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The 2011 Budget - another 'rich man's budget?' [Part II]
The controversial supply of the new police uniform is a good example of how the disgraced former Minister of Defense, Ramadeluka Seretse was caught up in conflict of interest and BDP activists like Macdonald Peloetletse mysteriously won...
COMRADE MOORE 02 March 2011
National budget 2011/12 - an opposition response: Part 3
I am afraid we share similar suspicions. Our view is that public enterprises that should be privatised are those that are loss-making; without any prospects of salvaging them into the black. Even then a strong case must be made...
*BOTSALO NTUANE 02 March 2011
Towards a better Botswana - A 2011/12 budget response (Part 1)
Madam Speaker, before delving into the budget speech I wish to take this opportunity to wish His Honour the Vice President General Mompati Merafhe, MP for Mahalapye West Constituency a speedy recovery from Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg where he is...
* ISAAC MABILETSA 02 March 2011
Third parties destroy marriages
According to custimary court president, Margaret Ludo Mosojane, "A marriage is a contract between two people, to care, protect and love each other. Whenever they have problems they stick together to solve them but the moment a third person interfers...
Lindiwe Mozola
Correspondent 02 March 2011
Why men do not disclose their problems
Research shows that men hardly disclose their problems and would rather die inside than share them. It does differ according to the character of the person as well as the matter at hand. For example man find it difficult to disclose matters...
Lindiwe Mozola
Correspondent 02 March 2011
How step-children affect relationships
Many people believe that if one is willing to be in a long-term relationship with someone who has a child, be it a man or woman, they need to tell the other person whether or not they accept the child. In fact it seems some partners are taken by...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 02 March 2011
My Indian experience
I had to ask a friend who had been to India about this unknown place in the land of Mahatma Ghandi. To my surprise, I learnt that Hyderabad, which is in the state of Andhra Pradesh, is the heart and soul of the Indian pharmaceutical industry, which...
Kagiso Sekokonyane
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Dukwi refugee camp: a living hell for asylum seekers?
The refugees come from countries like Angola, Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Somalia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Eritrea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Most of these refugees came to Botswana fearing wars that ravaged...
Kopano Olesitse and Kunyalala Manyepedza
Correspondents 02 March 2011
Botswana fails to mark sadc health day again
Since its first commemoration in 2008, Botswana has failed to observe the day though the government says it recognises its importance. The director of Public Health, Sheenaz El-Halabi said on Friday that they are planning to mark the day though...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Drogba vows to fight for place
The 32-year-old Drogba, who joined Chelsea from Marseille in 2004, has been linked with a return to France since the arrival of Torres from Liverpool in the January transfer window. But the Ivorian, who is under contract with the Barclays Premier...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 02 March 2011
Broad returns to England practice after illness
The fast bowler suffered his second bout of illness of the tour shortly before the high-scoring Group B match against the tournament favourites and co-hosts on Sunday. Broad has made a gradual improvement, though, and was feeling well enough...
02 March 2011
Sheridan out for rest of Six Nations
The fast bowler suffered his second bout of illness of the tour shortly before the high-scoring Group B match against the tournament favourites and co-hosts on Sunday. Broad has made a gradual improvement, though, and was feeling well enough...
02 March 2011
Sports chat
Finest momentThe Botswana Premier League (BPL) and its sponsor, be MOBILE, launched a short codes service yesterday. The service will ensure soccer fans are kept abreast with the latest scores and news from their teams. This is long overdue in an era...
Mqondisi Dube 02 March 2011
Moyo lands at Gunners en-route to GU
Reports say the coach has signed a short-time deal at Gunners because he is likely to join former league champions, Gaborone United (GU), in July. GU are currently under the tutelage of Letang 'Rasta' Kgengwenyane who is allegedly aware that he has...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 02 March 2011
BNOC facilitates judo course
The course is part of the BNSC efforts to build the capacity of national sports associations. The course starts tomorrow and ends on Saturday at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). Judo coaches from Southern African countries are...
