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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 17 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...
17 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 17 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...
17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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 17 September 2010
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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,...
17 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 17 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 17 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 17 September 2010
An inconvenient truth about OPEC
But they are wrong: OPEC output will not meet such projections, because they are based on flawed and outdated forecasting models. In forecasts that carry forward to the 2030's, the three organisations share the view that world energy demand will...
ANAS F> ALHAJJI 17 September 2010
I'm done with small stuff
Why then are you and me fussing on small items, stall projects, small assignments, small ideas are too difficult and you are always alone in their manifestation! I read in the local papers that some companies have started buying jets, mind you, as...
BOITSHEPO BOLELE 17 September 2010
Exercise of organisation right: collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a process whereby unions negotiate with employers on issues which affect their members such as terms and conditions of employment, including wages.  Once bargaining has taken place over an issue  and an agreement...
MPHO NGWATO 17 September 2010
Two years after unity accord, Zim mulls new polls
Many Zimbabweans cringe at the idea of elections, with painful memories of the 2008 presidential race, which was scarred by deadly political violence when it appeared then-opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai could unseat President Robert Mugabe,...
17 September 2010
Zulu king condemns photos of virginity tests at annual dance
King Goodwill Zwelithini, who has five wives, spoke out angrily against the photographing of girls undergoing virginity tests at the event, arguing that the images would be used to undermine Zulu culture. Girls participating in the annual uMkhosi...
17 September 2010
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Keitumele to release Ntsoro Radikoloto DVD
The 1 hour 40 minutes DVD is called Ntsoro Radikoloto. Talking to Showbiz yesterday, Keitumele said just like the title states Ntsoro is caught in between debts after borrowing money that he does not manage to repay. He points out that Ntsoro's...
MPHO TLALE
Correspondent 17 September 2010
Book Review
Michela Wrong is a dedicated journalist who has mainly lived and worked in Africa. In the past decade she has published three acclaimed books on Africa: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (2001) grew out of her years in Zaire (DR-Congo) and the transition...
SHERIDON GRISWOLD 17 September 2010
Back Stage
Though it is based on a previous movie from 26 years ago, Karate Kid has a new setting and lots of new twists. It stars a renowned expert in martial arts, has a young and miniature hero who must re-learn the code and the moves that compensate for...
SASA MAJUMA 17 September 2010
Ikalanga to dominate Domboshaba festivities
This was announced during a press conference held at the National Museum Kgotla in Gaborone on Tuesday. The objective is to promote the language of Bakalaka as this year's theme is: "Lulimi gwangu, mazwiikudzo angu," meaning 'my language my pride'....
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 September 2010
Designer Lebese carves a name for herself
Despite her humble education, this gifted craftswoman has carved a name for herself as she is today a leading traditional clothes designer. Born a year before independence into a rural family who did not seem to attach much importance to education,...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
SA power market too large for only one player-CIC
He told delegates at the Cogeneration World Africa 2010 conference that a country and its economy could be at risk by relying on only one large electricity supplier. Horvei noted that the latest capital costs for both Eskom's new Medupi and Kusile...
17 September 2010
De Beers' diamond technology unit broadens its market
Further, a number of sorting units will be on display. Until 2008, the division's products and services were only made available to the De Beers' family of companies around the world, including those in Botswana, Tanzania, Canada and Namibia, as well...
17 September 2010
Barclays on financial literacy campaign
This training helps disadvantaged people improve their financial literacy and money management skills thus empowering them to make informed decisions. The bank's staff members in Gaborone, Jwaneng, Selebi-Phikwe and Serowe held training sessions for...
17 September 2010
Consumer Watchdog
That's when, instead of getting it fixed, things started to go wrong.  Badly wrong. Instead of fixing the car they proceeded to CLAIM to repair it and allow her to drive it away on TWO separate occasions, only to have it break down both times...
17 September 2010
'Govt to work with serious miners', Gabaake
The figures speak for themselves: firstly, Botswana is estimated to have no less than 300 billion tonnes of coal, which represents more than a third of the world's total coal resources. Secondly, all indications are that the golden "33 million carats...
17 September 2010
New coal finds promise 2.8 bn tonnes
The country's sole coal producer, Morupule Colliery Limited, holds 83 billion tonnes of coal in its concession area. The latest finds indicate that Botswana's estimated 212 billion tonnes of coal are spread across the north and east of the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
Rich pickings for gold ETF investors
On Tuesday, the gold price hit record territory for the year at US$1 269 (P8 667) per ounce, from US$1 126 when the gold ETF listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) on July 13. Experts believe the gold price could end the year at US$1 300 and...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
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Medswana re-instated fired executive
Mmegi reported two weeks ago that Medswana had fired two senior executives on allegations that they connived to prejudice the company of hundreds of thousands of pula through shady parallel transactions and business arrangements. It has now surfaced...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
Banking access, credit appetite balloon - World Bank
According to the World Bank's Financial Access 2010 report released on Thursday, in 2009, nearly half of Botswana's adult population holds deposit accounts, while nearly a third have loans with various financial institutions. Bank of Botswana...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
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Lazare Kaplan presses ahead with US$333m facility
This week, the international media was awash with reports that LKB's parent company, Lazare Kaplan International's future was uncertain following its latest filing to the USA's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which the company said that...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
Brady bonds for the Eurozone
This is completely at odds with the facts. European bond markets are again delivering a chilling message to global policymakers. With bonds of "peripheral" eurozone nations continuing to fall in value, the risk of Irish, Greek, and Portuguese...
