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First Cut
When I was growing up, schools used to be fertile hunting grounds for many football clubs. But these days, we rarely see clubs scouting for talent in schools. The only sport that seems to be doing this is volleyball. Football should be taking the...
Dennis Keagile 05 November 2010
Softball coaches decry poor competition
Namibia failed to field a team in the women's competition. Botswana has dominated the tournament over the years, but coaches believe the players are not benefiting from the competition. Coach of the men team, Bobby Khupe said they are concerned about...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Women golf team leaves for All-Africa Championships
The last tournament was held in Egypt two years ago, with Botswana emerging 12th out of 17 countries. "This time around we are expecting better results as we are sending a much more experienced and better prepared team," the Botswana Ladies Golf...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Oteng lives his boxing dream
The youngster recently beat much-experienced opponents to land the prestigious boxer of the year crown after the national boxing championships. He is the reigning Zone VI champion in the 52kg category. Last year, he was named the emerging boxer of...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Zimbabwe overcome South Africa
Put into bat by South African captain Gabriel French in a rain- delayed start, Zimbabwe lost three early wickets. The South African pace attack of Dave Buchanan and Imran Pathan made the most of the difficult batting conditions. Kelvis Zemba was...
SANJAY GOEL
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Pontsho tips Dirang to excel at Vasco
Dirang joined the Premiership newcomers at the beginning of the season but was sidelined because of work permit delays until early last month. He made his debut when he came on as a substitute a fortnight ago against champions Supersport who have...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Comets seek to extend lead
Comets have clung to top spot since displacing Masitaoka three weeks ago. The Jwaneng side proved its mettle against former Premier League opponents Prisons XI with a convincing 2-0 victor at the Galaxy last weekend. Coach Oris Radipotsane has said...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Krol keen to keep 'idle' Mongala
The speedy winger has been sidelined at Pirates but the coach has said at the moment he will stay put at the club. So far, Mongala has watched most Premier League action from the terraces this season. He recently opened up saying he was considering a...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 November 2010
The key battles in the Gaborone derby
Joel Mogorosi (Rollers) vs Kaelo Kgaswane (GU)If there is a contest for the best player in the league so far this season, Rollers' captain, Joel Mogorosi will be a favourite to win. Sunday's battle against traditional rivals, GU will present...
05 November 2010
Clubs make strides in securing offices
The general manager of the Premier League, Phuthego Setete, has said that teams with full time secretariats are Gaborone United, Township Rollers, ECCO City Greens, Mochudi Centre Chiefs, Police XI, BDF XI, Motlakase and Miscellaneous....
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Nato, Dambe to miss derby
Both Nato and Dambe will miss the game due to suspension after picking two yellow cards. Dambe, a pivotal figure in the plans of Rollers' coach, Wesley Mondo, got a second yellow card during the game against Miscellaneous last weekend. As a result,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Obama admits he needs 'to do a better job' after midterms defeat
Obama admitted that the Republicans had given his party a severe beating - or as he termed it, a "shellacking" - and said it had given him a late and uncomfortable night. "Some election nights are more fun than others," he said. "Some are...
05 November 2010
George W Bush: Kanye West attack was worst moment of presidency
"It was a disgusting moment, pure and simple," Bush said. "I didn't appreciate it then [and] I don't appreciate it now." In 2005 West appeared before millions on a live telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief. As Mike Myers stood dumbfounded beside...
05 November 2010
Mantashe defends tribunal
"I don't think we can pass a law to protect the predatory elite... to protect corruption," Mantashe told a gathering hosted by The Daily Maverick in Sandton, Johannesburg. Mantashe said the ANC's proposal was merely to allow citizens recourse once...
05 November 2010
Marange directors held for fraud in Zim
The arrested executives include five officials from the state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and a Zimbabwean representative of its South African partner, Core Mining and Minerals, in the 50-50 diamond mining joint venture,...
05 November 2010
Outrage over Silvio's gay jibe
His comments this week sparked outrage from gay rights groups and fuelled new calls for him to step down.Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway, nicknamed...