STAFF WRITER 02 March 2011
Coke Cup organisers kick-out Miscellaneous
Referee Phuthego Omphile is said to have stopped the duel in the first half because of safety reasons after some supporters invaded the pitch. The chairman of the organising committee, Gaolatlhe Kelesitse, told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they met...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
State of lawlessness at G-West mall worrying
There is never a dull moment at the mall. Although there are two nightclubs operating at the shopping complex, there are other illegal night joints, which operate in the open spaces or from parked cars. In some cases you will find that there...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 March 2011
Traditional music explodes as 49 do battle
The 49 players are all champions at ward level in categories of setinkane, dikatara and segaba musical instruments. They all won themselves P1,500 first prize cash for being champions in their respective wards, but they must now battle other...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Satchmos hosts Miss Millennium beauties
Present at the glamorous event were reigning queen Regina Koata, Theresa Hirschfeld, Felicity Bogatsu, and Phodiso Letsholo. The organiser of the event, Zenzele Hirschfeld, of Zen Promotions, told Showbiz in an interview in Gaborone yesterday that...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 02 March 2011
Shanti Lo's music of love
It is not by coincidence that the album, directed and produced by the famous guitarist and singer John Selolwane, is entitled Love (Lerato). Six of its 11 tracks are dedicated to this force called love, performed in both Setswana and...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
NZ quake unearths voice of the past
Two items - a glass bottle containing rolled-up parchment and a metal cylinder - were found in the plinth of a statue felled in last Tuesday's 6.3-magnitude earthquake which is believed to have killed up to 240 people. Rescuers combing the site made...
02 March 2011
China rolls back press freedom
Foreign journalists who tried to take photos or shoot video on Beijing's Wangfujing shopping street on Sunday were told they needed special permission to work there. An Associated Press photographer was told on Tuesday that the area near People's...
02 March 2011
Men given death sentences for Indian train fire
Judge P R Patel last week convicted 31 Muslim men of being part of a criminal conspiracy that led to the deaths of 60 people when a Sabarmati Express train coach packed with Hindu pilgrims was set on fire by a Muslim mob in Godhra, western Gujarat,...
02 March 2011
Chavez warns US plans to invade Libya
And Chavez repeated his warning that the United States wanted to invade Libya to get its oil. "Since everybody is going around saying Gaddafi is a murderer, is Chavez going to say it?" the president said in a meeting with students in the capital....
02 March 2011
UN charge on Ivorian arms smuggling is denied
Gbagbo's government denied the report as a "lie" and UN diplomats said the allegation had not been confirmed. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, whose office initially levelled the charge, later softened the allegation in comments to reporters. A UN...
02 March 2011
Another Zim dissident arrested, tortured - lawyers
Job Sikhala, the leader of a small offshoot of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was arrested on Friday in connection with an alleged plan to stage demonstrations like those in Egypt in a bid to overthrow the...
02 March 2011
Gaddafi is 'delusional' and unfit to lead - US
The dictator's defiance came as the prospects of western military power being used against him moved closer. The US deployed naval and air force units around the country and the Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, ordered contingency plans for a...
02 March 2011
'SA power projects pose no threat to Limpopo River'
The Tuli Block Farmers Association and their counterparts in South Africa have been concerned that the current upgrading of Grootgeluk Power Station, the development of Medupi Power Station and the upgrading of a coal mine to feed the two power...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Mmamabula communities in limbo as investors tussle
Yesterday, CIC Energy, which currently holds prospecting licences, technical studies and rights for MEP, said the closure date for the proposed takeover by Indian firm JSW had been postponed to March 15. The postponement has been necessitated by a...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
War, debt, and democracy
With the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans may rail against raising the debt ceiling, but they are likely to back down in the end, because, among other things, debt-funded wars - say, in Afghanistan and Iraq - are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go...
*JOHN FEREJOHN & FRANCES ROSENBLUTH 02 March 2011
BCP transforms Ikageleng Phase One into a marginal winnable ward
Mmapula Matlhole of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won the by-election after obtaining 333 votes translating into 49 percent of the popular vote, followed by Gabaikanngwe Madome representing the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) with 262 or...
02 March 2011
Project syndicate
In both countries, women protesters were nothing like the Western stereotype: they were front and center, in news clips and on Facebook forums, and even in the leadership. In Egypt's Tahrir Square, women volunteers, some accompanied by children,...
Naomi Wolf 02 March 2011
The name change revolution is good
It may not be in the tradition of the Libyan and Egyptian revolutions, but it is involves a revolutionary change nonetheless. Councillors of Botswana's second city agreed to change the names of the city's streets to make them more in tune with its...
