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Boxing, athletics shine in SCSA Zone V1 Games
Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) Marketing and Communications Officer Modiri Ontitile said in overall, Botswana has exceeded the targeted medals based on the previous results obtained in the SCSA held in South Africa two years...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 22 December 2010
Book review
There are a surprising number of books both by Batswana and about Botswana that are hard to find, but are worth knowing about and reading. I have chosen a few of the best of the recent crop of these books. These four were all published in the...
Sheridan Griswold 22 December 2010
Sizzling movie picks for the festive mood
When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade - a signal that could only come from his father - he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior...
22 December 2010
Back Stage
A diary is hard to turn into a film. So only at the start and end do we see John Milton writing in it. On the lower left corner there are landmarks recorded, that are from the diary. But this is a drama that transcends many of the...
Sasa Majuma 22 December 2010
2010 was a good year for the arts
Cultural FestivalsThis year, the Kuru San Dance festival, which was not celebrated in 2009 due to financial constraints, was successfully hosted on a farm outside the village of D'Kar. As usual San performers impressed international audiences...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 22 December 2010
Festive shows 2010
It is jazzy, it is kwaito, it is house, it is kwasa-kwasa, it is afro pop, it is traditional and it is funky Hip-hop. That is the colour and taste for the Mascom Boosta bash at the Lion's Park on December 31. There is absolutely something for...
22 December 2010
Chinese online stores offer cat and dog leather
Search results and sales records from Taobao showed the most popular items were trousers and hats made from dog fur, which is touted for its ability to ward off the cold, AFP found after searching the website. One seller with the username...
22 December 2010
Gay rights row breaks out at UN
The general assembly was expected to vote on renewing its routine condemnation of the unjustified killing of various categories of vulnerable people, yesterday. It specifies killings for racial, national, ethnic, religious or linguistic reasons, and...
22 December 2010
US executions drop by 12 percent
The Death Penalty Information Center attributed the reductions to changing attitudes toward capital punishment, but acknowledged there have also been problems with the availability of chemicals used in lethal injections. "Whether it's concerns about...
22 December 2010
Hundreds trapped by earthquake in Iran
The official Irna news agency said nine aftershocks had followed the quake, one of magnitude 5. "Seven people have been killed, and hundreds have been injured. Hundreds of people are still trapped under the rubble," Esmail Najjar,...
22 December 2010
Hotspurs secure sponsorship
The sponsorship will be launched in Mahalapye on Friday where dignitaries such as the Vice President, Mompati Merafhe, Mahalapye East Member of Parliament (MP) Botlogile Tshireletso and some councillors are expected to attend. Dlala also sponsors...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Three dead in Nairobi bus attack
Kampala's local police chief had earlier warned of "strong indications" that Islamist militant groups were planning attacks over the Christmas period. "Two more people have succumbed to injuries in hospital, the death toll is now three including the...
22 December 2010
Zim applicants will not be deported
"The deadline is the last day to accept applications. Those who have applied need not worry," she said. After the December 31 deadline, applications would be processed. Until such time that all those who had applied had been issued with...
22 December 2010
Mining trudges to recovery in 2010
DiamondsThe country entered 2010 with one of its four diamond mines, Damtshaa, suspended and operations at the massive Orapa No. 2 plant tottering after intermittent production during 2009. Under its continuing Operational Review, Debswana announced...
22 December 2010
The year troubleshooting CEOs fell
Thapelo Lippe, BTC Seventeen months into a brilliant high-flying tenure at the state telecommunications company during which profits shot up by about 300 percent, Lippe was served with a suspension letter in February under a cloud of controversy...
22 December 2010
The year economy fought back
TourismNot being a physical commodity, estimates of the tourism sector's economic contribution are still in their infancy, having been launched via the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) in 2007. TSAs since then indicate that Botswana's travel and...
22 December 2010
Project Syndicate
NEW YORK: Whenever I hear people on America's Republican right call themselves "conservative," I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock. A conservative is someone who, in the tradition of the eighteenth-century English...
