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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 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
BDF VI,Diphatsa clash in Capital Motors final
The headline fixture will see defending men’s champions, BDF VI clash against fellow army side, Diphatsa. The game starts at 3pm. A nail-biting encounter is on the cards as duels between the two sides have never failed to excite. BDF VI should...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
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Only 6,600 fans watched Zebras-Togo game
The BFA made last minute efforts to move the tie to the National Stadium, anticipating a large crowd, but the fact that fans did not fill the smaller UB Stadium might be a worry. The National Stadium request was turned down as renovations are still...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
Police probe Rollers poisoning case
Central Police Station Commander, Superintendent Calvin Mookodi, said they have not yet arrested anyone in connection with the case but investigations are continuing. Several Rollers’ players suffered from what was suspected to be chemical...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
First Cut
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has hosted several games involving both the senior and Under-23 teams. By now, one would expect that it should be easy for the BFA to host any game whether at the National Stadium or any other venue in the...
Dennis Keagile 10 September 2010
Hotsport
Botswana will compete at this year’s Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi, India next month. In this interview, Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho tells Staff Writer, BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO...
Mnqondisi Dube 10 September 2010
Botswana qualifies for netball World Cup
Besides Botswana, Malawi and South Africa are the other African representatives in the World Cup to be hosted by Singapore. Three countries qualify from each continent for the event. Malawi qualified automatically after finishing fifth at the 2007...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 10 September 2010
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Chiefs, Gunners renew rivalry
Although the league only started a few weeks ago, the results of this game could have a major impact on the league standings. There is no doubt that Gunners will play this game under immense pressure after losing two consecutive matches.The worrying...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
Philippines bus hostages may have been shot by police
Eight tourists from Hong Kong were killed and three seriously wounded after a policeman who had been sacked hijacked their bus on August 23 to demand his job back.  The hostage-taker was also killed when police stormed the bus after a standoff...
10 September 2010
China to boost surveillance of superbug that resists antibiotics
The Beijing Municipal Health Bureau will create a network to monitor major medical institutions by year’s end, the China Daily newspaper reported. Cases of the NDM-1 superbug, as it’s commonly known, have been reported in countries such...
10 September 2010
US soldiers killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies
Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year.  Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he...
10 September 2010
Crime stats: Murders fall by 8,6%
“The murder figure fell below the 17 000 mark, compared to 26 877 in the 1995-1996 fiscal year,” police minister Nathi Mthethwa told a press conference in Pretoria. “We are really encouraged in the significant decline in the murder...
10 September 2010
Zuma dismisses ZEE business
 “Honourable Member, what is CEE?  Can you help us?” he enquired of Congress of the People MP Philip Dexter, who had just used the term in a question posed to the president. “It’s Z ... E ... E -- as in Zuma...
10 September 2010
Zuma: Media tribunal to complement self-regulation
Replying to questions in the National Assembly, he said the African National Congress’s (ANC) resolution on a proposed media tribunal “promotes media freedom within the context of the human rights ethos” of the...
10 September 2010
UN seeks to ease Rwanda tensions over leaked report
Ki-moon said the report, which in its draft form said Rwandan soldiers may have committed genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the 1990s, would be released after UN members and interested parties had an opportunity to...
10 September 2010
Teachers should not allow BEC to exploit them
Unfortunately, BEC announced at that meeting that they are not interested in the MOU anymore.  This came as a shock to the unions who have been preparing the MOU documents in good faith. The unions would like to remind teachers about the High...
10 September 2010
Legalise homosexuality, prostitution:God forbid
The article quotes Rre Uyapo Ndadi, director of the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) as advocating for the legalisation of sex work and homesexuality as a way of fighting HIV and AIDS.  Whilst I agree that this particular...
10 September 2010
Whither Botswana?
Two weeks ago I commented, among other things, on how President Ian Khama had, in a recent “conversation” with Gloria Kgosi on Btv, strangely justified the death penalty on the basis that the Botswana nation supports the repulsive and...
Dan Moabi 10 September 2010
BMD goes AWOL
“It is beyond doubt that both BMD and COPE were formed as a perceived manifestation of the fear arising from the leaders of their parent organisations and nothing else...Much as the ANC dealt a hammer blow to COPE and the other opposition...
10 September 2010
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10 September 2010
The future of Bokamoso is in limbo
In fact, so gloomy is the picture that the hospital may even close, going the way of Hyundai, Volvo and many other projects of strategic national importance that went to the wall for lack of support.  Within a short space of time, Bokamoso has...
10 September 2010
Vodafone pockets $6.5bn in China Mobile sale
It is the biggest such sale by the UK-based phone company of its non-strategic investments.The buyers of the stake, of which there may be several, have not been identified. The 643m shares, listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, were offered at a...
