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Two percent VAT increase a sucker-punch
He later said, "Finally, I propose to increase the Value Added Tax rate from 10 to 12 percent, effective April 1, 2010 and to raise the threshold for VAT registration from P250 000 to P500 000." This was a hot smack across the voters' faces. As if...
RUSSO LUMA 08 March 2010
Masire-De Beers: the civil coup of 1987
Our people are interested in answers to two simple questions; how does democracy obtain in a situation where the ruling party is financed by the government? and why the President should not declare the BDP an unlawful society? The class differences...
LEDIRETSE MOLAKE 08 March 2010
Of a callous cabinet and a lame duck parliament
It started when then Vice President Ian Khama was appointed Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration and Coordinator of Government Projects. But the man who wielded such immense power never saw fit, or rarely ever did, to attend...
08 March 2010
Can Masire be prosecuted?
"Corrupt politicians make the other 10 percent look bad". It has become common to associate politicians with corruption to the extent that those engaged in the trade are often found guilty by profession. This week the opposition Botswana Congress...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Thou shall not insult the president
[When] people said 'This fellow has nothing to say except sing for Kenyatta,' I said I did not have ideas of my own. Who was I to have my own ideas? I was in Kenyatta's shoes and therefore I had to sing whatever Kenyatta wanted. If I had sung...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Who will succeed Ian Khama as president?
It is an open secret that Vice President Mompati Merafhe will not take over from Khama after 10 years. There is a school of thought that Merafhe will only hold the fort until 2014. Initially it was felt that Merafhe would only serve for a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 08 March 2010
The Hermit Of Mogoditshane
The Moshupa born 65 year old has lived in the shack since 1984, he thinks. His has been a hermit's existence. Reclusive, solitude existence. To many he is just a man with no family and whose origin is not known. "I have lived here, I think...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Ngamiland Jumbos Afraid Of Chillies
To tackle the problem, the government of Botswana has launched an initiative aimed at combating this menacing problem of human/elephant conflict called the Elephant Chilli-pepper Project that helps farmers combat elephants without killing...
Khayalethu Mpofu
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Eight Hours On The Beat
Mogoditshane Police Station has one of the vast, most dangerous, most crime prone jurisdictions in the country.The area stretches from Mogoditshane to Gabane in the west, to Kopong, Metsimotlhabe, Gakuto and Matseta in the north - an area whose...
08 March 2010
How 'free and fair' are 'regular' elections in Botswana?
USAID, in recent years more keen on collective regional projects rather than strictly national undertakings, also takes an interest in checking on the health of democracy in the regions it assists. Some of those are: - *Regular free and fair...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 08 March 2010
Bailout, suicide, all out of one bag
Even among the underdeveloped countries such as Botswana, the law has learnt to adapt to the inadequacies and excesses of the actors in the political and economic arena as they pursue their class interests. It would be folly therefore, to view the...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFE 08 March 2010
Heritage
The photo is included in Rob Burrett's recently published book, Plumer's Men' being a history of the Rhodesia Frontier Force expedition led by Lieutenant Colonel H.C.O. Plumer, which worked its way southwards until it successfully relieved Mafikeng....
Sandy Grant 08 March 2010
Trouble follows former inmate
Now a sickly man who hops from one family member to another, only to be booted out unceremoniously, he blames the government for his current woes. Chilengwa is now staying with family member number three in Masunga after his grandmother said she...
JOYCE GREY
Correspondent 08 March 2010
The Middle East's hair trigger
A volley of incendiary remarks between Israel and both Syria and Hezbollah has fuelled anxieties about the possibility of war on Israel's northern border. The level of sensitivity is such that the latest tension was initiated by the Syrians, who...
Shlomo ben-ami 08 March 2010
Bomb threats, Nchindo and the Kalafatis effect
As Robert Dallek said: "Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?". On Wednesday morning Batswana got news...
08 March 2010
Sycophancy as Khama and Kgafela's stars rise
Wikipedia describes a sycophant as a servile self-seeker who attempts to win a favour by flattering an influential person. As mentioned before, the culture of sycophancy among Batswana and other Africans is a very old one. We have heard of Malope a...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
About De Beers and funding ruling party
It has been reported that De Beers has been sponsoring the BDP during elections. Profits from De Beers are expected to enhance social, economic and political development as well as to enhance the spiritual growth of individuals, communities and that...
