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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 01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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 01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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...
01 June 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 01 June 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 01 June 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 01 June 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 01 June 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 01 June 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,"...
01 June 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 01 June 2010
Who is the lion, who is the elephant?
The sheer mass of workers was impressive; although the collective force and power was quiet and calm but one saw and felt the potential for explosion, if the force and power were to be unleashed. Comrade Hlabano, president of the Botswana Secondary...
MOTELEBANE MOTELEBANE 01 June 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...
01 June 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 01 June 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 01 June 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...
01 June 2010
Gabs Encroaches On Tribal Land
Towards the end of last year, police had to be called in to control a crowd of plot seekers who almost caused chaos outside the Tlokweng Land Board offices after less than 300 plots were made available for the public to apply for in the tribal area....
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Bakgatla royals miss jail by a whisker
The suspension of the arrest warrant was granted pending a hearing to be conducted this morning, in order for Moroka to hear explanations for the absence of the two. Moroka had concluded that the two royals and their co-accused in the criminal case...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA & ISIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Some religions reject Vitamin A supplement-Halabi
Halabi claimed that some religious groups as well as some elite families spurn this government service preferring to administer the vitamin A supplement themselves, if at all. She advised such people that the strengths and formulation of over the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Rapist appeals conviction
Balopi who was represented by his attorney Tshekiso Tshekiso argued that the conviction be set aside on the basis that the trial court failed to find credibility in the complainant's evidence. He further argued that the complainant was not a credible...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 June 2010
BOSETU warns teachers against marking exams
The Chief Executive Secretary of BOSETU, Justin Hunyepa, is reacting to adverts posted recently in newspapers inviting teachers to apply for the post of Junior Certificate Examinations Examiner. Hunyepa says the old dispensation no longer...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Riverwalk suit postponed to August
Lawyers representing all the three parties agreed in chambers that further particulars and documents will have to be provided before the case begins. According to the agreed timeline the plaintiff will have to file declaration statements on June 28,...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
A nightmare for the monarchy
Yesterday morning brought the clearest evidence yet of the painful process that this country is going through - the mortal combat between the remnants of a tradition, in the form of a neo-traditionalist group, and the modern interpretation of this...
01 June 2010
In memory of Baledzi Gaolathe
His career in the public service, particularly at the Bank of Botswana, Botswana Development Corporation and the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning where he served in different capacities and at different times before becoming minister, was...
01 June 2010
As I See It
Party-goers know parties come alive when the guest of honour takes to the floor to lead the dancing. Before the big guy and partner take to the floor, party reveling does not quite begin. Dancing fascinates me, from the rustic to the most...
Michael Dingake 01 June 2010
BMD sets the record straight
It makes a few other incorrect statements, all of which need a response to avoid giving the wrong impression to members of the Movement, and to the nation. * The leader of the BMD is the President of the Movement, who is an elected official. He...
01 June 2010
Recovery may be dented by European crisis-Tibone
The economy will probably expand 4.5 percent this year and 5 percent in 2011, Tibone said in an interview last week in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Ivory Coast. Botswana's economy contracted 6 percent in 2009 following a collapse in diamond...
01 June 2010
Chobe record healthy profits, shares soar
According to a statement accompanying the financial results, Chobe's revenue dropped by 22 percent to P97.3 million on the back of a 34 percent year-on-year reduction in the number of bed nights sold. However, profit for the year went up by 228...
STAFF WRITER 01 June 2010
Govt fast tracks Mozambique fuel negotiations
Botswana hopes that it will soon sign inter-governmental Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Mozambique and Zimbabwe, thus securing fuel supplies, routes and storage facilities from Mozambican ports, through Zimbabwe to Botswana. Already...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Israel boards Gaza-bound ships, 15 dead
As a diplomatic furore took shape, especially with long-time Muslim ally Turkey whose flag some of the ships were flying, an Israeli minister said: "The images are certainly not pleasant. I can only voice regret at all the fatalities."Israeli Trade...
01 June 2010
Lekota: 'I remain the president of Cope'
The vote was taken at the party's national congress in Irene, outside Pretoria, on Saturday. This followed Lekota and his supporters planning an urgent interdict, which stopped the gathering from holding an election. Lekota was adamant...
01 June 2010
Malawi gay couple keep low profile after pardon
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were released late on Saturday, hours after President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned them without condition. But in giving his pardon, which he said was on "humanitarian grounds only", Mutharika warned that...
01 June 2010
Disruption threat to ICC conference in Uganda
Hundreds of opposition youth in Uganda have threatened to disrupt the International Criminal Court (ICC) conference, scheduled to begin today in Kampala, if the court does not take up their petition to see those who were responsible for the alleged...
01 June 2010
Oil complicates forecasts on hurricane season eve
The Gulf is a superhighway for hurricanes that form or explode over pools of hot water, then usually move north or west toward the coast. The site of the sunken rig is along the general path of some of the worst storms ever recorded, including...
01 June 2010
Backstage
The First Year: Five Teachers. 180 Days-Our Children's Future (2004) 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 five films to be shown during June that relate to...
Sasa Majuma 01 June 2010
The night Stampore buzzed with Jazz
On the night Stampore took his vocal delivery to another level as he led a melancholic afro-jazz piece, which also had drums, and bass guitar accompaniments by his backing band. It was not immediately clear whether Stampore's record company would...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Don Laka's Poison in Botswana
The kwai-jazz heavyweight has dropped an earth-conscious album, which he says is a contribution to greening the earth. This has come in handy as 2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity as people all over the world are working to...
MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 01 June 2010
Murray admits he was outplayed
The British number one lost 6-4 7-5 6-3 in a rain-interrupted encounter on Court Suzanne Lenglen that finished in near darkness soon after 9.30pm local time on Sunday. "You can't make excuses about the conditions, they're exactly the same for both...
01 June 2010
Gwandu confirms potential Bucs move
The Pirates' technical team was running the rule over the former Gaborone United (GU) defence stalwart and his teammate Terrence Mandaza in the past week. The duo, who returned to Botswana on Friday, clearly impressed Bucs' coach, Ruudi Krol and are...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 June 2010
FNBB sells 500 World Cup tickets
She added that a significant number of customers who bought their tickets on line redeemed their tickets at the bank, thereby saving themselves the trouble of redeeming them in South Africa. Selaledi said the majority of tickets sold so far have been...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
Tshosane leaves door open despite snub
Tshosane told Mmegi Sport that his intention is to beef up the squad with some former junior players but his plans are being thwarted by players who fail to honour call-ups." We lack quality strikers in the national team and I intended to beef the...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 01 June 2010
Khama to miss World Cup opening ceremony
Madisa told Mmegi Sport that the President leaves for Havana, the Cuban capital, on June 4 and returns on June 13. "The President has been invited (to the opening match), the letter came through. However, due to his state visit to Cuba, he won't be...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 01 June 2010
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