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Is defense and security a priority in Botswana?
In Parliament it has become the subject of intense debate. Ironically, the Police Mobile Unit (PMU), the precursor of the Botswana Defense Force was formed in 1976 as a result of pressure from the opposition Botswana Peoples' Party when the...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Trade union recognition and collective labour agreements
In this respect, trade unions are required to be registered under the Trade Union and Employers Organisations Act. Once registered, the union is issued with a certificate of registration, which is considered by law as conclusive evidence that...
* GILBERT OFETOTSE 15 March 2011
Prospects of strategic informal opposition cooperation
History attests to the fact that no single party can single handedly dislodge the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power in the immediate future, at least not by 2014. The nation of Botswana is therefore pinning its hope in a successful outcome...
BANKS NDEBELE 15 March 2011
The winners code
Some of these flights take people to heights that defy imagination. Technological developments have made possible what was once just a pipe dream. On December 9th, 1903 the New York Times, arguably the most respected newspaper at the time,...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 15 March 2011
When poverty strikes, the dumping site comes to the rescue
They exhibit dirt and a smell that defeats the senses of smell, yet poverty stricken people are a common sight at these landfills, scavenging to fill their stomachs with any rotten edibles. The Francistown dumping site or commonly the landfill...
Keabetswe Newel and Kopano Olesitse
Correspondents 15 March 2011
A day at the funeral parlour
This mortuary is the biggest in the North of the country and is constructed like a royal palace. In fact, if you did not know the place, you would easily confuse it with a residence of a very prominent person because it looks like a State House. One...
Kopano Olesitse
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Communication at chinese construction sites disastrous
Picture this scenario: It is lunch time, a young man of Chinese origin moves towards a small group of young locals who have been working on the reservoir construction site. The Chinese, who happens to be their supervisor, cannot utter a single...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Surviving a spinal cord injury
On this Swedish voyage serious adventure was always a prospect. The rare encounter to meet with the King and Queen of Sweden, an opportunity to interview and meet two senior Swedish ministers as well as Captains of industry. When I looked at my...
Gideon Nkala
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Hotspurs maintain lead over Satmos
Satmos were worthy 6-1 winners away to former Premier League side, Boteti Young Fighters in Orapa. Hotspurs are top with 34 points while Satmos and GNT both have 30 points from 16 matches. However, the Selebi-Phikwe side occupies second spot due to a...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI &KUNYALALA MANYEPEDZA
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Comets continue to struggle
The former Premier League side, who suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of minnows, Mathaithai over the weekend, is yet to register a win in the second round.No team wants to drop points at this crucial stage of the league and those who fancy their...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 March 2011
BFA monitors Egypt unrest ahead of Under-23 tie
The mass uprisings forced out President Hosni Mubarak and there are concerns regarding the safety of the Under-23 team when it travels to Cairo for an Olympic qualifier next weekend. BFA chief executive officer (CEO), Judge Mookodi, said they are in...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Relegation battle gathers momentum
Motlakase brightened their survival chances after an important 2-1 victory over BDF XI, catapulting them into 13th position with 19 points from 24 games. TASC also registered a crucial win against another relegation candidate, Black Peril, to replace...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Back stage
The build up to and the actual contest between the teachers and their pupils allow for the presentation of a wonderful series of operatic arias from Vincenzo Bellini (from the opera Bianca e Fernando), Giuseppe Verdi (from La Traviata and Rigoletto),...
Sasa Majuma 15 March 2011
Traditional recipe book 'with a twist' launched
The project is a collaboration between Botswanacraft Marketing, the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, and the National Food Technology and Research Centre (NFTRC). Two years ago, the three organisations signed a memorandum of agreement that...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Man of God Lekoetje joins the Kwaito bandwagon
Their album called Reversa Jive is still to convince listeners that it deserves that space on their CD shelves, but it has the potential to go places if they work hard to market because it combines both the old school kwaito beats popularly known as...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Franco Lesokwane thrills Maun revellers
Although it has appeared as if his music has gone through a popularity decline, Lesokwane staged one of the shows that his legion of fans in Ngami will remember for a long time to come. The show saw revellers singing along as he performed his old...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Rival forces face-off in Abidjan's tense Abobo district
At the other end, troops backing strongman Laurent Gbagbo stand guard. In between lie two bodies, the latest casualties of a bloody stand-off between the rival camps. "We don't know how this story is going to finish," said a worried young man seeking...
