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Project Syndicate
JERUSALEM: The Arab revolt against inertia, despair, and decline has rightly inspired the admiration of civilised people everywhere - everywhere, that is, except in Israel. The fall of corrupt Arab dictatorships is being met in Israel with...
Shlomo Ben Ami 10 May 2011
Project Syndicate
India's defense ministry deemed the two American contenders, Boeing's F/A-18 Superhornet and Lockheed's F-16 Superviper, not to fulfill the requirements that it sought in a medium-size multi-role combat aircraft. With the Russian MiG-30 and the...
Shashi Tharoor 10 May 2011
Of opposition unity, hope and the desire to wrestle power from BDP
"They were saying that we would not make it. Look around. As you can see for yourself the hall is full, delegates have come from 50 constituencies. We are the only opposition party to attract so many people, especially for an inaugural congress. This...
10 May 2011
BMC, farmers could lose P450m in 2011
Botswana Cattle Producers Association (BCPA) chair, Philip Fischer gave the bleak projections on Friday when launching a project designed to study the beef value chain from "farm to fork." With an FMD outbreak in the north, the Lobatse abattoir only...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Does marriage fade after a while?
True love requires constant course correction and energy input to keep it from crashing. Normally after getting married, couples do not put much effort into the relationship like they had been doing before. They start to take each other for granted...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 10 May 2011
Somerset Extension grapples with teenage pregnancies
On the western side of this area, just next to the Thapama traffic circle, there are some modern buildings for the Bank of Botswana (BoB), the National Development Bank (NDB), the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), Water Utilities Corporation (WUC),...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 10 May 2011
Open relationships good for love grown cold?
But what exactly is an open relationship? Is it more or less the same with the friends with benefits concept? According to Urban dictionary, an open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional and or...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Toilets of hope for Matsiloje paupers
Matlhadisa said the clinic raised funds and built the toilets for Garebihele Pateye (71) and Josephine Moalosi (71). Their poverty compelled the clinic to do something, she said. "These women were our patients. When we visited them, their living...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 10 May 2011
A man of great determination
The 34-year-old Zezuru man has not had any formal education, but his literacy levels match that of a university graduate. The owner of a successful carpentry company, Model Furniture, he says the fact that he did not go to school did not put him off...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 10 May 2011
The rise and rise of a secretary
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well,'. Had Martin Luther King Jr lived long enough to see Geneuvieve Twala, he would have directed these...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Manchester United on brink of record 19th title
Manchester United's 2-1 victory over Chelsea leaves them on the brink of overtaking their Merseyside rivals with a record 19th league title and, after almost 25 years in charge, