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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...
27 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 27 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 27 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 27 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...
27 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...
27 January 2011
United battle back for extraordinary win
Two-nil down with not even 20 minutes of normal time to play, it had looked like being a bruising experience for Sir Alex Ferguson's team, but that would be to under-estimate the competitive strengths of this side and the enduring qualities that now...
27 January 2011
'Butcher' vows to stop bone-crunching tackles
This has often attracted the attention of referees and in some instances, he has complained that he is being targeted by match officials. His play often triggers debate with some labelling him a rough defender while others have argued that the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 27 January 2011
BVF hosts inaugural volleyball awards
It is organised by the Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) with sponsorship from mobile phone service provider, Mascom. Male and female players will compete in five categories each.Kalavango's Monica Alfred dominates the female awards with four...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 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 27 January 2011
Botswana could reap rich from athletics meet
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) president, Moses Bantsi has said the IAAF has promised to help build an HPC if the country successfully hosts the championships. Botswana will host the event from May 6-9 this year. Bantsi told Mmegi Sport that...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 January 2011
Doctor pleads not guilty to Jackson's death
"Your Honor, I am an innocent man," Dr. Conrad Murray told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor in a soft voice. "I definitely plead not guilty." Lawyers for Murray, who is accused of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol...
27 January 2011
Kekana to star at the Millennium
Local artists like Punah Gabasiane and Nnunu Ramogotsi will back Kekana, who will do two sets. Kekana was in the country towards the end of last year at the invitation of Afro jazz artist Socca Moruakgomo. He managed to attend a tribute...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 January 2011
Stage set for Cape Town jazz festival
Just 59 days before the festival dubbed 'Africa's Grandest Gathering' organisers of Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), espAfrika on Tuesday revealed the artist line-up of this year's festival. Rashid Lombard, festival director, announced...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Correspondent 27 January 2011
Twitter blocked in Egypt
The US-based microblogging service that allows people to use mobile phones and computers to broadcast short text messages was out of service in Egypt, according to the herdict.org tracking website. Twitter said in a terse "tweet" that it was blocked...
27 January 2011
Zuma's Cup guests cost taxpayers R17m
International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said yesterday the state spent R16589511 of taxpayers' money to entertain 17 heads of state - 16 from Africa - who were guests of President Jacob Zuma for the opening match and the World Cup...
27 January 2011
African states at odds on Ivory Coast crisis
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he differed from the U.N. line on the crisis, as a delegation of West African states prepared a US trip to lobby President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to back a possible use of force to...
27 January 2011
'BEDIA, IFSC merger to boost trade and investment
Having missed opportunities for statutory consideration last year, the inter-ministerial task force managing the merger hopes to secure Cabinet and Parliamentary endorsement this year. IFSC Board Chairperson, James Kamyuka, says the merger will...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 27 January 2011
Small scale farmers hit hardest by floods
"Some are unable to continue repaying loans to the banks such as the Land Bank and other financial institutions that support farmers," chairman of the portfolio committee on agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Salamuddi Abram, said. In a statement...
27 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...
27 January 2011
BMC hits record slaughter figures
Last year, the BMC's Lobatse, Francistown, and to a lesser extent, Maun abattoirs slaughtered 179, 009 cattle, a 32 percent increase on the numbers processed in 2009. The closest the Commission came to the 2010 figures was in 2007 when it slaughtered...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 27 January 2011
Tunisia, or democracy's future in jasmine
Now, as the Tunisian insurrection has just been labelled the "jasmine revolution", the semantics of the flower may be further enriched to designate a popular uprising with the following key characteristics: * genuinely homegrown* belated,...
GORAN FEJIC 27 January 2011
Guest Column
It's been a painful day for the BBC World Service and the 180 million audiences around the world. This morning I announced a fundamental restructure to the BBC World Service in order to meet the 16% savings target required by the UK government's...
PETER HORROCKS 27 January 2011
What Continent Should Learn from WikiLeaks
These include thousands of US military documents pertaining to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as politically charged documents concerning the disquieting spread of corruption in Kenya and the deadly dumping of toxic chemical waste in...
