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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 28 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...
28 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...
28 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...
28 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 28 October 2010
Boko, Sebina discuss Che Guevara's life
Boko said there are some BNF members who claim to be socialists and other names but when you ask them about that ideology, they are just blank. Boko said this was why it was important that they should conduct public educational...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 October 2010
The naked truth about sex and politics in Botswana
"One time my husband told me he wanted to stand for council elections and I told him if he does, we would have to divorce," one woman told this reporter in confidence. When pressed to explain her extreme ultimatum, she went on, giving an ugly...
28 October 2010
Collett the phenom of Mmamashia
The man drives the truck while on his belly, and like the phenom that you will realise he is upon chatting with him, does it with great dexterity. But driving while lying on your belly? That's a first. And you are right. The man does it though, not...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Women and teeth clamping to achieve ideal weight
This has now led to young women taking drastic measures to control their weight, the latest trend in Botswana being teeth clamping. Besides that, women are also resorting to unhealthy ways of weight control such as self-induced vomiting, laxative...
Mpho Tlale
Correspondent 28 October 2010
The sad tale of the limbless African mall beggar
His distraught mother could not understand why fate would choose her for its cruel joke and gave the boy a name that expressed how she felt: the child was a shock; something that she could never have been prepared to see. It was something that her...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Commercial banks face trouble
Standard Chartered Bank management and the workers union are in a deadlock over negotiations for a salary increase. The union is contemplating industrial action after the bank awarded them a five percent increase for non-managerial staff instead of...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 October 2010
Legislation on human trafficking now - US envoy
He said that human trafficking is a serious problem worldwide and the country could find itself in the same situation if nothing is done now. "No country is immune to this problem and we have to build a wall against human trafficking and Botswana...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Mental wellness not given priority says psychiatrist
Addressing participants at a workshop in Lobatse, Thula said usually people with mental disorders have no access to proper medical attention until the illness reaches the stage of being declared mental disturbance by medical practitioners. "It has...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Police arrest freelance photojournalist
They arrested freelance photojournalist Lefoko Mogapaesi and took him to Central Police Station handcuffed. The main reason for the arrest is that he was obstructing the police from doing their job. Other photojournalists who were closer to the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Nchindo and Matome sentencing today
This follows the conclusion of mitigation yesterday. The accused had called in five individuals, among them pastors, family friends and professional associates. Local businessmen and a friend of the Nchindos, Satar Dada and Father Arthur McCann of...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Kgafela flees...
Last May, he and his younger brother, Mmusi, made the police wanted list after they failed to appear before former Regional Magistrate Lot Moroka, who has since been appointed to the High Court bench. Kgosi Kgafela's disappearance followed a ruling...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
...As Sekai spends first night in the slammer
Kgafela II, a trained lawyer, is together with his co-accused facing multiple counts of human rights' violations in which they allegedly flogged some individuals in Kgatleng without affording them a hearing. As tears flowed unabated, and agony...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Magistrate to decide Garvas, Matome 'forfeiture' request
Many had come hoping to hear the lawyers leading mitigation for Garvas Nchindo and Matome. Those who had come with this template were disappointed yesterday morning as it became clear that the case, styled as the Nchindo case, refuses to go even when...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Our Heritage
The new diamond inspired SSKI airport building is all hard, gleaming surfaces. It has no interest in trying to project any other kind of image - and probably, if it had tried to do so, it would have made a mess of it. In a way, it is a modern...
SANDY GRANT 28 October 2010
Bridge the gap between rich and poor
Right from the red carpeted offices of the Office of the President to the ward AIDS committees. Yes, even school committees! We all acknowledged the problem and were thus able to deal with it. Today delegates from across the country...
EDITOR 28 October 2010
Know Your Labour Rights
This is the basic principles of employment law. Distinguished from retrenchment and incapacity, misconduct is classified a fault dismissal. This is so, because in this case, the law considers the conduct of an employee to constitute a...
MPHO NGWATO 28 October 2010
SA says to relax exchange controls further
At a briefing, central bank Governor Gill Marcus said she would give details next week, but could not estimate how much money would leave South Africa due to the easing of controls. "The question of the amount that would flow out depends on what...
28 October 2010
Bifm empowers trustees through training
The training was a continuing series of workshops which are in recognition of the critical role played by the trustees of Botswana's pension funds, and covered topics such as investment principles, asset classes, financial markets and investment...
28 October 2010
Standard Chartered Africa wins key African Banker Award
The African Banker Awards are given to companies which have contributed significantly to the reform, modernisation and expansion of the continent's banking and financial system, driving Africa's sustained economic growth in the...
