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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 05 July 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 05 July 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...
05 July 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 05 July 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 05 July 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...
05 July 2010
Ghanaian arrested after illegal gold mine collapses
There are fears that an estimated 100 people have been killed in the accident in Dunkwa-on-Offin, central Ghana. At least 15 people survived. Rescue workers are continuing search efforts, but have been hampered by flooding. The West African nation...
05 July 2010
Cabinet okays diamond sales
Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu confirmed the development in an interview with The Herald yesterday. The decision followed his presentation of a report to Cabinet on last week's Kimberley Process Certification Scheme meeting in Tel...
05 July 2010
Mozambique authorities deny trafficking report
"The Mozambican police have no information about this case," said spokesperson Pedro Cossa at a media conference in the country's capital, Maputo. "We have spoken with our South African colleagues. They don't know anything about the case."...
05 July 2010
Hurricane Alex churns toward Mexico, Texas coasts
The National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded the storm to a Category 1 hurricane - the least powerful type - shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday after measuring sustained winds of 121 kph. Alex became the first June hurricane in the Atlantic since...
05 July 2010
Nigerians angry at oil pollution double standards
But occurring over the 50 years since oil production began in the Delta, this environmental disaster has never received the attention that is now being paid to the oil-spill catastrophe hitting the U.S. Gulf coast. "The whole world is trembling and...
05 July 2010
Rwanda's Hutus live in fear
With his assailants just metres away, Mani Uwimana jumped up and fled, startling the attackers and becoming a survivor of what appears to be an assassination campaign targeting Rwandan dissidents at home and abroad. International rights groups have...
05 July 2010
A hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV
John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep....
05 July 2010
New row over colonial past as Congo marks independence
The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has received a facelift for today's military parade, but the anniversary has triggered a rancorous debate about the colonial record of Belgium, where a campaign is under way to prosecute ageing...
05 July 2010
Taliban attack NATO base in Afghan
Gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades. There were no NATO casualties. The attack came a day after US General David Petraeus warned of an "industrial strength insurgency" in the country. Gen Petraeus, who is set to take over...
05 July 2010
The unaccountable G-8
So let's make our own account of how the G-8 did. The answer, alas, is a failing grade. The G-8 this year illustrates the difference between photo-ops and serious global governance. Of all of the G-8's promises over the years, the most important was...
*JEFFREY D. SACHS 05 July 2010
My trip to Egypt
A writing friend had posted a link to a site about an international writers' residency in El Gouna on Facebook and, on a whim, I applied thinking I hadn't a chance since writers from all over the world would be applying. To my surprise, a few months...
LAURI KUBUITSILE 05 July 2010
Thaaka! It's Kenneth Koma's "Mene-mene tekel upharsin!"
Koma always maintained that the BDP was held together by Go Ja meaning that they were welded together by corruption and their love of ostentation, and that party's leadership propensity to covert state funds for private ends. Koma maintained that in...
KEINEETSE KEINEETSE 05 July 2010
Our Heritage
This particular post card, one of a series extending back to Independence, has been long out of print but to my astonishment, emerged from obscurity as an item placed on sale on e-Bay - my thanks to the kind friend who made the discovery and...
Sandy Grant 05 July 2010
Reminiscences on "my Malawi holiday"
We only had one heavy downpour when we were in Malawi, at the Dedza Pottery along the Mozambique border, an hour south of Lilongwe-we'd just started out on a walk and could see it coming, so turned back. Malawi is not called the "Warm Heart of...
SHELDON G. WEEKS
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Governments urged to introduce traditional treatment methods
For instance, a recent summit held in Nairobi, Kenya confirmed there is efficacy and substance in the traditional medicines, especially in the treatment of malaria. This is further reducing marathon controversies around introducing naked roots and...
VICTOR MULANGISI
Correspondent 05 July 2010
A new San organisation
Basarwa announced on Friday that they hope to work with government to educate their people on their rights as well as empowerment initiatives for their development. Xukwri Dako, a member of the organisation's committee says they view the government...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
Anand: crackdown on wild drinking
But it saddens me that there's more to alcohol than enjoying a pint of Old Speckled Hen outside a country pub.I am deeply concerned by the profound, negative impact that alcohol misuse is having on society. Most people drink alcohol in moderation,...
Rooney Anand 05 July 2010
Cresta smiles upon Camphill
The hotel donated 766 pillows, 424 towels, 319 bed sheets, 34 throws and 119 mattress covers to the school, which houses 59 students. The school, which opened its doors in 1974 with 20 students, offers hostel accommodation and education to pupils...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
The mother Theresa of Rankoromane
The adage 'disability is not inability' can never be made truer than by this 30 year-old special-needs teacher at Camphill School in Otse, as she simply sees them as having abilities different from other people; as some of these people can sweep...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
'how can we help you' - FNB
FNB Riverwalk branch, under the slogan, "How can we help you", in collaboration with Wesbank, handed over the community relief creche that is part of the BRNUS centre after revamping it. The creche is part of the centre that takes care of people who...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Batsile laid to rest
Batsile died last week after succumbing to a long illness. Speakers at his funeral showered him with praise and described him as a hard worker. Speaking on behalf of Parliament, Palapye MP, Moiseraela Goya described Batsile as a loving and hard...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Professor Tlou buried and celebrated
Hundreds of mourners, including UB academics attended the funeral. The funeral service was conducted at the Lutheran Church in Extension 12. UB held a service for him on Friday. Speakers at the funeral service included UB vice-chancellor,...