22 December 2010
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Even individuals take time to review the exiting year to find where they got things right and where they were not so successful, an exercise in what personal development experts call personal strategy. Everyone takes time to review the past year and...
22 December 2010
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22 December 2010
Stage set for Nkange tourney
The Top 8 tournament has been going on for more than a decade now, involving football clubs from Senete, Nkange and Changate villages in the North Eastern region. It is by far the best-organised tournament that provides entertainment during the...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI & KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 22 December 2010
A message to the people
I, and the Botswana National Front, join in this spirit of the moment and extend our best wishes to the nation and peoples of Botswana. It is important to take time off to mark and celebrate any successes we may have attained in the year. We need to...
* DUMA BOKO 22 December 2010
Traitor Muopo, come out of the closet and stop using the name Arafat Khan!
Some of us have been following his articles in diffremt newspapers, all appearing under the name of Arafat Khan. But Arafat Khan is just a discredited Form Two dropout who cannot construct a readable paragraph in English, let alone write a...
22 December 2010
Our Heritage
One was the ongoing saga of the new or refurbished Stadiums, not least in Gaborone, Lobatse and Francistown. A second topic was Air Botswana, which was left reeling as it experienced one set back after another; and the new SSK airport in...
Sandy Grant 22 December 2010
'Three days of impartation' crusade lives up to its billing
In fact, if the truth be told, many said they had not witnessed anything like it before. The organisers of the crusade had declared that those who would come would witness miracles and healing and indeed many attendee witnessed miracles...
22 December 2010
The reckoning: Who owns our pula?
For more than 30 000 years Bushmen have lived in the Kalahari Desert. For more than eight years the Republic of Botswana has tried to force them out. These days, under a quiet stalemate of forced dehydration, the government has declared...
*JAMES G WORKMAN 22 December 2010
Festive religious diary
Christmas Day, most importantly marks the birth of the Saviour, Jesus Christ, and different congregations will be having special services on Christmas and on the eve of the New Year. 1. Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross (opposite Princess Marina...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Statement by Kofi Annan on the situation in Cote d'Ivoire
I join the many, led by the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union, who call on former President Laurent Gbagbo to step aside and respect the will of the people. They have chosen Alassane Ouattara and no repression,...
22 December 2010
SPEDU tackles spectre of ghost town
There have been calls to treat Selebi-Phikwe as a special case, hence considerable effort was concentrated on the mining town this year. With the establishment of the Selebi-Phikwe Economic Diversification Unit, the town's economic prospects...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Pula, Rand gravitate towards parity
From trading at between R1.40 and R1.50 two years ago, 2010 saw the pula increasingly lose its weight against the Rand and edge towards parity mostly on the back of the strengthening Rand rather than the BoB's policy. According to the Bank of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Govt splurges boodles from alcohol levy
A press release issued yesterday says the levy, which has raised nearly P300 million, has been transferred from the Ministry of Trade and Industry to the Ministry of Health. The highest winner in the category of NGOs is Botswana Council of...
STAFF WRITER 22 December 2010
Eastern Gunners fail to maintain momentum
Last year, the Selebi/Phikwe-based Eastern Gunners became the first Northern side to win the BRU league, displacing perennial champions Gaborone Hogs. However, their hopes of retaining the title were dashed by bitter rival, Hogs, who came back a...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 22 December 2010
The year Facebook changed the political scene
The year 2010 will be remembered as the year when social networking site, Facebook, changed our political landscape as it was adopted by political organisations and leaders to communicate better with their audiences at critical times. Facebook...
22 December 2010
Selebi-Phikwe bids farewell to 2010
This year was a haven of activities, economic, political and social ones. Through the culmination of this year's activities the town has made its presence known in all circles. This year's political activities were characterised with drama and...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Will 2011 see closure to the Bakgatla case?
