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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 15 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 15 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...
15 July 2010
Europe's banks, Europe's crisis
How could this happen when all problems had seemingly been resolved during May's EU summit meeting, which created a European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and ensured total funding of close to $1 trillion? If all the resources promised...
* DANIEL GROS 15 July 2010
BNF's Mohammed Khan speaks out
Mmegi: Which religion do you subscribe to? Khan: I am a Muslim Mmegi: Are you married?Khan: Yes, with four children-two boys and two girls. Mmegi: What are your hobbies? Khan: I love playing tennis and also used to play football. But still...
15 July 2010
Mogae speaks his mind
Mmegi: How are you enjoying your retirement? Festus Mogae: It is very busy, maybe too busy. I am enjoying it because it is busy-like, but it is just a question of time management. As you know I remain the chairperson of the AIDS Council, which meets...
15 July 2010
Moses Segokgo: The Patriot
Segokgo has worked for the Botswana Police for 38 years and is still serving the government but in a different capacity this time. Segokgo is currently working as one of the tribal authorities at the Tlokweng kgotla. The...
By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 15 July 2010
Welcome To The Quakers World
About the church first. On this Sunday morning the bite of winter cold has kept a good many congregants away but meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers) begin when two or more people come together to be in the presence of God. ...
Bashi Letsididi
Correspondent 15 July 2010
Volunteer Plans Sponsored Walk To Assist Children
Prior to sitting down with this young woman, who has committed herself to contributing positively towards shaping a brighter future for vulnerable children, The Monitor team is greeted by a loud and jovial atmosphere filled with the chanting of...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
SA Made Africa Proud
A lot of sceptics have been critical of South Africa in building capacity to host a massive event like the world cup. By all standards the 2010 World Cup will for a long time remain South Africa's success story. It takes dedication, passion,...
15 July 2010
Let us kill the octopus
Waiting patiently as my order was being prepared I kept wondering: "Why are these people burning rubber?" You would not know what rubber felt like in your mouth until you ate the badly cooked egg-white-like chewy, bumpy tasteless thing the chef...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Mr President we need you
The threat to our existence was in violation of one of the pillars for the existence of any human being according to Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." We fled...
15 July 2010
Is it okay to cheat in football?
The goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, grabbed the ball and put it back into play. Neither the referee nor the linesman, both of whom were still coming down the field - and thus were poorly positioned to judge - signaled a goal, and play continued.After the...
PETER SINGER 15 July 2010
Kanjabanga waits as Court decides Boko's fate
Boko's eligibility to contest the post has been challenged by BNF members Thuso Mogorosi, Sekgopi Bogatsu, Moses Kajane and Chalido Madome. Dumezweni Mthimkhulu for the applicants said in court yesterday that Boko should be interdicted from...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 15 July 2010
Fabregas defends Barcelona shirt stunt
Fabregas has been linked with a move to the Nou Camp and was forced into the shirt by Spain team-mates and Barcelona players Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol. Barcelona have had a bid of about £30m for the midfielder turned down. "There are times...
15 July 2010
BMC re-hires Kalambo
Ezinkomo have also roped in Enos Mmesi as assistant coach. The former Killer Giants' mentor will handle the team until Kalambo's paper work has been finalised. BMC spokesperson, Themba Stimela told Mmegi Sport that the Zambian arrived in the country...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 July 2010
Zebras climb to highest ever ranking
This is the team's highest ranking so far. The Zebras have made a giant leap from position 116, surpassing the previous best of 95 in September 2007 under Serbian coach, Veselin Jelusic. The Zebras are the continent's best movers, climbing 23 places....
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Sithole confident of victory over Egyptian side
Sithole who returned to GU recently after a short stint with BMC said the players are eager to beat their Egyptian opponents judging by their commitment at training. He pointed out that he has been working on the tactical awareness of the team. "The...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Remembering the lion of song
He prances about on the stage in a suggestive manner as he sings explicit lyrics to the amusement of older members of his audience as he holds his trademark whisk Like most artists, he is not afraid to express himself, tackling controversial...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Mandelson: Blair thought Brown was mad
Blair promised Brown in 2003 that he would step aside and not fight the next general election. But around the same time, the then-Prime Minister's advisers drew up a plan - named "Operation Teddy Bear" - to split the Treasury in two and weaken...
15 July 2010
'Barefoot Bandit' deported by the Bahamas
Colton Harris-Moore, who was arrested on Sunday after a high-speed boat chase off Eleuthera Island, was fined $300 (£198) by a Nassau court and deported. He now faces prosecution for a string of burglaries and thefts across the US. After...
15 July 2010
Libyan ship with Gaza aid 'heads to Egypt'
The vessel had halted in international waters after suffering engine trouble, but was later reported to be within 100km (60 miles) of the Gaza coast. Organisers say they still plan to dock in Gaza, despite Israel's request to head to the Egyptian...
15 July 2010
Mozambique becoming a drug-trafficking hub
Ronald Noble, secretary-general of the global policing agency, said Interpol would help the southern African nation fight the narcotics trade. Noble's visit to Maputo comes weeks after the US named Mozambican businessman Mohamed Bachir Suleman as a...
15 July 2010
Fresh fighting erupts in Darfur
"Early this morning... 60 four-wheel drive vehicles of Sudan's army and militia obstructed JEM patrols near Kuma, North Darfur, JEM spokesperson Ali Alwafi said. "The genocidal forces lost the battle and fled to Kuma. Our forces pursued them into the...
