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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...
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
Meet talented Mokwena praise-poet, Sesianyane
That is the self praise-poem of one of the most reputable young praise-poets in Botswana, Dipako Sesianyane of Molepolole's Ga Ranta ward. Like most artists, the 37-year-old poet says that poetry is a gift from God, an inborn talent. "I realised...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Rising rivers swamp another Australian town
The flooding in Kerang, in the southeast state of Victoria, follows weeks of massive flooding in northeastern Queensland that the government says could be the nation's most expensive natural disaster ever. Overflowing rivers swamped an area larger...
21 January 2011
Calls for purge in Tunisia
The cabinet was due to hold its first meeting, with caretaker Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi under pressure from opposition leaders and protesters, who say there is no place in government for allies of the former leader. Four opponents of Ben Ali...
21 January 2011
Gbagbo lawful president: ACDP
"Our conclusion is that Gbagbo is lawful president of the country, his presidency is supported by the constitution and the laws of the land," the African Christian Democratic Party leader said in Johannesburg after a visit to the West African...
21 January 2011
Gabon dictator funded French political parties: WikiLeaks
A senior official at the Bank of Central of African States (BEAC) made the accusation four days after Bongo's death in June 2009, in an interview with a diplomat at the US embassy in Cameroon, according to the cable released by WikiLeaks. "Gabonese...
21 January 2011
Project Syndicate
NEW DELHI: This is a tipping point for Pakistan. Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges - exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot - or will it capsize? For...
JASWANT SINGH 21 January 2011
Project Syndicate
WASHINGTON, DC: The United States continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Is government to blame for what went wrong, and, if so, in what sense? In December, the Republican minority on the...
SIMON JOHNSON 21 January 2011
Project Syndicate
NEW YORK : After watching the collapse of Lebanon's government last week, it is hard not to think about efforts to build a stable Iraq. The two countries have so much in common. Both are volatile democracies where any political question...
IAN BREMMER 21 January 2011
Wither Botswana
Towards the end of 2010, an MP asked a parliamentary question about the effect of the then 30 per cent alcohol levy on the nation's rate of alcohol consumption. The government's response was that the findings of a study that the relevant ministry had...
DAN MOABI 21 January 2011
Trepidation ahead of reshuffle
That a cabinet reshuffle is imminent is not in doubt, given the fact that there are already two key vacancies: at Defence, Justice and Security and a junior minister at Finance and Development Planning. The powerful Defence vacancy was...
EDITOR 21 January 2011
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21 January 2011
Sekgororoane on BNF and her new home in the BMD
Our English teacher Koma taught us tough English. He would tell us that, "'Ga o re motho o makgakga, you say they are super-serious!' However my political activism was to start later," relates Rhoda Sekgororoane, a former BNF activist. She...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Unsustainable ARVs 'jails the HIV-positive'
In the findings of Kitso Aids Training Programme made public in 2008, as of January 2007, for instance, there were 60,000 cumulative HIV/AIDS-related deaths. Kitso Aids Training Programme is an NGO working with HIV/AIDS specialists in combating the...
21 January 2011
What has 2011 got in store for political parties?
Just a few months after the 2009 general elections, there were so many things that happened and helped change the political landscape of the nation. Who would have predicted that one of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) sons, Botsalo Ntuane, would...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 January 2011
Welcome to Mahalapye bus rank
The three parking lots meant for taxis, combis and buses cannot cope with the flood of taxis, combis and the buses which converge on this limited space, causing much congestion and unsanitary conditions. The uncontrolled flow of the north and...
DIRANG LEKUNTWANE
Correspondent 21 January 2011
Legalising sex work in Botswana
Picture a sex worker being picked up at her spot or house by a client who is the man who has offered to pay for her services. They get into his car and drive away and maybe it is just early evening. He knows exactly what he wants to do with her but...
21 January 2011
The unending battle of slander
A caption "Kadugli is surrounded by scared villagers who have survived mass killings and forced relocation." To the left of this picture is the inscription "Survival," an emblem with two palms reaching out in a manner that suggests a longing to be...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 21 January 2011
Revolution in Tunisia: Lessons for Africa
His Prime Minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi announced a national unity government that includes three opposition leaders and members of the old regime but this only fuelled the revolutionary fires. The looting and protesting did not stop as calls for the...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 21 January 2011
"Village politics" keep progress out of Zwenshambe
With eight wards, namely, Chabale, Mafa, Thobani, Mulale, Ndan'gwa, Phandu, Malobela and Nyuke, this Tati West village in the North East District has a population of approximately 2 000 people, the majority of whom are subsistence farmers. Back in...
