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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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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...
14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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...
14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 April 2010
World media to attend Terre'Blanche funeral
"We have never experienced anything like this, we have had bookings from journalists in France, Spain, Germany," said the owner of the Ruimte Guest House on the edge of Ventersdorp. "I am sending all my bookings to the other guest houses in...
STUART GRAHAM 14 April 2010
Our Heritage
The objective of this exhaustive programme is presumably to give each community copyright control in respect of those elements of its knowledge that it claims to be indigenous to itself. Presumably, the lawyers are wetting their lips anticipating the...
SANDY GRANT 14 April 2010
Our leaders need an early man moment
This knowledge opened a whole new world for us. I believe a people that transition from our traditional system of governance to democratic republicanism without having the same " early man" experience cannot come close to understanding what democracy...
14 April 2010
The blood that saved my life
I was so dizzy and my heart was beating so loud I initially thought somebody was beating a drum, so deafening was the sound. It took a while for me to recognise that it was my heart! I took a bath and before I could dry myself, I needed to rest...
BOITSHEPO BOLELE 14 April 2010
Terreblanche's death should not spark racial chaos
Midweek, the hotels and lodges in the otherwise insipid farming village-town of Ventersdorp in South Africa's Northwest Province were bursting at the seams with bookings that could only have been managed by seeking help from surrounding settlements...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 14 April 2010
Proudly Motswana
When I meet people, they usually think that I'm from South Africa. The reaction I get when I tell people that I'm a Motswana born and bred in Botswana tends to be of shocked surprise and disbelief occasionally followed by a tentative interrogation,...
14 April 2010
Odyssey to fun
"I'm sorry sir, your ticket has expired! Our buses to Cape Town are all fully booked 'til Saturday Sir," said the young beautiful lady with the most fake grin ever. Heavy make-up. Doll-like looks. A smile that disappears as soon as it appears. Fast....
14 April 2010
On Barata-Phathi, tact and strategy
Grand battles are won and lost on the basis of strategy. The better strategists win and the less strategic side largely loses. The battle for the soul of the BDP - or whatever remains of it - will be won by the most strategic side. Strategy and tact...
14 April 2010
Mutambara owes nobody an apology
But thanks to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people today, the nation of Zimbabwe refuses to buckle and, although teetering, the plight of the Zimbabwean people continues to overshadow and take the limelight from other concerns, like human rights...
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO 14 April 2010
Of voting and drinking ages and the age of majority
There are many examples for that. For what is on record, the drinking age trailed behind when nations for their peculiar reasons decided to reduce the age of majority to below 21, which hitherto had been almost a universal minimum for defining a...
M.D. LECHA 14 April 2010
The crisis in the BNF - [Part Two]
Leninist Priciples In an attempt to lend some theoretical justification to their opportunist tactics, Tafa often makes reference to Leninism, falsely pretending to be a genuine defender of that canon of ideas, methods and principles formulated...
14 April 2010
Leadership forum or BNF obituary?
The reports say that neither party president, Otsweletse Moupo, and his deputy and contestant for the presidency, Olebile Gaborone, attended. Only two of the party's parliamentarians - John Toto of Kgalagadi South and Isaac Mabiletsa - attended. Duma...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE
Correspondent 14 April 2010
Malema calls journo a 'bastard', kicks him out
The media briefing was on the youth league's visit to Zimbabwe. Malema was criticising the Movement for Democratic Change for speaking out against the visit from its office in Sandton, when BBC journalist Jonah Fisher mentioned that the youth league...
14 April 2010
ANC deserves Malema, South Africa needs him
He maybe some of those but he comes just at the right time for the African National Congress and for South Africa. All too often, the aspirations of the liberation movement get lost in the intoxicating celebratory mood that ensues after the...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 14 April 2010
Why Barack Obama isn't black
Instead, he checked "black, African American or Negro." By doing that, Obama probably did what was expected of him, but he also confirmed an enduring legacy of American racism. According to the Census Bureau, a little over 12 percent of Americans are...
*JOHN B. JUDIS 14 April 2010
OP careless with money
Among those organizations are Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Botswana Defence Force (BDF), Botswana Police Service (BPS) and National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA). The AG has found that the DIS has spent approximately P11 million...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
Yemeni cleric the new bin Laden?
