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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...

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PETER BOONE 28 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...

28 September 2010

BDP discovers 'what democracy is all about'

In a series of strikes, the employees united around their trade unions and went on to express their anger against the employer, the government. The teachers, who called for their working hours to be cut to eight, in line with other public servants,...

EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Uncertainty about exams unsettles students

For the past several years, some of them have been busy with their preparation for the final examinations that could determine their future careers. For others, the exams are a license that will pave the way for them to continue with their...

Ike Vavi
Correspondent 28 September 2010

How a nationwide strike would devastate Botswana

Workers will always strike when they feel that their interests are not met or are being ignored by the employer. As far back as March 14, 1152 B.C., workers went on strike. A case in point is the strike of ancient Egypt's Artisans of the...

28 September 2010

'Missing people' do not always go missing

Every year the police record high numbers of people who go missing. But are these cases genuine or it is just a case of a naughty girl who has sneaked out to go and see her boyfriend? According to the police, 800 people were reported missing in the...

Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 28 September 2010

Makgaba endures 44 years of misery

Makgaba settlement is situated about 20 kilometres from Mokubilo Village. Residents say that they have to go to Mokubilo for services. Makgaba residents say they have been staying in that settlement for as long as they can remember. Some of them are...

Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Manchester United's defending is a worry, admits Vidic

United failed to take full advantage of Chelsea and Arsenal's defeats on Saturday as they twice went behind at the Reebok Stadium, before the substitute Michael Owen equalised 16 minutes from time. They have now conceded nine goals in their last...

28 September 2010

Pack fail to overhaul Inter

It was also a good day for Juventus and their new Serbia winger Milos Krasic, who opened his account for the club with a hat-trick in a 4-2 home win over Cagliari which banished memories of Thursday's 3-1 loss to Palermo. The former CSKA Moscow...

28 September 2010

Mongala's frustration continues at Pirates

Mongala, who joined Pirates last season, has fallen further down the perking order after the arrival of Daine Klate and Tlou Segolela from Supersport United and Bloemfontein Celtic respectively. Last season, he was competing with Teko Modise on the...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Snake found in Games tennis venue

"We were requested by the Games authorities to help them rescue a snake spotted in the R.K. Khanna tennis stadium," Kartick Satyanarayan, head of animal conservation group Wildlife SOS India, told AFP. "We caught the snake and we removed it from the...

28 September 2010

TASC, TAFIC register wins at last

It has been a difficult start to the season for both TASC and TAFIC but weekend wins have brought relief to the struggling sides. For TAFIC, playing against Mochudi Centre Chiefs immediately after being thrashed 4-0 by Township Rollers was never...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Sebego to quit BFA?

Although Sebego denied reports of his pending departure, impeccable sources said the Gaborone lawyer is ready to quit because of sharp differences with Fani. But Sebego told Mmegi Sport yesterday that he is still part of the BFA executive committee...

MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 September 2010

Grobbler designed his winning BMW X3

Grobbler, who now drives for the RFS team after Nissan decided to quit motor racing, told Mmegi Sport that he was invited by the new team specifically to design and build a new car that would win races. In its first year, the BMW X3 surpassed all...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Back Stage

Blind Chance (2008) aka Przypadek is showing tonight only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School by the Gaborone Film Society. It is the fourth in a series of films from Eastern Europe. Krzysztof Kieslowski in nearly all his films...

Sasa Majuma 28 September 2010

Bosele dramatists steal the show

This was the third lap of the competitions, which were initiated by President Ian Khama this year. The competition drew the winners from each of the five Gaborone South wards in all the three categories. Actually this competition...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 September 2010

Meryl reels out of Big Brother house

Meryl was standing against her fiance, Mwisho, Botswana's Kaone, and Nigeria's Uti, and she is the one who ended up with the least votes to stay in the house. The couple reassured each other of their love as Meryl headed outside the house where...

STAFF WRITER 28 September 2010

The Bed Book of Short Stories launched

This follows successful launches of the book in Franschhoek, Johannesburg, Centurion, Windhoek and Cape Town in South Africa. The Bed Book of Short Stories is a compilation of stories from women in Southern Africa published by Modjaji Books (South...