Lekopanaye Mooketsi
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Nthwalang teachers accuse head of embezzling funds
According to one of the teachers, trouble started last year when the school was undergoing some major maintenance after being fully taken by the government. The school head, Busboy Kesupile allegedly auctioned some old items that were removed from...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
UK beer brewer shares Khama's sentiments
While the local beer brewer and the alcohol industry continue to cry foul over legislation to curb binge drinking, one of the largest brewers in the UK on 1 July called for exactly the same laws that Khama introduced in 2008 to curb the problem. The...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff writer 05 July 2010
Basarwa hostels are a children's nightmare
The Khwedom Council says rampant escapes from the RADs hostels by Basarwa children are caused by poor planning and failure by the powers that be to understand and appreciate Basarwa culture, among others. Speaking in an interview on Friday, the...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff writer 05 July 2010
Funeral turns into political rally
In a lighthearted session, the politicians engaged in the dirty tricks that win them elections. First to take the podium was Kanye North constituency representative, Molamu Makgosi, who told mourners that the BDP is a bad party. He talked abut how...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Parliament resumes today with less action
It is expected that the Speaker of the National Assembly, Margaret Nasha will receive letters from at least four Members of Parliament (MPs) who are crossing the floor from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party to join the opposition BMD. The current...
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
Boko presidency case postponed
After barring Boko from contesting the BNF presidency at its forthcoming congress, the BNF central committee subsequently gave him the go-ahead to stand. This did not impress the duo of Thuso Mogorosi, Sekgopi Bogatsu, Moses Kajane and Chalido...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 05 July 2010
Respect Basarwa
As we speak, there is a controversy surrounding the very name of the Basarwa. Historians and sociologists referred to the Basarwa as the Khoi-San in the early 1960's. That happened at a time when Africa made a deliberate effort to rediscover...
05 July 2010
The Winners Code
Sumo is a very popular genre of Japanese wrestling. However, British author Paul McGee is his book SUMO For Life popularised a different type of SUMO. He communicates the idea that sometimes life is like a wrestling match in which we are all...
George Chingarande 05 July 2010
Health Chat
Is hot water as hydrating as cold or room temperature water? Why do carbonated (sparkling) waters make me feel thirstier after I drink them? Answer The temperature of water doesn't affect its ability to make up for water losses in your body....
Kiran Bhagat 05 July 2010
Etcetera II
Our first personally received information about the A(HIN1) vaccination campaign was that there were very few people who had turned up for the jab at the DRM Hospital in Mochudi and that the only concern of those doing the jabbing was to discover if...
Sandy Grant 05 July 2010
Celebrating diversity and inclusiveness in the age of consent
It upheld one of the primary principles of natural justice, 'right to consent' and restored the dignity and rights of millions of those whose existence in the society was not even acknowledged. Needless to say that while it was a result of a long...
* Medha Patkar 05 July 2010
Issues In Education
They noted a number of concerns that related to aspects of university life and practice that might be undermining the achievement of objectives. These were arranged alphabetically. So far comments on absenteeism, alcohol, assignments, male...
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S.Weeks 05 July 2010
From "Les Blues" to "The Blues"
It would be tempting to attribute to football a "mapping" of the emotional state of the world. Asia is doing less well in the World Cup than it is doing in economic terms, yet it is definitely progressing, compensating for the current lack of...
05 July 2010
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Top EU court backs deal to drop case vs De Beers
De Beers, the world's leading diamond producer, agreed in 2006 to phase out rough gem purchases from Russian state-owned diamond miner Alrosa over the next two years in an effort to ease concerns that the transactions could stifle competition. The...
05 July 2010
SA economic recovery tenuous - Gordhan
However, the net growth trend was intact and the soccer World Cup was an opportunity to further boost the economy after last year's contraction, he told Reuters. South Africa's purchasing managers index fell below the key 50 mark in June, signalling...
05 July 2010
My Money
Last week we discussed the concept of bonds and who issues them. Bonds offer an alternative method for corporations or governments to raise funds from individuals, investors and general members of the public without necessarily transferring...
Olebile Makhupe 05 July 2010
Gope project springs back to life
UK mining house Gem Diamonds acquired the Gope project from De Beers in 2007 and, under a new retention licence, spent most of 2008 updating various technical and geological studies, as well as successfully conducting a Social Environmental Impact...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
Mining propels GDP to 4.1%
GDP is a primary health indicator of an economy that shows the total market value of goods and services produced in a country in a year. "Real Gross Domestic Product increased by 4.1 percent in March 2010, compared to the revised 15.4 percent...
Brian Benza
Staff writer 05 July 2010
Mowana mine's output improving, reports African copper
The mine had produced 6,4-million tons of copper concentrate in the fifteen months ended March 31, 2010, with African Copper noting that production levels had further improved in May and June, as a result of the end of the rainy season and the...
05 July 2010
ABSA'S bid for Bank Gaborone fails
In a statement, Namibia's central bank said it had block a offer by South Africa's ABSA to gain control of Capricorn Investment Holdings, which has a 72 percent shareholding in Bank Windhoek and a 88 percent stake in Bank Gaborone, citing concern...
Brian Benza
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
Where is St Louis 24?
The non-alcoholic St Louis 24 was launched in December 2008 as a brand extension of the long established alcoholic lager, St Louis. The beer quickly became a common site in many liquor outlets around the country and even in supermarkets alongside...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 05 July 2010
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