MAIKGANTSHO RAMONTSHO 08 March 2010
Crime-infested Somerset East raises concern
These are the words of 32-year-old Tshekologo Bundu of Somerset East location in the Francistown East constituency as she relates to Mmegi, her several encounters with criminals while staying in this crime-infested area. For the past nine years that...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 08 March 2010
BBC's Ethiopia weapons report denied
Abadi Zemo, a senior member of Ethiopia's ruling coalition, described the allegations as nonsensical. The charity Christian Aid said its "investigations do not correspond to the BBC's version of events". The BBC report said millions of dollars in...
08 March 2010
Nigeria ruling party wants Muslim leader for 2011 poll
PDP leaders have agreed that candidates must alternate between the two faiths. Jonathan, a Christian from the Niger Delta, is in charge as Umaru Yar'Adua, a Muslim, recovers from ill-health. The 58-year-old president returned from a hospital in...
08 March 2010
Brown says too early to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe
After talks with South African President Jacob Zuma, Brown said Zimbabwe must show its commitment to free and fair elections in the future. President Zuma, on a state visit to the UK, has suggested sanctions should be eased to help Zimbabwe "move...
08 March 2010
Brazil rebuffs US pressure for Iran sanctions
Celso Amorim told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Brazil wanted to see further negotiations on the issue before it would support sanctions. Clinton said that sanctions had to be passed first in order to persuade Iran to "negotiate in good...
08 March 2010
China slows rise in military spending
Li Zhaoxing said that, as a proportion of GDP, China still spends less than other countries, such as the US. Washington has repeatedly urged China to be more open about its rapidly rising military spending. Speaking at a news conference, Li claimed...
08 March 2010
Fallujah doctors report rise in birth defects
The city witnessed fierce fighting in 2004 as US forces carried out a major offensive against insurgents. Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe. The US military says it is not aware of any...
08 March 2010
Robbers gets taste of their idiocy
"They removed the precast units from the back wall, then cut the inside mesh wire with pliers. My colleague was doing the rounds when the robbers - seven in all and armed with machetes and crowbars - pounced on him. They tied his hands and feet...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Chinese Employees Spill The Beans On Their Bosses
In their last visit in 2009, the inspectors are said to have been on a mission to find out how employees were treated by their employers "We were telling them about our work as well as wages. It looks like the inspection was only done in the Chinese...
Sesupo Rantsimako
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Stray Dogs Worry Mayor
The problem, according to him, is not because the dogs may attack people or chase them throughout city streets, but mostly because they pose a health hazard as they can transmit rabies to humans, which is a fatal desease. He told a recent full...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Four Deaths Recorded In Selebi-Phikwe
Station Commander, Superintendent Victor Nlebesi expressed his concern during an interview with The Monitor on Friday. He said a BCL miner was killed in a rock fall on the night of February 27. He explained that the 55-year-old man from Bobonong...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Traditional Leaders Decry Commercialisation Of Bride Price
The elderly founder of the Bahurutshe cultural village urged the current generation to desist from thinking that material things or love can make a marriage succeed. She said lobola was a form of thanksgiving to the bride's family. She said in...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
National Pass Level Continues To Fall
In her committee of supply speech last Thursday, the Minister of Education, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi said that at primary schools, the Standard Eight pass level has gradually declined from 72.9 percent in 2007 to 69.8 percent in 2008 and 68.2 percent...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Nursing Association To Unionise - At Last
In a press release, NAB stated that the opportunity for public service employees to unionise arose in 2002 when major amendments were made to the Botswana Employment Act and the Trade Unions and Employment Act of 2006. NAB has not been able to...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
DID the US embassy detect the OP bomb?
However that is the question the US Embassy would not entertain when The Monitor asked them to confirm or deny allegations that the grenade found at the OP parking lot was actually detected by the US Embassy surveillance cameras and that it was in...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Education Budget Approaches P10 Billion Mark
The former Education Minister Jacob Nkate was heavily criticised for recklessness last year when the budget for the ministry hit the P8 billion mark. A number of parliamentarians called for his head. This year, the ministry will spend P8.2 billion on...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Shaleshando not news in Daily News?
