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The case against military intervention
From all indications, the actions of these international actors are based on two precarious grounds - as though the fact of Laurent Gbagbo's despicable conduct amounts to an unconditional justification for any form intervention; and as though the...
19 January 2011
Lebanon heads for lengthy political deadlock
That is about the last thing that is likely to happen, and everybody knows it.Assuming the situation cannot be retrieved - and it has gone so far that it is hard to see that happening - Lebanon is clearly in for a lengthy period of political deadlock...
*JIM MUIR 19 January 2011
Ngakaagae - my learned friend part 2
Blue shirt. Dark blue suit. Tie. Every now and then the phone rings and he considers it, frowning in feigned annoyance. He apologizes and picks it up. When he is done, he apologises again, with a sudden wide smile that is as wide as it is sudden....
19 January 2011
Young school girls are victims of abuse
For Goitse Buang, "The society needs to do something about this new scourge. Some irresponsible men in our society have now turned this school going young girls into their soft targets. To irresponsible men, these schools are not necessarily one of...
19 January 2011
'Mining' is not a bad place to be
The trousers were ironed such that the pleat was so straight and sharp it could kill a fly. These were no ordinary clothes then. So expensive and of good quality were these clothes that those wearing them attracted so much respect from their kith and...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Superstition: a Tswana culturalaspect that has stood the test of time!
Although some people dismiss superstition as irrational and scientifically deficient, there appears to be a strong belief that it has stood the test of time. For Kavuka Tembwe, "Superstition continues to be a deeply guarded secret in our society. It...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Musanani burial society a success
'Musanani' is an Ikalanga word that means 'to uplift one another'. The society was formed to uplift the standard of life in the village.Elders dominated attendance because the majority of the youth are employed in urban areas. The elders were most...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Will there be peace at 2011 BDP congress?
The 2009 congress in Kanye turned into a turbulent affair, leading to a split that gave rise to the formation of the Botswana Movement for Democracy by the Barataphathi faction, making the Gantsi event look like a walk in the park wheren Ponatshego...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Project Syndicate
KOLKATA: On the eastern edge of Kolkata, Dulu Bibi, a 25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys. Her husband earns 80-90 rupees ($1.90 or Û1.40) a day. The family's basic diet is low in the...
BJORN LOMBORG 19 January 2011
BFA yet to draw Zebras' budget
BFA chief executive officer (CEO) Judge Mookodi said they were still to finalise the budget proposal. "We have not yet finalised the budget; it has to wait. We want the technical team to put everything together as there will be more friendly...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
New twist in govt-teachers' feud
It appears there is no solution in sight in the wrangle between the government and teachers over participation in school activities after the schools sports body, Botswana Intergrated Sports Association (BISA), was ordered to stop negotiating for the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Cash-strapped Motlakase shelve stadium project
The team had already started constructing the more than P1 million facility. At the completion of the project, Motlakase will be the only Premier League side to have its own stadium. Other institutional teams like BDF XI and Police XI use...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Botswanacraft still top venue
Oliver Groth of Botswanacraft said they intend to organise more shows this year, featuring both local and international artists. Groth said they might stage their first show in March. Although he would not reveal names, Groth said they are...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Mpatane produces Halala Tamabrown DVD sequel
Mpatane has released yet another DVD, which is a sequel to the popular Ikalanga comedy Halala Tamabrown. At the moment Mpatane has released four DVD movies. Last year around March, Mpatane released the first Halala Tamabrown and he has now...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Local music industry tough - Shanay
Speaking to Showbiz, the artist says that he started venturing into the music industry back in the day when celebrated local rapper, Thato 'Scar' Mathabaphiri, was the only visible artist in the Hip-Hop genre, but even now he is still waiting for his...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 19 January 2011
Rains bring acid mine spillage closer
At the Aurora Empowerment Systems Grootvlei mine in Springs, east of Johannesburg, only two functioning pumps, which suck the poisonous water from the underground workings, are themselves expected to be flooded in less than two weeks. Aurora is the...
19 January 2011
Coalition takes reins in Tunisia
Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi also said the government was committed to releasing all political prisoners, and that anyone with great wealth or suspected of corruption would face investigation. Demonstrators took to the streets earlier in the...
19 January 2011
Fresh bid to break Ivory Coast deadlock
But Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union's pointman for the weeks-long showdown between Gbagbo and the man the world says beat him in a November vote, arrived with the bitter rivals more entrenched than ever. Both Gbagbo and...
19 January 2011
Emergency fuel cost Botswana P310m
News of the approval follows an announcement by Minister Ponatshego Kedikilwe last week that the government has formulated plans for the first national oil company. During the trip he undertook to Mozambique last year when the country was...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
BEDIA courts Germans to train local entrepreneurs
The Export Development Programme(EDP) is a project by BEDIA designed to assist in developing international market entry strategies that identify the objectives, resources or policies that will in turn assist participating companies develop their...
19 January 2011
BBC News
When Barack Obama became US president, one of his top foreign policy priorities was to improve relations with China. Yet on the eve of President Hu Jintao's state visit to Washington, US-China relations are worse, rather than...
JOSEPH NYE 19 January 2011
The results please...
This is the question that is on everyone's lips. It appears that at the moment the results cannot be released because subject teachers have not submitted coursework marks for the pupils. While the circumstances that led to the current...
EDITOR 19 January 2011
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19 January 2011
Switch that light off!
The research shows that the body produces less of the sleep hormone melatonin when exposed to light. Sleep patterns have been linked to some types of cancer, blood pressure and diabetes. The US researchers also found lower melatonin levels in shift...