15 March 2011
France steps up efforts for Libya no-fly zone
France said on Sunday it would consult other powers "in the coming hours" to try to set up such a zone to assure the protection of civilians "in the face of the terrible violence suffered by the Libyan population". It said the Arab League's weekend...
15 March 2011
Botswana imports P200m horticultural produce monthly
Speaking during a breakfast meeting to unveil their Strategic Plan for 2010/13 last week, LEA Senior Manager (North), Anthony Mokobi advised Batswana to utilise opportunities that exist in the agricultural sector particularly in...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Science and Technology Park to benefit mining industry
On Friday, BIH held a seminar in Francistown to pitch the idea of housing mining technologies, exploration companies and energy companies once the project is completed at the end of 2012. BIH Acting Coordinator, Dr. Budzanani Tacheba said the...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Pioneering Diamond Training Centre takes shape
Established in 1978, the IDI is a world-class institute offering ISO-accredited diplomas and certificates in diamond processing, assortment and grading, gemmology, jewellery designing and manufacturing, computer application and management...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
The world's nuclear fate rests in Japan
Sometimes stating the obvious is sensible.There are a score of good reasons why Japan's nuclear disaster should not scare the world away from atomic power and a bad one why it will. But bad reasoning can cast out rationality. When nuclear plants go...
15 March 2011
Project syndicate
In the modern, more productive parts of the economy, productivity (while typically still low) is much closer to what we observe in the advanced countries. In fact, this "dualism" is one of the oldest and most fundamental concepts in economic...
*DAN RODRIK 15 March 2011
As i see it
"Because you are honest. What's more to the purpose, you are known to be honest...There are those like Norfolk who follow me because I wear the crown, and those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they are jackals with sharp teeth and I am...
Michael Dingake 15 March 2011
BDP MPs fail country on tribes' motion
In simple terms, it means the ruling party has been able to remain relevant to Batswana's demands and challenges. This is no easy feat... However, the long period that the BDP has been in government can also be the cause of a certain weakness -...
15 March 2011
Selefu 15 March 2011
15 March 2011
The North African domino effect: A study in political change
For years North Africa has been under a yoke of undemocratic rule characterised by dictatorship and autocratic dispensations. The recent and ongoing uprisings in certain countries in the north could not have come at the right time. The need for...
OTENG RAMOTSWA 15 March 2011
GUS calls for diamond beneficiation
He said that for a long time, a foreign company has dominated the valuing of Botswana diamonds, and has shown no interest in passing those skills on to Batswana. The assistant minister said this when commenting on the budget proposal for the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Fresh FMD outbreak sends shockwaves
A Department of Veterinary Services press release on Wednesday confirmed a case of FMD in the Kareng area. The case was reportedly noticed on a beast during inspections on cattle from the Kareng area at the Maun Abattoir. The department soon...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 15 March 2011
BOPEU refutes BDP funding
Speaking at a press conference held at Ntshe House Thursday evening, Chairman of Northern Branch Ketlhapeleng Karabo dismissed these allegations. He said that there have been rumours that the BOPEU is affiliated to the ruling BDP, which...
KEABETSWE NEWEL & MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondents 15 March 2011
Air Botswana to appeal against ruling
The appeal by AB comes after a part time arbitrator of the Department of Labour, Themba Lebang ruled in the drivers' favour in August 2010. In the dispute the drivers demanded payment for accrued overtime as agreed in 2006 and wished to have an...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Mathomola Modise, 'the Hero' laid to rest
Modise died in a car accident last Tuesday.Speaking at the service, a relative, Uncle Mosala, revealed that he grew up with Modise at Bobonong. He described Modise as a born politician who was attracted to politics at a young age. "During his senior...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Electricity levy nets P110.5 million
The money is used to help the rural dwellers to connect electricity at a subsidised cost of P5,000, that is P15,000 cheaper than they traditionally have been paying over the years. Thanks to the initiative 3,723 households have been connected at the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Unused bullets missing
Procedurally the four suspects namely; Lance Corporal Gotshosamang Sechele, Lance Corporal Ronny Matako and Corporal Boitshoko Maifala were after their seven-day duty supposed to return their firearms and sign them off. This was not done. ...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
BMD Congress could be postponed again
"At its own congress at Aerodrome Primary School in Francistown last Saturday, the Francistown region adopted a motion to have the party congress postponed to July," revealed the regional chairman, Shadreck Nyeku. Apparently the motion to postpone...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 15 March 2011
Govt probes SA referrals 'rip-off'
Suspicious that the country might have been ripped off in the past few years, Botswana has engaged a South African company to investigate if the millions that the Ministry of Health has paid to South African referral hospitals were justifiable,...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 15 March 2011
Is defense and security a priority in Botswana?
