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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 31 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...
31 May 2010
Fighting fire with fire: the Khama response to crisis
Leaders come with different style, demeanor and manner. Some are 'soft' to the extent of being viewed as weaklings while others are abrasive in the extreme and are viewed as outright dictators. Within this continuum, are Lions and Foxes, according to...
31 May 2010
Press freedom - the midwife of democracy
Thomas Jefferson, the former president of the United States and author of that country's Declaration of Independence in 1787 had this to say about newspapers: "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people the very first object should...
31 May 2010
Gaborone speaks
Mmegi: What is your full name?Gaborone: Olebile Marakadu Gaborone.Mmegi: What does Marakadu mean?Gaborone: It refers to ant bears (Thakadu tse dintsi).Mmegi: Are you married?Yes. I also have four children who are now grown ups.Mmegi: Are you a...
31 May 2010
Decolonising the mind: What's in a language?
The mastery of language has intricate links to a people' identity; what they perceive about themselves and the core of who they are. What is clear about this line of thought is that the more you speak your language, the more you better understand...
31 May 2010
Rape; a sad reality in our society
"I knew the guy who raped me when I was 17 years old- what they call acquaintance rape - and although I did have a crush on him, I wasn't ready to have sex with him. I had always heard about rape victims who became afraid of men and did not want to...
TUDUETSO TEBAPE 31 May 2010
John Makgala, UB Associate Professor
The 39 year old who describes himself as a middle-aged man says; "I am just passionate about writing and research. I believe in back breaking hard work and iron self discipline." Makgala has moved through the ranks since he joined the University as a...
31 May 2010
BNF congress 2010 - back from the brink or deeper into the morass?
However, congress offers the party members the distinct opportunity to rebuild their organisation which was plunged into a crisis by the current leadership. This congress comes at time when the fortunes of the organisation were dealt a body blow by...
31 May 2010
The 'what ifs' of opposition cooperation after BMD
Three weeks later, Botswana Congress Party spokesperson and presidential hopeful, Dumelang Saleshando, told Mmegi, "We need cooperation. It's in both our interests. We need each other, but I think a total merger, though desirable, I don't think we...
31 May 2010
The greatest gift to humanity is the possibility to belong
Men and women who make our societies live in special permutations of wards, villages, towns and cities. We belong first to immediate families, then to clans, nations, regions, continents and, unfortunately too, to races. Surely Sidney Pilane belongs...
31 May 2010
Eland, the lovable and easily reared giant antelope
There is even a Setswana idiom that goes 'moseka phohu ya gaabo ga a swe lentswe' loosely meaning that if one has a rightful claim over something, he should never give up despite all hurdles. Curiously, our forebearers chose to use a wild animal in...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
My fateful encounter with pre-enclampsia
I think when peoaple experience something traumatic they immediately shut down and feel like they are alone, want to be alone and ask impossible questions to answer like 'why me?'. I am saying this because about a month ago I was pregnant, planning...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Our Heritage
We are glad to bear our testimony to the justice and courtesy we have at all times experienced at your hands, and to the uprightness and honesty of all your business transactions. Touching your people, we must say that we have found them civil,...
SANDY GRANT 31 May 2010
Pink Hitler' advertisement upsets Sicilians
The posters were put up in the city of Palermo in Sicily, with the caption: "Change your style.Don't follow your leader". The swastika on Hitler's armband has been replaced by a heart. But the local association of wartime resistance fighters said the...
31 May 2010
First human 'infected with computer virus'
The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets. In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control...
31 May 2010
Facebook privacy settings to be made simpler
The company said it will post the details on its blog. Facebook faced a barrage of criticism from users over a series of tweaks that left its members unsure about how public their information had become. Some profile owners have threatened to quit...
31 May 2010
Zille flays Zuma
Zille fired a salvo at the African National Congress(ANC) leader for his failure to manage the party's Youth League, which she says has vowed to make Cape Town, a DA stringhold, ungovernable. Zille also accused President Zuma of creating a...
31 May 2010
Tsvangirai orders revision of indigenisation law
Last month the government gazetted the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (General) Regulations 2010, which say that by mid-April all businesses must give the state details on the racial composition of their shareholdings. The directive wants...
