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Lesaso on the move in Shoshong
This is because Shoshong is in the heartland of the Bamangwato territory, where the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) reigns supreme. However, the BNF parliamentary candidate, Aubrey Lesaso, nearly caused a major upset as he polled 3,203 votes...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Inside Nchindogate - in their own words
The most high-profile of the state witnesses to appear this week was former director of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, Tymon Katlholo. He had been sitting outside in a chair waiting for his turn as one witness went through the...
09 September 2010
Lorato 'Lala' Tebogo; Miss Botswana 2005
Tebogo : I was very excited as I had just realised one of my most passionate dreams. Naturally, I was proud of my achievement, and had made my friends and family proud too. It was surreal. Mmegi: What value did this experience add to your life,...
NDABA NKOMO 09 September 2010
Linguist says Setswana language is a unifying force
Mmegi: Where are you from? Otlogetswe: I am from Ruele Kgotla in Kanye. Mmegi: Are you married? Otlogetswe: Yes, with two boys, Lebopo and Popo. Mmegi: What religion do you subscribe to? Otlogetswe: I am a Christian and worship at Pentecostal...
09 September 2010
Braids not environment friendly; trapping birds
It all has to do with how the braids are disposed of and while one would not think much of weaves of braids lying on the ground or hanging from trees, many birds are often caught up in the web of this fashion item, making it almost impossible to...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
"I was raped by my father"
He came to me in the middle of the night while I was sleeping in the company of my brothers and sisters. He called me aside and said "There is something that you and I must do to protect our family against witches, just you and I, because you are my...
09 September 2010
Sebina village still underdeveloped
But the village, which falls in the Tutume Sub-District as well as the Tonota North constituency, is still underdeveloped. Except for the post office, the primary school and the clinic, residents in this village rely on Tutume for most services...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 09 September 2010
The MDC cries foul again!
They called it the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Nonsense! It was not global and it was not an agreement. It was just politics of desperation, necessitated by Mbeki's failure to arbitrate; it was dangerous politics, as matters later turned out....
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO 09 September 2010
As I See It
The Chinese population at the last count four-five years back was 1.3 billion. With their one-child policy the population should be more or less stagnant at that figure for some time. The one-child policy was adopted in1978 and by 2000...
Michael Dingake 09 September 2010
The Winners Code
We beg to direct you, first to the lives of two small boys and second to your own life. Two boys were born to a poor Scottish family in the early 19th century. Their parents christened them John and David respectively. Each had a goal,...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 09 September 2010
The water woes of Tsolamosese
In the evenings when workers arrive from work and line-up to fetch water, the standpipes become pseudo-community centres where gossip and bickering are commonplace. Here there is no rich or poor, old or young. Enemies find that they cannot...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Saleshando speaks on Tonota North and future cooperation
We were represented by Dr Habaudi Hubona in the contest, who also happens to have been our representative in the last general elections for the same constituency. The bye-election has been won by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). We...
09 September 2010
Gerrard hails 'terrific' Rooney after win
The Manchester United forward opened the scoring in Basle, converting Glen Johnson's cross to register his first goal in open play for club or country since March, and later departed to a standing ovation from the travelling support. England's...
09 September 2010
Federer prepares to face giant killer
If she does make this US Open her last in a junior event, as she hinted this week, she is determined to enjoy herself as any 16-year-old with a golden future is entitled to. Her smiling demeanour was in stark contrast to the departure of her friend...
09 September 2010
Under-14 tennis team leaves for CAT circuit
The Under-14 team of three boys and four girls left for Zimbabwe on Tuesday under coach Ernest Seleke. Similo Sibanda, Innocent Tidimane and Keodiretse Seboko are in the boys' team while the girls' squad has Keamogetse Kesetselemang, Warda Maseko,...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Fitness worries at Kanye Swallows
The coach said it was apparent that their preparations are behind schedule and the players are unfit. "I would not say I am totally happy with our preparations so far because clearly my players are lacking in terms of fitness. It was clear in both...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Paralympics body in fund raising walk
The money is meant to fund the National Paralympics Games scheduled for November 12-13. The walk will start at the Sbrana Mental Hospital in Lobatse through Otse and Boatle. It will end at Game City in Gaborone. PASSOBO secretary general, Tendani...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Cafe manager accuses govt of destroying livelihoods
Speaking to Showbiz in an interview in Gaborone yesterday, Masisi, who operates from Gaborone West, said that ever since the introduction of the regulations he has been forced to address complaints from irate workers. "Life is tough for my workers...
