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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 30 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 30 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...
30 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 30 June 2010
What is wrong with the civil service: a custom(er's) perspective
For many African countries functionality in the civil service was greater in the first two decades after independence than the decades that followed. The rot in African civil services set in the mid to late 1970s and accelerated during the 1980s as...
TITUS MBUYA 30 June 2010
State-media relations in Botswana
The 1980s can be regarded as Botswana's decade of economic growth. It was then that the country was upgraded from a low-income to a middle-income country. Several independent newspapers emerged, to all intents and purposes as a spin-off of the...
30 June 2010
Kalamare Looks To ZCC To Save Pupils
In another case, Boitumelo Keitumetse, whose daughter Kamogelo is in Standard 6, and was a habitual victim in January and February, says some pupils had 'provoked her'. "My daughter used to faint and collapse a lot only to say that someone had...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Orapa And Letlhakane Mines Saluted
Ramaribana said this when a team of special education experts from her ministry visited Orapa recently, to conduct an outreach programme for the Boteti region. The team was undertaking assessments on children with special needs in the region, who...
Kesego Kebelaele 30 June 2010
Setswana So Corrupted Yet So Sweet Batswana Love it
Millions must have seen "Ke Nako" emblazoned across a skyscraper in New York and other world-class cities when the ongoing World Cup was being promoted and some wondered, "Hey, what language is that?" It is highly possible the multitudes who came to...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 30 June 2010
Riding On Seretse Khama's Legacy To Boost Tourism
The chairperson of the National Organising Committee (NOC), Keitire Keforilwe Mogasha told The Monitor that the project has been cooking for the last eight years. "We do not have resources, our revenue is sourced from members of the community; each...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff writer 30 June 2010
Crafts Workshop Targets Women
The training comes ahead of the planned construction of three craft shelters where the basket weavers can work during the day and storage to keep their products after completion. These structures, sponsored by the Barclay's Bank are planned for Etsha...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Community Trusts Robbed By Tour Operators - Report
This is contained in the latest Auditor General's report specifically dealing with community-based natural resource management, released recently. The report says violation of the terms of the agreement is more pronounced in instances where the...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Project Syndicate
WARWICK, UK - Is academic freedom affordable in a time of economic crisis? That was the topic for discussion at the annual signing of the Magna Charta Universitatum at the mother of universities, the University of Bologna, earlier this year. The...
Steve Fuller 30 June 2010
The Winners Code
The word perspective has its origin in the latin word perspicere, which when translated means to see through.However, in contemporary English the word is defined as the relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole. Perspective...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 30 June 2010
Foot-and-Mouth disease threatens North East District
These revelations were made by Minister of Agriculture,Christian de Graff, during a special meeting of the Francistown City full council on Monday. De Graff said that the disease was found in cattle in Kitwe, a communal area in the Plumtree...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 30 June 2010
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga 'has head operation'
Neurosurgeon, Oluoch Olunya, who carried out the operation, said he was recovering in Nairobi Hospital."I'd like to assure the country he is actually well," he said. The BBC's, Peter Greste, in Nairobi says Odinga, 65, has been one of Kenya's most...
30 June 2010
Baylor organises football extravaganza
The event will include watching the two teams that will be playing at the World Cup and some players from the national team, popularly known as the Zebras have been invited. The proceeds gathered from the event will go towards the building of an...
MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 30 June 2010
Pregnant drinking 'affects sperm'
In a study of almost 350 young men, sperm levels were a third lower in those whose mothers had drunk more than four drinks a week during pregnancy compared with teetotallers. The Danish researchers told a fertility conference these men may have a...
30 June 2010
High Court orders test for sanity of accused
The state alleges that Boyce Sete, in 2007 at Lerala, wilfully and unlawfully set fire to a house and hut belonging to Joyce Selelo. Sete told court that he was entitled to release because he was not brought to trial after a lapse of six...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 30 June 2010
Cook your meat thoroughly
The potentially fatal disease was recently detected, for the first time in Botswana in aborted cattle feotuses in the Seribe Crush in Ramotswa, according to a press release issued by Director of Veterinary Services, Phillemon Motsu. The viral...
STAFF WRITER 30 June 2010
Botswana, US celebrate cooperation
Speaking at an event in Gaborone to mark the 234th anniversary of the US yesterday, Skelemani said the country has played and continues to play a significant role in the improvement of the social and economic livelihood of Batswana. "Botswana cannot...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
GCC to pay millions as another road sinks
Some sections of the road are beginning to show signs of surface shifting, as did the Nokia Intersection two years ago. The road surface at Nokia traffic lights was redone last year, three years after the construction of the road was...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
BMD paints Francistown orange
Khama's 'mother of all rallies', designed to quell abounding rumours that the BDP was fast losing ground to its newly established nemesis - the BMD, pulled out all the stops staging what they call 'star rallies' to stave off the challenge. By any...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Hospital staff complain about laundry soap
Undercover, Mmegi recently found stacks of condemned linen at the Marina laundry. Several workers complained that the super excel soap fails to remove the stains and dismissed it as too weak to wash clothes. "It is just corrosive like an acid". We...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Khama berates councillors for walking out
Khama has embarked on a series of council meetings where he addresses council leaders with his cabinet.Last week nine councillors walked out on him in protest against the barring of the private media from covering the meeting. Speaking yesterday at...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Eating leaves and lizards to survive in Niger
Famine hit Niger in 1984 and 2005. If you look up "bo" on the Internet, nothing that makes sense comes up. But we were looking at a bo, or rather looking for it. We were walking along the bank of the Niger River, searching for the tracks of a...
