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Revamped volleyball league starts
In the men's competition, Police play Spartans with BDF and Mafolofolo clashing in the last match of the day. Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) development officer, Mission Mereyotlhe, said they learnt a lot of lessons from last year's league and...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 April 2011
First cut
It is not only the intention and wish of the Botswana Football Association (BFA) to see all its affiliates turning into professional outfits. It is the wish of every Motswana that this should happen. Once all our clubs turn professional, the value...
Dennis Keagile 15 April 2011
Sports briefs
The competition is open to both juniors and seniors. BAA spokesperson, Glody Dube, said the competition is mainly targeted at junior athletes most of whom are students. Athletes were expected to have submitted their entries by yesterday. Memorial...
Compiled by MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Who will make it to the Coke finals?
The race for the top prize of P350,000 enters the penultimate stage tomorrow when favourites Mochudi Centre Chiefs face Extension Gunners at the Lobatse Sports Complex with Uniao Flamengo Santos taking on surprise package, Motlakase Power Dynamos, at...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Satmos, Hotspurs in tight race
Satmos are left with two games while Hotspurs have three. The Cheetahs travel to Maun to face struggling Maun Tigers tomorrow while Hotspurs are away to unpredictable No Mathata in Selebi-Phikwe. Satmos will pray that their cross-town rivals will do...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO & MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondents 15 April 2011
Hogs and Rhinos in top of the table clash
Hogs have 20 points, six clear of Rhinos and tomorrow's match is expected to be a close contest. Rhinos have a game in hand over the leaders although Hogs are favoured to bag maximum points. Rhinos have 14 points from three games with two bonus...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI & VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Glory beckons for Double Action
After last weekend's 5-0 demolition of Manana, Double Action on 67 points seek to stay the course this weekend when they face fourth-placed Prisons. Township Rollers lie second and will have to win against UB Kicks to keep their faint hopes alive....
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Troopers, BDF Vrenew rivalry
Basketball fans who have been thirsting for top class action could not have asked for a better game as the league enters its second week. Defending champions, Troopers, lost twice to the army boys last season. Tomorrow's game, although coming early...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Young Zebras host depleted Zimbabwe
The Botswana Under-23 side got a major boost when Gaborone United released star midfielder Ofentse Nato to join the squad. The lanky midfield grafter missed last week's Olympic qualifier against Egypt after his club said they feared he faced a...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Is BFA neglecting junior teams?
Last Friday, the national Under-23 side beat Egypt 2-1 but crashed out of the qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympic Games 3-2 on aggregate. The technical team at the Under-23 has always decried inadequate preparations since the beginning of the...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
The bittersweet scent of P24 million
It was a normal blue Monday morning. The autumn weather dominated the morning as weary bodies from the usual weekend exploits prepared for another day's work. There was something unusual about Gaborone's Central Business District (CBD) that morning....
15 April 2011
BFA promise to reimburse players
"We are in the process of paying them back and hopefully that will be done today (yesterday)," the Botswana Football Association (BFA) chief executive officer, Judge Mookodi said yesterday. SuperSport United pair of Diphetogo 'Dipsy' Selolwane and...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Western, Arab nations say Libya's Gaddafi must go
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Arab League head Amr Moussa and officials from the African Union and Organisation of the Islamic Conference were to discuss Libya at Arab League headquarters in...
15 April 2011
Ouattara takes charge after Ivory Coast victory
United Nations peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy told reporters in New York there was however still fighting and "quite a lot of looting" despite Ouattara's victory over Gbagbo's attempt to cling to power. "There are still people with arms, it is still...
15 April 2011
Project syndicate
The concern was understandable: radiation is very frightening. I grew up in Denmark at a time when fear of nuclear power was pervasive. But our latest nuclear fears have broader implications, especially for energy supply and our desire to shift away...
Bjorn Lomborg 15 April 2011
The war on homosexuality is unjustified
Those engaged in bashing homosexuality take centre stage while homosexuals have their own fashion sense, making it easy to identify them. Probably this is the point of their efforts to try to be what they want to be. Most of the lesbians wear baggy...
