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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 15 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...
15 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 15 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...
15 September 2010
Etcetera II
It had to be, of course, an occasion for genuine rejoicing when those of us finally obtained our new passports - in my case after 18 months without one and of being, in many key respects, a stateless person - my assumption being that a central...
Sandy Grant 15 September 2010
Gangsters spread fear in jamakata
JAMATAKA: The headman of Jamataka, Gaebolae Goitseone, says they are living in fear of marauding thieves and cattle rustlers who have turned the settlement into a gangsters' paradise. Jamataka, about 20 kilometres west on the Francistown-Orapa...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Meeting one's father for the first time
He lives in a nice house and drives a very nice car. One is tempted to conclude that he is enjoying a good life.However, behind this supposedly good life, there is anger, frustration and disappointment. Until last month, he had never seen nor heard a...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Zambia's MMD loses
Widowed PF candidate Susan Kawandami polled 6 976 votes, beating Ndola businessman Frank Ng'ambi of President Rupiah Banda's ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) who polled 4 539 votes in the by-election. Although the newly formed...
Humphrey Nkonde
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Workers solidarity on display
The parking spaces in and around the Civic Centre are fully occupied. This includes those that are on the other side of this city administration. The flags of the city council and the nation blow from one side to the other by the wind as if they...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Incompetents at the IMF
This raises the obvious question of why on earth do IMF economists still have jobs? Just to remind everyone, the reason that we have 9.5 percent unemployment and the reason that the United States and other wealthy countries are running large...
DEAN BAKER 15 September 2010
As I See It
An almost 200-strong community of nations, each with its own history, culture, faith and vision. In these apparently irreconcilable diversities we are bound by an umbilical cord of common humanity on this planet on which we must all live,...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 15 September 2010
Sports Chat
Finest momentExtension Gunners finally halted arch-rivals, Mochudi Centre Chiefs dominance with a 2-0 victory on Saturday.Gunners have started the season badly and few gave them a chance against a rampant Chiefs. But goals from Tiroyamodimo Mohambi...
Mqondisi Dube 15 September 2010
Zebras 'team to watch in COSAFA'
According to COSAFA CEO Sue Destombes who has been appointed following the decision of long serving Ashford Mamelodi to step down from the organization as Secretary General, the draw for this year's tournament will be conducted in Luanda during the...
15 September 2010
Minister exposes BFA lies
Kgathi was addressing a media conference, attended by senior BFA officials in Gaborone yesterday. The BFA had warned that the country risk being banned by FIFA if it did not find a solution to the running of the constituency tournaments. The BFA...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Eugene Jackson to launch DVD
The sensational muso revealed to Arts and Culture that he wants the launch to be an intimate affair. "I'll be launching a live DVD next month. It's going to be an intimate affair in the conference area of Botswana Craft. I'll only have a...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Munya in hot seat once again
In what looks like a strategic move, Uti, with the powers bestowed on him as head of house, decided to save himself from possible eviction and put up Munya for eviction instead. Many expected that Uti would replace himself with Kaone following...
STAFF WRITER 15 September 2010
Jazz Mates releases Senthubele Motse
The nine-track album includes songs like Ditaba, Mosetsana, Flavour, Matshidiso, Molathegi, Morning Show, Toropo, Bonus and the title track Senthubele Motse. The title track is addressing itself to relationships. Actually it is a warning...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Boleseng thrills F/town revellers
It was an uncharacteristically chilly Saturday evening after a week of hot weather in Francistown, but it did not deter jazz lovers who came in droves, to part with the asking price of P50 at the door to watch Boleseng and the new kid on the block,...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 15 September 2010
Half of special needs children mis-diagnosed
About 1.7 million schoolchildren in England are regarded as having some form of special needs, ranging from physical disability to emotional problems. While the number with the most severe challenges has gone down since 2003, the number identified...
15 September 2010
US health workers granted bail in Zimbabwe
"Each of you shall pay bail of $200 and you shall surrender your passports to the clerk of court," magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi said. The state did not oppose bail. Trial was set for September 27. The four Americans from Oakland, California,...
15 September 2010
Mandela 'breathed fire' over Iraqi war
Peter Hain, who was secretary of state for Wales in Tony Blair's Labour government at the time, recounts the phone call in his new biography of the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon, who is also a personal friend. Speaking as...
15 September 2010
ANC, COSATU keep mum about meeting
"We wouldn't be communicating on the outcomes of the meeting now ... perhaps later," said ANC spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi. Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said it would also issue a statement on the...
15 September 2010
Regional tourism players meet in Gaborone
The CDE is an institution created under the framework of the EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement and funded by the European Development Fund (EDF). The roundtable is Southern Africa's gateway for key representatives to assess conditions in the tourism sector,...
15 September 2010
OLM promotes innovation in Science and Technology
This was an international conference, which was hosted by the University of Botswana (UB) at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). Orapa and Letlhakane Mines(OLM) public and corporate affairs manager, Kesego Kebelaele, said this...
