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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...
08 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 08 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...
08 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...
08 February 2011
Windfall tax: Zambia shoots itself in the foot?
Despite government's firm and publicly stated undertaking not to reinstate it, the clamour for it has not died down. Instead, it has continued to be rekindled especially as the price of copper, the country's main export, has continued to...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 08 February 2011
The problem is not the cellphone
This small gadget has however become a source of heartache and many a relationship has broken down because of it. A few years back a Maun man cancelled his wedding plans after he intercepted a message in his fiancee's cellphone. One of his dejected...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 08 February 2011
Basarwa battle for relocation to Xabexau
In the ensuing battle that has already reached Ditswanelo 170 Basarwa of Xaxaba Island are accusing the government of betrayal by renegaging on its promise to grant them permission to relocate from the flood plain island of Xaxaba to the neighboring...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 08 February 2011
Protect domestic animals
However, the same zealous protection does not seem to extend towards domestic animals. Their widespread and blatant abuse is an accepted norm. According to Adele Betteridge-Ntobedzi, Chairperson of the Botswana Society for the Prevention of...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Carragher wants Dalglish confirmed in Liverpool job
The striker's first appearance for his new club veered horribly off script as he was snuffed out by the impressive Jamie Carragher and substituted just after the hour. The travelling support had barracked his every touch but by the end were too busy...
08 February 2011
Makwala sends early warning to track rivals
Makwala out-sprinted the previously dominant Fanuel Kenosi to win the men's 200m before beating Daniel Legamang to lift the 400m crown at the New Lobatse Stadium. In the women's competition, Lydia Mashila was impressive when she won the 400m....
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Death delays duo's international clearance
The deceased was instrumental in the processing of their reverse international clearance after the two decided to leave Algerian club, USMB. Nkele and Sejewe returned home last June before their contracts expired and have been home since then. Nkele...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 08 February 2011
Wheels coming off at ECCO
Botlhe 'Ringo' Rankgomo's solitary strike separated the two sides as ECCO's hopes of winning the league title suffered a major reversal. The defeat sees the former league champions surrendering their second position on the log standings to...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Selolwane, Moloi out of Mambas tie
The game will be played at Machava stadium. Kick-off is at 3pm. The national team left for Johannesburg on Sunday night and linked up with the South Africa-based contingent yesterday (Monday), save for Selolwane and Moloi. Zebras' coach Stanley...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 08 February 2011
Back Stgae
Young Winston is the famous half-biopic by Richard Attenborough of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (who was born on November 30, 1874 and died on January 24, 1965). It covers parts of his life between the ages of seven and when he gave his...
SASA MAJUMA 08 February 2011
Gospel singer Dube seeks second divorce
Dube last performed here in 2009 at the Blue Tree where he attracted a huge crowd. The show organiser then, Thatayaone Matlapeng told Showbiz they paid R65, 000 for the super star and R30, 000 for another star, Sechaba, who shared the stage with...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Family to sue Queen of Pop
Britain's Mail on Sunday reported that the pop star promised the family regular contact with the girl, now five, who was adopted from an orphanage in 2009. The family has yet to see the child despite the fact that her new mother, Madonna, has been...
08 February 2011
Kaone Kario now modelling in New York
In her blog that is also on her tweeter page, Kaone declares that she is in New York to claim what is hers - success. However, the model who holds a diploma in media studies, says since she started modelling, New York has been a market she avoided...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Assange faces extradition hearing
A two-day hearing which began on Monday will decide Assange's legal fate. Assange is accused of sexual misconduct by two women he met during a visit to Stockholm last year. At Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, a high-security judicial outpost beside a...
08 February 2011
Zuma's comment not blasphemous: ANC
"The figurative weekend expression by the President remains figurative and metaphoric," party spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement on Sunday. "We are, therefore, in agreement with the President that not voting for the ANC is tantamount...
08 February 2011
Mubarak's resignation could hamper transition
That's one of the quandaries opposition groups face as they try to chart an uncertain path to democracy. The difficulties are compounded by a lack of trust between Egypt's embattled rulers and the opposition groups they tried to silence for...
08 February 2011
Botswana-Namibia coal rail link work to start 2012
Robert Kalomo, Namibia's Director of Railway Affairs in the Ministry of Works said construction of the TransKalahari Railway would take five years, with costs expected to range between $5-9 billion. Most southern African countries are heavily...
08 February 2011
Power cut worsens Monday blues
In the capital, the daily morning traffic jams in and out of the city centre were reduced to tangled snarl-ups, stretching traffic police officers who are usually deployed at key intersections. Yesterday marks the second time in three months that...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Study stimulates Aviva to revive Mmamantswe
On Monday, Aviva announced that a A&B Mylec study had shown that the 895-million tonne Mmamantswe project could yield two product streams, including 200 million tonnes of export grade thermal coal, and between 100 million and 150 million tonnes...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Diamonds hit historic high in 2010
Botswana exported P20.81 billion in diamonds last year, representing an all-time high in pula terms and signifying the industry's strong rebound from a collapse lasting approximately 15 months. At P20.79 billion, exports in 2008 come closest to last...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Transition in Egypt: temptations that need to be resisted
The final destination of this transition still seems to be democracy, but the former term is not always accompanied by the latter; the reference to variable time scales according to local conditions and the warnings against chaos favouring the advent...
