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Education Policy is public policy: The 2010 JC examinations crisis
When the economy is performing poorly or when the civil service systems are plagued by poor productivity or corporate crime is bleeding the country coffers dry, the battle cry is invariably levelled against the government of the day. Perhaps it is...
MD LECHA 29 April 2011
Rural poverty evident among women and girls
In his writings, Dr Livingstone said he found people in that area trading in salt and much has not changed since then, as the main economic activity is now fishing. A week in Chief Nsama's area revealed hardships that women and young girls in...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Ronaldo unhappy with tactics
Asked if he liked the kind of football Madrid had played in the turbulent 2-0 defeat in the Champions League semi-final first leg, the £80m winger said: "No, I don't like it but I have to adapt to what is asked of me." He added: "This is the...
29 April 2011
First cut
The fruitful 30-year relationship between Kgalagadi Breweries and the Botswana Football Association comes to an end tomorrow after the final of the Coca-Cola Cup. Like any marriage that has lasted this long, it looks like both partners have been...
Dennis Keagile 29 April 2011
Botswana to host big boxing tourney?
The championships had initially been pencilled for March but NBF requested for a postponement to April 25 before changing dates to May 9. It has since emerged that the Namibian government had not given NBF the green light to host the event. Botswana...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Coke Cup returns home
The once-feared giants who dominated local football in the early 1990s have been on freefall. Football gods might have finally remembered the sleeping giants after Gunners overcame Mochudi Centre Chiefs in the semis of the Coca-Cola Cup to reach...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
Satmos, Hotspurs vie for supremacy in tricky ties
FC Satmos are away to unpredictable Sua Flamingoes while Hotspurs play Maun Terrors. Hotspurs' coach, Candy Tshaboeng, said they have prepared well for the Maun side despite training for only two days due to the rains. He is confident that they will...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO & MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondents 29 April 2011
The dreams of a Palapye boy
Not even punters and bookmakers saw this one coming. To most football fans, the tired clich of Goliath and David football clash is a truism in this edition of the Coca-Cola Cup final. Motlakase are featherweights and they shall be gunned down before...
29 April 2011
Tough test for netball side in tri-nations tourney
South Africa is ranked sixth in the world and start as favourites. Botswana netball is on the rise following qualification to the World Championships to be held in Singapore in June. The Botswana Netball Association (BONA) named a 14-member squad...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Wounded Rhinos out to gore Gunners
Sparks are expected to fly as Gunners seek to end a winless streak against Rhinos. Gunners are fourth with 13 points while Rhinos, fresh from a morale-sapping 18-14 defeat to leaders, Gaborone Hogs are second with 15 points. The Selebi-Phikwe side...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Key players in doubt for Under-23 clash
The Zebras gave the Young Warriors advantage in the first leg when the two sides drew 2-2 and now the job might be made more difficult because the availability of key players is in doubt. The team has barely prepared for the tie because of the Easter...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Asia's rapid growth poses risk of overheating - IMF says
The IMF said it expects the region to grow by close to 7 percent in the next two years. However, it added the rapid rate of growth may further fuel inflation. A number of countries across the region are struggling to control prices, which are making...
29 April 2011
Uganda's Kizza Besigye arrested for fourth time
Police had blocked his way, so he was in his car surrounded by supporters when officers smashed the windows, fired tear gas and dragged him out of the car. He was freed on bail on Wednesday after spending Easter in jail. President Yoweri...
29 April 2011
Zim can't afford elections - Biti
''The economy cannot sustain an election,'' the privately owned NewsDay quoted Biti as saying. ''The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has submitted a budget for $400-million. ''Where do I get that kind of money when I am looking for $150-million to fund...
29 April 2011
Ivory Coast renegade warlord Ibrahim Coulibaly killed
The leader of the so-called Invisible Commandos, Ibrahim Coulibaly, was killed in an offensive on Wednesday, a defence ministry spokesman said. Coulibaly's forces had helped Ouattara gain control of parts of Abidjan during the recent crisis, but the...
29 April 2011
Nitty Gritty
As you know, dear Christian reader, the medical doctors are normally closed during this time so I am obviously referring to the other type of family doctors - and by family here I allude to ancestral spirits of one type or another. Especially those...
