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'Patriotism is not anyone's private property'
Most of the people were in the orange colours of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). A lot of people had come. In the press gallery, some reporters had to stand as all seats were taken. The atmosphere was tense with expectation. It was time...
16 November 2010
I have lived poverty - Boko
It is the first of many that I and the current leadership of the Botswana National Front will hold in the course of carrying out our mandate to the party as well as our obligations to the nation. This particular press conference has a specific...
16 November 2010
A reporter's experience at Chobe National Park
I was among a group of 18 local journalists, from both print and broadcast media, who were taken on a game drive by local tour operators, Upengu Tours and Safaris, under the auspices of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA). I really...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Customer service corner
Mugg and Bean has secured a special place in the hearts of many coffee lovers and teetotallers alike. It has excelled to become synonymous with a decent coffee shop, either because they serve the 'best' coffee or because of the 'Bean' in the...
Kesego Ragontse 16 November 2010
Chronicle of a new dawn - Part 1
A year ago, when the 10th parliament convened in its first session following the general elections, very few would have predicted the realignment of political forces which today, for the ...
16 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 16 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 16 November 2010
ETCETRA ||
We had every hope of seeing X on the day we were to visit Molepolole, but because Air Botswana had messed up our flight arrangements we had to return early to Gaborone. (An email note from a friend in Canada, which I received earlier this year.) To...
SANDY GRANT 16 November 2010
Health Chat
Question: I get really bad attacks of thrush, and over-the-counter creams don't help at all. What else can I try? Thrush is caused by a yeast called Candida Albicans that is often present on this skin without causing any problems. If conditions on...
KIRAN BHAGAT 16 November 2010
Issues In Education
"There are lots of reasons kids miss school-being a girl shouldn't be one of them". This is a slogan of Save the Children and Save the Futures. The movement has helped thousands of young women so they can stay in Women's rights have become the cause...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 16 November 2010
Winners Code
These things are kind of deterministic; we just have to accept it. However, although man does not have control over the number of his days, he has an infinite ability to make each of those days meaningful to himself and also to others. What...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 16 November 2010
Youth embrace ICT
The youth have become an integral part of this amazing phenomenon that makes it crucial to possess ICT skills in order to survive. Besides studying ICT young people are also practising and running related businesses. As a result they have also...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Tutume's low progress worries leaders
Tutume is one of the more rapidly growing villages in northern Botswana yet it is neglected by the powers that be. Tutume village is situated north of Francistown, just after Sebina-Nshakazhongwe villages. When taking a tour around the village,...
KEABETSWE NEWEL & MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondents 16 November 2010
Hotel strike looming
The employees, through their union, Botswana Hotel Travel and Tourism Workers Union have told Mmegi that wage negotiations between the two parties have reached a deadlock. Executive officer of the union, Nicholas Motiki revealed that this week they...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff writer 16 November 2010
Cuban man robbed at Nyangabgwe Hospital
According to Assistant Superintendent Gagoitsewe Seisa, the incident occurred last Friday afternoon at around 4:30pm. He said the man had gone to visit his wife at the hospital and as he went to the toilet, he was attacked by an unidentified man who...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 16 November 2010
As you rest in peace Ndadi
Elias Ndadi passed away on July 9, after succumbing to a brain tumor. The death of Elias is said to have affected his mother Lehuma so badly that six months after the death of her son she died of a heart attack. Those in attendance included the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Teacher changes plea to not guilty in exam paper theft scandal
Marobela (33) had pleaded guilty during his arraignment before the Maun magistrate, Phanidiwe Taka a week ago. The magistrate postponed the proceedings to yesterday's date after it emerged in court that Marobela was not given a chance to seek legal...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Light momentsfrom the Premier League Assembly
Below, Mmegi Sport captures some juicy quotes: "There is an assistant referee who always operates on the touchline near the western stands (at the UB Stadium) whenever Township Rollers plays, whether it's raining or sunny," Rollers' vice...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Police, Splinters book semi-final berths
Clubs were battling it out on various courts around the country to try and book a last minute ticket after Troopers won the league and secured a spot in the four-team championship. At the end it was Police and Splinters who took the second and third...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
New committee to tackle Gunners' problems
Addressing the supporters after his election, chairperson Ludo Kemoeng said they would have to work around the clock to restore normalcy at the once glamour club. He said their immediate task will be to motivate players and the technical team...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Jordon pledges sooport for Botswana football
Jordan who was in the country yesterday for a private meeting with Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, David Fani, told Mmegi Sport that he will avail his support to the country's football administrators.Jordan who will challenge for the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Zebras' foreign contingent arrives
SuperSport United forward Dipsy Selolwane was the last to arrive yesterday after featuring for his club in a 2-1 win over Bloemfontein Celtic on Sunday. His fellow South Africa-based stars Boitumelo Mafoko and Mogogi Gabonamong of Santos, Orlando...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Marole going -Debswana confirms at last
Managing Director Blackie Marole, is leaving, though it sounds like a broken record this time Debswana is confirming it. According to the release Marole is retiring after six years at the helm. "Having steered Debswana through many...
16 November 2010
Hlabano dropped from BEC board
Shandukani Hlabano who was the only sitting member from the teachers' unions taking over from the former Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) general secretary, Keorapetse Kgasa was invited to sit on the board early this year as per the provisions of the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Botswana among the most affected by diabetes
Dipesalema Joel, a Specialist Paediatric Endocrinologist at Princess Marina Hospital, told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that this year, about 44,000 people in Botswana are estimated to be living with diabetes. This number represents a prevalence...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
CIC Energy submits EoI for Trans -Kalahari project
Last month, the governments of Botswana and Namibia called for EoIs from the private sector for the development of the rail line, which would connect Botswana and the Waterberg coalfield in South Africa to a port in Namibia. The development of the...
