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North Korea's risk calculation
North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island on Tuesday, setting dozens of houses ablaze in the heaviest attack in the region since 1953. South Korea said four people were killed in the confrontation, and Ban Ki-moon has...
06 December 2010
Eminem leads nominations with 10; Bruno Mars has 7
It was a night that also saw the academy honor one of the year's most profane but infectious hits: Cee Lo's (Expletive) You, so foul it had to be changed for radio to Forget You, was nominated for both record and song of the year. That song was...
06 December 2010
UN mission in DRC launches new effort
"The peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) has launched Operation Rudia Umbrella ahead of the end-of- year holiday season, which it says has been a period of increased activities by illegal armed groups," Haq said at a daily...
06 December 2010
WikiLeaks document reveals US view of Zim
These are just some of the sentiments of the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, revealed this week by WikiLeaks. An analysis of the Zimbabwean situation, entitled The End Is Nigh and written by Christopher Dell as he was leaving his...
06 December 2010
Rhino horns fitted with GPS trackers
Eventually, over the din of the chopper blades, we heard a pop from the dart gun aimed at the rhino's rear. The dart immobilised the animal and a small group of khaki-wearing game farmers, vets and others rushed in on small vehicles to blindfold the...
06 December 2010
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to boycott runoff vote
Mohamed Beltagy, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a former legislative candidate, said the boycott is a protest against irregularities in the first round of voting last Sunday. The party was wiped out Sunday, going from 88 seats in the...
06 December 2010
Wikileaks: Russia branded 'mafia state' in recent cable
A cable also questions whether Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is implicated in the Russian mafia. Another reveals that a powerful Ukrainian businessman told US officials he had ties to Russian organised crime.The documents are among...
06 December 2010
A fresh perspective on the 2010 external national examinations crisis
This state of affairs caught many unprepared and left wondering as to what could have really happened. Even the traditional and new players within the system do not seem to understand their own standpoint. Without belittling anybody it seems a lot of...
* GADZANI MHOTSHA 06 December 2010
The state of the nation - a response (Part 2)
The various schemes that have been concocted over time have not delivered on the objectives. The Ministry of Finance has been dragging its legs on the need to formulate a policy on citizen economic empowerment. Our view is that we now...
* DUMELANG SALESHANDO 06 December 2010
Ndaba's burden (Part 2)
Ndaba, the last born in the Gaolathe family, is such a spitting image of his father that if the late Baledzi was a young man today, he would be in the form of Ndaba, and if Ndaba was born in 1942, he would have come in the form of Baledzi. Last-born...
06 December 2010
Revived Woods homes in on first win in 2010
Woods is on 17-under 199 at the Sherwood Country Club, with third round partner McDowell giving lone chase on 203. The next closest rival in the 18-man elite field is England's Paul Casey, who carded a 69 for 207. "I'm excited about tomorrow...
06 December 2010
Chiefs thrash Bucs to take TKO honours
Former Free State Stars' striker Sthembiso Ngcobo was the hero for the Amakhosi, completing a brace with a goal in each half, while Siphiwe Tshabalala put the cherry on top with the final score of the game to make it 3-0. After Chiefs had dominated...
06 December 2010
Maswena breaks Chiefs hearts
Referee Tirelo Mositwane was on the spot yesterday as his dubious decisions caused unnecessary tensions between Mochudi Centre Chiefs and Notwane players at UB Stadium. The match ended 1-1. Mositwane first denied Chiefs what looked like a legitimate...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 06 December 2010
AON golf event attracts 20 players
This year, the tournament used the Two-Ball-Better-Ball format where golfers participate in pairs and the result is recorded from the partner with the highest score. The format saw seniors and juniors playing alongside one another. National team...
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
No locals in Phikwe open
However, the organisers described the tournament as a success. The event was attended by 48 men and 38 women players from different clubs across the country. In the final of men singles, Bonolo Mabote beat Tshepo Modisane to lift the title while...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Advantage Buffaloes, as they cut lead to 3 points
Mochudi Buffaloes edged closer to the top of the First Division log as Comets dropped valuable points against lowly-placed Kanye Swallows on Saturday. Buffaloes survived a scare against Young Strikers to emerge 4-3 victors in Mogoditshane amid...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Tennis association elects new boss
Tsiang served as the spokesman in the previous committee. He was elected president at the association's annual general meeting in Gaborone on Saturday. He takes over from Judge Mookodi who has been appointed chief executive officer of the Botswana...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Vera hits six Double Action avalanche
Double Action pumped 17 goals past Vicomates who got their only goal through Rebaone Jucobs. It was a complete rout as Ramafifi and her captain Bonang Bebeto Otlhagile rain riot. The captain scored five times with Theo Mgadla weighting in a...