EBERHARD KLENLE 08 February 2011
As I See It
I try to keep abreast with world events around the globe and around the clock; I tell you the 'Mubarak Must Go Uprising' caught me napping. When rumour started circulating during the 'Jasmine Revolution' in Tunisia that Egypt might be in what...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 08 February 2011
Hands off parastatals!
Without dismissing the fact that Batswana have generally come to regard the budget speech as a pronouncement on their immediate prospects of a better life in its announcement of salary adjustments or a negation of them, Kenneth Matambo's budget is...
EDITOR 08 February 2011
Child car seat, when is it a law?
When they asked me what they must get me, I decided on a car seat. He still rides in it and will continue to do so until he is five years old when I'll get him a different one. My parents were spellbound when they saw him peacefully sleeping in the...
WAZHA DITSHEKO 08 February 2011
Various study results may change treatment of breast cancer
The most common type of breast cancer in aging patients is oestrogen and progesterone receptor positive breast cancer (ER/PR). A new study has found a protein that may be involved in stopping this type of cancer. The study, which was done at...
LAURI KUBUITSILE 08 February 2011
27 in race for BNYC posts
. Ten contestants will slug it out for the post of chairperson while nine will battle it for the deputy chairperson's slot, six for the secretary general's post and two for the treasurer's position. BNYC election committee chairperson Tshepo...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Tertiary education reform to address unemployment
Delivering the budget speech yesterday, Kenneth Matambo explained that as a way of addressing this, institutions such as the University of Botswana are taking measures to diversify their academic programmes as well as develop programmes that will...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Business leaders hail "progressive" budget
Under the National Development Plan and various strategies, government intends to achieve a balanced budget next year, following running deficits ranging from P9.47 billion in 2009/10 to P10.22 billion in the current year. With the World Bank, the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Education gets largest share of budget
The budget will also cater for the opening of three new secondary schools in Mogoditshane, Mmadinare and Nata. This is the 10th year in a row in which the ministry has been getting the largest share after the increase in secondary school...
STAFF WRITER 08 February 2011
The latest improbable acronym stands for education and health
Digging deep into their pockets and sacrificing their time to educate people in the district, Dr Patrick Molutsi, Motseothata Matlakale and a social worker John Ntseane are making sure that students in the district appreciate the importance of...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
BMD is on course to congress - Morwaeng
Morwaeng was responding to growing speculation that BMD rank and file were wary of an election, especially at the party presidency level, where interim leader Gomolemo Motswaledi is expected to face-off with party spokesman Sidney Pilane. Members...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
No 2008 BGSCE results - BEC for Oriel students
Worse still they will never receive them as the Botswana Examinations Council has closed investigations, according to BEC director of examinations, Baeti Charumbira. However the examination body refused to discuss circumstances that led to this...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Budget deficit forecast at 6.3 percent
Addressing parliament yesterday on the 2011/12 annual budget, Finance Minister Kenneth Matambo forecast a budget deficit of 6.93 billion Pula or 6.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product, a sharp reduction from the previous year when the government...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Salary 'freeze' blamed on union squabbles
When delivering the budget speech yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Development and Planning revealed that the Public Service Act 2008, which took effect on May 1, 2010, resulted in the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) becoming a...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
Government union loses appeal
Justice of Appeal, John Foxcroft, said, according to the agreement, government undertook not to recognise any other union but BOGOWU, as the negotiating and bargaining agent for and on behalf of government employees. The DPSM, having prior to these...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 08 February 2011
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08 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...
09 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 09 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...
09 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...
09 February 2011
Windfall tax: Zambia shoots itself in the foot?
Despite government's firm and publicly stated undertaking not to reinstate it, the clamour for it has not died down. Instead, it has continued to be rekindled especially as the price of copper, the country's main export, has continued to...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 09 February 2011
The problem is not the cellphone
This small gadget has however become a source of heartache and many a relationship has broken down because of it. A few years back a Maun man cancelled his wedding plans after he intercepted a message in his fiancee's cellphone. One of his dejected...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 09 February 2011
Basarwa battle for relocation to Xabexau
In the ensuing battle that has already reached Ditswanelo 170 Basarwa of Xaxaba Island are accusing the government of betrayal by renegaging on its promise to grant them permission to relocate from the flood plain island of Xaxaba to the neighboring...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 09 February 2011
Protect domestic animals
However, the same zealous protection does not seem to extend towards domestic animals. Their widespread and blatant abuse is an accepted norm. According to Adele Betteridge-Ntobedzi, Chairperson of the Botswana Society for the Prevention of...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 09 February 2011
Carragher wants Dalglish confirmed in Liverpool job
The striker's first appearance for his new club veered horribly off script as he was snuffed out by the impressive Jamie Carragher and substituted just after the hour. The travelling support had barracked his every touch but by the end were too busy...
09 February 2011
Makwala sends early warning to track rivals
Makwala out-sprinted the previously dominant Fanuel Kenosi to win the men's 200m before beating Daniel Legamang to lift the 400m crown at the New Lobatse Stadium. In the women's competition, Lydia Mashila was impressive when she won the 400m....
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 09 February 2011
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