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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...
04 May 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 04 May 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 04 May 2010
Could Cecil Rhodes have done better at SADC?
The Southern African Development Community (SADC), which evolved out of the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference (SADCC), celebrates its 30 years of its existence in April 2010. Established in 1980 on the date of the non-racial,...
04 May 2010
Snap election has costly implications
Alternatively what would happen if the President is forced to call a snap election because the Barata-Phathi faction leaves with most of the seats that would make it virtually impossible for him to govern? A snap election would be the...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 04 May 2010
Are the proposed BMC Act amendments in the producer's interest?
Part 1 is an explanation of the underlying purpose and principles of the BMC which few technically understand. Part 2 will explain each proposed amendment, its implications and the BCPA's recommendations in respect thereof. Purpose and...
04 May 2010
Why schools should close during winter
Certainly concern has been raised by many concerned parents and other stakeholders about the biting cold that children, some as young as six years of age have to endure during the winter spell. The problem is worse for those from underprivileged...
PINI BOTLHOKO
Correspondent 04 May 2010
May Day: celebrating history, lamenting the present
FRANCISTOWN: Labour Day, also known as Workers' Day or May Day, commemorated throughout the world on the first day of the month of May, is a celebration of the achievements, over the years, of the workers in the struggle for the improvement of their...
04 May 2010
Travelling to the Okavango
I may have travelled to Maun several times, but each experience feels new. I have always wished though, that I could understand the languages spoken in this area and communicate with ease.As they say languages are better learnt from the 'pillow' it's...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
The end of a divisive issue
SAMOCHIMA: Lakes, lagoons, aquatic plants, animals and birds make up Botswana's most famous landmark, the Okavango Delta, a majestic sight to behold. First visitors to the delta are attracted by the sight of stubborn hippos, crocodiles,...
04 May 2010
Duma speaks
Mmegi: At what stage did you develop interest in politics? Boko: I have always been passionate about human rights. You know politics is effectively an every day thing. If you have a specific interest in the plight of those who are marginalised, you...
04 May 2010
Is Duma Boko the new BNF messiah?
As one of my erudite friends correctly pointed out; at stake is a nation clamouring for a strong opposition because as he explained, already precursors of fatigue are gradually but surely beginning to crop up in the BDP's more than four decades of...
04 May 2010
Whither Botswana
(Mmegi, 27 April 2010). The newspaper was quoting from an interim ruling recently issued by a High Court judge concerning a dispute between the said Church and the Paramount Chief. The judge used the same or similar words in respect of the banning...
DAN MOABI 04 May 2010
Xu Chuan, the wonder linguist speaks setswana
Xu Chuan, better known as Kefentse, is a 22-year-old Chinese young man who describes himself as a person with a passion for languages. Amazingly, he needed only three years to be acquainted with Setswana. Kefentse came to Botswana to visit his...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
The uneasy landlord tenant relationship
The majority of people who work in town are not able to own homes because they do not have money to either buy a house or a plot. The only option is to rent somebody else's house. In the majority of cases, no written contract is made between the two...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 04 May 2010
Unionists applaud public service act, gingerly though
Though unions applauded this as a step towards attaining international labour standards, regional chairperson of the Botswana Public Employees' Union (BOPEU), Mbakiso Magola, said the adoption of the act calls for all trade unions to work together in...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Winter is no excuse to stop exercising
Temperatures drop significantly in winter, and as a result most people prefer to spend most of their time indoors, either at the office or at home. Outdoor activities are shelved until the beginning of the warmer season. Engaging in exercise or...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
The Winners Code
The shopping cart or trolley is today a permanent feature of every super market; indeed such a permanent feature that people take it for granted. However, it was not always so. The shopping trolley was invented by a little known grocer called Sylvan...
George Chingarande 04 May 2010
Health Chat
What do you recommend for chronic low back pain? Answer I believe that most back pain stems from a condition called tension myositis syndrome (TMS, myositis means muscle inflammation), a combination of muscle spasm and inflammation stemming from...
Kiran Bhagat 04 May 2010
Etcetera II
Every so often, perhaps every five years or so, a really enticing, exciting book on this country appears, a tradition which was started by Isaac Schapera, the father of Botswana bibliography. The widely-held belief that little about this country has...
Sandy Grant 04 May 2010
Issues In Education
The Botswana National Arts Institute (BNAI) is poised to become a reality. After more than a dozen years of planning and dedicated work by the Botswana Society for the Arts (BSA), it is on the brink of the development of the first phase. The last...
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S.Weeks 04 May 2010
The new Molepolole-Gaborone road- my take
Whether this will be achieved or not is the interest of this discussion. Let me hasten to point out that I have no statistics to back up my position. My position is informed by observation, past experiences and also experiments with similar scenarios...
04 May 2010
Makhandlela to take legal action
"What I can say about all this is how disappointed I am after working tirelessly for the Ministry of Education and the government and being sent packing like a herdman," he said. "My work record is there for all to see and I have never been brought...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Press Council on Press Freedom Day
The motivation to declare May 3 Press Freedom Day was to sensitise governments on the monumental importance of freedom of the press and to remind them of their duties to respect and uphold the right to larger issues of freedom of expression which, it...
