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Muzzling of BDP MPs causes alarm
"What they are doing does not augur well for our democratic growth," charged Gaborone in reference to the increasing control of what the BDP MPs say in Parliament by the party high command. He said the BDP MPs reject motions by the opposition without...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 07 April 2010
The dangers facing the Botswana vulture
One vulture may lay an egg for two consecutive years and then stop due to a whole lot of factors for the next four years. So, imagine what it means when 40 vultures die at a go like it happened at Lesoma last week. Research has shown that the vulture...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
'I have fallen in love with Namibia'
I don't know where to start because I have been here for only a month, too short a time to say much about this town. My flight landed in what seemed like a bundu with no sign of civilisation. I was with another freshman, who also seemed to be...
07 April 2010
Experiencing the rugged beauty of the Kgalagadi
When I got an invitation from Conservation International (CI) to be part of their Western Kgalagadi Conservation Corridor (WKCC) project tour alongside stakeholders from the government and NGOs, there was both a sense of enthusiasm and trepidation:...
07 April 2010
My journey to Namibia
Then my friend from Windhoek, Namibia, called and invited me to visit him. "Wow!" I was speechless and gamely accepted the invitation. I had never been to Namibia before, let alone travelled to the western part of Botswana. With a packed...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff writer 07 April 2010
More must be done before new polls
Do those in power, like President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and South African President Jacob Zuma, care to consult, listen and do what the Zimbabwean people instruct? Or is this hullabaloo always stirred to accommodate a few...
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Serious education leaders wanted
A TEC advert in the local print media is of great interest to BOSETU. The advert in fact simply defines what BOSETU has been calling for many years now. The advert reads: "IF YOU ARE A LEADER, IT'S TIME TO TAKE EDUCATION SERIOUSLY". The advert is a...
JUSTIN HUNYEPA 07 April 2010
Reflections on the 2010 budget: lessons and questions?
Speaking to the nation in front of legislators, the executive and captains of industry, the new broom lamented the 'threat' and not the 'reality' of the global economic crisis on slowing progress towards achieving the aspirations of Vision 2016 as...
*JOWITT MBONGWE 07 April 2010
Somerset: The Ugly Face Of Poverty
Unemployment, underemployment, lack of access to land, lack of skills and old age, among other things has been blamed for this acute poverty. The informal sector has however served as a useful alternative to unemployment. Informal sector activities...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 07 April 2010
This is Omphile Sehurutshe of the Eye
As much as his is a questioning profession in pursuit of informing and educating the nation, he says an effective question has to have relevance and purpose. The clich 'first impressions count' is no lie, especially in the broadcast media and in...
07 April 2010
Counselling Is At Loggerheads With Secrecy
It has become a concept that hailed by many as a potential saviour of multitudes in these trying times - a reassurance to the world that despite the challenges, there is still hope and that there is no problem without a matching and perfect...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Biogas the cheaper, energy saver
After all, the advantages of using biogas as a form of energy are numerous. Besides saving him a lot of money, as he no longer needs to pay any electricity bills, he can save energy and does not have to contend with power outages. This scenario is...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
Restoring Lost Hope For Failed Students
In his own words, even his own family as well as friends had given up on him. "My parents thought the idea of repeating would be a waste of money as they had lost hope in me. They thought I would never make it, so I was more determined to prove them...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Time for Africa to rise to water shortage challenges
Water is essential for life. Safe, abundant water is vital to our ability to prosper and to fulfil our potential. Without it, we face a continual decline in our well-being, poverty and hunger, and increasing levels of conflict. Across Africa, a...
07 April 2010
Moupo may go, but how relevant is the BNF?
On Duma FM Monday last week, not a single commentator on the announcement that Otsweletse Moupo would not contest the presidency of the Botswana National Front regretted his leaving. On the contrary, most, if not all, welcomed it. The...
07 April 2010
New party, centre-left agenda needed
The words were prophetic in light of the abysmal failure of the opposition parties to seize the critical moment when they could have achieved the feat Seretse referred to. There are two instances in which that critical moment presented itself:...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 07 April 2010
Teenager overcomes early HIV setback
Some people advised me that he had phogwana (a problem associated with the fontanel), yet others said he had ditantanyane (gripes). I got to a point where I simply got tired of seeking treatment for the child," she says and looks at the boy as he...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
Let the Botswana Congress do something differently
There is nothing wrong with Dumelang's qualifications in academia or life experience. The man holds a laudable record as a spokesperson for his constituency of Gaborone Central and the nation in general. There is only one thing wrong with...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 07 April 2010
Botswana heads towards 'press freedom' under a dictatorship
Previous articles have pointed out that generally the notion of a 'free' press refers to the freedom from political influence. More precisely, it refers to freedom from government. The rationale is that the state should not, in a democracy, be...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 07 April 2010
Who is likely to cross the floor?