Barolong Seboni 29 April 2011
Polls on the strike should speak for public opinion
Yet the Botswana public has generally remained silent, except for occasionally complaining about failing to get service at a health facility or a school. Contrary to what some newspapers have stated, there is nothing to indicate that the strike...
29 April 2011
Know your labour rights
This article will be approached from the assumption that by now you are fully informed about the rights, limitations and obligations of an employee and an employer in an employment relationship. With this in mind, my approach to this topic will...
Mpho Ngwako 29 April 2011
Strike has valuable lessons for everyone
Many will in fact react to the strike in terms of how they have been affected. It cannot be denied that there are obviously people in Government Enclave and in the public who believe that the strike is a demonstration that government made a mistake...
29 April 2011
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29 April 2011
Project syndicate
The natural instinct to celebrate and support democratisation across the Mediterranean has been tempered by concerns that the crisis will spill onto European shores. A few leaders have invoked the post-World War II Marshall Plan as a model for...
Peter Sutherland 29 April 2011
Tomorrow about this time - an inspiring gospel album
Entitled Tomorrow About This Time, the album has messages of hope, victory, deliverance and the Holy Spirit. In this album, the singer's powerful clear voice is in perfect form as it blends with the instruments. The title track itself is a prophetic...
LINDA SWIZA
Satff Writer 29 April 2011
Rwanda - from obsession to forgiveness
In the rural unassuming village of Nyarubuye, 18-year-old Festinah Mukampore lost 17 members of her family, this is her story. For as long as Mukampore could remember there had always been murmurs about the 'differences' between the Hutus and the...
FLORENCE RADULL
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Outside of the Box
Take for example the fact that we live in a country that professes its allegiance to the following of traditions. In most cases I suppose people do, but not all the time nor as rigorously as proclaimed. In this 21st century, due to the fast pace life...
TUDUETSO TEBAPE
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Book review
Lionel Harvey (2010) Things to Do Before We Die. Gaborone, Pentagon Publishers, 162 pages, Softcover, P189. Index. ISBN 978-99912-4864-6. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Things To Do Before We Die by Lionel Harvey is really a book about how...
Sheridan Griswold 29 April 2011
Back stage
No Strings Attached (2011) is now showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. This flick starts slowly with three formal introductions set 15 years ago before leaping to the present. Fifteen years ago Adam (played as an early adolescent by Dylan Hayes) and...
Sasa Majuma 29 April 2011
Botswanacraft braces for Letlhafula Cultural Festival
Botswanacraft has been hosting Letlhafula Day at the end of May every year to celebrate Setswana cuisine as well as other cultural aspects. This year's event will be held on May 28 under the theme, "Letlepu tsina ya Letlhafula, re tla ikgora...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Miss Botswana Fashion Show could be a leap forward
Bissau Gaobakwe revealed that Miss Botswana are planning to turn the Miss Botswana Fashion Show into a Botswana Fashion Week in a bid to lure more tourists to the country. The transformation, according to Gaobakweof 63 Entertainment, is also meant...
29 April 2011
The legacy of folklorist Lepodise Sekoboana
One such legend whose compositions seemed to have touched the hearts of Batswana was a slender looking Kgatleng youth who went by the name Lepodise Sekoboana. He did not cut any album, but the youngster, along with the players of his generation...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
Consumer watchdog
Firstly I should say that I welcome criticism. I genuinely like it when readers get in touch either to say they like something I wrote or even to say that they didn't. So long as they're fairly polite I'm happy to read anything they say. Of course...
29 April 2011
Casinos raked in P191m during recession
Gross revenues for the casino and gaming industry's 10 players rose by four percent from the P184.9 million earned in 2008/09, according to the Casino Control Board (CCB)'s recently released Annual Report for 2010. The higher earnings for the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
New ETF sparks market interest
Due to list on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) on May 11, the BettaBeta tracks the performance of the FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index, which itself consists of the top performing global companies across sectors such as industrial, resources and financials....
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
BCL Mine prepares for shutdown
Makaba said the electrical furnace had been in use for 10 years and had to be repaired. The shutdown will employ between 800 and 900 employees of contractors, 275 of whom will be foreigners. Because of the expected influx of people, security...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 29 April 2011
BoB re-adjusts inflation forecast further
Rising fuel prices and expected utility tariff hikes in the first half of this year will see the annual inflation rate fall within the 3 to 6 percent medium-term objective in the second half of 2012 and not in the second quarter of the same year as...
