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Match Day Seven
Argentina 4 - South Korea 1 Gonzalo Higuain scored the tournament's first hat-trick as the south Americans demolished South Korea in an entertaining match at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg. The result means that Argentina is through to the...
Thalefang Charles 17 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...
17 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...
17 June 2010
Would Boko be the cornerstone that the builder overlooks?
I was outraged when I heard the Botswana National Front central committee had decided to bar one of the contestant for the office of presidency. My immediate reaction was to cry wolf thinking that it was an elbowing kudo of the incumbents. But...
17 June 2010
A tribute to Howard Head
He was only 48 years old when he passed on and like his mother, he died relatively young. In 2007, multitudes of Bessie Head fans and scholars converged on the capital of the Bangwato to celebrate what would have been Head's 70th birthday and...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer and TOM HOLZINGER
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Our Heritage
The unlamented past, in a nutshell, is dead and to be permanently buried whilst today and tomorrow is popularly seen as the new dawn. Is there a belief that the traditional home, being 'made' of earth, wood and grass or reeds was only a variation of...
SANDY GRANT 17 June 2010
Football Football is war
The late Rinus Michels, also known as "the General," coach of the Dutch team that narrowly lost to Germany in the 1974 final, famously said, "Football is war." When the Dutch had their revenge in 1988 and beat Germany to go on to become European...
IAN BURUMA 17 June 2010
BMD for the middle class, maybe, but it is no 'opposition' yet
Middle class? Yes, in the language if the spokespersons of capitalism who prefer the method of 'social stratification' to differentiate the various economic groupings that their preferred mode of production creates, refer to this economic layer...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 17 June 2010
Instability in Botswana's labour movement - an inside view
"Beware of the wedge-driver, the man who creeps from ear to ear, carrying a bag full of wedges, driving them in between you and the next man, between one group and another, a man who goes round creating splits and divisions. Beware of the wedge...
17 June 2010
Tumie Finds Solace In The Media
Tumie is not only a presenter with YaRona FM but she also presents a TV show, and is also editor of the life style magazine, Flair. However, despite her achievements Tumie is not one to blow here own trumpet. She co-presents the YaRonaFM breakfast...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Mazebedi: The Dapper Dresser Who Suffers From The Art Bug
A dapper who dresses flashily in African print and trendy suits, he was in the civil service for 30 years when in May 2005 the drawing bug bit him so hard he had to let go and set up ALBJ Enterprises, a company he is using as a vehicle of "bringing...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Nurses' Dress Lets The profession Down
They are members of a profession that has, and continues, to be punctuated by caring and abundance of love for patients. They are indeed professionals whose presence makes human life complete. These professionals are nurses. Be that as it may, one...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 17 June 2010
The state of democracy in Botswana
Democracy has presented a great definitional challenge to writers on the subject, leaving it open to numerous interpretations that have given many including less than democratic regimes an opportunity to claim to be democratic. In this piece, an...
GABRIEL MALEBANG
Correspondent 17 June 2010
As I See It
The Fourth estate never has the luxury of nestling snugly on the ruling party executives' bosom, only the state media is so indulged. The ruling party politicians are the same everywhere including the oldest parliamentary democracy, Great Britain.In...
Michael Dingake 17 June 2010
Let us be a nation in dialogue
This is clearly a diversion from Setswana proverbs like "Mahoko a kgotla a mantle otlhe" and "Mmualebe o a bo a bua la gagwe", which for many years have guided national dialogue. There has also been a shift in terms of how we do things amongst...
17 June 2010
Towards a new African leadership
As the publication has been gracious enough to admit, it was wrong. Many things have been extremely hopeful in Africa over the last decade. Growth has outpaced the rest of the world. World beating businesses have emerged and, given...
MO IBRAHIM 17 June 2010
A security strategy for the 21st Century
As with the politics pursued in the Obama administration's 16 months of office - dialogue, international commitment, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament - the document's strength lies in the position that it takes. The Security Strategy is a...
