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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
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 08 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 08 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...
08 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 08 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 08 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...
08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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...
08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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 08 July 2010
The rise of Natale village
Makobo village lies directly across the road. Headman of Natale, Shepherd Pelaelo, 31, told Mmegi that the site of the village used to be farm land for Chadibe residents. He said his great-grandparents moved to the area about 65 years ago. "After...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 08 July 2010
Panic and joy as Boteti River bursts its banks
The river, which has been dry for over two decades, was welcomed by the tribal leader in the village, Diane Jacob who said a fortnight ago that it was going to be a big boost to the economic situation in Rakops and other villages along the river. By...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 08 July 2010
BMD rally in Mochudi this weekend
The party held its debut rally in Francistown last month where artists, Slyzer, Dalom Kids, Machikos and Dan Tshanda from South Africa provided entertainment. Some of the politicians expected to address the rally include interim chairman, Gomolemo...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Wanted: Bissau Gaobakwe
Bissau was due to appear before court yesterday on a traffic related offence. Bissau is alleged to have driven his motor vehicle while unfit to do so due to intoxication. The case has been postponed to July 22 where the court is expected to set trial...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Cervical cancer results may come out sooner-Seakgosing
Currently it takes up to five months to get pap smear results because of a backlog the ministry is experiencing. Reverend Dr John Seakgosing, minister of health revealed that the ministry has strategies to shorten the time period for processing pap...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Police tread lightly on 'negligence' charges
Moyo would not reveal the names of the deceased because the next of kin had not yet been informed. Workers at the site say it was too wet on that day to dig trenches. The men died instantly when the sludge they had excavated from a trench collapsed...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Govt loses union battle
The dispute reached the Industrial Court when affiliates of the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) challenged the government decision to de-recognise them and the federation. Government seemed to be digging deep before the...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA and
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Gaborone pulls out of BNF race and backs Kanjabanga
Speaking at a press conference on Monday to announce he was pulling out of the presidential race, Gaborone said of the two remaining contenders, he prefers Kanjabanga, as his candidature is not marred by controversy. "Kanjabanga has been very...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Modubule demands BNF central committee communicate with him
Modubule was expelled from the party by the BNF central committee and contested the general elections as an independent candidate, where he made history, emerging as the first politician to be elected to Parliament as an independent. However,...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Cluster committees help reduce crime by 50 percent
Speaking at the awarding of certificates to cluster chairpersons at the Selebi-Phikwe Police Station this week Officer Commanding District Number Ten, Senior Superintendent Takongwa Mazwiduma said the reduction in crime would not have been possible...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 08 July 2010
Lindsay sentenced to 90 days in jail
The judge also ordered Lohan to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab programme after her jail term is completed. The actress must begin serving her sentence on July 20, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel said. After Revel ruled...
08 July 2010
Students plan bigger better Setswana Week
One of the pioneers of the project, Segametsi Raguin, told Showbiz yesterday that this year, they saw it fit to give students a chance to organise the event, noting that they will still be helping the students to ensure all-round...
STAFF WRITER 08 July 2010
Chris Manto 7's album spell-binding
The seven-track album is one of the very few that one can listen to from beginning to end without having to skip a track.Tracks in the album carry different messages with title track Shakawe probably carrying the most controversial. Chris Manto 7,...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 08 July 2010
Afro jazz queen Gabasiane releases new album
Well, Gabasiane is just from maternity leave and she has a four-month-old lovely baby girl that she named Segolame Vivian Gabasiane. She has named the baby after her late mother. Gabasiane describes her late mum as an extraordinary...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 08 July 2010
Eskom saves World Cup
The strike could have led to massive economic losses. Considering that South Africa is currently hosting the world's biggest sports spectacle, the FIFA World Cup, the power outages could also have resulted in huge embarrassment and possibly put the...
EDITOR 08 July 2010
Central banking deflowered
The actions looked like a clear contravention of Article 21 of the ECB's Statute, which forbids credit facilities to governments or to European Union institutions. Similar comments were made about the US Federal Reserve in 2008, after it began...
HAROLD JAMES 08 July 2010
Selefu 08 July 2010
08 July 2010
Fault disrupts Seacom internet cable to East Africa
The owners of the Seacom cable said the exact cause of the fault was "still being investigated", but was thought to originate off the Kenyan coast. The cable, finished in 2009, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe...
08 July 2010
China bank on course for record $22.1b IPO
AgBank, the last of China's big state-owned banks to go public, has managed to complete its offering during a period in which global markets have tumbled and dozens of IPOs have been scrapped. The deal highlights investor optimism about Chinese...
08 July 2010
Commission compels Sasol to sell five plants
The deal made with the commission relates to the abuse of market dominance by the company's Sasol Nitro business.Although it was Sasol that suggested the five plants be sold, the agreement has set a precedent for the kind of non-monetary penalties...
08 July 2010
Fuel supply deal with Mozambique 'close'
Petromoc, which purchases and re-sells petroleum products to that country's fuel retailers, is understood to be willing to enter into similar arrangements with Botswana retailers. Yesterday, highly-placed sources in the local fuel sector told Mmegi...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
van Marwijk urges Holland to erase complacency
The Liverpool forward contributed at each end of the pitch as the Dutch edged out Uruguay here [at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa], setting up Arjen Robben's third before scrambling the ball clear in the final seconds to preserve...
08 July 2010
BFA eyes new stadium to host 2015 AFCON
"We will lobby the government to build a fourth stadium which should be bigger than what we already have," he told a media briefing in Gaborone. Currently, the National Stadium and the new Francistown and Lobatse Stadiums are big enough to host...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Inexperience cost Vultures
Gouws stated that the Vultures' side fielded in Zimbabwe was made up of mostly youngsters. He said most of the experienced players were not included in the squad because of injuries. "This was a setback because the younger players need the...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 08 July 2010
Why Zebras played with Puma kit
BFA acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Susan Monametsi told Mmegi Sport that the Zebras were supposed to depart Gaborone on a chartered flight to Tunisia last week on Monday, the day All Kasi was to deliver the kit. But changes in travel...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 08 July 2010
Rwanda summons SA ambassador over shooting probe
Dissident Rwandan general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa survived an assassination attempt in South Africa on June 19, which his wife and some opposition media in Rwanda have blamed on President Paul Kagame's regime. "I have summoned the South African...
08 July 2010
COPE to take Lekota to court
."COPE Gauteng is applying to challenge the constitutionality and validity of a meeting that sat on July 2, which decided that [Mvume] Dandala must be replaced in Parliament by Lekota," said Gauteng chairman John Ngcebetsha. Ngcebetsha said they...
08 July 2010
Biti: Let Zim diamonds shine
We can't pay for electricity, we can't pay for civil servants and yet we are sitting on one of the finest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind Kimberley blocked Zimbabwe's international sales after documenting gross military abuses...
08 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 09 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 09 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...
09 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 09 July 2010
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