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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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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...
15 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 15 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 15 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,...
15 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....
15 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...
15 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 15 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 15 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...
15 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 15 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 15 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 15 April 2010
Alcohol 'only protects non-smokers against stroke'
A study of over 20,000 people in the UK found non-smokers who drank moderate amounts were nearly 40% less likely to have a stroke than non-drinkers. But once cigarettes were added, this protective effect vanished. The findings are being presented...
15 April 2010
Motorists saves miner from dog attack
The incident happened near Nchanga North Hospital Mortuary where the dogs are literally camped. The dogs are reported to have followed the hearse of their dead master to the mortuary and seem to be waiting for him to return. The master owned a nearby...
GODWIN MSISHA
Correspondent 15 April 2010
Parents should avoid children's feuds over land
She said some parents who fail to develop their plots offer the title deeds to their children. The trouble begins when the other children claim right of ownership by birth. "There have been some cases recently when children from the same family were...
PINI BOTLHOKO
Correspondent 15 April 2010
Goodl luck Jonathan 'not spoken to yar'Adua
Umaru Yar'Adua went to Saudi Arabia for treatment in November 2009 and despite returning home in February has still not been seen in public. Jonathan gave no indication whether the president's condition had improved. He said he had not seen the...
15 April 2010
Foreign inmates take govt to court
It is in light of the fact that it remains adamant that it will not give foreign prisoners treatment that the Botswana Network on Ethics and Law (BONELA) is taking government to court, to compel it to change this policy. BONELA is expected to file...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Suspicious transactions at BR
"It was observed that for some of these leases, signed lease agreements could not be produced, and in other cases where the lease agreements had been signed, it was noted that the rentals were not being paid". The AG cited an instance in which a...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
MLHA complying with gov't requirements-AG
The AG learnt during an audit inspection at Mahalapye offices of the Department of Civil and National Registration that the officers are not allowed to collect P100 fines charged for late application of the National Identity card. The funds can only...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Big names in Nchindo's company
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Phandu Skelemani, former Minister of Trade and Industry Neo Moroka, former Debswana Deputy managing director Mike Wittet, Bank of Botswana Governor Linah Mohohlo, former Permanent Secretary to...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Commander Khama decorates BDF
Three senior officers, Brigadier Nelson Mokgabo Modiko, Colonel Sizinzo Nqxonde Lukashe and Colonel Ezekiel Kedule Mosweu received the Duty Code Order (DCO) medal. This medal is awarded to members of the administrative and technical staff of the BDF...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Seretse probe better placed with DCEC -Tsimako
The allegations arose out of the awarding of tenders to RFT Botswana (Pty) Ltd. for the supply of aviation equipment to the Botswana Police Service when Seretse was a director of the company. The Commissioner's response is in reaction to a complaint...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Motsumi acceds to fresh look at media organs
Without much fuss, she matter of factly averted what could have turned into a stormy meeting by acceding, as if in passing, to a fresh start to the election of the complaints and appeals committees of the press council that was the send off work of...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 15 April 2010
JSE firms in line with global markets
By mid-morning Tuesday, the JSE all share index was up 1.06 percent, with resources 1.71 percent better, gold miners up 2.16 percent and platinum miners 2.07 percent stronger. Banks were 1.08 percent firmer, financials added 0.73 percent and the...
15 April 2010
Apple delays iPad release
It will now launch the device around the world at the end of May, and will begin accepting pre-orders on 10 May. In a statement, the company blamed demand for the device in the US, which it said had been "surprisingly strong". When the iPad...
15 April 2010
LEA prepares to host second SMME Fair
The exhibition will run from April 29 to May 1, 2010 under the theme "Expanding the Local Procurement Base." Scores of LEA-registered SMMEs, their counterparts from the SADC region, procurement professionals from public and private institutions and...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Banks urged to be more vigilant
He was speaking at a Standard Chartered Bank breakfast meeting held to foster a closer working relationship between DIS agents and the bank for fighting financial crime at Cresta Lodge in Gaborone yesterday. "We have noticed a sharp increase in...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Medics Council and Bhagat must come clean
The council recently issued a press statement advising the public that Bhagat is not a cardiologist and is therefore not licensed as one. He is registered as a general practitioner, it says. The council furthermore, said that Bhagat should desist...
EDITOR 15 April 2010
New racism grips South Africa
South Africa is sliding back into a new racial divide, perhaps even a new apartheid. And this time most of the racists and thugs are black. What's more, it is also sliding into an anarchy so terrible that already almost 20,000 South Africans are...
ANDREW BOLT 15 April 2010
"The Department of Waste Management must wake up" - A rebuttal
The issue castigates the Department of Waste Management and Pollution Control for failure to collect waste on time, and goes on to talk about the health hazards likely to be incurred by failure to do so. In the same issue, the Mmegi comment that the...
15 April 2010
A US-China climate surge
One area that presents an opportunity for cooperation is energy policy and climate change, because the two countries' account for more than 50 percent of total coal consumption, while their combined share of both global greenhouse-gas emissions and...
S. JULIO FRIEDMAN 15 April 2010
Selefu 15 April 2010
15 April 2010
Vatican comment on paedophiles draws gay groups' anger
The UK's Stonewall group said it was astonishing gay people should still be dealing with "such an offensive myth". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone had said homosexuality, not celibacy, lay behind the child sex abuse scandals. The cardinal, the Vatican's...
15 April 2010
India says talks with Pakistan 'conditional'
India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the November 2008 attacks, which left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen. On Monday, India and Pakistan's PMs met at a nuclear security summit in the US. Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza...
15 April 2010
Kyrgyztan's ousted leader Bakiyev 'must stand trial'
Bakiyev, currently in the south of the country, had said he was willing to resign if his safety was guaranteed. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned Kyrgyzstan is "on the brink of civil war". Otunbayeva was speaking after talks in the...
15 April 2010
Somali radio stations bow to Islamist ban on music
Hizbul Islam, one of the two main insurgent forces in Somalia, issued the order on April 3, saying music broadcasts violated Islamic principles. It gave FM radio stations -- the main form of news and entertainment in the country -- 10 days to comply...
15 April 2010
Nigeria ex-leader Babangida 'will not buy presidency'
On Monday, he announced his intention to seek the nomination of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in presidential elections due in 2011. Gen Babangida, 68, said he had the necessary experience to be president. The PDP says its presidential...
15 April 2010
Zimbabwe scraps indigenisation law
Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the government had declared the so-called indigenisation law "null and void". "Cabinet is directed that the directives as announced in the law are...
15 April 2010
Juventus give Benitez deadline for decision
The Liverpool manager remains the Italian club's preferred choice to lead them from this summer, as has been the case since they sacked Ciro Ferrara and installed Zaccheroni as a stop-gap appointment in January, when Ben’tez was reluctant to...
15 April 2010
Botswana slips on second day of golf tourney
Stuart Smith and Mpho Kelosiwang were three holes down with two to play against Zimbabwean opponents, while Shane Granger and Phenyo Lekgoa suffered an unexpected loss against lowly regarded players from Lesotho. However, Charlton Mokoko and Peter...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
PLC strikes deal with media
At a breakfast meeting held yesterday, both the PLC and the media resolved that the goalkeeping department is a specialised area and therefore it is unfair for goalkeepers to be expected to compete with other players for the player of the season...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 April 2010
Kutlwano volleyball clubs represent Zone VI
The men's team leaves for Tunisia next Monday with the women jetting out on April 30. The Kutlwano clubs represent the region by virtue of being Zone VI champions. Speaking at a farewell ceremony for the teams on Tuesday, the director of sports and...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 April 2010
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