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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 02 November 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...
02 November 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...
02 November 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...
02 November 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 02 November 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 02 November 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...
02 November 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 02 November 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 02 November 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 02 November 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 02 November 2010
Lessons from South Korea
In 2009, South Korea officially ceased to be an aid recipient country (mainly from U.S.A) and joined the donor's club. Endowed with limited natural resources, the Koreans adopted an outward economic strategy and invested heavily in technology related...
* JAMES SHIKWATI 02 November 2010
A new path to a low-carbon economy
The policy problem is simple. Coal is a cheaper and more easily used energy source than the alternatives. It is cheap because it is plentiful. It is easier to use than wind or solar power because it can produce electricity around the clock, without...
* JEFFREY D. SACHS 02 November 2010
The theory of the press
They spoke at workshops and wrote books that charcterised one form of the press as the 'command' type, in the same manner in which they described economic planning under the 'socialist. Regimes of eastern Europe, the Union of Soviet Socialist...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Events in court
The news team was greeted by a semi-naked man only wearing leather underwear and some sort of cover over his shoulders. Below we capture the events as they unfolded 10.amThe village magistrate court is packed to capacity and there is...
02 November 2010
The Kangaroo Court at Oodi
Kgafela, his brother and the deputy chief of Bakgatla Bana Sekai, supported the floggings and even stated publicly that they had the power to administer punishment or delegate such to mephato. The men have to face the music now. There is no doubt...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Goo-Sekgweng: where hope springs eternal
GOO-SEKGWENG: Goo-Sekgweng is in the Tswapong North constituency and is one of the five villages that make up Goo-Tau Ward, the others being Goo-Tau proper, Mokungwana, Matlhakola and Manaledi. Situated to the south of the long range of the...
02 November 2010
Now it's DK calling the shots
In the process Kwelagobe or "DK", as he is known within political circles, has proven that he is a political survivor. Besides President Ian Khama, there is no other BDP official who commands more grassroots support like Kwelagobe. The veteran...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Maun Taxi And Combi Association Petition NWDC
Presenting the petition, association secretary general Gosata Miti said the transport operators have been suffering since the new bus rank was opened on October 27. He explained that the rank is too small to accommodate all the taxis and combis that...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Sesigo Project Launched In SElebi-Phikwe
Speaking at the launch, Principal Librarian, Keseitse Same said the main aim of the project is to allow meaningful access to computers and the internet in Botswana. She said the government will take care of the maintenance and upgrade of libraries,...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Ikgopoleng's Love For Snakes
A few days after the interview, he calls from Jwaneng where he works as a welder to announce that he has just caught a boomslang. "I caught it a few minutes back. I am holding it in my hands as I speak," he says with the calmness of someone who has...
Bashi Letsididi
Correspondence 02 November 2010
Kunene: 34 Years On, But Still Driving
Add to that, he knows the registration numbers of all the current and previous vehicles the council has owned from over 30 years ago. Narrating his story to The Monitor last Friday, Kunene said he has been able to endure such longevity as a...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
MP Gaborone set to drop bombshell?
Gaborone was expected to hand in his resignation letter to the BNF yesterday but a party member said the legislator decided to address his last meeting in the constituency. The meeting will be held at Magwana Hall at which the MP is expected to drop...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Mzwinila brothers to lead evidence today
Michael and Edward Mzwinila were jointly charged with their mother Elizabeth Surtee and their aunt Maureen Moseki, who have both been discharged and acquitted for lack of evidence linking them to the crime. The quartet were charged with armed robbery...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Xenophobia rising in Mochudi
If some Bakgatla tribesmen have their way, all non-Bakgatla working in 'enemy offices' such as the police would be kicked out of the Kgatleng capital of Mochudi. In a highly charged crisis meeting on Saturday to discuss the remand of their paramount...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Cancer body walks the life out of cancer cells
The third annual walk, which has become the traditional closing activity to the cancer awareness month, might have been about women in pink and heels and prizes for the highest heel and the most pink dressed, but it also saw improved male attendance...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
JC exams suffer another blow
The students will have to sit for a re-set exam after a mix-up last week saw English Paper Three being distributed at a certain school instead of Paper One. The Botswana Examinations Council (BEC) spokesman, Charles Keikotlhae said the chief...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Khupe to call on Khama
A Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources statement says the deputy prime minister will also pay a courtesy call on President Ian Khama, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Phandu Skelemani and Minerals and Energy...
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Brazil's new woman
The ghosts of the past - authoritarianism, political persecution, and censorship - have been left behind, as Brazilian democracy passed important tests such as the impeachment of a president and the rise to the presidency of a former trade union...
