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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...
08 November 2010
Halt Kgafela proce
Dow told the Village Chief Magistrate Barnabas Nyamadzabo yesterday that they have submitted appeal notes to the High Court and that it would be both in the interest of justice and better utilisation of the court system to have the trial against her...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Thari Pilane wants Bakgatla throne
A faction of the royal house in South Africa blames Mochudi for confusing their lineage. The Mochudi kgosikgolo appoints a representative in Moruleng. A lot is at stake here. Bakgatla ba Kgafela in Moruleng are no ordinary tribe. ...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 08 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 08 November 2010
Soldier's murder accused remanded
The three men appeared for committal to the High Court last week. "The suspects will be remanded in custody until completion of this case or until granted bail by the High Court," Magistrate Molalu said. Thatayaone Malebjwe, Khumbulani Matapa and...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 08 November 2010
Creche hit by mysterious skin rash
The irate parents approached The Monitor on Thursday, saying the school had been closed after they complained to management about the school's sub-standard hygiene that they blame for the skin rash. They said while the outbreak started about three...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Anti-Poverty Committee Gets Going
The committee is meant to ensure that the initiative attains its goals. It will coordinate the contribution of all stakeholders in the implementation of the initiative. The anti-poverty initiative is geared towards sustainable development and...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Tears of joy as police officer is acquitted discharged of rape
Ntau was accused of raping a junior officer at the Serious Crime Squad offices in Gaborone in August 2009. Slave said that the complainant was inconsistent in her testimony hence the prosecution could not rely on her to secure a conviction. She...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
FCC acts in anticipation of floods
This is inspite of a storm water drainage project being shelved because of the global economic recession for almost two years. Mayor Shadrack Nyeku told The Monitor that after the rains here two weeks ago, his office was inundated with calls...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Quality Of local graduates worries industry captains - Swartland
Swartland was addressing a business breakfast meeting held at Cresta Lodge in Gaborone last Friday. He said there have been many complaints from the private sector about the quality of graduates churned out by local private and public...
Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff writer 08 November 2010
Bhagat demands more papers from adversaries
Bhagat's attorney, Reuben Kamushinda, said they had long asked to be furnished with further particularities. Kamushinda said the attitude of BHPC was making it difficult for them to prepare their defence. He proposed dates for both parties to...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
10 years of suffering at security systems
*Late pay normal for multi-million seecurity company *Workers confess doing odd jobs to survive while waiting for payday *Company says a rolling over-draft facility for its p3 million wage bill is too expensive Founding director Gabriel...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Let Gaborone go - BNF activists
After Gaborone's resignation from the party last week, the BNF leadership said it respected his decision to resign from the party and unlike Gaborone, the leadership opted to let bygones be bygones. But the rank and file are less diplomatic....
Edward Bule
Correspondent 08 November 2010
Kgafela attacks media
Bakgatla Paramount Chief, Kgafela II, could have passed for a church minister when on Sunday he borrowed the monotone of the clergy as he implored his tribe to pursue peace with all people. Kgafela, who was addressing multitudes of his people a day...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Thunderstorm leaves trail of destruction
Huge trees were uprooted some of them falling across a road or a fence. In some instances, a whole tree was tossed on top of a house. Mangled corrugated iron sheets were either deposited in the roads or left perilously hanging on a lucky neighbour's...
Keabetswe Newel and Edward Bule
Correspondents 08 November 2010
Kgafela pleads for constitutional reform
Kgafela said the current constitution, borrowed from the colonial masters, fails to appreciate the Setswana way of life and has brought much disunity and hatred among Batswana. "Tribal leaders who try to take their people back to the Setswana way of...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Parking assistants keep car thieves at bay
But he told them in no uncertain terms that he did not need their services. When he came out of the shops, he found that all his wheel caps had been removed. When he asked the young men they told him, "sorry sir, we didn't see...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 08 November 2010
'Mama, i am gay', the son reveals
"Why does it have to happen to my son? What wrong have I done in this world to deserve such a punishment from God?" These are the words of 45-year-old, single parent, Sega (not her real name). These lamentations have been triggered by her...
Correspondent 08 November 2010
Collet 'adopts' limbless Ndlovu
These could be Dale Collet's words. Remember Dale Collet? He is the gentleman who drives while on his belly because more than half his body is crippled, and whose front-page story we carried two issues back with the headline The Phenom of Mmamashia....
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Oodi weavers founding fathers lament
An artist himself, (sculptor and painter) who was kicked out of South Africa by the apartheid regime where he had set up a similar project, Rocke's Drift, in Natal and Thabana Li' Mele in Lesotho, Gowenius told The Monitor that perhaps the biggest...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Funding the low-carbon revolution
We cannot succeed on one without succeeding on the other. With international collaboration and sound policies, we can achieve that success by launching a new era of low-carbon economic growth while adapting to the climate change that is on the...
* Trevor Manuel, and Nicholas Stern 08 November 2010
ETCETERA II
How often do we first become aware of really big problems only when we ourselves are affected by them? This happened to us recently in Oodi when a telecommunications cable was stolen leaving a part of the village deprived of phone and internet...
SANDY GRANT 08 November 2010
Health Chart
Is there any way to treat fear or anxiety associated with public speaking? Answer Many people, including professional actors and politicians, get nervous before speaking in public. This can be a lot worse when fear of public speaking is a...
