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Making society a big classroom
I had, as it had happened, been in Bonn, Germany, the previous week, where I had been invited as a recipient member of the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. I have regularly attended the intervening gatherings of the RLA in the years gone by. I had...
* PATRICK VAN RENSBURG 12 October 2010
The dynamics around the Seretse case
Temperatures rose and the musty air inside the crowded court made bodies clammy and breathing a bit difficult. But it was not just the temperatures that rose, tempers could not be kept in check. At one stage the prosecution's Rahman Khan had to...
12 October 2010
I was simply off form - FM Phemelo Khetho
This time around hopes were high that he would win himself a FIDE title at the Khanty-Mansysk Olympiad, Siberia, Russia. However, it was not to be. FIDDE Master (FM) Khetho amassed only 1.5 points from a possible nine. He attributes his poor...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Yarona FM recognises ex-Zebras' stars
Station manager Dumi Lopang said every year during their birthday celebrations, they also give to charity as part of the event and that this year they had chosen retired players for the top honours. He said since retired players have just formed a...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Sebetela Calls For Smooth Hand-Over
Sebetela said outgoing committees should always hand over records to ensure continuity. He was speaking at the Gaborone City Regional Football Association (GCRFA) sponsorship launch in Gaborone over the weekend. Sebetela said there is a tendency by...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Talking Musika
The article in last week's issue of The Monitor, relating to purported similarities between Chedza Fane's composition, Chomie and Socca Moruakgomo's What's Happening raises three important questions:The first relates to ethics. Is it appropriate that...
Rampholo Molefhe 12 October 2010
Women use waste paper to earn a living
Making beads from waste paper such as magazines, newspapers, flyers and cardboard packaging, women in Selebi-Phikwe are penetrating international markets through a trust called Mothers for All. Eurosport, in partnership with the US Soccer...
Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Clean printing technology in Zambia
Compared to conventional printing, the clean printing technology uses organic materials like soya beans which, unlike petroleum-based inks and other toxic solvents employed in conventional printing, are environmentally friendly. The Operations...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Botswana to transform into global diamond centre
Kedikilwe said this at a groundbreaking event of a new diamond cutting and polishing factory owned by Laurelton Diamonds Botswana (LDB) at the diamond technology park last week. He said all 16 licensed cutting and polishing factories are in...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Bulgasa has always had an ideology
The gist of the story is to tell how the man had a hard childhood and how it cultivated within him a passion for protecting the down trodden from exploiters. Baeng's childhood experiences are of no interest in this article. What one finds disturbing...
12 October 2010
Etcetera II
It's been a long wait but now that Amantle has done it, the door must be wide open for others to emulate and even overtake her wonderful achievement in winning that gold. Many of us had hoped that Glody Dube would have been the one to win this first...
Sandy Grant 12 October 2010
Issues In Education
As mentioned previously, a new initiative is spreading worldwide that has come from Unicef and the Commonwealth of Learning. It is called "Child-Friendly Schools" (CFS). Recently Teacher Training and Development in the Ministry of Education and...
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S.Weeks 12 October 2010
Health Chat
I have been bleeding from the mouth. Can you tell me what could cause this? AnswerBleeding from the mouth could be caused by anything from gum disease to a coagulation problem. My first suggestion would be that you see your dentist or a periodontist...
Kiran Bhagat 12 October 2010
The Winners Code
There are two television programs that I have found very fascinating, over the years, for diametrically opposite reasons. The first one is the Bill Cosby Show. The other is simply called Parking Wars. Bill Cosby is master comedian and his shows...
George Chingarande 12 October 2010
Nurses shirk multiple duties, health system trembles
This action has within a few days caused more pain and suffering and left the beneficiaries of these non-nursing duties panic-stricken and disappointed. Nyalalani Moipolai maintains that "this issue of the nurses has to be resolved as soon as...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Media silent on climate change - journalists
Telling a tale of 'the revenge of nature' against mass production and consumerism that caught the human race in pursuit of technological and economic gains, this war of economies against nature has complexities due to the complex nature of the issue...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Rothschilds espouse vision 2016 ideals
The couple have embraced the ideals of one of the pillars of Vision 2016: to make Botswana 'an informed and educated nation'. The couple are fulfilling this by building libraries in the country, through their self-funded organisation, Bob & Sara...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 12 October 2010
CA reaches for new heights at Kgale hill
Their business of 22 years, CA Sales & Distribution, is less based on tenders from the government and more on fast moving consumer goods in the retail and wholesale trade. Their 120 trucks criss-cross the length and breadth of Botswana, from...