Across the land, people talked admiringly of Kgafela, the human rights lawyer who would quit his job as a lawyer and part owner of a thriving law firm. There was the question of how Kgafela could dump his well-paying job for the 'peanuts' that...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Venson-Moitoi, not up to the task
Gape gone, does the new law allow officers to participate actively in politics? Kana ke a bo ke lathegile gape, kwakwakwakwakwakwa. A. Hei, batho, lo mpolaelang? Have a good day. I know I will!!" - October 18 status on...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Karate the 'neglected best performer' continues to shine
The national karate teams began the year well winning the Zone VI championships that had been dominated by South Africa. Botswana went ahead to prove their worth by becoming the only African country to get medals at the highly competitive Africa...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 22 December 2010
Kalafatis suspects come to court
However the Kalafatis case, through both public pressure and the work of the family lawyers Dick Bayford and Duma Boko, has come to be a sort of test case for all extra-judicial killing cases. Kalafatis was killed execution style by suspected...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE 22 December 2010
No single man will ever be that powerful
"But it should have been perfect. But in the end, we f*^&d it all up. It should have been so sweet too. But it turned out to be the last time that street guys like us were ever given anything that f@#$in' valuable again," so recalls...
22 December 2010
In 2010, formal education was a mess
They are yet to realise that education is the real diamond that all leaders should combine their efforts to develop for it is education that is truly forever. It is still a mystery to all as to why the 23 employees at the Department of Tertiary...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
BMD and how it changed the political scene
Before 2010, Botswana's political turbulence history, so to speak, was in the splitting up of the Botswana National Front that gave birth to parties like the Botswana Congress Party, which has now become a formidable party on the political...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
2010 - the year of Emma Wareus
In the run-up to the grand finale, the international media had started making headlines about her as a hot contender for the world title. They were not off the mark, for on October 30, 2010, the girl from Gabane was crowned Miss World Africa queen,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Sport: The highs and lows
Volleyball has had one of the best years after clinching a P1 million league sponsorship from local cellular phone dealer, Mascom. This was after the code went many years without a league sponsor. The federation also managed to retain tournaments'...
22 December 2010
A year of the majestic Zebras
CAF decision to lift Togo's suspension meant that Group K matches start earlier than initially scheduled. Togo was put in the Zebras' group, which also includes Tunisia, Malawi, Chad and Togo. It is the only group in the qualifiers that consists of...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
Netballers have much to celebrate this year
BoNA president, Tebogo Lebotse was in July elected president of the newly formulated African netball governing body. Lebotse's duties entailed organising regional tournaments and coaching courses. Her immediate task was to organise an Africa Netball...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 22 December 2010
The reckoning: Who owns our pula?
For more than 30 000 years Bushmen have lived in the Kalahari Desert. For more than eight years the Republic of Botswana has tried to force them out. These days, under a quiet stalemate of forced dehydration, the government has declared...
*JAMES G WORKMAN 22 December 2010
Our Heritage
One was the ongoing saga of the new or refurbished Stadiums, not least in Gaborone, Lobatse and Francistown. A second topic was Air Botswana, which was left reeling as it experienced one set back after another; and the new SSK airport in...
Sandy Grant 22 December 2010
Botswana Premier League weathers the storm
Rollers/Santos' row over playersAlmost in every transfer window, there are scuffles over some players, especially the top ones. The last transfer window was no exception. Township Rollers and Uniao Flamengo Santos were embroiled in a tussle over two...
22 December 2010
Montsho made history by securing Botswana's first gold medal
The games were marred by controversies in the build-up, which led to some top athletes in the world withdrawing from the games for safety reasons. Montsho, like most Batswana, was unfazed by the reports of insecurity and focused at the job in hand....
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 22 December 2010
A year of mixed fortunes for BFA
The year saw the curtains fall for former BFA chief executive officer Mooketsi 'Tosh' Kgotlele who was sacked on April 21 after more than six months of suspension over match-fixing allegations. BFA instituted investigations into reports that the...
22 December 2010
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