15 April 2011
Swaziland: The time to break the silence
We are fully in agreement with the people of Swaziland that there is need for a new dispensation. To those who have thrown away fear and peacefully taken to the streets to fight for the liberation of Swaziland, we say, we salute you for your...
15 April 2011
Project syndicate
Of the four main opposition parties that fielded candidates for the 469 parliamentary seats in contention, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) took the bulk of the votes in the southwest of the country, felling such PDP stalwarts as House speaker...
Ike Okonta 15 April 2011
We doff our hats to Vaka
Portraying Sanlam as a crucible that is decidedly hostile to the interests of Batswana, she characterised its relationship with BIHL in terms of "an inherent conflict" purposefully engineered from Cape Town to undermine the Botswana company. In her...
15 April 2011
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15 April 2011
Project syndicate
When the two countries became semi-finalists in the game's quadrennial World Cup, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Reza Gilani, to watch the game with him in Mohali, with talks over dinner. Though the...
Shashi Tharoor 15 April 2011
Saif Gaddafi and me
He is an interesting fellow, my colleague said, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); I would enjoy talking to him, and I might be able to help his thinking on economic matters. The meeting, as it turned...
DANI RODRIK 15 April 2011
Is the BNF dying a slow death?
When a person has a serious enemy, they often wish them a slow and painful death. A movie-like ending of life, the way Denzel Washington, playing bodyguard to the daughter of some rich family, seeks vengeance on those who kidnapped her in the epic...
15 April 2011
Consumer watchdog
It's hard to believe that someone as out-going and approachable, someone who so enjoyed meeting people, someone as generous as he was, wasn't known by everyone. Despite missing him terribly, it's not his family and friends I feel sorry for. Instead,...
15 April 2011
Gold ETF reaches record levels
The gold ETF, which is sponsored by ABSA Capital, tracks the price of gold and is supported by physical gold assets. One security or unit in the ETF is equivalent to one one-hundredth of a gold ounce and is tradable like other equities on the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Bulls returning to BSE
The DCI surged by 8.19 percent to 6,938.33 points during the quarter on the back of increased trading activities while on the Foreign Equity Main Board, the Foreign Companies Index (FCI), jumped by 7.68 percent to 1,802.41 points, returning to its...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Botswana remains static in global telecoms rankings
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Information Technology Report has downgraded Botswana to 91st out of 138 countries worldwide in telecommunications competitiveness, five rungs down the ladder from the previous report. However, the 2010/11...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Inflation biggest threat to Botswana in 2011 - Stanchart
This week, Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Macro-Economics and Regional Head of Research (Africa), Razia Khan, warned that with Botswana's exchange rate buffer to the rand at minimal levels, the economy could be hard-hit by inflationary pressures...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Vaka on Sanlam: a first for courage and rectitude
In an eleven-page diatribe that lasted approximately 40 minutes, Sikalesele-Vaka lambasted Sanlam for corporate citizen irresponsibility for channelling all profits made by BIHL towards the group's expansion in other countries while BIHL remains...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Govt to sell off 44% of NDB
Government will soon relinquish 49 percent of its holding in the National Development Bank (NDB) to make way for Batswana to purchase a minimum of 30 percent of this while NDB workers will be offered five percent. Under the privatisation model...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Book review
Alexander McCall Smith's The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party is the 12th in the series The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Our friends who live on Zebra Drive and work at Tlokweng Speedy Motors are all back. We do not, though, learn much more...
Sheridan Griswold 15 April 2011
Back stage
Black Swan is very different from other movies about dance as it verges into cinema noir. The main similarity is that, like other movies on dance, it is about everything but dance. Actually there are a lot of sequences of ballet dancing...
Sasa Majuma 15 April 2011
Miss Universe Botswana auditions take off
In Botswana, the international successes of models and beauty queens such as Mpule Kwelagobe, Kaone Kario and Emma Wareus, continues to fuel the dreams of many young women. Furthermore, event organisers and promoters also seem to have jumped on the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Selolwane: From New York to a homebound grandfather
"Shh, baby, sorry. Come here, come and be famous with grandpa," the man says to the baby girl, scooping her out of her cot into his arms. The image of a loving and home-bound grandfather is not one that many immediately associate with an...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Do our students need drugs to learn?
This individual should be able to function, via application of the acquired skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, after the completion of learning programme. Learners must be able to apply the knowledge in the wider community and for their own...