15 July 2010
Rio Tinto in P1.5 billion Australia investment after tax deal
Rio said the money would be used for works at its Cape Lambert port to boost output in the Pilbara region.It had threatened to trim investment if a 40% mining tax was imposed. But after Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd as Australian prime minister,...
15 July 2010
Singapore expects 15 percent economic profit
Gross domestic product for April through June grew 19.3 percent from a year earlier when the economy was shrinking because of the global recession, the Trade and Industry Ministry said Wednesday. The growth was the fastest since the government began...
15 July 2010
Resgen seeks to raise P4,2bn for Waterberg coal mine
Resgen, which has a primary listing on the ASX, planned to start production at its Boikarabelo project in Limpopo as early as 2013. Speaking to Mining Weekly Online at the listing event, Resgen MD Paul Jury said that the company planned to raise an...
15 July 2010
Thousands targeted in BPC's 'French Connection'
This morning, BPC and EDF chief executives are expected to sign shareholder and share purchase agreements, confirming the French equity in BPC Lesedi. Botswana's Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego Kedikilwe and the French...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Book Review
The Dixie Medicine Man, Christian John Makgala. (2010). New York and Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc. 470 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-4502-3537-2. Michael Mothibi, the editor of the Botswana Guardian newspaper, very aptly describes Christian John...
Boga Thura Manatsha 15 July 2010
Project Syndicate
ROME - Among the many devastating effects of the current global financial crisis, one of the most pernicious in the developed world is the upward trajectory of the unemployment rate for youth, which rose by six percentage points in the OECD area from...
Edoardo Campanella 15 July 2010
Rift Valley Fever: It could be catastrophic
This is the first time that the country has ever had any reported cases of the disease. The disease, the ministry told the nation, is fatal, not only to livestock and cattle but also to humans. The signs of infection in humans include bleeding...
15 July 2010
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15 July 2010
Our Heritage
The third item, about which I know only what the museum tells us, which is almost nothing, is the remarkable Chobe buffalo, which was found in unrelated circumstances by that very remarkable person, Peter Smith. The bojale drums (the National Museum...
Sandy
Grant 15 July 2010
The love of the horse in Kweneng West
One can safely say that the horse is the preferred mode of transport in Kweneng West as most people in the area, which is arguably one of the poorest in the country, cannot afford cars. It is commonplace to see young men galloping around on horseback...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Mogae attends global AIDs meeting
According to Mogae's private secretary, Bapasi Mphusu, the International AIDS Conference is the largest global meeting on HIV, where every two years 25,000 participants representing all stakeholders in the world's response to HIV meet to assess...
STAFF WRITER 15 July 2010
Parliamentary questions and answers
Minister of Defence, Justice and Security Ndelu Seretse has refused to divulge which of the security agencies under his ministry has the equipment that makes interception of electronic mail, computer or telephonic communications possible. The...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE 15 July 2010
Khama plans tours to counter defections
BDP spokesman, Comma Serema told Mmegi yesterday that Khama will address BDP supporters in Shoshong to tell them that their area MP, Dovedale/Mmaphashalala councillor Neo Magowe and nominated councilor Bobby Babusi have gone to the BMD. "He will also...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Speaker snubs Makgalemele
Despite the fact that Makgalemele, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shoshong, has changed his seat in Parliament, the deputy speaker, Pono Moatlhodi, failed to announce Makgalemele's defection from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Limkokwing sues lecturer for P5million
Limkokwing University is suing one of their lecturers O'brian Mkali for making a defamatory statement thus undermining their reputation on national television. In the letter addressed to Mkali from the institution's lawyer Sipho Ziga of...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
ZANU-PF disclaims BMD link
"That is nonsense of the highest order, really a fools' day story. Whoever is peddling that lie should say which ZANU-PF officials the two members of parliament met with. That lie should be subjected to a simple challenge, namely that the fellow who...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Modubule to join BMD tomorrow?
Last year he made history when he became the first Independent Candidate to be elected to parliament. At the well-attended consultation meeting yesterday Modubule informed his constituents that he had given up on the BNF, who he characterised as a...
15 July 2010
Diware dance to be unveiled to the nation
For the first time many Batswana and many viewers of Btv across Africa would be privileged to enjoy this unique Botswana dance heritage by Hambukushu dance groups from Parakarungu, Satau, and Shakawe. According to one...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 July 2010
Tse Tilodi to add colour to heritage month
The stories about Tse Tilodi have been coming out in dribs and drabs like rare rains from the successes of Culture Spears. Yes, the story goes that all the founding four members of Culture Spears, including Kabelo Mogwe, Thembeni Ramosetlheng,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 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 16 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 16 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...
16 July 2010
Europe's banks, Europe's crisis
How could this happen when all problems had seemingly been resolved during May's EU summit meeting, which created a European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and ensured total funding of close to $1 trillion? If all the resources promised...
* DANIEL GROS 16 July 2010
BNF's Mohammed Khan speaks out
Mmegi: Which religion do you subscribe to? Khan: I am a Muslim Mmegi: Are you married?Khan: Yes, with four children-two boys and two girls. Mmegi: What are your hobbies? Khan: I love playing tennis and also used to play football. But still...
16 July 2010
first Cut
Thank you and thank you South Africa for successfully hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And thank you for exposing the stereotype and wrong perceptions that some people in Europe especially the Australians and some parts of the British media have...
Dennis Keagile 16 July 2010
Tau to be retained as BNSC chairperson
However, some executive committee positions will be up for grabs at the AGM. So far, vice-chairperson, Nomsa Mbere, treasurer, Boitshoko Tsiane and additional member, Sesupo Mosweu are unopposed. BNSC spokesperson, Chris Nkwe said the meeting would...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 16 July 2010
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