Gil Saleshando is the president of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) while Dumelang is the publicity secretary of the party. A Botswana Press Agency (Bopa) reporter said he had always written stories about the BCP, which were spiked in preference...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Pitsane inyangas to sniff out thugs
Kgosi Mompati Marumoloa on Friday summoned the villages' healers and assigned each to a crime busting cluster. He hopes that the thugs will not be a match for the duo of tradition and modern technology. Last week, the village chief. The...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Professor Bentil is Lesedi
It appears Professor Kweku Bentil, the founding head of the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) in Palapye, is being baptized into the spirit of sharing that prevails here. Professor Bentil has been christened Lesedi,...
08 March 2010
Selebi-Phikwe councillors on the warpath
The councillors resolved in special full council meeting held on Thursday last week, to send a delegation to the Office of The President (OP) to challenge the decision. The delegation will also challenge the decision by the government of...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 08 March 2010
Is there a thokoloshi at kalamare primary school?
The thought of Kalamare Primary School as an avenue of acquiring education has been replaced with anguish.Women converse in low voices in groups under trees. There is an ignition of sorrow once the subject is brought forth; the girl pupil is the most...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Let's All Fight Crime
This is a collaborative effort between the police and the community to identify problems of crime and disorder and involve community members in the search for solutions to these problems, which include apprehending criminals. This is indeed...
08 March 2010
Health Chat
We know now that as soon as nomadic hunter - gatherers began to stay put and farm in close proximity to each other and animals there was bound to be an increase in the incidence of disease. TB, flu, measles and even common cold originated...
Kiran Bhagat 08 March 2010
Etcetera II
The Attorney General and the Director General of the DIS are agreed; the public; and especially the commercial media, should desist from speculating about the outcome of court cases and inquiries on the one hand and, about the activities of the...
Sandy Grant 08 March 2010
Issues In Education
The performance of primary schools in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in Gantsi, Kgalagadi, Southern, North West, and Kweneng West Districts is not only consistently low, but also actually worsening each year. The trend is clear if one...
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S.Weeks 08 March 2010
The Winners Code
Steve Jobs is the famous founder of Apple, the multi-billion dollar computer company. Oprah Winfrey is, by many accounts, the first African American woman to become a billionaire. Tiger Woods is the first sportsman to become a...
George Chingarande 08 March 2010
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08 March 2010
De Beers Holds Sales Volumes Down
That's according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Des Kilalea, who estimated the size of the February sight at about $530m. This brings the total for the year to date to $1.1bn. De Beers markets diamonds to the trade at 10 sights held in London during...
08 March 2010
Google Takes Aim At Microsoft With Acquisition
Google said on its company blog on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based DocVerse. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "With DocVerse, people can begin to experience some of the benefits of Web-based collaboration using the traditional...
08 March 2010
Fewer mine accidents recorded in 2009
With 14, BCL Mine had the most accidents. Jwaneng Mine recorded six, Tati three, Mowana and Orapa two each, while Botash, Mupane Gold Mine, Belabela Quarries, Lobatse Quarry and Lobatse Clay Works recorded one accident each, Minister Ponatshego...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
Govt completes P5B bond programme
The bonds were unique as it marked the maiden issuance of a new, longer dated 15-year-bond, providing the much needed benchmark for long term borrowings. Bank of Botswana auctions government bonds and treasury bills every six months, in March and...
08 March 2010
KGOMO KE KHUMO PROMO 'GIVES BACK BIG'
Says Clive Marshall, the General Manager of Livestock Procurement at BMC. "This promotion, which has been running since November 2009, aims to educate farmers about how to look after their cattle until they reach the required standard and helps...
Sesupo Rantsimako and Joyce Grey
Correspondent 08 March 2010
'VAT to push up medical insurance costs'
Speaking at the third annual breakfast seminar of Pula Medical Aid Fund at the Gaborone Sun on Friday, Ebineng said the VAT increase could result in a review of subscriptions that did not include VAT so far. "With the increase in VAT, the financial...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 08 March 2010
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