09 September 2010
Fane's debut album in the offing
It is an eight-track album mastered at Mud Hut Studios, which is owned by Solomon Monyane, popularly known as "Solo B". Fane composed all the songs and he only did a collaboration with renowned jazz maestro Rampholo Molefhe in the song, Lenyalo. The...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Eureka the Coverboy has found it - at Bull & Bush
The first single from the album, Machonisa, has been very successful, setting a four-week record as the number one song on Yarona FM's Mascom Top 20. The second single, O Leka Modimo, featuring South African rappers Notshi and Element, who...
STAFF WRITER 09 September 2010
BEPA establishes secretariat
BEPA chairman Soares Katumbela revealed that they have employed one administrative secretary. He said so far the association has eight fully paid up members adding that they are making efforts to recruit more. They intend to employ a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 September 2010
Venues' crisis haunts local artists
This has been exacerbated by the fact that some nightclubs have stopped staging live shows following the implementation of the revised liquor regulations in 2008. Kabelo Mogwe, a member of a leading traditional group, Cultural Spears, said lack of...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 September 2010
DT's early exit from Fresher's Ball leaves fans disappointed
Although he staged a good performance, DT performed only two songs, each lasting less than a minute leaving the music-hungry spectators disappointed. He performed Give Me Roses from his 2006 album, Rich And Soul and also Shining, which dates back to...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 09 September 2010
UN has failed Congo mass rape victims, says investigator
The world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been accused of ignoring warnings from community leaders days before Rwandan and Congolese rebels began a spree of raping and looting 20 miles from a UN base. Atul Khare, the UN assistant secretary...
09 September 2010
Nigeria to hold presidential elections in January
The Independent National Electoral Commission announced on Tuesday that the presidential election would be held on January 22, sandwiched between a January 15 election for the National Assembly and a January 29 election for state offices. In the...
09 September 2010
Mexican media cowed by drug violence
Valdes' death is just one recent attack against the press in Mexico, where over 30 media workers have disappeared or been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched his war on drug cartels in late 2006, the US-based Committee to Protect...
09 September 2010
Mozambique scales back price hikes after riots
After an emergency cabinet meeting, planning minister Aiuba Cuereneia read out a statement saying government would "maintain the previous price of bread through the introduction of a subsidy." Cabinet agreed to scale back an increase in the...
09 September 2010
Absa told to revise its bid for Capricorn
Capricorn Investment Holdings(CIH) is the majority shareholder in Namibia's second largest commercial bank, Bank Windhoek and Botswana's Bank Gaborone. Namibian authorities in July blocked Absa, which already runs a representative office in...
09 September 2010
Focus shifts to coal energy
Organised by the Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa, the Botswana Coal and Energy Conference is the second of its kind since July 2007. It will be held under the theme "Botswana Coal: Gaining Momentum." Miners, investors, explorers, geologists,...
STAFF WRITER 09 September 2010
Huge demand as govt seals P1.3bn debt
The P700 million bonds and the P600 million treasury bill were fully subscribed, demonstrating a huge appetite for investment from the market. The over-subscription can also be seen in the strong bid to cover ratios on all papers, a ratio used to...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Project Syndicate
MADRID - Trapped since the 1960's in a protracted armed conflict with the most unscrupulous militias imaginable, and hostage to drug lords who turned the country's vast rural areas into fiefdoms of crime and untold atrocities, Colombia long projected...
Shlomo Ben-Ami 09 September 2010
The curse that is doping
It has left the sporting fraternity shell-shocked because such incidents are rare in Botswana. The shock is made more severe because it comes almost on the eve of the Commonwealth Games where Baloyi was expected to test- and prove - his mettle. The...
