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Tuesday January 30
Wednesday January 31
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
UK demands Gbagbo "go and go now"
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made Britain's toughest statement yet on the crisis after meeting Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore in London on Monday evening to discuss the situation in Ivory Coast. Compaore, a regional power-broker, is...
20 January 2011
Tunisian coalition runs into turbulence
Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi brought opposition leaders into the coalition on Monday when former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after weeks of street protests. But key old-guard figures kept their jobs, angering opposition...
20 January 2011
Gem Diamonds' Elphick elated with mining licence
After putting the Gope project on the backburner in 2009 as a measure to cut costs and stay afloat in the face of the global economic crisis, Gem diamonds has been awarded a 25-year mining licence. "The mining licence has been granted for a period...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 20 January 2011
EU funds fourteen NGOs
The awards ceremony, which was held at GICC on Wednesday, also marked the result of the fifth and last call for proposals under the partnership project that will be concluded by the end of this year. Speaking at the ceremony, outgoing head of the EU...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 20 January 2011
Open Democracy
Tunisia's revolt, which was triggered by the martyr Bouazezi's self-immolation and helped overthrow the "former" president,Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, carries many messages and lessons to be read and analysed. It is an indicator of the direction...
MOHAMMED HUSSAINY 20 January 2011
As isee it
Sudan is the largest African country, geographically; it covers an area of 967 500 square miles (2 056 000 square kilometers). It is almost double the size of Botswana and shares borders with eight other countries, from Egypt in the North to...
MICHAEL DIKGAKE 20 January 2011
Khama and Skelemani show lack of diplomatic acumen on Ivory Coast
The story follows a press statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcing that President Ian Khama has invited the perceived winner Ivory Coast presidential elections, Alassante Ouattara for a state visit. The statement said that...
EDITOR 20 January 2011
Selefu 20 January 2011
20 January 2011
Our heritage
I knew at the time that I had taken a photo of that plaque perhaps in 1964/5 - but had it survived the intervening years, could I find it again and if I did, would it be good enough to replay to us today its now lost wording? If not, what chance...
SANDY GRANT 20 January 2011
FCC still fighting floods
Late last year City mayor Shadrack Nyeku said that the council had put appropriate measures in place to try and alleviate the problems of storms. The council has resorted to digging trenches as one of the measures in flood prone areas. Nyeku...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 20 January 2011
BCP vets out former candidate
The decision was taken during a central committee meeting last weekend. The Ikageleng Phase One seat fell vacant after the death of councillor Letsweletse Dinale last November. BCP publicity secretary, Taolo Lucas told Mmegi that the party decided...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 20 January 2011
More murders recorded in Monarch - police chief
He said other locations with high crime levels were Coloured, Area A and Donga and that they (police) were currently investigating a case in which a 26-year-old man allegedly murdered his 22-year-old girlfriend in Coloured on suspicion of...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Man arrested for defiling 13-year-old
Tutume Police Station Commander superintendent Vusimusi Jorowe told Mmegi that the Standard Seven pupil came to Tutume for Christmas holidays from Selebi-Phikwe and was supposed to go back on January 9. "The child was supposed to go back to...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Sekgororoane ditches BNF for BMD
Sekgororoane has been a BNF activist for about 17 years. She said she left to join a party "of people whose hearts are as painful as mine about the BDP". "I have suffered at the hands of the BDP especially as a member of the Botswana Caucus for...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 20 January 2011
Too sogging wet for a good crop - farmers
Samson Motlhala, a Crop Production Officer at the Francistown Regional Agricultural Office says the continuous rains are unsuitable for crops. "Not all crops require a lot of water," he says. "Some crops are overpowered by water such that they fail...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 20 January 2011
Floods cause chaos
Elsewhere in the district, Mogobane Dam was overflowing. The Officer-in-Charge at Ramotswa Border Gate, Annah Kokomane, confirmed yesterday that they closed the entry and exit point on Monday as a deluge pelted the district. Ramotswa Border Gate...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 20 January 2011
Govt approves mining in CKGR
Diamond mining within the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR) is set to commence in earnest after the government granted diamond company Gem Diamonds Limited a permit to proceed on Tuesday. This has attracted the ire of Survival International...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff writer 20 January 2011
Labour Commissioner rejects BOFEPUSU application
In a letter dated January 18, 2011 addressed to BOFEPUSU's secretary general Andrew Motsamai, Rose Sennanyana said that all matters pertaining to collective bargaining in the public service will be addressed through the Public Service Bargaining...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 20 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 20 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...
20 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 20 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 20 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...
21 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 21 January 2011
EU funds fourteen NGOs
The awards ceremony, which was held at GICC on Wednesday, also marked the result of the fifth and last call for proposals under the partnership project that will be concluded by the end of this year. Speaking at the ceremony, outgoing head of the EU...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Consumer Watchdog
In late 2009, the Botswana Stock Exchange issued a statement warning the public that Stock Market Direct (SMD) wasn't authorised to trade on our local stock market. SMD then responded by pointing out that this didn't matter, they only helped people...
21 January 2011
New Debswana boss promises gem quality work
A statement released by Debswana's Public and Corporate Affairs Manager, Esther Kanaimba-Senai, says Gowans, who is on a three-year contract, will focus on maximising the value of Debswana's world-class resource by optimising and improving operations...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Phikwe IT company partners with South Africans
The Selebi-Phikwe company has decided to trade as Kolari instead of Independent Management Consultants. The firm announced the change yesterday at a function where new strategic partnerships were introduced. Explaining the need to re-brand, Kolari...
BABOKI KAYAWE
staff Writer 21 January 2011
NDB tightens credit as profits grow
This represents a 13 percent year-on-year growth in comparison to the 2009 financial year when it received P51 million mainly from interest on loans and advances to customers. NDB board chairman, Lesedi Seitei, said the quest to increase non-interest...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 January 2011
Botswana Diamonds to list next month
Market watchers say an expected introduction price of 7p (71 thebe) a share puts Botswana Diamonds at just over £7m with no new money being raised. African Diamonds Plc (AFD) de-listed from the BSE at the close of business on December 22, 2010...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Government extends Diaval Ltd contract
According to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) notice, published on Tuesday, the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources' tender to directly appoint Diaval Limited for a period of three years from the 1 January 2011 to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Morupule refurbishment slated for August
The refurbishment is designed to restore the plant to a "dependable capacity" following a long period of poor performance by repairing at least three of its four 33-megawatt (MW) units that have been failing regularly, forcing BPC to implement a...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 21 January 2011
How novels came to terms with the internet
Novelists have gone to great lengths - setting stories in the past or in remote places - to avoid dealing with the internet. Is this finally changing, asks Laura Miller Back in the early 1990s, David Foster Wallace wrote an essay urging young...
21 January 2011
'She had no pegs to hang anything on'
Too Much Happiness took the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. This volume is doubly rewarding; it is a collection of short stories by one of the world's greatest writers, Alice Munro. It is an unexpected pleasure for short stories to be...
21 January 2011
Back Stage
It is not a great film, but it could collect a few Academy Award nominations. It had three nominations for the Golden Globes, but won nothing. We all are visual tourists when we go to the theatre to watch a film. The Tourist falls short of...
SASA MAJUMA 21 January 2011
Book Review
His book, almost a diary, is an expatriate's record of his and his family's experience in those two contrasting places. Understandably, I first started to read the second part on Botswana but becoming quickly irritated decided to see what the...
SANDY GRANT 21 January 2011
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