*Glauco Arbix 02 November 2010
Germany's will to compromise
Germany is willing to bail out member states in exchange for tougher fiscal austerity and a suspension of voting rights, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's demand for permanent crisis-resolution mechanisms, together with changes to the Lisbon Treaty, and...
*Michael Bolle
*Cordelia Friesendorf 02 November 2010
The Republic of Georgia threatens peace and security in the Caucasus
The Republic of Georgia has concentrated considerable troop masses along its borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It insistently refuses to take obligations for non-application of force against Tskhinval and Sukhum (the capitals of South Ossetia...
Anatoly Ptitsa 02 November 2010
Selefu 02 November 2010
02 November 2010
This exam is a national test, Mma!
We hear also of some examinations being written at different times in different schools. Remarkably the Minister of Education and the Executive Secretary of the Botswana Examinations Council are telling the nation that "all is well". The BEC is the...
EDITOR 02 November 2010
Brazil steps toward post-Lula era with Rousseff
Rousseff, who based her campaign on extending the legacy of outgoing President Luiz In‡cio Lula da Silva, convincingly won her first election on Sunday as Brazilians put aside doubts over her character and voted for continued economic...
02 November 2010
Somali-American approved as new Prime Minister
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who has taught at a community college in western New York, is now expected to name a Cabinet in the coming weeks. The Somali government currently controls only a small part of the capital, Mogadishu. It has accomplished...
02 November 2010
EU accepts Zim envoy
Dell'Ariccia said the posting of diplomats should be left to individual sovereign states, Zimbabwe's Herald Online reported on Monday. "This is a reflection of internal matters, which must be dealt with internally," said Dell' Ariccia shortly after...
02 November 2010
Back Stage
Heaven (2002) will be shown at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm tonight only. The script is by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Kieslowski died in 1996 at 54 working on a trilogy (Heaven, Hell and Purgatory). Tom Tykwer...
Sasa Majuma 02 November 2010
Kwaito-kwasa star Cisco B dies in road mishap
The popular musician met his fate on Saturday night as they returned from a performance in Bobonong where he sampled for the fans music from his new album, Masole. Cisco B last week released a new festive season album, (Masole), which features super...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
Fashion parade shows floral attire still the in-thing
Although the show started late, guests soon forgot about that as they were treated to an engaging display of fashionable items. It must be mentioned that although some might have expected to see new trends in the fashion world it was not so. ...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 02 November 2010
TP Mazembe dominate in Champs League final
The North Africans claimed an Ngandu Kasongo header did not cross the line after 18 minutes but the protests were ignored by the Togolese referee, who sent off defender Mohamed Mansour soon after. Kasongo and Zambia-born Given Singuluma scored two...
02 November 2010
Boxing stars shinein national finals
There were eight bouts each lasting three rounds. The categories contested were light flyweight (49kg), bantam (52kg), featherweight (56kg), lightweight (60kg), light welterweight (64kg), welter (69kg), middleweight (75kg) and heavyweight...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 02 November 2010
Going getstough for Gunners
Gunners began the season slowly but showed signs of recovery as the campaign progressed. But after reports of player unrest over unpaid salaries, Mapantsula has been on the slide. They lost 1-0 to Police XI before coming unstuck against...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 02 November 2010
BMC fire Kalambo
However, BMC chairman, Sonny Phiri told Mmegi Sport that the club had decided to fire Kalambo following a string of poor results. "He was failing to give us the results and there was only one way out - to show him the door. I believe we have been...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 02 November 2010
PwC sees emerging markets growth
Global chairman Dennis Nally said on Friday the firm expected between 42 percent and 45 percent of its annual revenue to come from emerging markets in the next five years. Currently, 20 percent of the firm's revenue comes from these markets, said...
02 November 2010
JSE launches index to track rand
The Rand Index (RAIN), as it will be known, is aimed at the asset management industry as well as economists, importers and exporters. The index will start trading next Monday November 8. The rand has rallied against major currencies over the last...
02 November 2010
Stanchart concludes purchase of Barclays custody business
In a statement, Stanchart says though undersubscribed by about 24 percent, funds from the rights issue will be used to purchase the business from fellow bank, Barclays Botswana. Says the statement: "Standard Chartered announces the results of the...
STAFF WRITER 02 November 2010
Slump in diamond exports widens trade deficit
Latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) indicate that while imports over August remained generally flat compared to previous months, exports declined due largely to a 44-percent month-on-month drop in diamond exports. In July, the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 02 November 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 03 November 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...
03 November 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...
03 November 2010
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