16 November 2010
Morris is the new BURS boss
In a statement, the ministry said that Morris, who is the serving commissioner of Customs and Excise, will take up his new post effective December 1, 2010. "He has worked for a long time in different capacities in the Department of...
16 November 2010
Gaborone upgrades 'bloated' sewerage plant
Engineers involved in the project say the upgrading is urgently required as current inflows to the Plant are estimated at 55 million litres (55 megalitres) per day, forcing authorities to utilise various systems to accommodate the excess. Even after...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
BP to rebrand as Puma Energy
BP announced early this year its intention to dispose of its fuel marketing business in Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Botswana, which was followed by a scramble for the assets from both local and international investors. However, yesterday...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Tunisia jets in
The Tunisians, whose flight was delayed by more than an hour, arrived to an empty terminal at 5:24pm, without a doubt, a sharp contrast to what awaits them when they emerge from the UB Stadium dug-out tomorrow at 3pm. A sell-out crowd is expected to...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Court to rule in land board forgery
It is alleged that Castro Kemohilwe Molefhe, 43, and Stephen Joseph Legodi, 42, acting jointly and in concert, on the date not known to the prosecution, forged a Tawana Land Board Certificate of Customary Land Grant in Maun purporting it to be a...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 16 November 2010
Chinese VP visits Botswana
Jinping is expected to meet with President Ian Khama and Vice-President Mompati Merafhe on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of existence of diplomatic relations between the two countries. This inaugural visit of a Chinese Vice-President to...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Project Syndicate
BERLIN: In international climate-policy circles, there is broad consensus regarding the target of limiting global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Still, barring a breakthrough in United Nations...
OLIVER GEDEN 16 November 2010
How Africa's scientists will power the next generation of development
Good governance and education are strong candidates - as a Minister in Ethiopia's government since 2005 I am immensely proud of our education revolution, which increased numbers of primary school pupils by over 500 percent between 1994/95 and...
Ato Alemayehu Tegenu 16 November 2010
Motswaledi house raid has serious ramifications
It was further reported that thieves stole valuables, including three laptops and some two blackberry smart-phones. Thieves, we all said. It is all very easy for us to dismiss this as just another robbery, after all thieves break into our...
EDITOR 16 November 2010
Selefu 16 November 2010
16 November 2010
Diamonds help bolster Mugabe
Potential revenue is estimated at $1-billion to $1.7-billion a year, about half the crisis-ridden country's total forecast GDP this year and enough to end its economic woes at a stroke. Zimbabwean diamond deposits are believed to stretch from the...
16 November 2010
North-south tensions threaten Sudan's Darfur - UN
Northern and southern leaders have accused each other of building up troops in the countdown to a politically sensitive referendum on whether the oil-producing south should declare independence or stay in Sudan. South Sudan shares a border with the...
16 November 2010
Zim nationals forced into paying bribes
"This is despite clear public announcements by the government of South Africa that Zimbabweans shall be enjoying a dispensation until December 31," MDC Spokesman, Sibanengi Dube, said. "Those who are being picked up especially in Yeoville are being...
16 November 2010
Qantas plane turns back because of suspected electrical fault
The airline said a Boeing 747 carrying 221 passengers and crew turned back an hour into a flight from Sydney, headed for Buenos Aires, after an electrical fault was detected over the Pacific Ocean. The plane dumped its fuel before landing safely in...
16 November 2010
Back Stage
Tokyo Sonata (2008) is being shown tonight only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School by the Gaborone Film Society. This award winning film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa took the Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard, at Cannes in 2008. It has also...
Sasa Majuma 16 November 2010
Jovial Bakwena celebrate Dithubaruba Festival in style
The fourth cultural event opened with a publicity walk that was led by an ox-drawn wagon from the Main Kgotla to the museum with a jovial and swaying crowd of Bakwena in traditional attire and holding various Setswana household objects. In a morning...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 16 November 2010
Folklore singer Kgaila steals the show
Sibongi proves to everyone that he can master the stringed instrument. At some stage he was even talking to his guitar and it literally obliged. The folkrole artist often left the audience crying for more as he belted out his...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 16 November 2010
'Patriotism is not anyone's private property'
Most of the people were in the orange colours of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). A lot of people had come. In the press gallery, some reporters had to stand as all seats were taken. The atmosphere was tense with expectation. It was time...
17 November 2010
I have lived poverty - Boko
It is the first of many that I and the current leadership of the Botswana National Front will hold in the course of carrying out our mandate to the party as well as our obligations to the nation. This particular press conference has a specific...
17 November 2010
A reporter's experience at Chobe National Park
I was among a group of 18 local journalists, from both print and broadcast media, who were taken on a game drive by local tour operators, Upengu Tours and Safaris, under the auspices of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA). I really...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 17 November 2010
Customer service corner
Mugg and Bean has secured a special place in the hearts of many coffee lovers and teetotallers alike. It has excelled to become synonymous with a decent coffee shop, either because they serve the 'best' coffee or because of the 'Bean' in the...
Kesego Ragontse 17 November 2010
Chronicle of a new dawn - Part 1
A year ago, when the 10th parliament convened in its first session following the general elections, very few would have predicted the realignment of political forces which today, for the ...
17 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 17 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 17 November 2010
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