12 October 2010
Hawkers, vendors, a Key part of the economy
Known variously as the subterranean, the hidden, underground, shadow, secondary, black, invisible or parallel sector, this sector faces many challenges. The growth of the informal sector in general and the vendors and hawkers in particular, is...
12 October 2010
Sesigo Project to enhance ICT
The advocacy and outreach specialist for African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP), Tshepo Maswabi said the project was aimed at bridging the digital gap. She said the programme is going to position libraries as necessary tools for...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Go out and prove yourselves, UB graduates told
Of the total six were PhD graduands, one Mphil, 214 Masters Degree whilst the rest were Degree, Diploma and Certificate graduates from various fields of specialty. Speaking at the ceremony, UB Vice Chancellor, Professor Bojosi Otlhogile said he was...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Kedikilwe eager to solve Goodhope SSS's water crisis
The minister promised the Southern District Council (SDC) last week that he would meet with education minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi and her Local Government counterpart Lebonaamang Mokalake to discuss possible solutions for the school that...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
BCP boss calls for political fire
Speaking at a BCP regional congress in Mogoditshane, Gobotswang said the members have consistently failed to respond to issues of national concern like the examination crisis where teachers are refusing to invigilate after failing to agree on...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Printing more money not feasible says Jefferies
In response to Mmegi's queries Dr Jeffries said, "I do not even think government can consider that option; first we have reserves, the government is not broke despite the crisis...printing money is not necessary, it is not feasible". Dr Jeffries...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Ngakagae leaving the DPP
Prosecutors celebrate whenever they get convictions in the case they prosecute. If Kgosietsile Ngakaagae celebrates the convictions of Joe Matome and Louis Garvas Nchindo, metaphorically speaking, this will be his last celebration. Ngakaagae is...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Tears as Moroka sends Nchindo and Matome to jail
Of the many cases Moroka presided over as a magistrate there is no doubt that he will be remembered most for his last judgment at the Magistracy. Yesterday at the Regional Magistrates Courts, Moroka convicted and found Louis Garvas Nchindo, Tourism...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
BNF wants DIS disbanded
The youth are demanding that the spy agency be disbanded. They failed to present a petition to the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security because the officials turned them down. The BNF was only granted a permit by the police to stage the march,...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Striking DTCB workers cry foul
DTCB employees downed tools yesterday after the management failed to meet their pay demands. Speaking to Mmegi, DTCB union chairman Kabelo Kelepile said they were shocked in the morning to find a DTCB manager blocking access to the ablution...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Aviation problems: Govt should wake up
Although flights delays and cancellations are not a new phenomenon at Air Botswana, the situation is getting worse by the day and worryingly government seems to be taking time to address the matter. Although Botswana adopted an open skies policy...
EDITOR 12 October 2010
As I See It
One's history is founded on one's family, clan, institutions. Very few people ever hate their origins because these origins are part of them, they make them who they are and if they do not make them what they want to be they strive to adapt...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 12 October 2010
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12 October 2010
CIS in P2.7B takeover negotiations
Frustrated by unyielding efforts to acquire a Power purchasing agreement with South Africa's Eskom, who were supposed to be the off takers of the MEP, the Botswana Stock Exchange-listed company looks set to offload the project after receiving the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Botswana records first trade surplus in 20 months
October 2008 marked the onset of a 10-month recession driven largely by a 20.9 percent contraction in the mining sector, which constitutes more than a third of the Gross Domestic Product. During that period, Botswana witnessed heavy trade deficits,...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
I am no saint, says Mandela in book
The book "Conversations with Myself" goes on sale today, but passages printed in British and South African papers show his thoughts on everything from the danger of corruption in power to his grief at his son's death. Decades' worth of letters,...
