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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 19 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...
19 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...
19 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...
19 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 19 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...
19 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 19 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 19 October 2010
The 'Garden Boy' Who Calls The Shots
The Organising Secretary of the Manual Workers Union, Johnson Motshwarakgole, has become a doyen of workers' rights, having been in the leadership of Botswana's labour movement for three decades. Motshwarakgole, whose first job was as a 'garden...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 19 October 2010
'I'm Down, But Far From Out,' Quips Direlang
He made an impact when he went around riding his bicycle and teaching people about road safety. The gesture so impressed the Ministry of Works and Transport that they got him to learn to drive and they employed him as a driver. Keganne Direlang who...
Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
My Kgale Hill Climbing Experience
Situated just behind the popular Game City Mall, on the western edge of the city, the baboon-infested hill has over time earned quite a reputation as a fitness hub amoung fitness enthusiasts from greater Gaborone. Even though the majority of the...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Crossing The Gender Boundaries
Time and again she has to stretch her vocal cords as she shouts instructions to a learner. The screeching sound of the tyres as the learner drivers unnecessarily apply the breaks and the uncoordinated roaring of the engines easily conclude to any...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 19 October 2010
Kgaphamadi's Infamous Reputation
Given this scenario it is clear that apart from being one of the oldest and most populated slums in the Northern City, Kgaphamadi is infamously known as a location that boasts of many 'home bars' or spotos as they are commonly referred to. "This...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 19 October 2010
The Winners Code
On the other hand, a tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that reaches from the earth to the clouds. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 480 km/h, stretch more than 3 km across, and travel for...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 19 October 2010
Batswana Need Not Go Hungry
"In most developing countries, it remains the responsibility of government to create the right climate for farmers, especially smallholder farmers and allied agro-businesses," he said. "Ultimately, sustainable food security will be obtained within...
19 October 2010
Masitara reveals Chiefs' interest
The mercurial goal poacher left the be MOBILE Premier League last year July, after he was signed by Mozambican side, Liga Desportivo Muulmana de Maputo for P300, 000. However, things have not been rosy for the Zimbabwe-born forward after he spent...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 19 October 2010
Moloi still waiting for Vasco debut
His side, Vasco Da Gama made a dramatic comeback in the second half, coming from 2-0 down to draw 2-2. Aces led 2-0 at half time. Moloi is yet to see action at Vasco since joining at the start of the season. It is said that his paper work had not...
STAFF WRITER 19 October 2010
Rollers, ECCO make intentions clear
Chiefs, with three losses in eight matches, are slowly drifting out of the equation as Rollers and ECCO emphasised their intentions after another weekend in which they remained unbeaten in eight matches. Barring their clash a fortnight ago, ECCO and...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Women's Under-23 face tough task in Zambia
The team is aware of the mammoth task that awaits it in the Zambian capital. Botswana has to score four clear goals to go through to the next round. However, coach Gaoletlhoo 'Ronaldo' Nkutlwisang remains optimistic that her team will defy odds. She...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 19 October 2010
Back stage
BirdWatchers (2008) a.k.a La Terra Degli Uomini Rossi or "Land of the Red People" is an astounding award winning film on the Guarani-Kaiow‡ Amerindians in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Two-hundred-years ago the Guarani numbered nearly two...
Sasa Majuma 19 October 2010
The spirit of Lebasho lives on
An album called The Best of Lebasho Vol 1 has recently hit the music shelves and created much excitement. It was so unfortunate that the musician left this world at a time when his career was just about to peak. His last project, an album...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 19 October 2010
Copyright Society seeks CEO - at last
Established five years ago, the organisation has been criticised by local musicians, through the Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU), for taking too long to start collecting royalties for musicians whose products are consumed by four local radio and two...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
BBAS: Uti makes it two in a row for Nigeria
The M-Net show, which this time around went by the signature Big Brother Africa All Stars, ended on Sunday with Nigeria's Uti Nwachukwu becoming Big Brother Africa's latest millionaire. After fighting off stiff competition from Zimbabwe's Munya...
STAFF WRITER 19 October 2010
EU continues efforts to achieve universal abolition of death penalty
Despite a marked trend towards abolition and restriction of the use of capital punishment in most countries, numbers and manner of death penalty application worldwide remain alarming. While 139 countries - more than 2/3 of the countries of the world...
19 October 2010
Ex-Rebel leader calls Nigeria blasts case 'Ludicrous'
Okah, the ex-leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which claimed responsibility for the twin car bombings, was arrested at his home in Johannesburg on October 2, the day after the blasts killed 12 people. South...