05 November 2010
The cost of America's free lunch
As long as exchange rates were fixed under the Bretton Woods system, the nature of that privilege was clear: the US was the only country that could freely determine its own monetary policy. All others had to adapt to the policy dictated by the...
Daniel Gros 05 November 2010
Labour and state of the nation - a prelude
This article looks ahead at what workers and trade unions could expect from the address and puts across priority areas for labour and employment. Economic Recovery, Jobs and Social SecurityWe expect the address to give a brief global economic...
EDWARD BOIKI TSWAIPE* 05 November 2010
Whither Botswana?
"Bokamoso Private Hospital management did not do a proper and thorough market research before they opened their facility as a result they are facing financial problems, President Ian Khama said in an interview with the Botswana Guardian last week."...
Dan Moabi 05 November 2010
Oh please rescue us from this P10 note
These notes exchange many hands so the material used in them should be tough and durable to resist wear and tear. When the money was put in circulation last year, just a few weeks before the general election, there was a public outcry about the poor...
05 November 2010
Matome's bail Drama
Yesterday, the High Court in Lobatse could not hear the application and the matter was postponed until a complete case record is made available. Prior to yesterday's postponement, there was a flurry of dramatics in court on the matter. When the case...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Ndadi honoured in Japan
Ndadi's award recognises his sterling and admirable work on human rights especially among the marginalized in our societies, including but not limited to, people living with HIV and AIDS. He is hailed for having created new case law protecting the...
05 November 2010
Austerity politics, then and now
Other countries, such as Greece, needed to have a full-blown crisis in order to prompt such adjustment measures, whereas Britain was acting prudently and preemptively. If Britain, with a relatively low share of public debt to GDP (64.6%) is worried,...
* HAROLD JAMES 05 November 2010
Making the G20 work
Some fear that the organisation is simply too big to succeed. The French, who preside over the G20 next year, have already hinted at a smaller, unspecified group of countries to resolve the currency issue. But currency is not the only issue, or not...
05 November 2010
Speech pathologist
In an interview with Mmegi, Professor Dava Waltzman of Hunter College of the City University of New York said it was important to identify children from a younger age to give them the freedom to share their feelings and succeed in their academic...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Pioneer reformer, Pieter Botha, dies in 'sullen obstinacy'
Most analysts at the time believed that if it were not for Botha, Ian Douglas Smith's rebel Rhodesian regime would have collapsed within weeks following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on 11 November 1965. The international...
ALFRED MULENGA
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Meet Michael Sata, the 'King Cobra' of Zambian politics
No one seems to know who Sata is, politically, that is. What accounts for this man's political staying power or ultimate destination is anyone's guess. Everywhere he goes, he is greeted with the salutation of "King Cobra!" The 73-year-old...
TERENCE MUSUKU
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Book Review
Paul Harding (2010) Tinkers. London, William Heinemann, Hardcover edition, 191 pages, P201. ISBN 9-780434-02843. Available at Exclusive Books. Paul Harding's Tinkers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009 and was elevated to the New York...
Sheridan Grisworld 05 November 2010
Back Stage
Hello Goodbye (2008) is now on circuit in Southern Africa. It is a romantic comedy with a difference, set in Paris, France, and Tel Aviv, Israel. Based on a novel by Moshe Gaash, Hello Goodbye is the story of two Parisians, who after 25 years...
Sasa Majuma 05 November 2010
A mouse click for Mabijo jokes and a wild laugh
They say laughter is good medicine for our health and what a good way of achieving this with the humour of Botswana's number one rib-cracking cartoon collection called Mabijo. Not the comic collection recently launched. Mabijo is traversing...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Hana announces encouraging results at Ghanzi
Copper juniors in general have benefited from a strong run in copper spot prices, which has massively boosted interest in companies with production potential, including Hana Mining, which has more than doubled its market capitalisation since July are...
05 November 2010
World Bank chief to visit
A statement from the Bretton Woods institute says Ezekwesili will discuss ways the Bank can continue to support Botswana's growth and the country's poverty reduction and economic diversification plans. Tim Gilbo, WB Country Director for Botswana,...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 05 November 2010
Consumer Watchdog
When I was a kid, growing up in a foreign country far, far away, around this time of year there would be a rhyme we would repeat. "Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder...