JAVIER SOLANA 17 June 2010
Opposition youth commemorate children's day
The Botswana Congress Party (BPC), Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and Botswana National Front (BNF), who have now adopted a unity slogan, "Kgololesego ya Botswana wa Rona ka Kopano, celebrated this day under the theme 'Education is my...
MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 17 June 2010
35 in court over land deals
The 35, comprising government employees, ordinary members of the public as well as businesspeople are accused of corrupt dealings in the acquisition of land under the Department of Lands and Housing. The properties include 85 plots in Francistown as...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Headmaster fears for measles attack
Thapedi says the children have developed rashes and they started to think that it could be measles. "The students started developing rashes and we thought the symptoms could be those of measles but we did not want to make conclusions until the lab...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Lotsane school student gets electric wheelchair
Oabona Mogale of Lotsane Senior Secondary School has been permanently confined to a wheelchair after an operation that went wrong in 2008. The 19 year-old girl underwent surgery to correct a growth on her back but unfortunately, the operation did not...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Streamline laws on children - Ndadi
BONELA Director Uyapo Ndadi voiced the concerns during the commemoration of The Day of the African Child (June 16) in Ramotswa yesterday. Ndadi pointed out that the law says children aged seven years and below are not criminally liable. "What it...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Bail retained for car racket co-accused
Magistrate Nuru said Mbatandarara Sanity Rute, unemployed, Sani Ehee Rute, a sales consultant at Gwenhamo Holdings and Boyce Motshegetsi Gabankang, also a sales consultant at Gwenhamo Holdings would not have their bail conditions tampered with as...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Our Heritage
My concern today is with the former which was described with breathtaking brevity by the Museum as a) a rain making pot and b) as being donated by Kgosi Linchwe II. Because this artifact, which must be one of the country's major cultural possessions...
Sandy Grant 17 June 2010
BDP to hold primary elections for Tonota North
The BDP spokesman, Segaetsho Garekwe confirmed that they are going to stage primary elections to choose a candidate who will represent them in the subsequent by-election. However, he said, they have not set the date for the primary...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Fire at Kagisong Centre halts business
The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in the upstairs storeroom of Sheet Street which trades in bedding. Shops had not yet opened at the time of the incident and fire fighters had to break into the ceiling to put out the fire. Station...
MPHO TLALECorrespondent 17 June 2010
Govt blacks out private media
In the latest incidents, this past Monday, Sipho Madisa, President Ian Khama's private secretary barred the MidWeek Sun newspaper from covering a meeting between the president and England's Prince Harry. On the same day the Gaborone City Council...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Vultures: the despised cleaners of the environment
Unlike their cousins - the more majestic birds of prey - the vultures are associated with death although they are rarely ever the cause of it because they mostly eat whatever they find already dead. It is therefore not surprising to see that there...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
OP should come clean on media blackout
It is surprising how government can continue to unabashedly deal with the private media in the way that it is doing. The government has always complained that the private media is hostile to its agenda. Let us agree that any government has as...
17 June 2010
Why did the North Korean soccer player cry at the World Cup?
Just two days ago I had the privilege of watching the North Korea versus Brazil World Cup game. I had made up my mind before the game that I will rally behind North Korea because it was evident that already there was a stampede on the side of...
17 June 2010
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17 June 2010
Oil price jumps on recovery hopes
US light crude rose by more than $2, or 3 percent, a barrel, to $75.90, before slipping slightly. Brent was up $1.8 a barrel to $76.13, before falling back. Strong eurozone industrial production figures helped to push stocks higher in Europe and,...
17 June 2010
Eskom appoints new CEO
Dames, an Eskom veteran of more than 20-years' standing, was always the favoured internal candidate to get the job, which was controversially left vacant by Jacob Maroga in November last year, following a stormy board meeting in late October. Ahead...