15 September 2010
BSE to automate next year - Mendis
In an interview with Reuters, the Chief Executive Officer of the BSE, Hiran Mendis, said the bourse should fully automate early next year and improve liquidity levels which have deterred foreign interest. Mendis said electronic trading should arrive...
STAFF WRITER 15 September 2010
Govt to take over De Beers stake in Morupule Colliery
The Government intends to bring in a strategic partner to replace De Beers in a process calculated to ensure that Botswana has more control over the prized national asset whose supplies are key to the crucial 600-megawatt Morupule B...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Know your employment rights
Each issue will assist the reader to appreciate the rights and obligations of employer and employee and the general principles pertaining to such rights and obligations. The reference material to this topic is derived from the Constitution,...
15 September 2010
Project Syndicate
TOKYO - North Korea's communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun. The general assembly of North Korea's...
Yuriko Koike 15 September 2010
Immigration shows the way
For some time now, the department has kept its doors open to the public on weekends in order to deal with a backlog of passport applications following the introduction of the epassport. This example stands out not least because it happens at a time...
15 September 2010
Residents walk to fight crime
The walk was held under the theme: 'Active community involvement in crime prevention-key to safer communities by 2016'. It started near Limkokwing University Campus in Block Seven and ended at Phillip Moshotle Primary School soccer ground in Block...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Can the Millennium Development Goals be saved?
I was at the UN in September 2000, when world leaders met at the Millennium Summit and pledged to work together to free humanity from the "abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty," and to "make the right to development a reality for...
* SHASHI THAROOR 15 September 2010
Khama shuns UN general assembly again?
According to weekly press updates from Office of the President Merafhe will depart for the UN Assembly on Saturday while President Khama will be mingling with the general public of Maunatlala, Goo-Tau and Mosweu villages at an evening fire event in...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Our Heritage
Recently Dr E. Maganu described his family's role in the old Mogobane project and by doing so opened up for public debate a topic that has long been needed. Dr Maganu's comments may have been prompted by a recent visit to the place and if this is...
Sandy Grant 15 September 2010
What will you do to make peace happen?
Every year since 1982, that day has provided a rallying point for the United Nations and its member states, but also for civil society, private sector and individuals to join forces to advance global peace. This year, September 21 will have a...
Jean Ping, Chairperson of the AU Commission
& Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General 15 September 2010
Jamataka, Oh! Jamakata
The bus rank is usually a beehive of activity with vendors selling water, drinks, sweets; phone-covers, wallets and other items they wish could be of interest to passengers. Having heard the rumour that the long distance buses on this road do not...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 15 September 2010
MoH playing hide-and-seek with P15m tender?
After failing to have a P15 million medical evacuations tender extended through the backdoor, the Ministry of Health (MoH) still had the final say, frustrating the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB)'s rejection of the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Life insurance motive for killing father, court told
Some members of Motukwa's family burst into tears, as one of the accused Modise Sekai who has since turned accomplice witness told the court that Agisanyang wanted to claim the life insurance money. Sekai testified that Agisanyang, who had insured...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
BNYC not government department - Kgathi
Kgathi's ministry has dissolved the whole BNYC board. In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Kgathi said that government will appoint a serving government officer (on secondment) to be the BNYC executive director. In response to whether this...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
Teachers adopt eight hr day unilaterally
Even school heads are in this unilateral decision that was implemented beginning Monday with the backing of two teachers' unions. According to the Secretary General of the Botswana Secondary Teachers Union (BOSETU), Tobokani Rari, teachers are...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 September 2010
"No elections for land boards," Molefhi announces
In the past, land board members were elected by members of the community at the kgotla. The government believes that the current arrangement is fraught with irregularities. Molefhi said that the government is going to advertise for land...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 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 16 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...
16 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 16 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...
16 September 2010
Gangsters spread fear in jamakata
JAMATAKA: The headman of Jamataka, Gaebolae Goitseone, says they are living in fear of marauding thieves and cattle rustlers who have turned the settlement into a gangsters' paradise. Jamataka, about 20 kilometres west on the Francistown-Orapa...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 16 September 2010
Meeting one's father for the first time
He lives in a nice house and drives a very nice car. One is tempted to conclude that he is enjoying a good life.However, behind this supposedly good life, there is anger, frustration and disappointment. Until last month, he had never seen nor heard a...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 16 September 2010
Zambia's MMD loses
Widowed PF candidate Susan Kawandami polled 6 976 votes, beating Ndola businessman Frank Ng'ambi of President Rupiah Banda's ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) who polled 4 539 votes in the by-election. Although the newly formed...
Humphrey Nkonde
Correspondent 16 September 2010
Workers solidarity on display
The parking spaces in and around the Civic Centre are fully occupied. This includes those that are on the other side of this city administration. The flags of the city council and the nation blow from one side to the other by the wind as if they...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 16 September 2010
Know your employment rights
Each issue will assist the reader to appreciate the rights and obligations of employer and employee and the general principles pertaining to such rights and obligations. The reference material to this topic is derived from the Constitution,...
16 September 2010
Project Syndicate
TOKYO - North Korea's communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun. The general assembly of North Korea's...
Yuriko Koike 16 September 2010
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