Botsalo NtuaneDuring his pre-election campaign he told voters that he was not going to be a bootlicker to anybody and that he would represent their interests. He beat his rivals by a margin of 2000 voters. His constituency has been in the hands of...
07 April 2010
Has Khama lost his grip on the BDP?
As a faction of the BDP presses ahead with the notion of forming a splinter party, the latest developments in the BDP can be said to be symbolic of a party whose leader has lost his grip. For the prevailing mess in the BDP is uncharacteristic of a...
RYDER GABATHUSE,br>Staff Writer 07 April 2010
What is wrong with Molepolole: a subject(ive) insight
Bakwena "ba ga sebolaya kgosi" are the most senior among Tswana speaking tribes in Botswana. Under their great leader Sechele I, who ruled from c.1833 to 1892, they gallantly rebuffed Boer invasion. Other Batswana groups coalesced around Sechele in...
*TITUS MBUYA 07 April 2010
Goshwe is the place to be!
The greenish mophane shrubs that are still fresh from the recent rains that have hit this area in the past weeks pave and sandwich the otherwise dusty and bumpy road that takes one to this place. This is an approximately...
IKE VAVI
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Khama: Mogae's plan has gone awry
Factional politics is not a new phenomenon in the BDP. Whilst some trace it to the era of the second president, Sir Ketumile Masire's tenure, some think it is as old as the party itself. The only difference is how the first to the third former...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
Tread carefully with neighbouring countries
There were so many paths leading towards the border. Some branched into the fields, but some led straight to the border. Near the border, it is so hilly. That provided an ideal cover for the villagers. You would soon know why. These paths became so...
RUSSO LUMA
Correspondent 07 April 2010
The man behind 'mabijo'
He speaks of Mabijo with great passion that one would think he was speaking of a real life character. Anyway, he has got every reason to do that, as the cartoon is his own brainchild. The child he has nurtured so well in the past two decades and...
07 April 2010
'I stockpile in summer'
Perhaps you should consider saving your hair for the hard times when you will really need that cash, say when the motshelo lady knocks at your door for the unpaid interest. Then you can look at her, with a twinkle in your eye and tell her that you...
07 April 2010
Our Heritage
It would, of course, have been thoroughly understandable if this failure had happened as a result of inheriting a ramshackle, worn-out system. In fact, when the government took over the line, it dramatically overhauled it, the old tracks were...
Sandy Grant 07 April 2010
The message of easter
Christmas is all about the birth of the baby Jesus, the beginning of a perfect life. It conjures up images of mangers and angels, wise men from afar and stars that shine brightly in the skies. Everyone loves babies and everyone loves...
STEPHEN WORKMAN 07 April 2010
Khama is a booming industry
But former president Festus Mogae launched a successful anti-AIDS drive that stemmed the rising tide. As Mogae was fighting AIDS, some unscrupulous characters took advantage of the situation. It was easy for four - five or six people to come together...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
Obituary for Tamuhla Maningi Jorosi
He died on Saturday March 20 at around 12 o'clock. Up to this point in time, I find it difficult to come to terms with the sudden departure of my mentor who was such a strong principled and result- oriented man. I met Jorosi in 1994 at Marakanelo...
INNOCENT MONYADZWE 07 April 2010
Possible flooding of the Okavango and Chobe areas
According to information from the Department of Water Affairs, this year's water levels are slightly higher than last year's. As such, this is likely to cause flooding in certain areas. The public may recall that last year in March, some residential...
07 April 2010
Remembering Seepapitso
But to challenge this general understanding, I ask you to go back with me to the new 'nation', the new country, which came into being at the end of September 1966; a new 'nation', which had previously had no capital town or city - a conglomeration of...
SANDY GRANT
Correspondent 07 April 2010
The crisis in the BNF -reply to Elmon Tafa [Part 1]
In summary, Tafa's interventions in the debate on BNF problems are a hotch-potch of shallow and distorted analysis, scandalous falsification of facts, outright lies and malicious personal abuse of myself. I have known Tafa for about 30 years...