Dr L. Mokgosi, Dr Kgosidialwa and T Dube 15 April 2011
The dancing reeds of the Shashe Dam
On the whole the dam presents a picture of true beauty and wonder of nature that emerges as one gets closer and closer to the dam. As a man-made lake, the Shashe dam has succeeded in generating its own identity, unique surroundings and...
RYDER GABATHUSE & PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writers 15 April 2011
Western hypocrisy exposed
Holy Qur'an 30:10 We know that when the British sold Palestine (then wholly occupied by the Palestinians) to the Zionists in 1917 the West, vowed to protect, at all costs, the soon-to-be-created rogue state of Israel. And indeed they have protected...
*AL-HASAN LENTSWE 15 April 2011
Excuse my spelling...
I was taken aback by this tag line not because I don't think one can go to UB and be themselves, but rather at the way the tag line is written. The spelling of it read to me as if someone (a very young someone) had sent a text, Instant Message or...
TUDUETSO TEBAPE
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Art therapy reaches hospitals
Known as Healing Art Project, its coordinator Oarabile Keosedile said there is tremendous need for hospitals to be homely and beautiful for those who are struggling both physically and emotionally. "Healing Art Project is done by Botswana...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Over 2.5m babies stillborn in 2009
Every day more than 7,200 babies are stillborn a death just when parents expect to welcome a new life and 98 percent of them occur in low- and middle-income countries. High-income countries are not immune, with one in 320 babies stillborn a...
15 April 2011
Judge dismisses appeal of diamond thief
Throwing out the appeal, Justice Rannowane said that he was satisfied that the lower court was right in giving a guilty verdict. "I accordingly dismiss the appeal and confirm the conviction," he said. The appellant in the matter Obokeng...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
'Fired' Bolele seeks P1m from BOCONGO
The case is before Lobatse High Court judge, Michael Leburu. Her attorney Tendai Mandikate told court that Bolele is seeking P905, 863.65 from BOCONGO, which is not willing to reinstate her to a position of executive secretary. Bolele wants court to...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Teachers complain over interviews criteria
Those called have been acting school heads for a period of at least one year. Botswana Secondary Teachers Union (BOSETU)'s publicity secretary, Mogomotsi Motshegwe said it was as if they were saying that those who had responded were not...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Talks over extra-curricular activities stall
Botswana Secondary Teachers Union (BOSETU) spokesperson, Mogomotsi Motshegwa said the issue has not been discussed in months after the government promised to return to them. Motshegwa said they asked about progress at a meeting last month but the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 April 2011
KDC needs P13m to revamp its fleet
In a report to special finance performance management committee on recurrent budget of the 2011/2012 early this year, the council is said to be making efforts at "making additions to its plant fleet to cut down on outsourcing most of its civil works...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
Obama congratulates Ouattara
President Obama offered support for President Ouattara's efforts to unite Cote d'Ivoire, restart the economy, restore security, and reform the security forces. The President reiterated his admiration for the extraordinary potential of the...
15 April 2011
Government's stance on the strike
The recognised Trade Unions are demanding a 16 percent salary adjustment comprising 13.8 percent inflationary adjustment and a 2.2 percent salary increment based on the improving economic outlook and the erosion of the purchasing power of...
15 April 2011
Young mother escapes with a fine
The convict, Chandida Galalia, was ordered to pay within a month, failing which she will be imprisoned for 60 days. Lillian Mohwasa of Lillian Mohwasa Attorneys, and Kabelo Gaonyadiwe represented Galalia, while Careb Mbenda represented the...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 15 April 2011
Four murder suspects remanded
Twenty-seven year old Bontsi (27) of Tonota was an employee of the Selebi-Phikwe Magistrates Court. Confirming this to Mmegi this week, the Commander of Selebi-Phikwe Police Station, Superintendent Victor Nlebesi, said investigations were at an early...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 15 April 2011
How loving mom delivered son to police
It appears Orapeleng Nkwe (23), who is facing charges of armed robbery and burglary, found his newly acquired freedom incomplete without his mother's warm love. He visited his mother, who welcomed him with open arms, in Mogoditshane. Being the only...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 April 2011
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