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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 15 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...
15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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...
15 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...
15 October 2010
What is in store for Matome and Nchindo
Count One and Two: Giving false information to a civil servant - Three years. Matome was found guilty of giving false information to a person employed in the public service contrary to Section 131 of the Penal Code. In Count One, Matome...
15 October 2010
'The annual Domboshaba Festival is on the right track'
DOMBOSHABA: The Domboshaba Cultural Festival has been held annually since 2000 with the objective of preserving the Ikalanga language and culture. Over the years, there have been debates as to whether the event has achieved either of its original...
15 October 2010
Biopiracy, the intellectual property regime and livelihoods in Africa
Thousands of patents on African plants have been filed. These include brazzeine, a protein 500 times sweeter than sugar from a plant in Gabon; teff, the grain used in Ethiopia's flat 'injera' bread; and thaumatin, a natural sweetener from a plant in...
15 October 2010
When towns don nicknames
It also used to go by another sobriquet "Sthalala" while it has also borrowed a name from west of the city called "Machimenyenga". Hence, you could hear someone, especially of Kalanga origin saying 'Ndo enda ku Machimenyenga.' Sobriquet and...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 15 October 2010
The phenomenon of mass hysteria
Over the past millennium, numerous cases of mass delusions and hysterical outbreaks have been reported in varied forms and from all corners of the globe. A case of mass hysteria that was initially reported in The Monitor of March 8, 2010 that...
15 October 2010
One year later
Towards the 2009 general elections, the voter was cajoled, wooed, manipulated and arm-twisted by the disparate parties as well as independent candidates asking to be voted into office. Slogans such as, "Trusted to Deliver," "Roma Nna," "Ke Nako,"...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Water crisis in Tonota sub-district persists
As for those residents who are new to these villages it is hardly a surprise that they are beginning to wonder whether migrating to these villages was a good move in the first place. As for 42-year-old Tshenolo Mari, she regrets moving from the City...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Book Review
Granta is a quarterly publication of new world writing by both the famous and not so famous. It is published in London, but has always had a worldwide view. Now in its 27th year, Granta has a reputation for being iconoclast and experimental. Each...
SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 15 October 2010
Back Stage
The free film showings and the exhibit are in Room 215 of New Building 252. She, A Chinese is a haunting film by Xiaolu Guo, a young and new female director and scriptwriter. Her approach to cinema and her use of images will leave a lasting...
SASA MAJUMA 15 October 2010
Thapong is the Mecca of Botswana's creative artists
When you get to Thapong, you are greeted by sculptures, which signify that it is a place for art.The coordinator of Thapong, Reginald Bakwena is celebrating these achievements. He said the centre has grown phenomenally over the years, noting...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Radipodi, the feisty art therapy advocate
Our team finds her in an outdoor studio at the Gaborone Secondary School (GSS) where she teaches art, helping a male student with his project. The 'poor' lad has both his arms outstretched on top of a table and his knotted hands are in plaster of...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
Exquisite Nhabe and Okavango baskets invade Thapong
This initiative happened after members from the centre visited Maun and one Thapong member, Ivy Radipodi was impressed with the works of the craftspeople, mostly women, in the tourist capital of Botswana and its environs. "It was so amazing to look...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
SA, Angola 'close to signing oil deal'
PetroSA is in negotiations with Angola's parastatal oil firm, Sonangol, to enter into crude production, deep-water exploration and refinery operations in Angola, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. A deal with Angola will ensure crude...
15 October 2010
South Africa in the global currency war
Until August 2010, there was little evidence of sustained foreign exchange accumulation by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), despite increasing disquiet over the South African Rand(SAR) strength, and a growing clamour ahead of the ruling ANC's...
* RAZIA KHAN 15 October 2010
US looking at fresh move to stimulate economy
In released minutes of its most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting, it said it was prepared to carry out such a move "if needed". The central bank has not decided on what method it would use, but did talk of buying more government...
15 October 2010
Mixed feelings greet prospects of Pula slide against Rand
Sesinyi, a retired civil servant and author who started working for BoB on a contract basis on September 20, was responding to a Mmegi inquiry. The Botswana currency fetched only R1.o4 for P1.00. From August 1976 when Botswana formally withdrew from...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Strong gains seen in rough diamond prices
"We have seen a rapid recovery and prices are back to pre-crisis levels," Harry Kenyon-Slaney, chief executive officer of diamonds and minerals at London-based Rio, said in an interview with Bloomberg. "What we see going forward is a long decline in...
15 October 2010
Consumer Watchdog
The problem is that unlike a face-to-face meeting and on the phone, you have no clues about how someone FEELS when you read or write an email. When someone is standing in front of you or you can hear their voice, there are hundreds of little...
15 October 2010
Uncertainty surrounds Mmamabula's future
The draft Integrated Resource Plan 2010 (IRP 2010) - which determines South Africa's long-term electricity demand, how this should be met in terms of capacity, type, timing and cost - only envisages fossil fuel imports into South Africa in no less...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
BTC public shares due next year
The offer of shares in the privatised BTC is eagerly-awaited in a market bereft of investment opportunities, particularly the high-return, low-risk variety offered the telecommunications giant. Earlier this year, citizen investors were left ruing...
