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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 01 April 2011
Exporting boats from the edge of the Kalahari Desert
So today we look at a Maun-based company that successfully exports boats from a landlocked country to over a dozen countries throughout Africa. Superficially when you look at this as a business idea- exporting boats from the edge of the Kalahari, it...
ROMAN GRYNBERG* 01 April 2011
Volleyball duo cleared to play
Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) vice president (technical), George Keotsene, said that after a lengthy delay, they communicated with Algerian side, USMB officials to negotiate the duo's release. The officials have since written letters to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 01 April 2011
Botswana crash out of warm-up tournament
No Botswana player has made it to the second round, raising questions whether the hosts will create any impact in the tournament proper. The rout in the warm-up tournament started when Aobakwe Lekang lost 6-0, 6-4 to Ismael Lahlou of Morocco with...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
First cut
Indeed, the Zebras' class of 2010-2011 will for many years remain indelible in the minds of Batswana. It is therefore only proper and in order to congratulate coach Stanley Tshosane, the technical team and the players for a job well done. They...
Dennis Keagile 01 April 2011
We knew what we were doing - Tshosane
Speaking soon after the Zebras beat Chad 1-0 in N'djamena on Saturday, Tshosane said they had set their sights on qualifying and managed to achieve their objective. "I don't think there is anyone who can say that they did not see what we were doing,"...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Zebras' destiny was determined long ago
It was like a very inauspicious and low-key departure on a cold June morning last year when the Zebras boarded a plane at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport at the start of the Africa Cup of Nations campaign. Only a handful of supporters...
01 April 2011
Premier League action resumes
With title rivals, Township Rollers and Mochudi Centre Chiefs idle this weekend, the main attraction is the Sunday duel between Extension Gunners and Gaborone United (GU) at the Old Lobatse Stadium. As the two giants do battle in Lobatse, Black Peril...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
BFA guards Zebras' trademark
The association is in the process of registering the Zebras as a brand name and a trademark to guard against other individuals or companies claiming commercial ownership of the name. Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, David Fani, told...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Fani allays fears over players' Incentives
BFA president, David Fani, said yesterday that their intention is to reward all players who contributed to the campaign. There have been fears that some players who were not involved in the later stages of the qualifiers may not be rewarded. When...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Crime intelligence boss still on the run
"We haven't yet (found him)," said Cele, at the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Police. He said police had been asked to find him soon and Mdluli's attorney's had contacted police to hand him over on Monday. "We have not agreed to this. We hope...
01 April 2011
Cote d'Ivoire's Pro-Ouattara forces claim control of key port town
The claim followed overnight fighting over the strategic town, an outlet for nearly half of the world's export of cocoa beans. The pro-Ouattara forces on Wednesday also took the political capital Yamoussoukro. The control of both important towns...
01 April 2011
AIDS at 'Moment of truth'
"We have a unique opportunity to take stock of the progress and to critically and honestly assess the barriers that keep us shackled to a reality in which the epidemic continues to outpace the response," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a...
01 April 2011
SA's growing Economy fails to create enough jobs
"Consequently, the New Growth Path is intended to address unemployment, inequality and poverty and is a strategy that is principally reliant on creating a significant increase in the number of new jobs in the economy," Motlanthe told the Chamber on...
01 April 2011
Yemeni protesters vow to storm Presidential Palace
"Enough! Enough!" angry youth-led street protesters shouted, waving their hands towards the Presidential Palace. The crowds went out from their tents outside Sanaa University and marched along roads leading to the Presidential Palace for the first...
01 April 2011
Libyan foreign minister arrives in London, quits post
A British government source described his resignation as "a significant blow" to Gaddafi and Koussa's predecessor at the ministry said he was "part of the regime's spinal cord ...Koussa is a pillar of the temple". Koussa is the latest minister to...
01 April 2011
Nitty Gritty
And the practise of course is that he services clients who are interested in African medicinal and herbal and spiritual practises. In other words, dear reader, he matches the patient or clients with the right doctor. Currently, he is in consultation...
Barolong Seboni 01 April 2011
Only if Stan Tshosane was a foreigner... maybe of a white race?
