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German 'psychic' octopus predicts victory for Spain
Paul, from the Sea Life Aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen, chose a mussel from a jar with the Spanish flag instead of one with a German flag. The two-year-old cephalopod has become a national celebrity. According to his owners, he has...
07 July 2010
Spain reach first World Cup final
Puyol headed home Xavi's 73rd-minute corner after a Spanish onslaught to break a frustrating tactical deadlock and set up a final with Netherlands on Sunday at Soccer City in Johannesburg when new world champions will be crowned. "Our players...
07 July 2010
Octopus Paul does it again
The 'oracle' creature, who lives in Germany, maintained his 100% record of correctly choosing all of his homeland's results in the tournament after opting for Spain in the semi-finals. His prediction came true and the Spanish went through to the...
07 July 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 07 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 07 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...
07 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 07 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 07 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...
07 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 07 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 07 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 07 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 07 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 07 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 07 July 2010
The blood diamond is making a comeback
At the KPCS meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 21-24, Zimbabwe dominated proceedings, and delegates were given a rude reminder of the growing disillusionment when diamond business magnate Martin Rapaport embarked on a three-day hunger strike to...
07 July 2010
Barclays responds to plant depletion owing to basketry
The plants include mokolwane (barchemia discolour euclea divinorum), which has been declining over the years as commercial basket weaving flourished. Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS) says the areas between Shakawe and Gumare in the Okavango have...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Mine recovery uplifts villages
Here, at the confluence of the two villages, which a couple of years ago tussled over the naming of the African Copper holding, lies a copper mine - Mowana mine. I stand here at the gate that leads to the dirty-green heaps of soil and rocks from...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondence 07 July 2010
Giant unions await legal fate
Prior to the ruling made by the judge that the case be heard on Thursday there was a verbal exchange in court between the lawyers representing the two parties. Tshiamo Rantao, representing the unions, argued that since they had been issued with...
STAFF WRITER 07 July 2010
Problems delay compensation payout-Nyeku
Nyeku says due to these problems, there have been delays in the compensation of some people whose yards are affected by the project, noting that the contractor has not been doing things according to plan. "For instance, the contractor should have...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Death row inmates appeal today
Michael Molefe, Kgotso Brandon Samson and Benson Keganne will have to convince a panel of eight judges to spare their lives. The three have representation in attorneys; Ookeditse Maphakwane for Molefe, Duma Boko for Samson and Joao Salbany for...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Murder convict gets respite
A panel of three Court of Appeal judges has granted his lawyer a chance to make an application to the trial court to produce fresh evidence that might overturn the murder conviction. Justices Stanley Moore, Moses Ramodibedi and Craig Howie granted...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer
and MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Produce case record or quash conviction says Mothusi
Mothusi's application follows his long standing appeal which apparently cannot be heard because the case record at the Magistrate court cannot be found. According to Mothusi's attorney of record Lizo Ngconco, his client's rights to a speedy trial...
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Lawyers in near fist-fight in court
Defence attorney, Joao Salbany and state counsel Mosweu Ditodi nearly traded blows after a dispute in the case of Benson Keganne who is appealing his death sentence. Salbany seemed to have been irked by the reluctance of Mosweu Ditodi to...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Guebuza opens Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital
When addressing the gathering, Guebuza commended the government of Botswana for developing modern health facilities. He said that the construction of the hospital would not only meet the health needs of patients but would also be used to train...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Judge wants Boko heard before BNF congress
The matter will come before Justice Moses Chinhengo next Tuesday, possibly spilling over into the next day.Boko and the BNF wanted the matter heard at a later date, after the party's national congress from July 18-20, because they believe it is of no...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Who will be Leader of Opposition?
In the meantime, the Botswana National Front central committee, scheduled to sit during the President's Day holidays, will also be asked to consider who from among its sitting candidates will be suitable for the job, according to publicity secretary,...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Speaker denies BMD recognition
This was after Gaborone West South MP, Botsalo Ntuane, interrupted proceedings one hour 30 minutes after the commencement of the day's business in which no announcement about the new party was made. He argued that the formation and launch of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Two diggers die in pit mishap
The two men, who were at work at the China Jiangsu International site in Broadhurst, Gaborone, perished in front of their shocked colleagues, who tried to rescue them in vain. According to eyewitnesses, the incident happened so fast that no one knew...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Mogae's retirement house has defects
Instead of kicking his heels and relaxing in his retirement house, he is spending most of his time trying to fix problem after problem in both the residential and office blocks of the property. During a visit to his home for a scheduled interview,...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Cabinet should respect Parliament
The minister effectively told legislators that a forensic audit report into Debswana could not be made available to them because it contained "sensitive and confidential information". While the minister is spot on in saying revelation of this report...