05 November 2010
Volatile exchange rates depress Wilderness profits
Announcing the group's results for the six months period ended August 2010, the company says despite lukewarm demand from its key European markets and a slow Soccer World Cup, they maintained the number of bed nights sold and grew yield in local...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Construction of AK6 mine to start soon
A statement released this week by joint-venture partners, Lucara Diamonds and African Diamonds, announcing a formal decision to proceed with development of the mine says the companies have received approval for construction and have concluded an...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 05 November 2010
Stanchart mum on succession plan
Of late, there have been concerns whether a Chartered has identified a Motswana who will take over from the current MD, David Cutting, whose contract is expected to end shortly. Rutang Moses, who was one of the Batswana executives tipped to succeed...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Ballooning import prompts diversification- Motowane
The Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Maxwell Motowane, said this on Tuesday at the end of the two-day pitso that was themed "Key to Sustainable Economic Growth and Vibrant Globally Competitive PrivateSector." Motowane said the EDD...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
First diamond jewellery plant to open
In an interview with Business Week, General Manager Kim Lanny said in Gaborone that the P30 million jewellery manufacturing operation at the Diamond Technology Park "will open later this month," first producing jewelleries for the United States of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
NBFIRA stirs up hornet's nest with pension funds
In a move that potentially involves P23.5 billion, the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) has stirred up a hornet's nest in proposals that will require pension funds to return and invest home offshore assets by 2030. The...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Celebrating Batswana who went out and conquered the world
Emma Wareus, 1st Princess, Miss World 2010Last Saturday, this beautiful Motswana lass left many Batswana with smiles on their faces as she beat more than a hundred beauty queens from all over the world to become 1st Princess at the Miss World beauty...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Choppies recall Chakalaka after labelling mix-up
In a press release yesterday, Choppies Superstores said that they have recalled their Chakalaka 410 grams batch number 1141 from all stores with immediate effect after a few cans of peas soup were erroneously labelled as Chakalaka. Purchasing...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Court urged to tame Tempest
This comes after Extension II Magistrate Faith Dlamini Ngandu set December 14 as judgement day. Tempest is charged alongside Lorraine Katakwe (21), who is alleged to have helped Tempest fondle a 13-year-old girl's breasts while causing her to rub...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Unmarried fathers get a raw deal
Many biological fathers decry that when these women get married to other men, the relationship between them and their children suffers, regardless of whether they have been supporting the children and have developed strong bonds with each...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 05 November 2010
Moupo plans political education
Moupo was BNF president from 2003 to July this year. He has kept a low profile ever since he lost an opportunity to defend his parliamentary seat last year and after he declined to stand again as BNF president. However, he says he has been active at...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
BDP reveals how it chipped in to help Emma be among world best
Emma went on to make history as she finished as the first Princess in the Miss World 2010 held in China over the weekend. The logistics are traditionally the responsibilities of the Botswana Council of Women, the licence holders of the Miss...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Politics abandon Phikwe
Perhaps it is because some who would be making such noise are now busy delivering and implementing the promises they were making during their campaigns while others are still disgruntled and bitter that they were disaccorded the opportunity to assume...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Botswana slips in doing business 2011
Released yesterday, Doing Business 2011 analyses business operating environments in 183 countries, across nine categories used to gauge the favourability of individual economies to entrepreneurs. The Report covers the period June 2009 to May...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 November 2010
Bobonong gripped by escalating rape incidents
He had to handle three cases in September and four in October, he says. Mbikiwa says the cases seem to increase around this time of the year and that was the pattern last year. The police have also received a case in which a 12-year-old girl was...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 05 November 2010
'You have a family in the BDP' - Seretse
We achieved the results because we were determined to represent our people. We had a clear programme and policies that touched the life's and resonated with Batswana. However, as the party President intoned, when he thanked Batswana, in...
VINCENT T. SERETSE 05 November 2010
Kasane drinks sewerage and human waste
Minister of Minerals Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego Kedikilwe, confirmed during question time of the House in response to a question by Kgosi Mmualefhe of Chobe. Kedikilwe said that the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) took over the...
STAFF WRITER 05 November 2010
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