*BEROUK MESFIN 27 January 2011
Selefu 27 January 2011
27 January 2011
BMC and farmers need to collaborate
Over the years, the BMC has had a generally acrimonious relationship with farmers who have accused it of offering below par prices for beasts delivered. Farmers and their associations have fought hard for legislative changes enabling them to export...
EDITOR 27 January 2011
Former prisoner speaks about conditions at Boys Prison
"I never witnessed any homosexual sex or heard that it was being practiced in that prison. I had indeed heard such stories and was scared for my life when I got there. I could not sleep fearing that I would be raped at night. A few days passed...
27 January 2011
Neighbour-hoods renamed
The decision was taken at a poorly attended kgotla meeting here this week Ikageleng kgotla. The meeting was attended mainly by the youth. A member of Ikageleng Ward Development Committee, Super Thipe, told the meeting that the committee was tasked by...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 27 January 2011
Our heritage
Why is the town still lumbered with colonial leftovers such as Blue Jacket Street, Acacia Avenue and St. Patrick's Street. Answer? Street names of the older 'colonial' settlements do reflect their history and therefore have value. Start fiddling...
SANDY GRANT 27 January 2011
Disappointment as Francistown gets P116 million for 2011/12
While the budget speech itself is set for February, the Mayor of Francistown, Shadreck Nyeku has confirmed that the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has reduced the city's revenue support grant for the financial year 2011/12 to...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 27 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 27 January 2011
Francistown Chinese community donates to SOS
The donation was made in the spirit of compassion under the auspices of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Director of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Gao Yuwang said such charitable work would continue. "We as Chinese have been around in this...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 27 January 2011
BFTU's Keitsing chides lawyers
Speaking at a conference organised by the Industrial Court, the union leader said that he has observed with concern that "a lot of lawyers do not volunteer. Even when we ask them to do a paper on labour relations, they want to charge exorbitant...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 27 January 2011
Soldiers could join war against illegal sand miners
Sources in Gaborone say if the request from the affected villages gets government approval, the soldiers will be posted at the Kumakwane and Ditlhakane farmlands to repel the illegal diggers who are motivated by the high demand for river...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 27 January 2011
Applications for passenger transport permits resume
The applications were opened to the public on Monday but suspended due to problems with the system. "We have introduced new electronic permits because the previous ones were being easily faked. At our Francistown office, we are not yet issuing...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 27 January 2011
We will not be spectators - Kekgonegile
Goretetse Kekgonegile was speaking at a press briefing yesterday at the Gaborone City Council conference room held to introduce the newly elected national executive committee. He revealed that there have been queries from government that...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 27 January 2011
Merafhe is as fit as a fiddle - OP
In a very brief response, government spokesman, Jeff Ramsay, confirmed that, "on medical advice, the Vice-President Merafhe was admitted to hospital yesterday for some tests. He is otherwise in good condition". He continued, "further to the...
STAFF WRITER 27 January 2011
BNF youth query Marobela
Marobela is a member of the International Socialists of Botswana organisation, which was expelled from the BNF during Otsweletse Moupo's presidency. NFYL spokesman, Maikgantsho Ramontsho, says "as the youth league we took a position that the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
f Writer 27 January 2011
'First Peoples' Gakelebone arrested, lawyer left stranded
The arrest left the Basarwa's lawyer, who was in the reserve to consult his clients over a case currently before the appeal court, stranded in the desert without a guide or translator. Gakelebone, a member of Basarwa organisation, First People of the...
STAFF WRITER 27 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 27 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...
28 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 28 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 28 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 28 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...
28 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...
28 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 28 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...
28 January 2011
Former prisoner speaks about conditions at Boys Prison
"I never witnessed any homosexual sex or heard that it was being practiced in that prison. I had indeed heard such stories and was scared for my life when I got there. I could not sleep fearing that I would be raped at night. A few days passed...
28 January 2011
Neighbour-hoods renamed
The decision was taken at a poorly attended kgotla meeting here this week Ikageleng kgotla. The meeting was attended mainly by the youth. A member of Ikageleng Ward Development Committee, Super Thipe, told the meeting that the committee was tasked by...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 28 January 2011
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