10 September 2010
EU agrees new financial supervision framework
The measures include a European Systemic Risk Board to oversee the health of Europe's economy. Ministers also approved a second instalment of emergency loans to Greece worth 9bn euros ($11.4bn; £7.5bn).They were unable, however, to agree a new...
10 September 2010
BP to publish oil leak report
The investigation has taken five months, and is expected to blame BP as well as other companies involved in the drilling operation. Safety equipment on the Deepwater Horizon rig failed after an explosion on 20 April, in which 11 people died.The...
10 September 2010
Japan to curb Yen's rise
It rose to 83.4 yen versus the dollar, adding to concerns that the currency's rise was holding back exports and the general health of the economy. Japan's finance minister had dropped a strong hint on Wednesday that it would act to push the yen...
10 September 2010
Gold rises on bank scare; holds near lifetime high
Gold, which is also a few dollars away from a lifetime high of around $1 264/oz struck in June, is on track for its tenth yearly gain -- its longest run of yearly increases in more than 40 years. On Wednesday, Gold added $3,85 to $1 256,95 after...
10 September 2010
Rapid expansion opens up mining sector for fraud
E&Y global mining & metals leader Mike Elliott said that mining companies have reactivated capital projects and exploration activities in frontier areas, with large amounts of money being spent in these new areas. The global financial crisis...
10 September 2010
Eskom to tap global bond markets
Eskom, which uses mainly coal-fired power stations to supply most of the power to Africa's largest economy, needs funding for a planned multi-billion dollar programme to help alleviate chronic power shortages. The utility is waiting for government...
10 September 2010
Zim seeks R3.5 billion from SA
A power-sharing government set up last year by bitter rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has stabilised an economy ravaged by hyperinflation, which peaked at 500 billion percent in December 2008. But the government...
10 September 2010
Botswana's drive towards a regional diamond centre
That is, until the discovery of diamonds in 1967 turned the country into a poster child for the benefits of a well-functioning African democracy and an economic success story. Observers credit the effective relationship between government and the...
10 September 2010
Book Review
J. M. Coetzee (2009) Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life. London, Harvell Secker, Random House, Hardcover edition, 266 pages, P271. ISBN 9-781846-553189.  Available at Exclusive Books. Nobel (2003) and twice Booker Prize (1983 and 1999)...
Sheridan Griswold 10 September 2010
How to escape a time loop
For author Charles Yu, "When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. "Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill...
10 September 2010
Back Stage
Salt (2010) is now showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It had its grand opening two months ago, but has just made it here. Salt opens in North Korea sometime in 2008. Evelyn Salt (acted by a super-cool bionic Angelina Jolie) is being tortured. She...
Sasa Majuma 10 September 2010
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Meet Ndaba the versatile veteran artist
Arts& Culture recently had an opportunity to meet with this unassuming artist at Thapong Visual Arts Centre, where he is currently overseeing a national art project. "I consider art as an in-born talent. I started moulding objects with clay long...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
DiamondCorp Botswana unearths encouraging results
The discovery comes after the company sank five boreholes into the target area that intersected what the company termed "coherent kimberlite" at vertical depths of up to 218 metres. Samples are now being shipped to Canada for analysis, while...
10 September 2010
Botswana cement sales declining-PPC
However, sales to the construction industry, which typically comprised about 20% of PPC's sales, were significantly lower, while Zimbabwe sales during July were impacted by a longer-than-planned plant shutdown. Normal sales resumed in that country...
10 September 2010
Consumer Watchdog
There was a new story in another newspaper a couple of weeks ago entitled "Culture of tipping still to take root in Botswana".  This discussed the supposed unwillingness of the people of Botswana to tip people in restaurants.  We probably...
10 September 2010
Labour Commissioner enters Debswana /Union row
The offer is the result of intensive negotiations under the two parties' Joint Negotiating Consultative Committee (JNCC) but are yet to bear fruit nearly six months after they began. This week, BusinessWeek learnt that the two parties deadlocked...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
Govt targets November Parliament for bond programme
Envisioned by the February budget, the programme - through which government borrows from the capital market - was originally targeted at plugging the 2010/11 budget deficit, forecast at P12.1 billion. However, thanks to its wide-ranging spending cuts...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
'Palapye has outgrown village status'
PALAPYE: Within a short space of time, Palapye has experienced a high level of construction activities that have contributed immensely to its economic and population growth as well as improve its prospects of graduating from its village status. The...
10 September 2010
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BoB policy compels change of strategy
In its Mid-Term Review of the Monetary Policy Statement released last Friday, BoB hints that the prevailing low interest rate regime will continue to support an economy whose recovery is buffeted by reduced government spending, low consumer demand,...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 10 September 2010
The condoms in prison debate
First and foremost, the remarks by the Vice President, (VP) are disturbing and I see them necessitating a full rebuttal.  Secondly, I would like to talk about the germane issues on the subject, as I see them. Regarding the VP’s remarks...
UYAPO NDADI 10 September 2010
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