31 May 2010
Predatory crimes - contemporary
In essence, it is the way we present ourselves to organised criminals that makes us victims. It is critical that the concept of organised crime is unpacked and properly delineated. This would arguably make it easy for law enforcement to develop the...
JACKSON MADZIMA
Correspondent 31 May 2010
DK remains the BDP's living nightmare
President Ian Khama has a serious dilemma. All around him there is noise about the BDP breaking up. And it is while his lieutenant, Vice President Mompati Merafhe, maintains that the BDP need not worry as only "four people have left" that over 2,000...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Do-it-yourself genetic illusions
Since the first personal genetic tests became available on the Internet three years ago, critics have raised concerns about their potential impact on patients and families, along with their accuracy. Some say that the tests are "genetic horoscopes,"...
31 May 2010
Stand by the one you love
You see, I tend to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. A problem is never just 'a problem,' it's always a disaster. All through my ups and downs, however, I have had the support of people who love me and have my best interests at heart-...
TUDUETSO TEBAPE 31 May 2010
Who is the lion, who is the elephant?
BOBONONG: Matshekge Senior Secondary School multi purpose hall was packed to capacity with both blue and white collar workers employed in the Public Service in Bobirwa. The sheer mass of workers was impressive; although the collective force and...
MOTELEBANE MOTELEBANE 31 May 2010
Of Khama and the vicious remarks
FRANCISTOWN: Whenever President Ian Khama is faced with dissenting voices, particularly from his opponents and from the media, he tends to retaliate with the use of vitriol and vicious propaganda. He usually does so, perhaps, in order to cast...
31 May 2010
Murder Suspect Acted In Self-Defence, Lawyer
Taimu told the court that on the day of the incident in July 2009, Ntwaagae was choked by her boyfriend Pule Letota using a black scarf that the accused was wearing. The State is alleging that Ntwaagae murdered her boyfriend Letota with an axe after...
Isaiah MorewagaeStaff Writer
and Mpho Tlale
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Mochudi Police Accused Of Colluding In Floggings
A 56-year-old man, Tselapedi Mooketsi who was whipped at the Mochudi Kgotla last year, has accused the police of exposing him to a "kangaroo court" that subjected him to the severe beating. Mooketsi is suing the police for P75,000 over this matter....
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 31 May 2010
SPTC To Phase- Out Pit Latrines By December
Speaking during the full council meeting held last week, Mayor, Lekang Mukokomani said the construction of sewer lines and pump stations in different parts of Selebi-Phikwe have been completed and the project was handed over to the council in April....
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 31 May 2010
The VIPs Were Invited-Nyeku
Nyeku refuted allegations by the Francistown District Commissioner (DC) Richard Oaitse, in the public media, that the people kicked out of the meeting were not invited. " I want to take this opportunity to apologise to the public of Francistown and...
Ryder Gabathuse
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
BDP Believes That 'BMD Is No Threat'
Part of the agenda for this tour is to inform democrats that Wynter Mmolotsi has been expelled from the BDP and is no longer their representative. The two will also be checking the condition of the party structures in Francistown South and other...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Molefhi BDP Loyalty Questioned
Molefhi is the Selebi-Phikwe East Member of Parliament and also the Minister of Lands and Housing. Sesame/Kagiso ward councillor, Tebogo Matlhogonolo said Molefhi phoned him and told him the press conference should not go ahead as councillors had...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Letlhabile Buzzes With BMD Launch
This is where, last weekend, the embattled Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) held their first council meeting since some members broke away to form a new party. Ironically, a week later, it is the new breakaway party, the Botswana Movement for...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Tonota North By-Election Beckons
The former Minister of Finance and Development Planning was MP for Tonota since 2004. He first made it to Parliament in 1999 when he was also appointed Finance Minister as a specially elected MP until 2009. It was only after last year's...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 31 May 2010
BMD Skypes And Twitters, Even Goes Facebook
This seems to be working wonders for the new party evidenced in the massive attendance, especially the youth, at the party's inaugural convention at Letlhabile Primary School in Gaborone on Saturday. Since the announcement of the new party last...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
BMD Can Expect P1m And 2,000 recruits-Moyo
Moyo, the interim treasurer of the BMD, made this promise over the weekend at the new party's first convention in Gaborone. Saying how he will achieve this feat, Moyo said he will work with BMD members across the country to ensure that every...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Baledzi Gaolathe Dies In South Africa
The Nkange born 68 year-old who was Member of Parliament for Tonota North passed away at a Johannesburg hospital, South Africa after a long illness. A great and humble man who came to be known as "MR Briefcase" he served as the Minister of Finance...
Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Khama Can't Toy With BMD - Ntuane
That is what led to the breakaway of the Botswana Movement for Democracy, previously known as the Barata-Phathi faction of the BDP, he told a packed hall at the organisation's convention. Addressing the inaugural convention of the BMD at Letlhabile...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Soul Foods
And granted holidays are not always a person's best way of eating, especially in the cold months. This winter in particular is promising, by all indications already, to be a bitter one. So gear up diet wise and keep healthy and young. Seeing...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 31 May 2010
Talking Musika
Several managers of museums and arts establishments applaud the project. One comments that this should have happened in 1996. Does this say something to the experts on economic management both at the UB and at the Ministry of Finance and...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 31 May 2010
Eunice Bites The Dust
None of the judges gave Eunice a vote to stay in the race but rather preferred that Kgalalelo Abotseng and Stephanie Johnson who were up for eviction remain. Mokwena was not a newcomer to the show as this was her second time trying her luck in the...
Mpho Tlale
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Johwa's Album A Sizzler
When she went to Domboshaba hills she found a creature with a face of a human being and a body of a large snake under a big rock in the cave. The girl began to sing a song and the creature followed her to the compound and it licked the wound of the...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
My Money
Most of us have fantasised about being rich and famous. Perhaps a company we've invested in may turn out to be a small gold mine, or you may be lucky enough to come into some unexpected inheritance from a long lost uncle nobody knew was still alive....
OLEBILE MAKHUPE 31 May 2010
Zim Bans All Diamond Exports
"I have suspended all diamond exports from Zimbabwe with immediate effect until the issue of the KPCS has been sorted out," Obert Mpofu, the mines minister told the state-owned Herald newspaper. Zimbabwe is yet to get a nod from the Kimberley...
31 May 2010
Tourism Sector To Expand By 5.2% - WTTC
The WTTC - a forum of about 100 chief executives of leading global travel and tourism companies - researches and produces annual country research reports focusing on the impact of travel and tourism activities. In its 2010 report, the WTTC's...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Northern Trade Fair Winds Up
The Fair began last Thursday and was held under the theme, "Global Marketing: A Tool for Sustainable Growth." A total of 136 exhibitors participated in this year's event with some from Pakistan and Zimbabwe. BOCCIM Vice President John Wellio noted...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Diamonds To Drive Botswana Growth To 4.5 Percent-Tibone
Botswana had to turn to the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a $1.5 billion loan to fund a budget deficit of around 13.5 percent of GDP last year after a slump in commodity prices, notably diamonds, squeezed public finances."It's looking...
31 May 2010
OLM And Mupane Scoop Safety Awards
The awards were hosted by OLM at Orapa last Friday. BCM Chairman Balisi Bonyongo who was the guest speaker and presented the awards said that they have come a long way because in the beginning, BCM was not doing much. "BCM has been quite a...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Botshabelo Is No Place To Seek Refuge
Taking a walk in Botshabelo, one might feel as if they are in a war torn country until you see a council van with a Selebi-Phikwe Town Council sticker passing by. That is when you realise that you are in this town. Poverty, unemployment, smelly pit...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 31 May 2010
Handbags Have A Place Next To A Woman's Heart
The contemporary woman has a great sense of fashion, and gone are the days when clothes were the only fashion statement, as other accessories like jewellery, manicures and handbags are also essentials. In an interview with The Monitor, Percia...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 31 May 2010
Why BDP Is Losing Members In Gaborone South
Two Fridays ago at an Old Naledi rally Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) President Ian Khama thanked the residents for voting the party to parliament, helping BDP to reclaim Gaborone South in the 2009 General Elections. He was in a lively mood, after...
31 May 2010
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