To understand and appreciate the furore arising from the Zebras maiden appearance at African Cup of Nations (AFCON) - football's most coveted prize, one has to look back to when it was first held; 1957, that is even before we had a flag of our own,...
01 April 2011
BNF congratulates Zebras
Though the team will be making its maiden appearance in the continental soccer tournament, its performance so far has raised the country's flag high and made the world turn and take note of us as a football nation. From now onwards, International...
01 April 2011
We are not happy at BDF claim
*BDF commuted subsistence allowance and the sports and recreation contributions. It is true and we active members of BDF are also entitled to refunds. *We think acting Minister of Defence and Justice and Security Edwin Batshu is lost, he is just...
01 April 2011
Know your labour rights
The previous articles addressed the substantive and procedural aspect of operational grounds/retrenchment and when the employer can justifiably dismiss an employee on operational reasons because the employee conduct is incompatible with the corporate...
Mpho Ngwato 01 April 2011
Bhagat fiasco calls for serious introspection
Wednesday's judgement delivered a deadly blow to the confidence that patients had in Bhagat. As the country's most publicly known medical practitioner Bhagat had become inevitably one of the few faces that represented the medical profession. Justice...
01 April 2011
Banda rivals recoil ahead of crucial MMD elections?
They came from all corners of the Zambian capital, fired up and they cheered noisily as their preferred candidates filed in for elections to be held at the party convention which opens in the central town of Kabwe next Tuesday (April 5). There were...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 01 April 2011
Healthy people, healthy cities, healthy economies
Because the growth of these cities has been accelerated and magnified by productive technologies, rapid internal migration, and high net reproduction rates, many have reached unprecedented sizes at breathless speed. Indeed, all but three of the...
*PEDRO MALAN 01 April 2011
India population goes up to 1.21bn
India is on course to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030, but its growth rate is falling, figures show. China has 1.3bn people. The census also reveals a continuing preference for boys - India's sex ratio is at its worst since...
01 April 2011
April rekindles both fond and sad memories
Botswana's fourth presidentIt was on April 1, 2008 that Ian Khama became the fourth President of Botswana after Festus Mogae. Khama also became the first coloured president in the South African Development Community (SADC) and the second leader with...
01 April 2011
Consumer watchdog
I know several people with Masters Degrees and a couple of them with PhDs and I admire enormously the hard work and sacrifices they made to get them. However, I actually don't believe that qualifications are the most important thing for most jobs....
01 April 2011
Diamantaires convene for beneficiattion pitso
The pitso, which will be attended by over 250 people including 70 delegates from around the world, is the first-ever conference to be convened in the country on beneficiation as Botswana seeks to become an international diamond trading centre. In an...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
The dirty underbelly of development
By July last year, the patience of the city's sewerage engineers had reached breaking point. For years, the technicians had been pushing government for the expansion of the city's sewerage plant - a 40 million-litre per day installation whose...
01 April 2011
Govt moves to squeeze in VAT reforms
The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning this week successfully asked Parliament to fast-track discussion and approval of amendments to the VAT Act that will allow for exemption of farming implements. Following legislators' endorsement of...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Govt hammers out debt strategy
AfDB lent Botswana US$1.5 billion in 2009 which enabled government to prop the economy up by running a deficit during the recession. Other funders, including the Bretton Woods institutions, are owed billions of pula by public entities for projects...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Decompose your budget - IMF
Giving a public lecture at the Bank of Botswana this week, visiting IMF Deputy Managing Director, Naoyuki Shinohara, said because Botswana aims to achieve fiscal balance next year, it needs to decompose the overall budget into mining and...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 01 April 2011
Book review
The great Irish writer, Joseph O'Connor, in Ghost Light has with wonderful words and images created a new vision of Molly Allgood (1885-1967). She was better known by her stage name Marie O'Neill, to separate her from her older sister Sara or Sally...
Sheridan Griswold 01 April 2011
Back stage
Here is a challenging film by Danny Boyle who gave us Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Millions (2005) (Mmegi, June 26, 2009; November 26, 2005) and Trainspotting (1996). To make an interesting movie about a loner, stuck in a tight, claustrophobic space,...