KIRAN BHAGAT 08 November 2010
Issues in Education
Education is the main window of opportunity that every parent, poor or rich, literate or illiterate, young or old, schooled or unschooled, looks up to with hope for a better future for his or her child. The school and the teacher constitute the key...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 08 November 2010
The Winners Code
People are the most common species you will meet in the course of life. Everyday you meet and interact with people, consequently you already have a nexus of different types of relationships. Everyone is unique and brings different...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 08 November 2010
Let us do more to help the needy
The case of Dave Collet is one of courage considering that his body is half paralysed. This has not deterred him from working to live a decent life. As we all know by now, Collet drives on his belly and he owns a farm where he takes care...
EDITOR 08 November 2010
Selefu 08 November 2010
08 November 2010
Kenya fears surplus maize harvest going to waste
However, they are struggling to offload a surplus harvest of the key staple amid fears that short October to December rains could lead to heavy post-harvest losses. The long rains maize harvest accounts for more than 80 percent of national...
08 November 2010
My Money
Many of us will now be anticipating the advent of the holiday season with a mixture of excitement and apprehension: while we eagerly look forward to the time off from work or school, the physical, emotional and financial stress associated with this...
OLEBILE MAKHUPE 08 November 2010
Political uncertainty threatens 2011 Zim budget
Nginya Mungai Lenneiye, WB country representative on Monday [last week] told delegates attending a budget consultative meeting between government and development partners that treasury could face problems in writing a fiscal policy statement. Biti is...
08 November 2010
Botswana's own CEO club to catalyse economy
It is known as the Elite Business Leaders Club. The founders of the new concept, the first ever in Botswana, say the idea is to begin a dialogue among the CEO/MD and business executives in Botswana, and offer them a platform to network and exchange...
08 November 2010
Media tour sheds light on CEDA projects
The tour introduced media practitioners to CEDA-financed businesses which are run by citizen entrepreneurs in the fields of agribusiness, manufacturing, property and services. According to CEDA communications executive, Wanetsha Mosinyi, CEDA wants...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 08 November 2010
New technology cuts building costs
Speaking at the launch, one of the representatives of the company, Dithologo Mmile, said the Moladi formwork construction system is an alternative to the conventional "brick and mortar" method of constructing houses. According to him, it has...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 08 November 2010
Soul Food
Geez I cannot believe how hot it is already. It seems like ages ago that we were freezing and complaining about the bitter cold winter. And spring came and went so quickly. Now we're stuck in an unrelenting season that makes the...
Boitshepo Giyose 08 November 2010
Talking Musika
Apparently the Swedish founder of Lentswe La Oodi Weavers, Peder Gowenius, has been on a southern African tour, visiting Botswana and the South African and Lesotho versions of the project at Rocke's Drift in Natal and Thabana Li' Mele. He makes the...
Rampholo Molefhe 08 November 2010
How Miss Bots organisers tried to cash half a million pula from Khama
Khama was just about to act when a surprised Emma upon learning of the request from other sources, impressed upon the President not to honour it (the BCW request of P500 000).According to her mother, Emma was furious that the BCW could request for...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Ema to be headquartered in London-says mum
Botswana's world beauty Emma Wareus will be headquartered in London for the rest of the Miss world reign, her mother who accompanied her to the Miss World Pageant, said upon her return over the weekend. Tshepo Regina Chope Wareus, who was funded by...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Chelsea succumb to Torres masterclass
The Spain international has a liking for playing the Londoners at Anfield, as his six goals in five matches against them at home shows. It was always likely the result would come down to who took their chances and with Didier Drogba left on the bench...
08 November 2010
Pirates sink Supersport to reach semis
A first-half goal from Lucky Lekgwathi and further strikes from Rooi Mahamutsa and Chiukepo Msowoya in the second half proved to be the undoing of SuperSport. This contest, that attracted just over 10 000 spectators, was billed as the clash of this...
08 November 2010
BDF bands concertLives up to expectation
Hundreds of revellers thronged the much-hyped event popularised by its live performances. As always the concert lived up to expectations as men and women of the military proved that they are not only accomplished gunners, but are also gifted...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 November 2010
Botswana scrape through over Sri Lanka
Botswana also had a 15-run penalty awarded in the dying minutes for Sri Lanka's slow over-rate to thank for their victory. Needing only 10 runs to win at the end of the 28th over with only 2 wickets in hand, Botswana hung on to a defensive approach...
Sanjay Goel
Correspondent 08 November 2010
Ji Sung Park on the double for Man United
The late introduction of Paul Scholes and Macheda soon resulted in the Old Trafford club playing some crispy and attacking football as they pushed men forward, but a draw looked more likely after 90 minutes, as the visitors parked the buss and tried...
08 November 2010
Inter Milan ace Sneijder: Mourinho wanted me at Real Madrid
The Holland international, who is a favourite for the Ballon d'Or, left Real Madrid a year ago and set about winning the treble at Inter. Sneijder revealed: "Of course [Mourinho has tried to make me leave for Real]. We have stayed in touch. But it's...
08 November 2010
Ecco falls off the pace
ECCO City Greens failed to take advantage of log leaders Township Rollers' inactivity on Saturday to top the standings after playing to a 2-2 draw with BDF XI. Mamoja-Diskie had to come from behind twice during the match to force a draw with...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer
@ SSKB Stadium 08 November 2010
Big Gaborone derby ends in stalemate
The battle for supremacy in the capital city ended in a stalemate as the two Gaborone giants, Township Rollers and Gaborone United (GU), played to a 1-1 draw in the be-MOBILE Premier League match yesterday afternoon. he derby that started under...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer
@ UB Stadium 08 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...
08 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,...
08 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...
08 November 2010
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