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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...
03 February 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 03 February 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 03 February 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...
03 February 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 03 February 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 03 February 2011
Technology highjacks language
It sounded all too familiar. Somewhere out of the blue, Parliament and journalists now appear to have adopted the Americanism 'State of the Nation Address' to refer to the speech that the President of Botswana makes when the house opens, three...
03 February 2011
The BPP golden jubilee that was never celebrated (Part 2)
The Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) demanded racial equality and opposed the awarding of business licences along racial lines where only the whites benefited. It was also worried that the civil service was full of whites from apartheid South Africa and...
03 February 2011
Masturbation works!
Some people discovered it when they were children, while others are introduced to it through friends. Some read about it. The Internet also gives information. Wikepedia defines masturbation as "the sexual stimulation of a person's genitals, usually...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Facebook: the ultimate people finder?
A questionnaire posted on Facebook shows that users of the forum are quite impressed with the social network, as they seem to have found people they never thought they would see again. On the responses, most people seem happy with the way they keep...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Gerald Estates gives ex-squatters decent homes
Like all urban areas the world over, Francistown had become a magnet to rural immigrants because it offered employment and informal sector opportunities and therefore a better life for the former rural dweller. The slow process of land allocation as...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 03 February 2011
School boy smoking:a cause for concern!
This disturbing sight continues to taint the social environment as more and more boys are drowning in this pool of smoking culture. For Khabo Phineas, "This sorry sight and epidemic is not helped by the fact that the society seems not to treat it as...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Culture of graffiti slowly gaining ground!
This culture is slowly gaining ground in Botswana society. Spray markings that commonly appear on road signs and culverts bear testimony to the presence of this culture in our society. To an ordinary man such markings would not make sense and can be...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Nyangabgwe emergency ward: torture
Entering the ward, one would at first be hit by an unwelcoming environment of a hot atmosphere and an unfriendly smell. A throng of patients would also be sympathetically awaiting assistance, some of them looking as if they are awaiting death, hair...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 03 February 2011
New badminton committee hits ground running
Badminton standards have deteriorated over the years leading to a lack of interest in the sport from the public. The Saturday meeting is meant to reveiew BBA's strategic plan and come up with a strategy to restore the glory and success the sport...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Wenger blasts Chelsea's 75m transfer spree
"Chelsea supported Uefa's financial fair-play proposals but in the morning they announced a £70m loss and in the afternoon they buy £75m worth of players. Where's the logic in that?" Wenger said after Arsenal's 2-1 defeat of Everton....
03 February 2011
Vasco delight for Ramatlhakwana
The Santos striker completed his loan move to Vasco this week in a deal that will keep him at the club for the rest of the season. JJ, who has been in fine form for the Zebras, is a relieved man after spending the past six months without seeing any...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Coca-Cola Cup gets more minnows
The country's only knockout cup competition with a top prize of P500,000 is in its final season of a three-year sponsorship deal from Kgalagadi Breweries through its Coca-Cola brand. Speaking at the launch, Coca-Cola Cup committee chairman, Tips...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Bosele Declaration comes under the microscope
FIFA Development Officer, Ashford Mamelodi will facilitate the review and evaluation of the Bosele Declaration as the BPL seeks ways to speed up implementation. In 2008, BPL delegates met at the Bosele Hotel in Selebi-Phikwe and came up with a blue...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Impressionist Gaotshabege was destined to be an artist
According to the painter, as a young boy, he also noticed that the women of the village were good at decorating homes and that made Maunatlala a beautiful village indeed and this had great impact on his artistry. "My grandfather was one of the most...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Shanay collaborates with Zeus in 'Lorato 'Bophelong
Shanay said he had long wanted to work with Zeus, one of the leading artists in the country. "Zeus has really made an impact in the hip hop industry in Botswana and he has always offered things that are different so I had this dream that one day, I...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Artists plan charity festival
The event to be held at the Westwood International School in Gaborone is slated for May 21, featuring jazz maestro Lister Boleseng, gospel's Gaamangwe Lebele, Mathews Matsetse as well as comedians Joel 'Ntsoro' Keitumele and Michael 'Dignash'...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Tebbie's 'Empa Jwale' album in stores
"The title of this album basically encourages people that they should never give up when faced with life's challenges but should rather trust in the helping hand of God," stated Sethoma. The album contains songs like Siyabonga Baba, Empa Jwale, Ware...
03 February 2011
Teachers took bribes to pass pupils - claim
Provincial education spokesman Jasper Zwane yesterday confirmed that 14 teachers at Vezilwazi Secondary School had been suspended following complaints by teachers and parents that "some learners who were supposed to fail were given pass marks on...
03 February 2011
Mubarak digs in heels, protests continue
The veteran president's announcement on television late on Tuesday drew angry jeers from demonstrators who again defied a curfew to spend the night in the capital's Tahrir Square - epicentre of protests that on Wednesday raged into a ninth straight...
03 February 2011
SMEs to get free security software from Microsoft
Microsoft Security Essentials, as the software is called, has been made free to small businesses with not more than ten computers following feedback from small business customers. At a media workshop held at GICC on Tuesday, the Business Development...