19 October 2010
Malema files equality court appeal
Zuma was acquitted of the charge, but the Sonke Gender Justice Network was outraged by the stereotype that the comments created and felt they might discourage women from laying charges of rape in future. They succeeded in a hate speech and harassment...
19 October 2010
Mugabe must 'rule forever'
"We endorse your candidature. We are saying: stand in the next election and rule forever," ZANU-PF Women's League secretary Oppah Muchinguri was quoted as saying by the Sunday Mail. "Your work cannot be compared to that of anyone else. Do not leave...
19 October 2010
Eskom sizes up $1bn loan from World Bank
With investment in coal-fired plants set to decrease in line with the government's proposals in its draft integrated resource plan released last week, Eskom's new investments - after the Kusile coal-fired plant - are likely to focus on renewable...
19 October 2010
Accident funds to emphasise prevention
"The prevailing operative phrase is 'prevention for sustainability,'" Muadino said. Muadino was speaking in Gaborone last week at the occasion to mark the signing of a Memorandum between MVA (Botswana) and the Ministry of Health that culminated in a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 19 October 2010
New suitors line up for CIC Energy
In addition, another unnamed Chinese company is reportedly preparing a bid for CIC Energy, due to be unveiled by October 30. The two bids come as CIC Energy and the "multi-billion Pula Indian conglomerate" - which has been widely identified as JSW,...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Govt revises GDP forecast to 7.9 percent
According to the 2011/12 Budget Strategy Paper (BSP) that will form the basis of preparations for the next national budget to be announced next February, the government has revised GDP, revenue and expenditure forecasts for the next three years,...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Know your rights
Protection from any form of discrimination is a guaranteed right in our jurisprudence. This simply means that no person shall be treated in a discriminatory manner by any person acting by virtue of any written law or in performance of the...
Mpho Ngwato 19 October 2010
Streamline law enforcement functions
Clarity about the specific roles of the various law enforcement agencies will also help 'suspects' to know exactly who they are dealing with. Take the recent case involving a University of Botswana lecturer who was accosted by two security officers....
19 October 2010
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19 October 2010
Matome, Nchindo, back in remand, with costs
Gaongalelwe yesterday dismissed a bail application by Nchindo and Matome and upheld a decision by Moroka to remand the two after conviction. Gaongalalelwe found nothing wrong in what Moroka did adding that the right to liberty of an individual...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Private tertiary institutions future uncertain
Executive Director of Ba Isago University College, Dr Roshen Kishun revealed that the interruption in 2009/2010 in terms of government support for the private sector has seen the Gross Enrollment Ratio drop to 15.1 percent from 17 percent in the past...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Bank robbery suspects acquitted
In his short ruling yesterday, Moroka found that evidence induced by the State did not link the duo to the crime they were charged with. Surtee and Moseki were jointly charged with Michael and Edward Mzwinila for an attempt to rob Bank of Baroda of...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Union accuses DTC of compromising diamonds' security
DTC workers have been on a strike called by the union since last week. Union leader, Jacob Pasopi expressed concern on Friday that DTC is using workers not directly involved with diamonds to perform the duties of those on strike. "The union...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
Media practitioners win IPI backing
Headed by acting director Alison Bethel McKenzie, the IPI delegation hopes that the visit will yield the desired results. The government has maintained its stance to regulate the media through an Act of parliament, while media practitioners advocate...
MWENGWE KAPEMBWA
Correspondent 19 October 2010
BNF to learn 'process' of opposition unity
BNF publicity secretary, Moeti Mohwasa, said yesterday in an interview that the workshop is targeting the central committee, women's and youth leagues. It will be held at Ditshupo Hall in Gaborone. Mohwasa said that his party believed opposition...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 19 October 2010
BMD calls for opposition unity
Dr Tlamelo Mmatli, addressing a BMD rally in Molepolole, said the BMD has no intentions of staying in the opposition for long and urged for opposition unity. "Combined votes of the opposition in the 2009 general elections show that the opposition...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 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 20 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...
20 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...
20 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...
20 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 20 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...
20 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 20 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 20 October 2010
The 'Garden Boy' Who Calls The Shots
The Organising Secretary of the Manual Workers Union, Johnson Motshwarakgole, has become a doyen of workers' rights, having been in the leadership of Botswana's labour movement for three decades. Motshwarakgole, whose first job was as a 'garden...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 20 October 2010
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