Videos of his speeches have gone viral, receiving hundreds of thousands of hits, and his words resonate deeply with disaffected young Muslims, angered by what they see as Western attacks on Islam. "We are fighting for truth and justice, and you are...
14 April 2010
Local writers get another chance to get published
Last year, local writers Lauri Kubuitsile and Wame Molefhe made it to the finalists' list with their short stories: Pulani's Eyes and Rainbow-coloured dreams, respectively. (The Bessie Head Committee...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 14 April 2010
Digital migration to benefit media graduates
Making a presentation on Digital Migration at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology on Wednesday, veteran producer and BOCCIM`s representative to the digital migration taskforce, Solomon Monyame, said "there are opportunities...
SELUSIWE SIBANDA
Correspondent 14 April 2010
Man kills lover, grandfather and commits suicide
According to officer in commanding of Letlhakane Police Station, Superintendent Hendrick Mmipi, the incident happened on Sunday morning. He said they have not established whether the man and his girlfriend had problems since they are still...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 14 April 2010
Mob justice for threat-to-kill suspect
Ogomoditse Lekono's bail has since been revoked and he is back in police custody. Lekono, of Monarch location in Francistown was initially arrested on the February 24 2010 for threatening to kill his girlfriend, Lillian Libambe and her first-born...
ISAAC PINIELO & SESUPO RANTSIMAKO
Correspondents 14 April 2010
Khumaga girl drowns in Boteti River
The river acts as a border of sorts between the village and the tourist attraction area. Khumaga/Moreomaoto councillor, Thomas Kgethenyane, said the girl had gone to the river to swim in the morning with three of her friends when tragedy occurred....
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
BCC's new general secretary - Reverend Mosweu Simane
Reverend Mosweu Simane, a United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) priest, says the Botswana Council of Churches must have a holistic approach to its mission and development. "My vision of the Council of Churches is largely...
14 April 2010
Rev Simane back at BCC
Rev Simane who has since moved back to the Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) where he was a deputy general secretary said that BOCONGO problems largely have to do with resources, adding that "they don't have sustainable resources and rely much on...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
Bhagat is no cardiologist - BHPC
Joseph Makhema, chairman of the BHPC, says the professional body of medical practitioners took five years to make a public announcement about the credentials of Dr Kiran Bhagat because they had to complete their investigations. "We have been...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
Lobby group vies for BNFYL top posts
At a press conference held yesterday in Gaborone, the group, which is vying for leadership of the BNFYL, said the party has seen a lot of infighting, which had dire consequences for the party that ended up performing badly at the 2009...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
MoE still to decide on new sponsorships
New students at the Botswana Accountancy College (BAC) have complained that time is running out for them as the Department of Tertiary Education Funding (DTEF) has failed to assist them in processing their sponsorships while registration at the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
Nchindo land initially Debswana project
As the graft case against Garvas Nchindo and former Debswana group secretary, Joseph Matome, continues, it has emerged that government initially believed the Block 10 development was a Debswana project. Yesterday, Directorate of Public Prosecutions...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 14 April 2010
Kudos to Labour ministry
We all need government to be efficient and responsive to the needs of people who access government services and this can certainly be achieved through effective utilisation of information communication technologies. The benefits of E-government are...
14 April 2010
Project Syndicate
TOKYO - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev just signed a major new nuclear arms control treaty in Prague. The world's great nuclear powers will meet this month in Washington and next month at the United Nations to discuss...
Yuriko Koike 14 April 2010
As I see it
Nowadays it is not uncommon to hear suggestions that there are elements in the community who are plotting to make our tranquil Botswana ungovernable. These suggestions come from lickspittles who are hell bent to shield the executive, the President in...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 14 April 2010
Today's Workspace
What information is an employer required to disclose to the other party? Research shows that the choice of the approach to collective bargaining between an employer or employer association and an employee body is shaped by the reason for the...
Joseph Masango 14 April 2010
Batswana bullish about economy's future - report
A balance of 57 percent of privately held businesses (PHBs) in 14 of the world's leading emerging markets indicated that they were optimistic about prospects for their country's economy in the year ahead. At the same time, a balance of just two per...
STAFF WRITER 14 April 2010
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