STAFF WRITER 03 February 2011
AIM first in Botswana Diamonds' dual listing
In a statement released yesterday, the company - which is an offshoot from former BSE-listed African Diamonds, says it can now start trading its shares on AIM. Although BSE officials say they have not been informed of Botswana Diamonds' plans to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Basarwa case: moral victory for SI
Many had already been voicing their concern, if not outright disagreement with Government's inflexible attitude to CKGR Basarwa, and many were worried at the apparent cruelty of Government. Those in Government should be aware that people generally...
03 February 2011
Facebook reveals hostility towards Basarwa
It's called 'I hate Survival International' and was started on 15 January, just two days before the Appeals Court hearing. It consists almost entirely of those who support the old government policy (at least, let's all hope it's old and past) of...
STEPHEN CORRY 03 February 2011
Know your labour rights
This article addresses the procedural requirements of dismissal for misconduct which places the procedure on the employer to follow fair procedures when dismissing an employee for misconduct. This simply means that once the employer has...
Advoate Mpho Ngwako 03 February 2011
Godspeed to opposition talks
Ordinarily the defections should not cause alarm, as people have the right to a political home of their choice. However, coming at a time when the opposition is engaged in unity talks whose thrust is to consolidate opposition strength, the...
Editor 03 February 2011
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03 February 2011
The bedbug summit - banishing the itchy insects
Experts say bedbugs are now the "toughest pests to control", and that the insects are becoming more resistant to chemical treatments. "I can't think of anything creepier than these little things that suck the blood out of you," says Bob Rosenberg,...
*RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN 03 February 2011
Venson-Moitoi, union clash over coursework
It is reported that Venson-Moitoi was addressing Kgotla meetings in Bobirwa last week where the residents asked her about the exam results and she answered that the delay had been caused by teachers who had withheld the marks. BOSETU publicity...
ROGERS MPHANE
Correspondent 03 February 2011
F/town in desperate need of district hospital - Nyeku
The mayor was speaking in the wake of repeated complaints from patients who have to wait for hours in acute pain for medical assistance at Nyangabwe Referral Hospital. The most disturbing aspect is that complaints involve the Accident and Emergency...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Seretse Khama remembered
Speaking at a public lecture to commemorate the BDP 49th anniversary, the party's first Executive Secretary, Kebatlamang Morake recalled a time in 1963 Francistown when stalwart Botswana Peoples Party president, P.G Matante, pummeled them. "His...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Exam results still a long wait - BOSETU
Selebi-Phikwe Regional Chairperson for Botswana Secondary Teachers Union (BOSETU), George Showa made these revelations during a meeting with teachers organised by Selebi-Phikwe West MP, Gilson Saleshando this week. "The results might be released in...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 03 February 2011
Botswana ferry breaks down
The ferry stopped operating a week ago after its propulsion system was hit by an unidentified object on the Botswana side of the river, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications public relations officer Amangwe...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Teachers 'query' 'unequal pay for equal work'
The officers were paid P11,000, while the school heads who were accused of 'betraying the struggle' were only paid the rates offered by BEC which are P2,500 for primary schools, P3,700 for Junior Schools and P5,000 for Senior Secondary...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
BMC engineering department caught napping
Insiders allege that the closure is the result of the failure to establish whether the machinery at the abattoirs was functioning properly ahead of the European Union inspection in the coming few weeks. Apparently, the technical team was supposed to...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Panic as Lumpy Skin disease ravages the country
Hundreds of farmers across the country could be left impoverished as they continue to lose their cattle to lumpy skin disease. The disease has been spreading across the country since mid last year, according to cattle owners. A visit to...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 03 February 2011
Masimolole, Batshu join cabinet
Nkange MP and former police commissioner, Edwin Batshu has been appointed acting Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, a post created by the resignation of Ndelu Seretse. '[Masimolole] takes over from Mokgweetsi Masisi who was...
03 February 2011
Merafhe recuperating
"I can confirm that the VP is recuperating, and has been talking to members of his family today," presidential spokesperson, Jeff Ramsay, told Mmegi late yesterday. Merafhe was airlifted to Milpark Hospital on Saturday following a decision by the...
STAFF WRITER 03 February 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...
04 February 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 04 February 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 04 February 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 04 February 2011
Technology highjacks language
It sounded all too familiar. Somewhere out of the blue, Parliament and journalists now appear to have adopted the Americanism 'State of the Nation Address' to refer to the speech that the President of Botswana makes when the house opens, three...
04 February 2011
The BPP golden jubilee that was never celebrated (Part 2)
The Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) demanded racial equality and opposed the awarding of business licences along racial lines where only the whites benefited. It was also worried that the civil service was full of whites from apartheid South Africa and...
04 February 2011
Culture of graffiti slowly gaining ground!
This culture is slowly gaining ground in Botswana society. Spray markings that commonly appear on road signs and culverts bear testimony to the presence of this culture in our society. To an ordinary man such markings would not make sense and can be...
Ike Vavi
Correspondent 04 February 2011
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