17 June 2010
BHC fine-tunes planned P2-billion bond
The final touches include engaging an investment adviser to assist in the technicalities of developing a bond, then appointing one of the country's four sponsoring brokers to produce documents required by the Botswana Stock Exchange for the floating...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Power tariffs fuel inflation
Figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) this week show that the group index that includes Housing, Water & Electricity was the highest climber for the month due to the average 30 percent power tariff increase. "Three group...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
Obama vows to 'make BP pay' for oil spill damage
Obama said he would meet company executives later and tell them that they must set up a fund to compensate those affected by the spill. He described the spill as an assault on the shores and citizens of the US that tested the limits of human...
17 June 2010
Donors spend $9,3m on Somali piracy cases
Although a coalition of international navies spends millions of dollars each year to patrol the pirate-infested passageway along Somalia's coast, the UN drug agency's Alan Cole said on Tuesday that the money will help cash-strapped countries like...
17 June 2010
Renewing the promise of education for all
It's temporary, of course: the winter holiday has been extended so schools are closed during the month-long tournament. But there are 43 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who are truly unable to attend school, according to the United Nations...
17 June 2010
Zim blames EU for holding up talks
"It seems to suggest to us that the EU has never taken this dialogue seriously at all," Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said after meeting with Portugal's Deputy Foreign Minister, Antonio Braga, the state-run Herald newspaper reported. "They...
17 June 2010
Ethiopia opposition mounts court challenge to election
The ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and allies won 545 seats in the 547-member Parliament last month, giving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in power since 1991, another five years in charge. The country's biggest...
17 June 2010
Speedy justice in World Cup courts
Faced with a barrage of questioning over security in the run-up to the tournament as persistent as the drone of vuvuzelas, the host nation has pulled out all the stops to shake its image of a criminal haven. Apart from deploying 41 000 police...
17 June 2010
Mos Syde vow to revive Miss Universe Bots pageant
The entertainment company said its aim is to make the show more corporate-oriented than entertaining one. The event will be held at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) on June 25 and guests will include industry captains and top...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Busi Mhlongo,queen of modern Zulu music,dead at 62
KwaZulu-Natal arts and culture minister Weziwe Thusi said she had visited Mhlongo a few weeks ago and "hoped and prayed" she would pull through. She was 62. "I am really sad, but she is in a better place now," said Thusi. "Mhlongo will be...
17 June 2010
UK royals visit Mokolodi Nature Reserve
The most important charity of which they are royal patrons is the Tusk Charity, an organisation that supports, educates and preserves nature across Africa. The royal trip of the game reserve started at the education centre where they were given a...
KHAYALETHU MPOFU
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Lister works on second album
The sax maestro intends to record his second album that he is currently working on before the end of the year. The soft-spoken musician confirmed to Showbiz that he would be going to the studio around September. Since the release of...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Dunga expects better from Brazil
Second-half goals from Maicon and Elano gave Brazil a 2-0 lead before Ji Yun-nam's 88th-minute strike set up a nervous final few minutes. "The start is the most difficult match, you have a long wait for this and the anxiety builds up," said...
17 June 2010
Comets appeal for sponsorship
The dire financial position has seen the club fail to honour fixtures and keep players. Club secretary, Malebogo Matome told Mmegi Sport that they have been reduced to a development side that groom players who then leave for other clubs which have...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 June 2010
We are ready - Mangope
Mangope said they have played friendly games against local clubs and this has helped them to identify weaknesses. The team was supposed to play South Africa in a friendly game. But the South Africans did not honour the fixture. The team departs on...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 June 2010
Match Day Nine
Netherlands 1 - Japan 0 Netherlands moved to closer to booking a point in the last 16 as Wesley Sneijder scored to beat the Japan with a solitary goal at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. The Dutch now leads Group E with six points from two games....
Thalefang Charles 18 June 2010
Anelka kicked out of French squad
Anelka insulted Domenech in a crude manner at halftime of a 2-0 defeat by Mexico on Thursday in Polokwane. "The comments made by Nicolas Anelka towards national coach Raymond Domenech are totally unacceptable for the French Football Federation,...
18 June 2010
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