GIDEON NKALA 04 May 2010
'Khama and the court jesters'
He must have borrowed this from his predecessor, Festus Mogae, who does not only have the gift of the gab, but commands a sense of humour to match any stand-up comedian with which he holds his audiences spellbound. Had the retired president taken...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Brewers unveil special programme for small farmers
Project Thusanang aims to benefit Batswana by forging mutually beneficial relationships with small-scale subsistence farmers by sourcing grain locally, according to the communications manager of the two companies,s Mokoro Ketsitlile. Kitsitlile says...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff writer 04 May 2010
Outcry as BNFYL elections are postponed again
The elections were not held last weekend in Kanye as planned. This is the second such postponement, after the polls also failed to take place last month in Mochudi. Councilor Thomas Kgethenyane told Mmegi that the central committee influenced the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Over 20 DTEF employees redeployed
According to the principal public relations officer, Nomsah Zuze, the employees have been redeployed to other departments while investigations continue. "Going back to work does not mean that the investigation is complete. The investigation is still...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Mohwasa calls it quits
In a statement released to Mmegi yesterday, Mohwasa indicated that he will not be contesting the upcoming elections during the July congress in Mochudi. "I have come to the hard decision not to defend my position in the coming congress. I came to the...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
BDP hires PR manager
BDP's first PR manager is Gaborone-based attorney, Segaetsho Garekwe, whose appointment takes effect from May 1. Until his appointment, Garekwe was the BDP National Elections Strategy Team (NEST) coordinator. "As a party operative, Garekwe has the...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Govt fails to comply with court order
During his trial at the Village Magistrate's Court before Regional Magistrate Lot Moroka, the inmate, George Vingaso notified the court of his status and the need to be enrolled on ARV therapy. Despite a court order being issued by Moroka that the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
All should respect the media
While Botswana is yet to experience a member of the media fraternity killed for doing their job, we are worried by the spate of defamation suits against the media. We are concerned at government's increasing attempts to muzzle the media. When photo...
04 May 2010
As I See It
Botswana workers, at least those organised in trade unions, commemorated May 1 with the rest of the world where May Day continues to rally the working class for solidarity around the slogan of, "An injury to one is an injury to all!" Batswana are...
Michael Dingake 04 May 2010
Africa boom lures investors as growth set to double
Bankers may make up the largest group of delegates as they look to profit from an economy expanding at double the pace of rich nations and a market that has just surpassed 1 billion people. Banks like Barclays and Standard Chartered Plc aim to be...
04 May 2010
BMC competition comes to an end
In the end, 34-year-old Moses Kabo Mmileng, a teacher at Seepapitso Senior Secondary School, emerged the winner after only four people reached the finals. The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) competition, which the parastatal characterises as a...
JOYCE GREY
Correspondent 04 May 2010
BTC rolls out Nteletsa II
Nteletsa II, as the project is known, is a spawn of the government's Rural Telecommunications Development Programme aimed at providing communities with access to telecommunications services. These include voice, data and Internet services. This...
STAFF WRITER 04 May 2010
Headhunt for Bifm CEO reaches 'final stages'
Early last month, Bifm's parent company, Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited, announced that Senye would be redeployed to the property division, marking the end of his five-year tenure at the helm at Bifm. Last week, BIHL Chairperson Batsho...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Selefu 04 May 2010
04 May 2010
Times Square bomb attempt sparks US manhunt
"We were lucky it didn't detonate," the New York police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, told a press conference. "In my judgment, it would have caused casualties, a significant fireball. I'm told the vehicle would have been cut in half." The bomb failed...
04 May 2010
Medieval African possibly found buried in Britain
Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died. "I believe that this is the first physical evidence of...
04 May 2010
Malema equality hearing rescheduled
"There was a direction by the presiding officer of the court and it was removed from the roll for today," said Afriforum legal manager Willie Spies. The delay was due to the unavailability of the different legal teams and could also be due to...
04 May 2010
Top UN man investigates massacre claims in DR Congo
John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said on a visit to the country that an investigation was under way. If the claims are true it would bring the number of people killed between December and March to more than 500. Holmes said rebels from the...
04 May 2010
At least 45 dead in Somalia mosque attack
The mosque is in the heart of Mogadishu's Bakara Market, a stronghold of Al-Shabaab, the militant group waging a war against the government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law. The bloody incident took place about 1 p.m.,...
04 May 2010
Iraq election: Baghdad vote recount under way
The incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Maliki called for the recount in the province, saying the electronic system of counting was flawed. The election was narrowly won by Maliki's rival Iyad Allawi and his Iraqiyya bloc, but neither got a big enough...
04 May 2010
Back Stage
Shoeshine (1946) a.k.a Sciusciˆ (Ragazzi)" is being shown today only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School by the Gaborone Film Society. It is the first of four classic films from Italy during May. Sciusciˆ (Ragazzi) is an early...
Sasa Majuma 04 May 2010
By-2 has disbanded
The members of the group, which was formed in 2004, were Connie Baepanye and Lekwalo Thobega. Speaking in an interview in Gaborone over the weekend, Thobega told Showbiz that the group in fact disbanded last year. "We have given up on...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 04 May 2010
Skhokho back with Grootman
The glaring statistics however, seem not to have disturbed S'khokho, a local kwaito musician also going by the name of Mapetla. He has just dropped his third album, the first in three years, hoping to re-ignite the local scene yet again with...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Top 16 selected for Miss Botswana finale
The fashion show saw 25 Miss Botswana aspirants battling for the 15 places reserved for the beauties set to battle it out at the finale. The show kicked off with an electrifying performance by Kgotla 'Juju Boy' Ntsima of Hurt Me fame. As always,...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
Sabure's return to boost Olympiad squad
She has been reluctant to take part in Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) activities in the past three years because of the poor treatment she has received from the BCF is handling a person of her status. As a result, Sabure missed the last Olympiad in...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 04 May 2010
One-on-one with Terrence Mandaza
Mmegi Sport: Congratulations on winning the league title. How do you feel about that? Terrence Mandaza: Thanks man. It feels good to have won a league title in a foreign land. I'm so happy to have won this title with Rollers. MS:...
04 May 2010
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