07 July 2010
Project Syndicate
JERUSALEM - A few months before he became Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's chief adviser, met with a group of Middle Eastern academics and policy experts, including Arabs and Israelis. With his...
Shlomo Avineri 07 July 2010
Selefu 07 July 2010
07 July 2010
Australia agrees to reduce new mining tax
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had announced plans for a 40% tax on miners' profits. But a compromise agreement negotiated by his successor, Julia Gillard, has now reduced the rate to 30% for coal and iron ore miners. The deal was struck just a...
07 July 2010
Govt borrowing 'still within limits'
Answering a Parliamentary question on Monday, Charles Tibone said at present, government's external debts comprised P10.5 billion owed to the African Development Bank and P1.2 billion owed to the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and...
STAFF WRITER 07 July 2010
Mafenyatlala Mall official opens tomorrow
The Mall, owned by Cash Bazaar Holdings (CBH), started operating towards the end of last year. Some of the tenants at the mall include Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), JB Sports, CB Stores, Cell City, Furnmart, First National Bank, Style Clothing,...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Batswana spend P30m over W/Cup
Statistics rank Botswana among the top ten spenders in South Africa between June 1 and 20, 2010, a list that also includes some of the world's richest nations. Expenditure by Batswana was 22 percent higher than levels recorded over the same period...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Activist tries to stop stoning sentence
Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty. "Legally it's all over," Ahadi said Sunday. "It's a done...
07 July 2010
Company 'used me' as BEE partner
Calvin Sithole, 47, was left jobless 18 months ago after the company - of which he was a director and shareholder in name only - went into voluntary liquidation. Profits, which the company made and which were due to him, also vanished. Sithole, who...
07 July 2010
Mozambique survey shows high prevalence of HIV/AIDS
"Anything above 5 percent means the country is in a tragic situation. A prevalence rate of 11,5 percent is already twice as much," Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido said in Maputo. The $6-million study conducted by the health ministry and the...
07 July 2010
Somalia is in the hands of al-Qaeda
"Somalia is in the hands of al-Qaeda and extremist groups. The whole issue needs urgent treatment," he told leaders from the six-nation Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) in Addis Ababa. "I would like to tell you that Somalia is...
07 July 2010
Hotness In The Cold donates to Lobatse needy
This year, proceeds from the highly publicised campaign will be donated to the Lobatse Council on Friday (July 9).The campaign started three years ago and proceeds have been distributed to different regions. In 2008 about 10 bags of clothing, food...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Back Stage
Director: David SladeWriters (WGA): Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay) and Stephenie Meyer (novel)Release Date: June 30 2010 (USA) Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Starring: Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke,...
Khayaleku Mpofu 07 July 2010
Bakwena decries inadequate funding
Speaking at the Pitso Ya Ngwao conference held at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC), Bakwena said that as compared to youth and sport, the arts received limited funds. "The budget allocated to the arts from the ministry budget is...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Sports Chat
Finest moment The Zebras pulled a shock 1-0 win in Tunisia to start their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign on a good note. Cape Town Santos' striker, Jerome Ramatlhakwana struck the winner to ensure a historic result. Finest...
Mqondisi
Dube 07 July 2010
CUCSA games kick-off
At least 2,000 athletes from tertiary institutions from nine southern African countries are taking part in 12 disciplines at the games. Hosts Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, Malawi, Angola, Lesotho and Namibia are competing in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 07 July 2010
Guebuza fails to open Lobatse Stadium
Guebuza was supposed to officially open the facility but could not do so due to time constraints, which prompted the authorities to postpone the event. Guebuza was the guest of honour at the official opening of the Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital in...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
Timely boost for Zebras
Orange Public Relations Manager, Karabo Tlhabiwe said the luxury coach would help ease the national team's travel costs. He said the handover of a bus was testimony of their strong bond with the BFA. "If we work together, we will achieve more,"...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 07 July 2010
As I See It
If the Bible is to be believed, the Jews were a thoroughly spoilt nation. Historically they feature as people in Egyptian bondage under the brutal rule of the Pharaohs. The toil, sweat, misery and exploitation of the Jews was in time duly registered...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 07 July 2010
Briton Webb to handle World Cup final
The 39-year-old from Rotherham, in nothern England, has been a Fifa-listed referee since 2005 and the former policeman regularly keeps law and order amongst the top stars of England's Premier League. Webb is widely-regarded as one of Europe's top...
08 July 2010
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