in...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 February 2010
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