STAFF WRITER 15 October 2010
EU, SADC inch closer to final EPA
Senior officials of the two parties recently met in South Africa, marking the first meeting between the groups since the EU accepted the region's request that it places its solidarity ahead of any final agreement. Four of the seven SADC-EPA states,...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
Banks to drive P1.4 bn Morupule expansion
This comes amid reports that construction at the adjacent power station is moving ahead of schedule. Morupule Colliery is expanding from one to three million tonnes of coal per year in order to meet increased demand from the Botswana Power...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
DRC women relive terror of mass rape
The women of Kampala village, where 35 were raped, still sleep in the forest at night, for fear the rapists will return. Earlier this month, they gathered in the village to tell their troubles to Margot Wallstrom, the UN secretary general's special...
15 October 2010
Call to 'go easy on Zim'
Home Affairs director-general Mkhuseli Apleni, briefing journalists in Cape Town yesterday on the progress in documenting illegal Zimbabwean migrants, has urged banks, educational institutions and government departments to distinguish between genuine...
15 October 2010
African leaders urged to tackle climate change
Ethiopia's President Girma Wolde-Giorgis "has called on African leaders to 'close the gap between rhetoric and adaptation actions' in order to effectively address the impact of climate change across the continent," organisers said in a...
15 October 2010
China investment in Africa to slow this year - ministry
The slowdown should only be temporary, and Beijing aims to invest in a wider range of industries on the continent, including new energy, financial services and manufacturing, said Zhong Manying, head of the ministry's West Asia and Africa...
15 October 2010
Why has the Chilean miners' rescue left me this euphoric?
The thing about rescuing the Chilean miners is that there's no such thing as overreacting. There's no such thing as too many presidents in attendance, even if the lone rescued Bolivian might have been a little surprised to see Evo Morales. There's...
15 October 2010
Nitty Gritty
Cave: Are you sure you want to go ahead with this? Myself: I am positive. I have made up my mind! Cave: I am a woman.... I have..... Myself: You are a cave, and the sooner you understand that the better! Cave: Okay, I am a cave with a...
BAROLONG SEBONI 15 October 2010
How to change the IMF
The fight is over how to give a bit more voice to governments representing the majority of the world's people. Ironically, the quarrel is mostly between the United States and Europe. Some background: the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
MARK WEISBROT 15 October 2010
Only the weak survive
Today's tensions are rooted in paralysis on global rebalancing. Over-spending countries - such as the United States and other "Anglo-Saxon" economies - that were over-leveraged and running current-account deficits now must save more and spend...
NOURIEL ROUBINI 15 October 2010
Whither Botswana
I told him the reason was that I had lost all confidence in the bona fides of both South Africa (as the sub-region's designated mediator in the long-running Zimbabwe crisis) and SADC as the general overseer of the mediation process. For me, I...
DAN MOABI 15 October 2010
Khama's new foreign policy realism is welcome
Reports from those meetings indicate that Khama and his team had a relatively successful visit, on important matters concerning economic relations and even security concerns. Khama, as our readers would remember has had a few critics, us among...
EDITOR 15 October 2010
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15 October 2010
Volleyball league reaches home stretch
The weekend fixtures sees the battle move North to Francistown and Mahalapye. Teams will be motivated to finish in the top eight which will enable them to play in the Top Eight Tournament at the end of the season. Sleeping giants Mafolofolo (men),...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Kutlwano in Pretoria for university tourney
Kutlwano, whose male and female teams lead their respective league logs, leave for South Africa today. Club spokesperson Shadrack Modiakgotla said the invitation came at the right time as their teams were preparing to play in the Top Eight and Zone...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 October 2010
BODA battles to secure sponsorship
BODA public relations officer, Peter Martias Sekgwama said they have been frustrated for over 10 years without sponsorship. He said their efforts have come to naught as most organisations shun darts. "We have managed to sustain ourselves for the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 15 October 2010
BRU targets Old Naledi youngsters
The team that participated in the UK tournament finished an impressive sixth out of 16 teams despite the fact that they were the youngest team comprising players who are aged 10 and below. Speaking to Mmegi Sport, development coach Zilwele Khumalo...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 15 October 2010
First Cut
Winning a gold medal in a record time is no mean feat. All over the four corners of Botswana, it has been great jubilation, dance and song. The last time I saw Batswana in such a mood was more than 10 years ago when Mpule Kwelagobe won the...
DENNIS KEAGILE 15 October 2010
Can Masitaoka maintain their lead?
The log leaders have made a solid start to the season with a 100 percent record and Buffaloes might find themselves on the receiving end. Masitaoka play with a lot of passion, skill and discipline at the back, which has ensured that while they...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 October 2010
Oatlhotse conquers giants at Olympiad
This was only his second appearance at the Olympiad, his debut being in 2004 when he scored 5.5points.Playing on Board 2, Oatlhotse played 10 games at the just-ended Olympiad in Russia. He won four, drew three and lost three against two grand masters...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 October 2010
BOKA to send team to World Championships
BOKA intends to send six karatekas - one of them female - for the event, which begin on October 28. The team will be accompanied by a manager, a coach and two referees. Until recently, BOKA was undecided on sending a team to Serbia due to financial...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 15 October 2010
The four key men
His individual brilliance will be a key factor in Chiefs' quest to overcome their arch-enemies. Rollers' central defence has proved fragile when under pressure and Piro's trickery and speed could cause problems for the likes of Oscar Ncenga and...
15 October 2010
Boteti face disciplinary action
First Division North secretary, Moraole Sikwane, said supporters invaded the pitch in the second half and were aggressive towards the referee. Sikwane who was the match commissioner said supporters threatened the referee using vulgar language....
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 15 October 2010
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