Victor Muyakwabo
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Angola, Zambia share spoils in thriller as Namibia hold Lesotho
In another game at the same venue, Namibia fought back from 2-0 down to hold Lesotho in a dull match played in sweltering heat. Zambia and Angola played free-flowing football, attacking each other with vigour from the first whistle. The match became...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Rollers falter again
Rollers had a bad day but managed a scrappy draw thanks to substitute Thando Moreki's 61st minute equaliser. The disappointing draw came exactly a week after Police XI brought Rollers' 12-match unbeaten streak to a halt. TASC took the lead in the...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Young Zebras face early exit
Only group winners proceed to the next round and the Young Zebras now need a miracle to sail through because its pool has only three teams after Malawi pulled out. Botswana must bury the other opponent in the group Swaziland in an avalanche of goals...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Soul Food
There is a saying that the more things change the more they remain the same. I suppose this could be said to ring true for a lot of philosophies, human behaviours, fashions. Oh speaking of fashion have you noticed that it gets recycled every so many...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 06 December 2010
Talking Musika
Last week, Musika attempted an introduction to the discussion on the establishment of an organised and programmatic approach to the cultivation of an environment that will be friendly to the development of the arts. The article pointed out the...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 06 December 2010
A night of traditional music and tswana cuisine
And as chief executive officers (CEOs) from various local companies and the urban crowd gathered at the P250 event, Tswana cuisine was served as the cherry on top. Seswaa, serobe, dikgobe, lerotse, Tswana chicken, and morogo, were all served in one...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Lovely Miss Fat in Phikwe
The Miss Fat But Beautiful Pageant was held at the Bowling club on Saturday with the sole aim of consicentising the society to appreciate the big body frames and stop demeaning fat people. The organiser of the contest, Joyce Phindile Noge...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Juju Boy, Zeus rock Francistown
The show was initially a Botswana Accountancy College (BAC) fun day celebration as multitudes of the accounts students gathered at the show to enjoy flavours from two of Botswana's hottest musical products. Many fans of the rap stars had thronged...
Mogomotsi Buzwani & Keabetswe Newel
Correspondents 06 December 2010
Patient few enjoy Metal Orizon Maun show
While many fans who had gathered at Ruth Khama hall as early as 1900 hours eventually dispersed after three hours of no-show by the famed rock band, the few who waited like Christians waiting for the return of the Lord were rewarded when the famous...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Shanti-Lo steals Lira's thunder
Shanti-Lo was sharing the stage with the South African muso at the packed venue. The Botswana songbird was the first to go on stage and immediately left many bewildered with his energetic gyrating moves and amazing vocals. Shanti-Lo was also...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Africa to take a "quantum leap" in climate forecasting
CORDEX, an initiative by the World Climate Research Programme, will help downscale the global climate model climate change projections being prepared for the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) so as to...
06 December 2010
My Money
The pressure to give loved ones something to remind them just how much they are cared for often takes a life of its own over the holidays; parents under pressure to buy that long yearned for first bicycle, or to upgrade to a better and bigger one as...
OLEBILE MAKHUPE 06 December 2010
Shoprite chair has 30 days to appeal or lose P6.9m
That's according to a UK Border Agency official contacted by Business Day on Friday afternoon. "If he doesn't appeal, the UK judicial system will have a wonderful Christmas present from him," the official who preferred not to be identified,...
06 December 2010
'High wage demands possibly causing job losses in SA'
Abebe Selassie said during a briefing to the standing committee on finance that job losses in other developing countries were not nearly on the same scale as South Africa's. "What is striking is that declining employment in South Africa has been of...