* SIMON JOHNSON and
PETER BOONE 17 September 2010
The IMF and global coordination
Asia remained leery of the Fund a full 10 years after the currency crises of the late 1990's.  Its analytical talents remained high but downsizing placed them at risk. The crisis changed all that.  It became clear that the IMF has a...
17 September 2010
Poverty limits opportunities
There are at least three categories of poor people. The 'chronic poor' are those who live in a permanent state of extreme deprivation to the point where they need government intervention. The 'borderline poor' are just a notch above the chronic poor...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 17 September 2010
Top eight TV stars in Cabinet
The man possesses everything for a movie star - military training, pilot, is a physical trainer and charismatic. All he needs is to set up a production house and produce a movie that will match those by Arnold Schwazenegger - Terminator 1, 2 and 3....
17 September 2010
When a highway is manace
KUMAKWANE: The year was 1990 when the first Murray and Roberts earth movers rolled into the village and with it the hope of transforming life in what was a little developed village. For two years, pupils from the only primary school and their parents...
17 September 2010
Phikwe and its tourism potential
This is crucial for the town's economy that needs a major boost. Within its reach, Selebi-Phikwe has the Tuli Block area that has a range of wildlife, commercial farming and lodges in the Bobirwa side, gorges, diverse belief systems and...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
Sure as hell the fuel will move!
You can almost see it in the eye of your mind: It's midday.  The temperature hovers around 40 degrees Celsius.  People are going about their business.  An explosion.  A ball of fire from the sky.  A gigantic lid resembling an...
17 September 2010
Togo team that lost to Bahrain 'completely fake'
That incident led to distraught captain Emmanuel Adebayor quitting the team. And now, there is a mysterious group of players impersonating the team and losing unsanctioned friendlies on their behalf. Last week a squad claiming to be Togo lost 3-0 to...
17 September 2010
Young Vijayakumar scores cricket hat-trick
Botswana participated in seven games and Vijayakumar was the man-of-the-match in four and went on to scoop the player-of-the series award as well. Vijayakumar scored a total of 383 runs in the tournament, making him the top scorer, 38 runs ahead of...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 September 2010
Volleyball League resumes
During the two-month break, the clubs competed in the BMW Capital Motors Cup. Kalavango will be eager to revenge the defeat they suffered from their bitter rivals in the final of the BMW Capital Motors tournament last weekend. Kalavango coach, Batsho...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 September 2010
Excerpts of Fani's speech at the BFA general assembly
We have several meetings with the Botswana National Sports Council and the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture. The NEC was concerned that besides the negative effect the constituency tournament was having on mainstream football, FIFA could take...
17 September 2010
First Cut
He is the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture but the politics in him could cloud his judgement. However, I do not expect him to sacrifice the sportsman in him for political mileage. Yes, politicians have the tendency of sometimes closing their...
DENNIS KEAGILE 17 September 2010
A global derby that came too soon
Manchester United versus Liverpool is historically a duel that is always eagerly-awaited not only in England but around the world. That is why this epic duel has over the years been dubbed the global derby. For 90 minutes, the world of football...
17 September 2010
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Constituency tournaments: The unanswered questions
Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture, Shaw Kgathi, was confidence personified when he addressed a media conference this week to clear the air on the controversy surrounding the constituency tournament and threats of suspension from FIFA. The...
17 September 2010
Wounded Nico, Chiefs face off
Both Nico and Chiefs got rude awakening last weekend as they slumped to their first defeat of the season.Chiefs had dominated Extension Gunners for the past three seasons but found things completely different last Saturday as Gunners proved that they...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
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New twist in FIFa threat saga
Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, David Fani touched down from Cairo, Egypt yesterday and immediately added a fresh twist to the unravelling saga over the constituency tournaments. Fani said he was not informed about the media conference...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 17 September 2010
Nitty Gritty
Walkie was relating her experiences on the journey to Malawi three weeks ago over the long weekend.  She had clubbed together with the ladies at the Nitty Gritty and they had unanimously decided that they should go on a holiday without the men,...
BAROLONG SEBONI 17 September 2010
The new temple is calling
Her Grace, the Archbishop A. Nku of Christina Nku Faith Mission Church of South Africa, shall perform the launch. NTNJ is not an affiliate of any religious organisation. The event, which will be conducted from 08:00hrs to 13:00hrs will offer the...
17 September 2010
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