09 September 2010
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09 September 2010
BNF expects 200 defectors to join them
In a missive to the media, BNF spokesman Moeti Mohwasa said his party will receive in its ranks people in Dovedale/Mmaphashalala and Mookane wards in the Mahalapye East constituency. "Most of the new members are former Botswana Democratic Party...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Bokamoso Hospital faces closure
The new Bokamoso Private Hospital is facing closure because of lack of support from government, parastatals and professional bodies. The Mmopane-based world-class facility was opened seven months ago as a centre of excellence and a regional...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
No deadlock, says DPSM
"Talks have not broken down, we are still talking and negotiating for the constitution to be finalised so that the council is registered," Bakwena said. Speaking to Mmegi yesterday, Bakwena explained that during negotiations on the constitution of...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Immigration headquarters introduce weekend shift
Public relations officer at the ministry, Osesenaqa Lekgoko, says that the department started operating during weekends around the time the World Cup was taking place in South Africa, when many people went to immigration offices for...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Molao to tackle youth problems
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview yesterday Molao said after traversing the length and breadth of the constituency during recent campaigns, he has noticed that most able-bodied youth in this mainly rural area are not employed. "It's obvious that...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Hobona vows to continue the fight despite losing
"What I stand for is the ultimate goal of changing representation by the BDP and ushering in a responsible representation by the opposition," said Hobona in an interview yesterday. Hobona has indicated that her third loss to the ruling party will...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Dow wants MPs and policemen in the dock
The defence attorney in the flogging case of Bakgatla paramount chief, Kgafela Kgafela, his brother Mmusi, Kgosi Bana Sekai and 12 others has called on the prosecution to press charges against Kgatleng East and Kgatleng West MPs Isaac Mabiletsa and...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Public servants to get back-pay - Bakwena
DPSM director Festinah Bakwena said yesterday that they have agreed with the unions that permanent and pensionable employees whose salaries were calculated based on 20 working days, in line with the old Public Service Act, should be paid their two...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 09 September 2010
Lesaso on the move in Shoshong
This is because Shoshong is in the heartland of the Bamangwato territory, where the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) reigns supreme. However, the BNF parliamentary candidate, Aubrey Lesaso, nearly caused a major upset as he polled 3,203 votes...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 September 2010
Inside Nchindogate - in their own words
The most high-profile of the state witnesses to appear this week was former director of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, Tymon Katlholo. He had been sitting outside in a chair waiting for his turn as one witness went through the...
10 September 2010
The MDC cries foul again!
They called it the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Nonsense! It was not global and it was not an agreement. It was just politics of desperation, necessitated by Mbeki's failure to arbitrate; it was dangerous politics, as matters later turned out....
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO 10 September 2010
Saleshando speaks on Tonota North and future cooperation
We were represented by Dr Habaudi Hubona in the contest, who also happens to have been our representative in the last general elections for the same constituency. The bye-election has been won by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). We...
10 September 2010
Fifa may scrap extra -time at World Cups
Blatter, the Fifa president, wants to encourage more free-flowing football at tournaments and was concerned teams’ priority in the last World Cup in extra-time was to secure a penalty shoot-out. Football’s governing body will now look at...
10 September 2010
BOTESSA holds AGM
BOTESSA spokesperson, Melusi Rampart said the meeting will mainly discuss the amendment of the BOTESSA Strategic Plan. The review is meant to align the document with the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) Strategic Plan. Rampart said in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 September 2010
Heartbreak for table tennis stars
Botswana’s top table tennis players had initially been told that they would represent the country in the Commonwealth Games. However, the Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) announced that they will not travel to New Delhi because...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 10 September 2010
Can Hunda alter Police XI fortunes?
The coach says he has become wiser after gaining experience with other clubs. Hunda has excelled with young players and achieved success with Uniao Flamengo Santos in the last two seasons. He guided the club to the Coca-Cola Cup title and finished...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 September 2010
Rollers face tricky Nico
Nico coach, Willard Mashinkila-Khumalo told Mmegi Sport that morale is high in camp and all the players are ready to face Rollers, who completed a league and cup double last season. He said they will take the high profile encounter against Rollers...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 September 2010
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