12 October 2010
Hunger stalks 25 countries
Out of 122 countries included in the annual report, 25 have "alarming" levels of hunger and four countries in Africa have "extremely alarming" hunger, says the report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide, and...
12 October 2010
Gaddafi warns on Sudan
"What is happening in Sudan could become a contagious disease that affects the whole of Africa," Gaddafi said at the opening of an Arab-Africa summit in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte. "We must recognise that this event is dangerous," he...
12 October 2010
Back Stage
Uniform is a stunning directorial debut by a member of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers. A young man impersonates an officer and a woman he warms up to is living a secret double life. Posing as a policeman creates tensions that...
SASA MAJUMA 12 October 2010
Shumba makes a kill outside Botswana
Speaking to Showbiz in an interview in Gaborone yesterday after his return from countries such as Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and Tanzania, Shumba said that he has realised that there is a lucrative market for his borankana genre out there. "Botswana...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Kaone ejected from BBAS House ahead of Oct 17 grand finale
The two were the last to be evicted from the house, before the M-Net reality show's grand finale this Sunday, October 17. Not a single country voted for Kaone and Tatiana because even their own countries voted to save the other contenders. ...
STAFF WRITER 12 October 2010
Njobvu impresses at Olympiad
In fact had he not been too carried away against a lowly-rated opponent from Mauritania in the last round, he would have been crowned a chess master. However, there are still hopes that after doing so well in 72 percent of his games, the world...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 12 October 2010
Relay teams qualify for next round
The men's team of Isaac Makwala, Sakarea Kamberuka, Tiroyaone Masake, Gakologelwang Masheto and Obakeng Ngwigwa finished third in the heats to qualify for the next round while golden girl Amantle Montsho crossed the line first to lead the women to a...
12 October 2010
Nare relishes COSAFA Cup appearance
Indications are that the Under-23 will be sent to the tournament, which takes place a few days before the Zebras' crunch Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tunisia. The COSAFA Cup will run from November 13-17 in Angola and the Carthage...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 12 October 2010
Making society a big classroom
I had, as it had happened, been in Bonn, Germany, the previous week, where I had been invited as a recipient member of the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. I have regularly attended the intervening gatherings of the RLA in the years gone by. I had...
* PATRICK VAN RENSBURG 13 October 2010
The dynamics around the Seretse case
Temperatures rose and the musty air inside the crowded court made bodies clammy and breathing a bit difficult. But it was not just the temperatures that rose, tempers could not be kept in check. At one stage the prosecution's Rahman Khan had to...
13 October 2010
Nurses shirk multiple duties, health system trembles
This action has within a few days caused more pain and suffering and left the beneficiaries of these non-nursing duties panic-stricken and disappointed. Nyalalani Moipolai maintains that "this issue of the nurses has to be resolved as soon as...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 13 October 2010
Media silent on climate change - journalists
Telling a tale of 'the revenge of nature' against mass production and consumerism that caught the human race in pursuit of technological and economic gains, this war of economies against nature has complexities due to the complex nature of the issue...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 13 October 2010
Rothschilds espouse vision 2016 ideals
The couple have embraced the ideals of one of the pillars of Vision 2016: to make Botswana 'an informed and educated nation'. The couple are fulfilling this by building libraries in the country, through their self-funded organisation, Bob & Sara...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 13 October 2010
CA reaches for new heights at Kgale hill
Their business of 22 years, CA Sales & Distribution, is less based on tenders from the government and more on fast moving consumer goods in the retail and wholesale trade. Their 120 trucks criss-cross the length and breadth of Botswana, from...
13 October 2010
Hawkers, vendors, a Key part of the economy
Known variously as the subterranean, the hidden, underground, shadow, secondary, black, invisible or parallel sector, this sector faces many challenges. The growth of the informal sector in general and the vendors and hawkers in particular, is...
13 October 2010
Aviation problems: Govt should wake up
Although flights delays and cancellations are not a new phenomenon at Air Botswana, the situation is getting worse by the day and worryingly government seems to be taking time to address the matter. Although Botswana adopted an open skies policy...
EDITOR 13 October 2010
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