Brian Benza 29 April 2011
Govt raises P2.3 billion to support budget
Parliament recently authorised the extension of the 2008 P5 billion-bond issuance programme, by another P10 billion, to enable government to support public coffers which have recorded successive deficits since 2009. With external borrowings having...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
F/town airport has no cost overruns - CAA
Responding to a Mmegi article titled "Over P100 million cost overruns for Francistown airport", he said contrary to the article, Francistown airport project is within its budget. In a letter to Mmegi, it said that the total amount approved for the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Mugabe's foreign travels draining nation's coffers
The issue here is not whether or not our civil servants deserve a salary increase. They do, indeed.What Mugabe is doing is to make it look as if Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC are the ones denying public service employees the salary...
DON MARTIN ROPAFADZO 29 April 2011
Advise and relent
Hardly a day goes by without a major newspaper somewhere in the West offering sage and specific, but often not-so-friendly, advice to distant struggling democracies on what they "must" do to earn the "international community's" approbation. Of...
*CHRISTOPHER HILL 29 April 2011
Hypocrisy and war
International policymaking is a hardheaded, cynical business, but tolerance for double standards has its limits. Russia discovered that when it invoked the "responsibility to protect" doctrine to try to justify its 2008 invasion of Georgia....
*GARETH EVANS 29 April 2011
BNF Leadership Forum set for Goodhope
BNF leader Duma Boko is expected to address the forum, which will be made up of various BNF leaders in the organisational structures, including the Politburo, Women's Wing, BNF Youth League and secretaries and chairpersons of regions and...
STAFF WRITER 29 April 2011
Chinese investment reaches new high
As China's economy continues to grow, its grip on Zambia is evident on all fronts. Some Western donors have frozen bilateral aid to Zambia at a time China has announced an increase in Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) to Zambia from US$ 1 billion in...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 29 April 2011
'Unassailable' Banda launches re-election bid
Ever since his election unopposed as the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) leader and the party's presidential candidate early this month, Banda has been rapidly changing gears as he moves to swiftly consolidate what is rapidly...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 29 April 2011
How long will President Khama run away from dialogue?
Often viewed as a president obsessed with issuing instructions rather than listening to what others have to say, many are beginning to realise that he has become selective to only those that see him as a sort of messiah. People would be excused from...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
Tender Committee under investigation over P1m bread
Reuben Keddy, the owner of Prestige Bakery, charges that he came second in the tender to supply bread to Molepolole College of Education (MCE) even though the winning company (name withheld) has no manufacturing licence and operates as a...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
BNF refused permission for solidarity march?
Addressing the workers at the Bus Rank, Selebi-Phikwe West Constituency Assistant Secretary, Boitshoko Kealeboga explained that the idea was to show solidarity with the workers and to hand over a petition to the Selebi-Phikwe District Commissioner...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Court order went unheeded in Ramotswa - unionists
The court had ordered that employees of government departments - which are considered to be providing "essential services" - must return to work. But this had not deterred Ramotswa workers who had also joined the nationwide strike that ends...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 April 2011
Raphaka's letter divides councillors
Four protesting councillors, among them the former mayor who lost the High Court case Lekang Mukokomani, were of the view that the Town Clerk has got no authority to preside over council proceedings nor the permanent secretary to authorise the...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
Dams healthy as rainy season ends
Water Utilities Corporation has revealed that the season ends with healthy looking dams. Gaborone, Nnywane, Letsibogo, Shashe and Ntimbale dams are over 90 percent full and can run for more than a year without inflow. Molatedi and Bokaa dams are...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
'Workers must unite to ensure maximum impact'
Former Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) chairman Mbonini could only sum up his concern with two words: " Very unfortunate."Giving a background on the transformation of the public sector workers' organisations to fully-fledged trade unions, he says,...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
Bhagat hits back at judge, demands to practice
In his grounds of Appeal, Bhagat argues that the judge was mistakent in his statement that though he (Bhagat) was registered, such registration was unlawful and invalid and had no legal force and effect. He also argues that the judge erred in law...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 April 2011
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