06 December 2010
Supermarkets hit by 'tomato blight'
"We do not have tomatoes," Pick n Pay franchisee, Ruth Krupavaram, confirmed to Business Monitor on Wednesday last week. A shop assistant at Choppies Supermarket said they were having problems with the supply of tomatoes because they...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 06 December 2010
A PPP unit is in the offing - Tibone
The Assistant Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Charles Tibone, told Parliament on Friday that the two projects were the building housing the Ombudsman and the Land Tribunal and the [new] headquarters of the Southern African Development...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Report examines troubled construction sector
A recently published draft report titled: Improve the Performance of the Construction Industry in Botswana, indicates that the sector's contribution to GDP has declined from 5.2 percent in 2000 to 4.7 percent in 2009. Similarly, the report - which...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Let's all work towards cooperation
This resolution is important in a number of ways amongst them being; the fact that it was made by the supreme organ in the party and therefore enjoys authority and legitimacy. Secondly, it endorses the long held commitment of the party to...
06 December 2010
Etcetera ||
Perhaps it is a similar story in other parts of the world - yesterday was terrible, so they say, but the people were beautiful. Today life is wonderful, but yes, there may be one or two question marks about the people! Mind you I had the great...
SANDY GRANT 06 December 2010
Health Chat
Question 1: Is it true that you are more at risk of heart problems with bad teeth? This is an area that has been studied for many years. We definitely know that bugs from the mouth can get into the blood during dental procedures where...
KIRAN BHAGAT 06 December 2010
Issues in Education
The 2010 Botswana Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results were posted at www.bec.co.bw by the Botswana Examination Council (BEC). The summary results for an aggregate of 41,524 candidates who took the examination are available as a...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 06 December 2010
Winners Code
To what extent have you allowed yourself to become an unthinking dog? One of the most important lessons you need to learn, master and internalise is that YOU ARE MORE THAN A MERE HUMAN BEING, BUT A HUMAN BECOMING. To explain this let us...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 06 December 2010
We have failed the deaf
The story of the deaf church discusses the efforts of the deaf to belong, to be recognised as fellow human beings. The story about the international day of disability reminds us that we have among us people living with disability. Often...
EDITOR 06 December 2010
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06 December 2010
Inside a church of the deaf
They are dressed in their Sunday best as most mainstream Christians do when they go to church. A few of them appear to be well to do, if the vehicles at the parking lot are anything to go by. As you enter a good-to-behold young woman brings a...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Gaborone's most frustrating and confusing intersections
Staff Writer BAME PIET looks at some of the main nightmare spots. Maruapula intersection near Falcon crest hotel The intersection was recently upgraded into four-lanes for traffic going northwards to BBS Mall and No Mathata Shopping Centre. The...
06 December 2010
More men than women go to Tebelopele
Just as they were being dismissed as lacking the guts and spines to stand an HIV test, Batswana men are now being vindicated by the latest HIV report, the National AIDS Council report, which says more and more men are doing voluntary HIV testing at...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
'I'm not a product of thokolosi'
You instinctively look at the feet... THESE are not human feet! The guy at the door must be a monster, you think. And the memories of those who read the school foundation years' literature in the early 1980s would be taken back to the scary...
Greg Kelebonye
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
'Teachers exam u-turn a necessary evil'
For Petronela Mangisi, "The teachers' action, though to some degree it is tantamount to a betrayal of the struggle and a massive own goal, has brought more joy to us as parents. It must be understood that as parents we were so stressed about the...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Trial date set for suspected CMS mastermind
Before Barnabas Nyamadzabo, the Gaborone chief magistrate, Lokwae and state counsel, Merapelo Mokgosi confirmed December 13-17 as the trial dates. Lokwae was initially charged with 11 other men but he disappeared before he could be tried....
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 06 December 2010
Rammidi attacks motion on exam crisis
Rammidi was contributing to a debate in Parliament on Friday on the motion tabled by the MP for Francistown South, Wynter Mmolotsi. He said according to the Leader of the Opposition, Botsalo Ntuane, the aim of the motion was to gain public support...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 06 December 2010
Storm disrupts private radio stations' transmission
Residents of Francistown have gone almost a month without accessing Duma FM, Yarona FM and Gabz FM broadcasts due to the damage caused to their satellite transmitter situated at the top of Nyangabgwe Hill. However, government radio stations - Radio...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 06 December 2010
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