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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 22 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...
22 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 22 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...
22 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 22 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 22 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...
22 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....
22 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...
22 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 22 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...
22 September 2010
A Saleshando Prepares To Paint Gil's House Red
Monitor: Your father is a stalwart of opposition politics in Botswana. You mean opposition politics have never appealed to you? Saleshando: I was born into a politically driven family. Some of my family members and relatives were and still are...
22 September 2010
Is it 'Carry on Mokau' all the way
Talking of Kgotla meetings, while addressing one of those year back, former president, Sir Ketumile Masire, is said to have misunderstood a question from a villager in the Bokalanga area who had wanted to know when they were going to have their own...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 22 September 2010
What would Steve Biko say?
What would he say of our leaders? What would he say of us that we allow the things that are happening, happen? When the ANC proposed its media bill that would curtail media freedoms, I suspect he would have said, "I will continue to write what I...
KHAYA DLANGA 22 September 2010
As I See It
'Poverty is a policy failure that degrades people - those who suffer it and those who tolerate it. It is the gravest insult to human dignity.' - (Gro Harlem Brundtland) The above statement was cited by Alec Campbell at the opening of the...
Michael Dingake 22 September 2010
The goal is within reach Ban Ki-Moon
We are here because ten years ago, meeting here at the highest level, the international community promised to spare no effort to free the entire human race from want. The eight Millennium Development Goals were a breakthrough. Together, we created...
BAN KI-MOON 22 September 2010
I could do the BCL pit again!
Selibe Shaft is BCL's underground mine in Selibe-Phikwe and the only one in Botswana. The shaft is very deep and one cannot anticipate the magnitude of how deep it is until they travel down and further down and yet still further down. Last Friday...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Lunatic challenges presidential order
State prosecutor, Gasemotho Pitlagano, told the court that Gobe Kgosietsile (24) was sent to the Lobatse Mental Hospital by presidential order not because he was a suspect or a convict in any offence, but because he was mentally derailed and was...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Francistown to celebrate in style
Addressing the press yesterday, the Francistown Events Committee, represented by Lingani Chiyapo, Gobe Macha, Sylvester Toteng and Sethunya Kgaodi regretted that for the majority of people, September 30 has been losing meaning over the years. They...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Opposition walks out in North West council
The 20 opposition councillors were irate that in his address before the full council on Monday, Bephia recognised and congratulated Galaletsang Mhapha for ascending to the Ngami sub-council chairman position "under very questionable circumstances,"...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Kweneng council decentralises
Kweneng District Council Chairman, Motlhophi Leo, says that the council plans to have a sub council in Thamaga by next year while Lentsweletau is planned for 2011 to 2012. The council already has a sub council at Mogoditshane, ca led...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
European delegation discusses human rights
The meeting drew participants from the Botswana Police, Lawyers, various local Non Governmental organisations representing minority groups, children rights, same sex groups, health and HIV/Aids, lawyers and the media. The pioneering meeting...
22 September 2010
BEC advertises invigilation posts
Yesterday a BEC advertisement was published calling for people to apply to be invigilators. This follows a boycott by teachers who are demanding that BEC pay them P150 per hour for invigilation and not P30 as currently offered. The teachers have also...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Opposition councillors walk out on Khama
This happened after councillor Modisakgotla Makwati suggested that the meeting be moved to committee stage. Though opposition councillor Israel Jesi countered the move, officers, press and members of the public were asked to leave the chamber and the...
ONALENNA MODIKWA &
BAME PIET
Staff Writers 22 September 2010
Govt unaware of Radipati's court case - Ramsay
Dr Ramsay said he learnt of the case through the media hence he had no details of the matter. "I cannot comment on such a matter as we have not been aware of the pending case," Ramsay said. Despite that, Ramsay further said a person is innocent...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Bokamoso retrenches staff
About 250 employees are said to have received retrenchment letters, while some specialist opted to resign. Retrenchment, according to Ebineng is the only way for the hospital to avoid closure due to high costs that the hospital incurs every...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO &
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writers 22 September 2010
Floor crossing does not entail surrendering seat - Boko
Boko was speaking at a seminar on democracy last weekend in Gaborone where he said that even the parliamentary standing orders addresses floor crossing, embraces it and has a provision for it. "That when any member crosses, he will inform the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
UB strike ends as agreement is reached
UB management signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Botswana Academic and Senior Support Staff (UBASSSU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (UBNASU) negotiating committees after discussing ways to break the deadlock. In the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Our Heritage
Excerpt from Happy Highways by Trevor Bottomley, ELSP, U.K. 2000:- 'The first bank in the town was Barclay's and the newly appointed manager arranged a party to mark the opening of their new building and to introduce himself. ...
SANDY GRANT 22 September 2010
Project Syndicate
This raises well-known questions about democracy and private power, but another important question is often overlooked: who should decide for a publicly traded corporation whether to spend funds on politics, how much, and to what ends? Under...