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Thandie Bakwena scoops Miss PASSOBO 2010

Though poorly attended the event really proved that disability is not inability. At the end of it all Ramotswa CJSS's Thandie Bakwena emerged the Miss PASSOBO 2010 after beating nine other contestants. The hearing impaired Bakwena, whose...

MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 September 2010

Government insists guidance on torture does not breach law

The Equality and Human Rights Commission questioned the legality of the newly-published guidance at the weekend and warned the government that it was preparing to mount a challenge in the courts. However, the government insists that the...

28 September 2010

Netanyahu urges restraint as West Bank settlement building freeze is lifted

Meanwhile, the US tried to wring a last-minute compromise to keep a Middle East deal on track. The 10-month moratorium on new building in settlements ended at midnight tonight, after Netanyahu had earlier called on Jewish settlers to show restraint,...

28 September 2010

Moderate Islamist group walks out of Somali govt

Before joining the government, the Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca (ASWJ) militia group had pushed back al Qaeda linked al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam rebels in central Somalia, and its entry into government was meant to help defeat the extremists. Sheikh...

28 September 2010

US: Sanctions stay until Zimbabwean rights improve

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle have been subject to Western sanctions since his ZANU-PF party won an election in 2000 after a violent campaign. The sanctions were imposed at the start of his government's policy of...

28 September 2010

Zuma quashes youth league's lobbying

"In the ANC's national executive committee (NEC), which is the highest decision-making body, there is a lot of youth there, so what are you talking about?" asked Zuma, in an interview with the Star newspaper, published on Monday. He was responding...

28 September 2010

Zim bans used car imports

According to Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use) Regulations published in the government gazette of September 17, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development is also phasing out left-hand vehicles. The regulations that will...

28 September 2010

Travel Leisure gears up for Tourism Week

Travel Leisure is a travel and tour booking company whose principal shareholders are American and Botswana investors. The company links well established hotels and lodges in Botswana and in the region, with domestic and international...

28 September 2010

SADC ramps up to seal EPA

In June, ministers from the seven EPA countries met in Gaborone and approved timelines for the finalisation and signing of a comprehensive EPA with the EU. Under the agreement, the states committed themselves to resolving sticking points that have...

MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Business is'burgeoning' at Stanchart

In a statement accompanying the results, the bank says while its consumer banking division recorded a sustainable level of income, the wholesale banking segment continued to be impacted by lingering effects of last year's interest rate cuts and a...

STAFF WRITER 28 September 2010

As I See It

Batswana celebrate 44 years of independence in two days time. Celebration of the anniversary will be incomplete unless we pause to remind ourselves what independence has meant for us, whether we can show anything for it, not as individual citizens...

Michael Dingake 28 September 2010

Vice President Merafhe at the Council on Africa

I am aware that many, if not most, of you around the table, are familiar with the evolution of my country Botswana, from its humble beginnings as a Least Developed Country at Independence in 1966, to its present classification as an upper middle...

28 September 2010

Minister Motsumi at the Vision 2016 Awards

It is now common knowledge that through Vision 2016, this nation committed to achieve 'Prosperity for all by the year 2016'. When we made this commitment in 1996, Ladies and Gentlemen, we set ourselves milestones that we wanted to achieve...

28 September 2010

Lets start the cremation debate

In the current edition of our sister publication, The Monitor, Lands minister Nonofo Molefhi has elicited a debate in which he is calling on Batswana to consider cremation as a new form of burial. Minister Molefhi says the realities of land shortage...

28 September 2010

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28 September 2010

Government and Basarwa to agree on CKGR resources

Responding to Mmegi questions regarding a call by Survival International for tourists to boycott Botswana's tourism, government spokesman Jeff Ramsay said the human rights organisation was just trying to get attention after realising that government...

EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Works minister to meet Molapo management

Molapo Crossing management has been accusing the ministry of denying them business by excluding the mall from developments that are currently ongoing around the mall. There is no access to the mall from the Western bypass road that the...

MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Chile miners: Family joy as rescue capsule arrives

The steel capsule will be used to pull the men to safety one by one, once a rescue shaft wide enough to haul them up has been drilled. Relatives of the miners were allowed to get into the narrow cage, which is little more than 50cm (20in) wide.It is...

28 September 2010

We are not in trouble - BLH boss

Mmegi paid a visit to the hospital following complaints that patients hospitalised at the hospital were receiving extremely rationed meals. A number of patients, both male and female interviewed said that the hospital abided by the times for meals,...

GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Otlogetswe resigns

Article 6.3 of the PCB Notarial Deed of Trust prohibits members from taking active part in partisan politics.When accepting Dr Otlogetswe's resignation, the Press Council of Botswana chairperson Gideon Nkala regretted the resignation but said it was...

28 September 2010

'African intellectuals suck up to governments'

The appeal was made at the beginning of a two-day seminar of the Trust-Africa Higher Education Project that offers a platform for the strengthening and transformation of higher education in Africa. It began at the University of Botswana (UB) in...

STAFF WRITER 28 September 2010

TAWU, BOGOWU win round one against DPSM

In a hearing held on Friday, Sam Leero, a part-time mediator/arbitrator, ruled that the registration of the PSBC constitution be suspended, thus saving the two unions from being excluded from the bargaining process. Last Monday, five unions and the...

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

High Court to decide Riverwalk plot case

The attorney for the government, Charles Gulubane, told the court yesterday that according to the Prescription Act, "the action for claim should have been made from the date when the wrong upon which the claim for damages is based was first brought...

ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 September 2010

Twenty-Seven receive Presidential Awards

The three-tier arrangement saw the awardees receiving their honours and awards in the Presidential Order of Honour (PH), Presidential Order of Meritorious Service or Presidential Certificate of Honour (PCH) and the Presidential Service of Honour....

28 September 2010

Rooney ruled out of Valencia game

The club said Rooney had succumbed to an ankle injury, but the statement followed suggestions he might be overlooked as he struggles to reconcile his form and personal issues. The absence of a fully fit Rooney is a blow for Sir Alex Ferguson, with...

29 September 2010

Prisons XI seek to end long stay

Prisons XI started its fourth season on a mixed note after drawing 0-0 against Young Strikers before beating Kanye Swallows 2-0. The Warders were relegated at the end of the 2007 season and so far, their efforts to bounce back have not been...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 September 2010

Games CEO slammed by Indian media

Hooper has lived in India in the lead up to the Games which open on Sunday. He has become a controversial figure as accountability is sought for the state of New Delhi's preparations.The Commonwealth Games Federation and the Indian Organising...

29 September 2010

Local riders shine in Zimbabwe

Club chairman, Gregg Armstrong, said their performance surprised the hosts with most of the eight riders competing well. He told Mmegi Sport that the club performed well though it was their first regional competition."We travelled to Zimbabwe...

MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 29 September 2010

Local women show class at Chess Olympiad

The win came after the team held Nigeria to a 2-2 draw, thanks to the exploits of Fide Master (FM) Boikhutso Mudongo and Tshepiso Lopang. The last two impressive showings by the team followed a not so inspiring performance against Ecuador and Taipei...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 29 September 2010

Zebras secure Equatorial Guinea friendly

The match will be played 10 days before the Zebras visit reigning African champions, Egypt, in Cairo for another preparatory tie for the AFCON 2012 qualifiers. For the Equatorial Guinea match, the Zebras will be without coach Stanley Tshosane...

THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 September 2010

Gumbo faces censure after outburst

Gumbo was shown a red card by referee Omphile Phuthego for the outburst 10 minutes from time with his side trailing 1-0. In the 80th minute, the ball rolled out of play, and in frustration, the Chiefs' coach kicked it away. The referee approached...

MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI & KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 29 September 2010

Mookodi appointed BFA CEO

BFA president, David Fani, confirmed the appointment, although he did not give further details. He said the association will issue a media statement. Mookodi is a former Gaborone United chairperson. He was head-hunted after an initial recruitment...

MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 29 September 2010

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