CHRIS STEWART 30 June 2010
Goal-line technology a must
Yesterday, the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, acknowledged that his organisation is likely to look into the matter after he apologised about the refereeing blunders that contributed to the England and Mexico losses that drove them out of the World Cup...
30 June 2010
As I See It
Regional Magistrate (South), now High Court judge, Lot Moroka, gave the public a hint of the level of corruption in our country at a workshop of top prison officials in Gaborone recently. He is reported to have estimated that Botswana loses over a...
Michael Dingake 30 June 2010
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30 June 2010
Today's Workspace
Responses to questions posed by readers - continued The answers found below must be read with your peculiarities and prevailing matrix of facts in mind. Further, they should be regarded as general information. Question: I am employed as...
Joseph Masango 30 June 2010
Morupule Colliery seeks funding for P1.7 billion expansion
The colliery's expansion, from its current one million tonne per annum production, involves tapping into the estimated 83 billion tonnes of coal the mine holds within its concession area between Palapye and Serowe. The expansion is necessary to...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
AfDiamonds licensed to sell AK6 production on open market
Speaking at the Botswana Resource Conference that started in Gaborone yesterday, Managing Director James Campbell said Boteti Mine, which is 40 percent owned by African Diamonds and 60 percent by Lucara, has been awarded a licence by the Government...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Pope reprimands cardinal over sex abuse criticism
Schonborn - the archbishop of Vienna, Austria, and a former student of the pope - had said that Cardinal Angelo Sodano had blocked an investigation of sexual abuse charges against a former archbishop of Vienna, according to the Catholic News...
30 June 2010
Malema tender probe still not concluded
"To date, investigations have been conducted at six of the municipalities. The outstanding four municipalities will be attended to during July," it said in a statement. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela initially indicated that an interim report...
30 June 2010
UK journalist held over World Cup intrusion
Cele said a tabloid newspaper reporter had been charged with harbouring a fan who intruded into the England dressing room, and the episode was planned to paint World Cup security in a poor light. Cele also insisted the majority of World Cup-related...
30 June 2010
Guinea counts votes with relief after peaceful election
The campaign chief of Cellou Dalein Diallo, one of the main candidates, meanwhile warned of "irregularities" since Sunday's vote in two out of five Conakry constituencies. Preliminary results in the presidential election are only expected on...
30 June 2010
Burundi slow to cast verdict on Pierre Nkurunziza in vote-turned-referendum
In the first public presidential poll since the end of the civil war, Burundians placed their ballots in a white or black envelope to vote for or against another term for Nkurunziza, 46, who is expected to retain power comfortably. The early turnout...
30 June 2010
Back Stage
Toy Story 3 is a movie perfectly crafted for young boys and girls, yet it is also entertaining for parents to watch, too. The movie is directed by Lee Unkrich and has a plethora of celebrity voices such as Tom Hanks as Woody a Cowboy Toy that lives...
Sasa Majuma 30 June 2010
Mac Dee pays tribute to Penwell
When the talented vocalist died last year, Lentswenyane had to take off from his job at O Zone Club in Lobatse to attend the funeral in Soweto, South Africa Now the DJ, who also doubles as music promoter, has released his album in honour of his...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 30 June 2010
Chinese women mount mouth-watering food fair
The association's consultant, Yurong Sun, told Showbiz that they settled for a food festival because "food does bring people together" and offer attendees an opportunity to think about ways to help the needy who cannot afford three meals a day. She...
STAFF WRITER 30 June 2010
Tshwenyego, the leading and versatile actress
Showbiz had time to talk to this 46-year-old versatile woman from Mochudi who is undoubtedly one of the leading actresses the country has ever produced. Tshwenyego broke into the film industry with a minor role that she played in a local production,...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 30 June 2010
Sports Chat
Finest momentIt was a weekend marred by controversial decisions at the ongoing World Cup in South Africa. But after a contentious opening goal from an offside opposition, Argentinean striker, Carlos Tevez thumped in an unstoppable shot from 25 metres...
Mqondisi Dube 30 June 2010
BFA ropes in HR consultants in CEO recruitment
In a media statement released yesterday, BFA president, David Fani said the human resource company will develop a shortlist of qualified applicants and carry out comprehensive interviews of short-listed candidates. He said the company was...
STAFF WRITER 30 June 2010
Gumbo receives handsome bonus
Although the exact amount could not be established, Mmegi Sport understands that the Zimbabwean coach pocketed P150,000 for winning both the be MOBILE Premier League and the Coca-Cola Cup. Gumbo's contract reportedly states that if he wins any...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 June 2010
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