* CDE OTSWELETSE MOUPO 07 April 2010
Can Masire stop an hour whose time has come?
Some observers and even members of the belligerent factions themselves have already dismissed Masire's rather belated and seemingly desperate effort as an exercise in futility. It is said that the intensity and gravity of the differences, some of...
JOHN MAKGALA and
BANYATSI MMEKWA 07 April 2010
Most of our MPs do not deserve to be in parliament
We, people authority, stand and watch from across the road and get dazzled by women and men in three piece suits, contemptuously walking into parliament as if they are going into a tomb to replay the waking of Lazarus from the dead. We brought them...
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO 07 April 2010
African viewpoint: In praise of the dead
I have been attending a lot of funerals recently and this has brought back to the fore my morbid fascination with funerals. Even though in the Ghanaian context, "morbid" is hardly the word to use for funerals.We love funerals here and they are a...
07 April 2010
ANC fury at apartheid song ban
It says a campaign by white activists to get the song banned is an attempt to "elevate apartheid agents as victims". It wants the Constitutional Court to overturn a ruling by a white judge that the words amount to hate speech. ANC Youth League leader...
07 April 2010
Nigeria Sharia court confirms Twitter debate ban
This follows a temporary order made last week by a court in northern Nigeria preventing Facebook and Twitter being used to discuss the issue. The ban was initially sought by a pro-Sharia group which said internet sites would be used to mock Islamic...
07 April 2010
White Zimbabwe farmers win South Africa property
The government has two months to come up with money for legal fees incurred by the farmers in their compensation claim case or the house will be sold. Last week, a South African court agreed with a regional court ruling that the violent land grabs...
07 April 2010
Alcohol is part of our culture - Kgosikgolo Mosadi
She did not. The Kgosi, who also appears on billboards this week as one of the shining lights cautioning the Botswana society against irresponsible drinking, was a guest speaker at the launch of Botswana Alcohol Industry...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
The 'snap election' is not new and it can be stopped
"The opposition parties would not be prepared, especially because of the tremendous resources required," one caller argued. A supporter of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party argued that the opposition parties should always be ready to rule...
07 April 2010
Rains increase dam levels by 1%
Gaborone dam has increased levels from 54 percent to 55 percent and Molatedi dam from 30percent to 31percent. Letsibogo dam has increased by 3 percent to 78 percent, while Shashe and Ntimbale increased by 1 percent and 2 percent...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO 07 April 2010
Ailing BNF muses at ill-attended Easter forum
Despite party leader, Otsweletse Moupo, announcing that he would not defend his position in the July congress, insiders and observers believe that a lot needs to be done in the three months before the congress. Lobbying for the leadership of BNF has...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Vital information missing in Nchindo case
Matlhogonolo Phuthego told Regional Magistrate, Lot Moroka in Gaborone that the file of TDC cannot be found at the Registrar of Companies while that of Golconda does not have much information. Phuthego said that the file of Golconda identifies only...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
I am only helping Masire - Raletobana
Raletobana, who is the MP for Kweneng South East, has met party president Ian Khama unbeknownst to his fellow Barata-Phathi. Speaking in an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Raletobana said it was crucial that the factions met to explore reconciliation...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
BDP pardons Phikwe mayor
Mukokomani was suspended for defying the party caucus at the mayoral election. The election became controversial when Mukokomani stood against party-mate, Tebogo Matlhogonolo, contrary to the party caucus agreement. He made the situation worse by...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 07 April 2010
Govt courts World Bank for Morupule loan
"The proposed World Bank loan will finance the purchase and installation of three main transformers, transmission line from Morupule B to Phokoje and water pipeline from new Paje/Mmashoro wellfield to the project site," Minister of Finance and...
STAFF WRITER 07 April 2010
Oil slips from 18-month high
The US services sector grew at its swiftest in nearly four years in March and future home sales rose unexpectedly in February, statistics showed on Monday, bolstering hopes for a sustainable economic recovery and job growth. US crude for May...
07 April 2010
Shell wants out of Botswana
This news comes hardly a month after another oil company, BP, announced plans to pull out. In a statement on its website, Shell says it is shifting its focus to exploration and production of oil while simultaneously cutting back further on refining...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 07 April 2010
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