Sasa Majuma 01 April 2011
CitieTown shines at Cape jazz debut
Fittingly wearing a replica Zebras All Kasi jersey, bearing No. 6 and his name, Citie was making a debut Motswana performance at the festival alongside legend guitarist John Blackie Selowane, his sister Lapologang Seetso on vocals, Blessing Maphosa...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
New York celebs add colour to Gabs fashion night
New York model Sessile Lopez, actress and model Yaya Dacosta, fashion designer and television celebrity Indashio all descend on Gaborone for a first ever fashion night with international celebrities at the Gaborone International Convention Centre...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Mabeo Enterprises- 'branding Botswana'
To say the least it is a real challenge given that the country is landlocked and has a very small domestic market. In part the small market is resolved by Botswana's membership in SACU and SADC which gives firms a reasonably large protected...
*ROMAN GRYNBERG 01 April 2011
Former child soldier speaks out
"We walked from south Sudan to Ethiopia and it took us 15 days to arrive. I was four years back then. Though I did arrive at the training camp in Ethiopia, some of the children didn't as they died of diarrhoea and cholera along the way," says Kon...
01 April 2011
African diamond crusade
The Almighty God is going to be taking us on a long diamond journey that will ultimately take us to where God has destined for us as a nation and as a continent. It is a long winding road, and certainly one with thorns, sharp needles, poisonous...
TODD MAJAYE 01 April 2011
Libyan crisis
Soon, however, problems cropped up with Col. Gaddafi as far as Uganda and Black Africa were concerned: * Idi Amin came to power with the support of Britain and Israel because they thought he was uneducated enough to be used by them. ...
* PRESIDENT YOWERI K. MUSEVENI 01 April 2011
Home-made brews ruin lives in Chadibe
He said if he had power, he would banish everyone who sells these brews in his village. Not only would he banish them but he would also make sure that they never set foot on Chadibe soil again. Speaking to Mmegi on Tuesday, he said that the elderly,...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 01 April 2011
'I'm not old...just mature'
And so it was, that I found myself standing that morning - really this past week - in the company of four other men, at the stairs of this utility firm, waiting for the firm to open its doors for us. We chatted about this and that, in typical male...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 01 April 2011
Can 'PHK' cope with two powerful ministries' workload?
On Wednesday President Ian Khama appointed Vincent Seretse assistant minister of Finance and Development Planning to replace Charles Tibone who announced his resignation from Cabinet in January this year. Only President Khama knows why he gave the...
01 April 2011
UB outgoing VC Bojosi Otlhogile speaks
Mmegi: So you have never known any other place of work? Bojosi Otlhogile (BJ): Yes I started my work here as a staff development fellow in 1982. I have never worked for any other institution but I have been part of other institutions as member...
01 April 2011
Court slams investigators for shoddy job
The accused earned his discharge on Wednesday due to insufficient evidence by the prosecution. "There is no prima facie case," declared Justice Motswagole. "This is one of the cases that stand out as badly investigated," he said. He dismissed and...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 April 2011
Botswana filmmaker begins Worldwide Campaign
Kokorwe will be amongst the who's who of international media and television at this event, dubbed the world's leading entertainment content and digital market from April 2-7. Through Heritage Media House, the newly established venture between...
01 April 2011
BTA extends PTOs' grace period
In a statement, the BTA public relations senior manager Aaron Nyelesi said the effective date for the new retail tariffs has therefore moved from April 1, 2011 to May 1, 2011. The BTA directed PTOs on February 8 to reduce their retail tariffs with...
STAFF WRITER 01 April 2011
GCC becomes theatre of BDP faction feuds
The political impasse at the Gaborone City Council where opposition councillor Ndiwaani Kenosi has moved a motion of no confidence against the mayor, Veronica Lesole of the BDP reads like the stuff of realpolitik. Intrigue runs through the whole...
01 April 2011
Moolmans mine retrenches 345 workers
Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) President, Rex Tambula told Mmegi in an interview this week that they could not do anything to stop the retrenchment because of the Labour Act. He explained that the act enables the employer to go ahead with the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 01 April 2011
Insurance firm loses suit with costs
The appellant's ground of appeal from the list is that Matambo had failed to give reasons for dismissing their appeal against Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA). The appellant contended that the acting minister was required...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 April 2011
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