02 March 2011
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02 March 2011
Excerpts: Gaddafi interview
Jeremy Bowen: "You are known as the leader here and you have been the leader for many years. There are plenty of people in this country would say that the biggest obstacle to change is you." Col Gaddafi: "On the contrary. My presence is to instigate...
02 March 2011
Jehovah's witnesses
To keep spiritually awake over 7,300,000 of Jehovah's Witnesses around the world gather yearly for a spiritual banquet provided through a solemn occasion called the Circuit Assembly. Held over two days these gatherings are patterned after the...
02 March 2011
Our heritage
In itself, the idea is admirable but a first obvious question about it is why it should be necessary for the government to introduce it as an entirely new concept instead of providing appropriate support for those who already have such gardens? A...
Sandy Grant 02 March 2011
Francistown is being sabotaged - F/town councilors
Citing the Francistown roads and the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH) in particular, the councillors expressed their profound concern at this sad state of affairs. Speaking at a full council meeting where they were supposed to discuss Mayor...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 02 March 2011
Churches find their voice in HIV/AIDS fight
FOCCISA regional coordinator, Reverend Pearson Banda from Zambia was in Botswana this week to launch OneBody, a project that has been going on in other southern African countries since 2005. Banda said that OneBody introduces bishops, pastors and...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Induction programme for interns necessary-BOCCIM
Speaking at a stakeholders' workshop on the internship programme, Moleele said an induction programme should precede the engagement of graduates to enable them to appreciate and gain necessary skills required for them to function in the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
Francistown is being sabotaged - F/town councillors
Citing the Francistown roads and the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH) in particular, the councillors expressed their profound concern at this sad state of affairs. Speaking in a full council meeting where they were supposed to discuss Mayor...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 02 March 2011
MPs 'corner' Matambo over figures that don't tally
A heated debate ensued in Parliament when Finance Minister Kenneth Matambo wanted the House to adopt a corrigendum without the statement being intensely interrogated by the House. Led by Leader of Opposition, Botsalo Ntuane, Guma Moyo, Nehemiah...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
The BDP lifted Batswana - Balopi
From the ululations, singing and dancing that greeted the arrival of former Member of Parliament for Francistown at the civic centre, it was clear that Patrick Balopi was the hero of the BDP faithful who packed the hall. Balopi first entered...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 02 March 2011
No BDF exodus, says army commander
He said that though some officers retired recently it could not be said to be an exodus because many of them had served the (maximum) 20 years in the national army. He added that though BDF recruits highly qualified young cadets, some of them find...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 02 March 2011
The 2011 Budget - another 'rich man's budget?' [Part II]
The controversial supply of the new police uniform is a good example of how the disgraced former Minister of Defense, Ramadeluka Seretse was caught up in conflict of interest and BDP activists like Macdonald Peloetletse mysteriously won...
COMRADE MOORE 03 March 2011
National budget 2011/12 - an opposition response: Part 3
I am afraid we share similar suspicions. Our view is that public enterprises that should be privatised are those that are loss-making; without any prospects of salvaging them into the black. Even then a strong case must be made...
*BOTSALO NTUANE 03 March 2011
Towards a better Botswana - A 2011/12 budget response (Part 1)
Madam Speaker, before delving into the budget speech I wish to take this opportunity to wish His Honour the Vice President General Mompati Merafhe, MP for Mahalapye West Constituency a speedy recovery from Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg where he is...
* ISAAC MABILETSA 03 March 2011
Third parties destroy marriages
According to custimary court president, Margaret Ludo Mosojane, "A marriage is a contract between two people, to care, protect and love each other. Whenever they have problems they stick together to solve them but the moment a third person interfers...
Lindiwe Mozola
Correspondent 03 March 2011
Why men do not disclose their problems
Research shows that men hardly disclose their problems and would rather die inside than share them. It does differ according to the character of the person as well as the matter at hand. For example man find it difficult to disclose matters...
Lindiwe Mozola
Correspondent 03 March 2011
How step-children affect relationships
Many people believe that if one is willing to be in a long-term relationship with someone who has a child, be it a man or woman, they need to tell the other person whether or not they accept the child. In fact it seems some partners are taken by...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 03 March 2011
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