In Parliament it has become the subject of intense debate. Ironically, the Police Mobile Unit (PMU), the precursor of the Botswana Defense Force was formed in 1976 as a result of pressure from the opposition Botswana Peoples' Party when the...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 16 March 2011
Trade union recognition and collective labour agreements
In this respect, trade unions are required to be registered under the Trade Union and Employers Organisations Act. Once registered, the union is issued with a certificate of registration, which is considered by law as conclusive evidence that...
* GILBERT OFETOTSE 16 March 2011
Prospects of strategic informal opposition cooperation
History attests to the fact that no single party can single handedly dislodge the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power in the immediate future, at least not by 2014. The nation of Botswana is therefore pinning its hope in a successful outcome...
BANKS NDEBELE 16 March 2011
When poverty strikes, the dumping site comes to the rescue
They exhibit dirt and a smell that defeats the senses of smell, yet poverty stricken people are a common sight at these landfills, scavenging to fill their stomachs with any rotten edibles. The Francistown dumping site or commonly the landfill...
Keabetswe Newel and Kopano Olesitse
Correspondents 16 March 2011
A day at the funeral parlour
This mortuary is the biggest in the North of the country and is constructed like a royal palace. In fact, if you did not know the place, you would easily confuse it with a residence of a very prominent person because it looks like a State House. One...
Kopano Olesitse
Correspondent 16 March 2011
Communication at chinese construction sites disastrous
Picture this scenario: It is lunch time, a young man of Chinese origin moves towards a small group of young locals who have been working on the reservoir construction site. The Chinese, who happens to be their supervisor, cannot utter a single...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 16 March 2011
Surviving a spinal cord injury
On this Swedish voyage serious adventure was always a prospect. The rare encounter to meet with the King and Queen of Sweden, an opportunity to interview and meet two senior Swedish ministers as well as Captains of industry. When I looked at my...
Gideon Nkala
Staff Writer 16 March 2011
The North African domino effect: A study in political change
For years North Africa has been under a yoke of undemocratic rule characterised by dictatorship and autocratic dispensations. The recent and ongoing uprisings in certain countries in the north could not have come at the right time. The need for...
OTENG RAMOTSWA 16 March 2011
Sports chat
It is encouraging that the bulk of proceeds from the World Cup are being channelled to the development of football. Finest athleteTownship Rollers' winger Sekhana 'Nandos' Koko continued his fine form after he grabbed a hat-trick against ECCO City...
Mqondisi Dube 16 March 2011
BFA to receive US$800,000 from FIFA
FIFA secretary general, Jerome Valcke announced in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday that member associates in Africa will each pocket US$800, 000 from what has been hailed as the best soccer World Cup ever."The figures don't lie and from what we...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 16 March 2011
Gunners eager to reclaim rugby crown
EMG Gunners were champions for the first time in the league in 2009. The feat meant they became the first club from the north to clinch the elusive title. However, hopes of retaining the title last season vanished at the hands of UB Rhinos, who...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 16 March 2011
Koko surprise omission from Zebras squad
According to the list provided yesterday, coach Stanley Tshosane has called up 25 players for a preparatory camp and Koko was the surprise omission although he appears to be the ideal cover for Phenyo Mongala, who has not been playing regularly for...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 16 March 2011
BFA grilled on advance team to Chad
BFA president, David Fani, cleared the air at a media briefing in Gaborone yesterday. Journalists demanded to know why BFA National Executive Member (NEC), Eatametse Olopeng was sent on the inspection trip alongside BFA technical director, Sonnyboy...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 16 March 2011
Gospel artist, vows to combat poverty
Speaking to Showbiz in an interview, the artist said that as part of his plan to combat poverty and lack of proper housing in the country, he has identified a family in Gantsi, which is sheltered in a dilapidated shack and that he intends to build...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 16 March 2011
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