19 January 2011
Fear of dentists and needles needs sympathetic ear
Dentophobia is an extremely common affliction. Around 12% of us suffer from extreme dental anxiety and the British Dental Association says that 25 percent of the British population suffer from some sort of anxiety before visiting the...
PHILIPPA ROXBY 19 January 2011
My own people toppled me-Mponwane
The council last week tabled a motion-of-no-confidence against Mponwane and voted him out in abstentia, for alleged incompetence. Moponwane was the first opposition member to deputise the ruling party mayor in Selebi-Phikwe. He was elected by the...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Bus drivers say employers refuse to recognise union
Speaking to Mmegi last week the union's assistant secretary general Christopher Mogomotsi said his efforts to try and get bus owners to sign a form recognising the existence of the union were futile as most of them refused to append their...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Choppies announces 16 winners of Opel Corsa bakkies
The draw conducted on Monday at Choppies head office Gaborone was attended by supermarket officials and suppliers in the presence of the media. Choppies marketing executive, Otsile Marole said the 2010/2011 competition which was only open to citizen...
THALEFANG CHARLES 19 January 2011
Sesana missing in the Basarwa case
Either Sesana has been pushed aside, as latest reports suggest, or he has lost interest in the matter to focus on his private life. However, the man who has been his second lieutenant, Jumanda Galekebone says Sesana is still part of the struggle and...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Nurses not restricted to seek employment in SADC-MoH
Dismissing suggestions that Botswana has made agreements that restrict locally trained nurses from seeking employment in other SADC countries, principal public relations officer at the Ministry of Health, Tebogo Moisakamo, said Botswana-registered...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Form 4 students likely to miss school term
Form Three students normally receive their results before Christmas to allow them time to prepare for the next level. However thousands of students who last year sat their Junior Certificate Examination are still anxiously awaiting their...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
Khama invites Ouattara for state visit
According to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation press statement, President Khama has invited Ouattara to come on a state visit in recognition of his victory in "the presidential elections in Cote d'Ivore held on the 28th...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 January 2011
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 19 January 2011
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...
19 January 2011
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 19 January 2011
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 19 January 2011
The case against military intervention
From all indications, the actions of these international actors are based on two precarious grounds - as though the fact of Laurent Gbagbo's despicable conduct amounts to an unconditional justification for any form intervention; and as though the...
20 January 2011
Lebanon heads for lengthy political deadlock
That is about the last thing that is likely to happen, and everybody knows it.Assuming the situation cannot be retrieved - and it has gone so far that it is hard to see that happening - Lebanon is clearly in for a lengthy period of political deadlock...
*JIM MUIR 20 January 2011
'Mining' is not a bad place to be
The trousers were ironed such that the pleat was so straight and sharp it could kill a fly. These were no ordinary clothes then. So expensive and of good quality were these clothes that those wearing them attracted so much respect from their kith and...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Superstition: a Tswana culturalaspect that has stood the test of time!
Although some people dismiss superstition as irrational and scientifically deficient, there appears to be a strong belief that it has stood the test of time. For Kavuka Tembwe, "Superstition continues to be a deeply guarded secret in our society. It...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Musanani burial society a success
'Musanani' is an Ikalanga word that means 'to uplift one another'. The society was formed to uplift the standard of life in the village.Elders dominated attendance because the majority of the youth are employed in urban areas. The elders were most...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Will there be peace at 2011 BDP congress?
The 2009 congress in Kanye turned into a turbulent affair, leading to a split that gave rise to the formation of the Botswana Movement for Democracy by the Barataphathi faction, making the Gantsi event look like a walk in the park wheren Ponatshego...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 20 January 2011
The sad declineof Dinara Safina
A year ago, after putting Elena Baltacha out in the third round, second seed Safina had to quit in the first set of her next match when her back gave up on her, setting in train a spiral which bottomed out awfully in Melbourne on Tuesday. In the...
20 January 2011
Setswe takes over at Letlapeng
Setswe was dismissed by Naughty Boys mid-way through the first round after a bust up with team manager, Desmond Molefhe on the bench. Although he admitted that it will be a daunting challenge to lead Letlapeng, Setswe expressed confidence that with...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Comets not in a hurry to replace Radipotsane
Comets' spokesperson, Njabulo Gilika told Mmegi Sport that getting a head coach is not a priority at the club right now. Comets has elevated Radipotsane's former assistant, Gazza Gabasiane to care-taker coach until a permanent replacement is...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 January 2011
BFA fails to secure First Division sponsorship
BFA marketing and communications officer, Phakamile Kraai said the association is still looking for prospective sponsors though he did not indicate whether they are negotiating with any company. The last sponsor of the league was Med Rescue...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Botswana needs arts council, says Bakwena
"There is a need for a national arts council," he said in an interview at Thapong this week. As far as he is concerned, the establishment of the council is long over due. "We want the arts council to be given priority." Bakwena said the council...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Mokobi lands COSBOTS top post
COSBOTS, which has received a grant from the Ministry of Trade and Industry to kick-start its operations, has been set up for the purposes of collecting and distributing royalties to musicians and all other artists. All categories of works are part...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Krab releases engaging Menate Fela
Other tracks are Africah, the title track, Menate Fela, Marea Ke Go Rileng, Nako Nngwe featuring HT, Bana Bokamoso, Hee Wena featuring Star Luu, Morwalela remix featuring Shanay, Molodi and Mme Motsadi. The cheeky intro suggests that the artist has...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Egypt's Coptic Pope cancels mass over security fears
Officials suspect an al Qaeda-inspired bomber was behind the New Year's blast outside a church in the port city of Alexandria. Islamist websites had carried repeated threats to attack churches and have since carried threats to strike...
20 January 2011
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