LUCIAN BEBCHUK 22 September 2010
More needs to be done
The can-do-spirit in the room was infectious and, for once, the gulf between rich and poor, between countries often at loggerheads with each other, seemed to be bridged by a genuine partnership among nations and people. Development issues were...
* KOFI ANNAN 22 September 2010
Judges must be above board
The courts do not draw their respect from the complex arbitration matters that they deal with or the authority bestowed on them. The courts, we believe, draw their respect from the impartial way in which they dispense justice. Not everyone agrees...
EDITOR 22 September 2010
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22 September 2010
Today's Work Space
Question: Our manager is '10 devils times one'. My workmate and I were called to work during a paid public holiday. This manager refused to pay us extra money on top of our normal salary, saying that there was no reason to pay extra. The...
JOSEPH MASANGO 22 September 2010
PHK warns Thune Dam contractors
Kedikilwe made the warning during a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction of Thune Dam over the weekend. There has already been a fatal accident at the dam site, which the minister said was "unfortunate". Subsequently,...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Singapore investors explore opportunities in Botswana
The business delegation, which consisted of 26 delegates from 20 Singapore companies, visited Botswana as part of their Southern Africa tour that also took them to Angola and South Africa. The visit is part of efforts by newly launched Africa...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Iran slams media silence over looming US execution
"A woman is being executed in the United States for murder, but nobody protests against it," Ahmadinejad told a group of Islamic figures in the United States on Monday, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency. He was referring to Teresa...
22 September 2010
ANC vows to staunch media leaks
"The leakage of NEC [national executive committee] discussions and decisions to the media are a regular feature of this leadership structure," read the organisational report delivered by Mantashe to the ANC's national general council in...
22 September 2010
Suicide bomber attacks Somali presidential palace
The bomber, armed with an automatic rifle, tried to jump on to an armoured vehicle in a convoy of African Union peacekeepers driving into the palace grounds, police spokesperson Osman Aden told Reuters. When the AU troops fired at the bomber to...
22 September 2010
Tsvangirai says he will boycott 'violent' elections
"I will not commit anyone to any election if it is a declaration of war," Tsvangirai told a conference on political violence. Five people were injured in the capital, Harare, on Sunday when pro-Mugabe militants stoned a meeting meant to gather...
22 September 2010
Messi escapes serious injury
Messi was stretchered off the Vicente Calderon pitch in tears towards the end of Barcelona's 2-1 victory over Atletico after a late tackle from Tomas Ujfalusi left the Argentina playmaker in agony. Ujfalusi received his marching orders for the...
22 September 2010
Kanye Swallows vow to bounce back
Gaolefufa is confident that his team can stem the tide and win their next match against Prisons XI on Sunday.Once again, Gaolefufa blamed lack of fitness among his charges, which he believes contributed to their home defeat to Masitaoka last...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Tlamelo Vultures leave for UK
The 10-member team comprises players from the Tlamelo Trust for Orphans and Vulnerable Children based in Old Naledi. The week-long tournament will feature teams from Swaziland, Sri Lanka, India, Botswana, Uganda, and hosts the UK. This is only the...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Ngwigwa upbeat ahead of Delhi Games
Ngwigwa wants to improve his performance after he reached the finals in the 400m race at the Africa Senior Championships held in Kenya last July. The 200m and 400m runner, who will link up with the rest of the team on Monday, vows that he will excel...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Botswana musical culture to be showcased to 1000 Desert Race
Events and marketing company Footprints, owned by Losika Seboni, is hosting the music show on Friday at the Botswanacraft where racers, foreign fans, and locals are expected to interact after the race prologue. The show is dubbed the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
I never rob artists, says 'man of God' Tshanda
Addressing a press conference in Gaborone last week, Tshanda said Don-B has assured him that he had never made such claims to the media. Tshanda insisted that he does not cheat artists. "I am a man of God. I don't rob...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 22 September 2010
Vee's Zaza video debuts on TV
With the theme of boat cruise, sophisticated life of fun rides at the Lion Park's recreational Park, Vee's latest video offering comes across as something for the elite, and is indeed a far cry from the original Vee brand that has traditionally...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Culture Spears set to perform at Durban SATMA awards
Speaking to Showbiz during an interview, Kabelo Mogwe, one of the lead singers, said that he was not surprised that the group has been invited to perform in South Africa because they are popular that side. "We are a big name in the whole of South...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 22 September 2010
Kaone among BBAS 4 for possible eviction
Kaone is up against Mwisho (Tanzania), Uti (Nigeria), and Meryl (Namibia). Meryl, however, did not receive the most votes for possible eviction, but was put in the spot by the week's head of house Munya (Zimbabwe), who decided to save himself and put...
STAFF WRITER 22 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 23 September 2010
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