28 October 2010
Diamond exports could top P22 billion in 2010
Yesterday, Capital Securities researchers said the value of diamond exports up to August 2010 were 72 percent of the 2008 total, which is used as a baseline instead of 2009 whose statistics were warped by the recession. At current trends, Capital...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
BoB leaves bank rate at 10%
In its second last sitting of the year on Tuesday, BoB's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) proved its commitment to the neutral monetary policy stance where interest rates, which have not changed since the beginning of the year, are kept low in a bid...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 28 October 2010
Race is on to save 500 victims of Indonesia double disaster
Fishermen and relief crews searched the sea west of Sumatra for survivors of the deadly tidal surge set off by Monday's 7.5 magnitude earthquake west of South Pagai, in the Mentawai islands. The remote islands, popular with surfers, were hit by 10ft...
28 October 2010
WikiLeaks war logs: British forces exposed over Afghan attacks
The disclosure, in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act made by the Guardian, revealed that of the casualties caused by British forces, two-thirds involved troops from the three units, triggering calls for an inquiry into their...
28 October 2010
30 raped at Congo-Angola border
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement that more than 150 Congolese nationals arrived in the Bandundu Province in south-western Congo after being expelled from neighbouring Angola. OCHA spokeswoman...
28 October 2010
Claim your share of economy: Mugabe
Mugabe said empowerment was the only way through which Zimbabwe could realise meaningful economic development. He added that Zimbabweans, like the people of any other nation, had the right to determine their destiny without external interference as...
28 October 2010
8 die in Burundi clashes
The clashes in the northwest on Sunday night and Monday started after the bandits killed a gold trader in Murwi district, army spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza said. "Soldiers who were based in the area intervened but the bandits staged an ambush...
28 October 2010
Anti-Polio campaign targets 72 million African children
"This week Africa will be conducting a 15 country synchronised immunisation campaign with oral vaccine," said Rod Curtis, a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva. "Some 290,000 vaccinators are going to go around door to door to reach 72 million children...
28 October 2010
Yarona FM apologises for Deep 'rip-off'
Night-crawlers, thirsty for the South African R&B singer of the hit track Fairy tale, flocked to Fashion Lounge in Phakalane last Saturday hoping to witness the sensation whose show in Botswana last month-end at the Lizard Lounge was a...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
MC Sporo: True to Pantsula music
For anyone who grew up in the '80s when Pantsula culture was the real thing, the new-kid-on-the-block, MC Sporo takes you right aback with his irresistible melodies in his debut album, Monna Mongwe O Thuba Rre Thogo. The album title may appear long...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Artists cry foul as DJs allegedly snub local songs
Moarabi 'Testify' Mushumehi, a gospel/ motswako artist, said that although his song, Motsotsonyana has been well-received, he still feels that his album does not get enough airplay. "We gospel artists are the most affected because our music gets...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Slizer, Vee team up in part II of festive season sizzler
Two of the hottest names in local dance music have teamed up for what is expected to be a sizzler of an album this December. Their new album started playing yesterday on Thuzoski's morning show, RB1, with the popular morning show host hailing...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 October 2010
Hernndez acclaimed as Manchester United's new hero
Hern‡ndez, an 81st-minute substitute, struck the winning goal in the final minute of normal time after the visitors had twice equalised. "We tend to build up heroes very quickly at this club," Ferguson said, "but the boy is justifying...
28 October 2010
Radipotsane's Comets eager to keep top spot
Comets jumped to the top spot following their win against Happy Hearts in Jwaneng last weekend.This has seen Masitaoka slip from pole position to third after they lost to Prsions XI in Molepolole while Killer Giants moved from the third spot to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 28 October 2010
Katich adds to Australia's injury concerns ahead of the Ashes
The original diagnosis of bruising was overruled on Katich's return to Sydney, where scans revealed a fracture and ligament damage. Katich hopes to be fit for New South Wales' Sheffield Shield match against Victoria at the SCG, starting on 10...
28 October 2010
Zone VI table tennis tourney cancelled
Zone VI secretary general Game Mothibi said the country would not host the competition after the Malawi Table Tennis president died in August. She added that Namibia was on standby but it will not be possible to host the competition because the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 October 2010
Nico 'gag' banned coach Khumalo
Nico spokesperson Tiro Kganela said the suspended coach can not give interviews to the media. "The suspension does not mean the coach has been dismissed. This has nothing to do with the history of Nico," he said. Kganela said the performance of the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 28 October 2010
Chess official claims sabotage
Mpuisang said some federation members have always mistreated him, and things came to a head after the trip to Russia. He said he had to force the federation to buy him an air ticket to travel to the former Soviet Union. Mpuisang said he had been...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 October 2010
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Project Syndicate
The death last May of Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria's president, upended the informal agreement between members of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to rotate power between northern Muslims and their southern, mainly Christian counterparts....
IKE OKONTA 28 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 29 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...
29 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...
29 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...
29 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 29 October 2010
Boko, Sebina discuss Che Guevara's life
Boko said there are some BNF members who claim to be socialists and other names but when you ask them about that ideology, they are just blank. Boko said this was why it was important that they should conduct public educational...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 October 2010
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