EDWARD BULE 21 January 2011
One hell of a gamble: Duma, Dumelang and Gomolemo?
Elsewhere in the 'green camp', albeit not necessarily green for the 'tree huggers', the handing over of the baton to the younger (Dumelang) Saleshando marked a catalyst of some sort while the election of Duma Boko as Botswana National Front (BNF)...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 21 January 2011
Botswana's P8bn SACU nightmare
It is a worrying image of a group of small economies namely Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland held hostage by the dominating economic power of South Africa. Botswana is set to suffer irreparable damage if South Africa has its way and the new revenue...
21 January 2011
'The boys were dandy, the girls cute'(Part 2)
"I am fascinated by this. Can we get different outcomes in similar cases and what would be the cause of that?," Ngakaagae loudly wonders, frowning for a second. Like all lawyers, Kgosietsile Ngakaagae has a penchant for making his arguments by...
21 January 2011
Pill slows spread of skin cancer in half of cases
A trial of 680 patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London tested a drug that attacks a genetic mutation found in half of all skin cancer cases. The drug was effective on patients with advanced malignant melanoma. The study has been welcomed by...
21 January 2011
US woman solves own baby kidnap
The victim of a high-profile New York baby-snatching case has been reunited with her mother after solving the mystery of her abduction herself. Carlina White was abducted from a hospital in Harlem in August 1987, when she was just 19 days old....
21 January 2011
Viewpoints: Anti-Muslim prejudice in Europe
Here are the views of Muslims from around Europe on whether they think anti-Muslim attitudes are now considered acceptable in their countries. SwedenProfessor Anne-Sofie Roald, professor of religious studies at Malmo University and a Muslim...
21 January 2011
Brenda Jensen's voice restored after larynx transplant
Brenda Jensen said the operation, which took place in California, was a miracle which had restored her life. Thirteen days after the surgery she said her first words: "Good morning, I want to go home." It is the first time a voicebox and windpipe...
21 January 2011
Political interference in VDCs
There is a widespread belief that politicians manipulate Village Development Committees (VDC) and their urban counterparts, Ward Development Committees (WDC). However, it is extremely difficult to find a politician who agrees that the perception is...
21 January 2011
Local garage being investigated for forgery
Portia Mmokele tells a horror story at the hands of Loyal Saints garage situated at Gaborone West industrial near the bus rank. Mmokele said it all started in July last year after she had a road accident. She took her Go Now station wagon...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 January 2011
BCP still negotiating with defector
Mashaba resigned from the BCP at the beginning of January claiming lack of inner party democracy. BCP Secretary General, Dr Kesitegile Gobotswang confirmed to Mmegi in an interview this week that they are still negotiating with Mashaba at different...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 21 January 2011
China not seeking arms race or domination
"We do not engage in arms races or pose a military threat to any country," the Chinese leader said in a speech to US business leaders. Hu called for US co-operation on economic and security issues. On the third day of his US state visit Hu met...
21 January 2011
IHRM to groom HR professionals
Speaking to Mmegi, IHRM's committee member responsible for publicist and communication, Tebatso Hule said that they are targeting young professionals leaving tertiary institutions and those studying for HR qualifications. "We want to start building...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
False prophet remanded for raping and robbing female 'client'
According to the particulars of the offence, Oduetse Mooketsi, 27, and another accused still at large, on January 11, 2011, behind Cresta Lodge in the Gaborone Administrative District, had unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman (name withheld) without...
PETER MADIYA
Correspondent 21 January 2011
Bolus progam starts again despite previous hitches
The Ministry of Agriculture announced early this month that they are starting a new campaign on bolus insertion to make up for the delay caused by the breakdown of the old version machines. The bolus insertion program started with a sophisticated...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
Habitual thief on bail remanded for committing similar offence
Thanana Kebonang, 28, who was on bail for an offence of breaking into a motor vehicle and theft common, was at it once again when he allegedly broke into a motor vehicle at the traffic lights next to Botswana Unified Revenue Authority (BURS) on...
PETER MADIYA
Correspondent 21 January 2011
Another police tender prompts uproar
After Tender Number SP/MTC 0090/2010-2011 was awarded to Gaborone-based Kalahari Fashions, three citizen-owned companies intend to complain to the minister responsible because the development contradicts the government's citizen empowerment and...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
BPH crisis: Over 100 to be retrenched
Sources have revealed that some employees have already been served with letters that portend a bleak future. Also awaiting the hospital is likelihood of a new management company within the next few months. In a joint interview this week, the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 January 2011
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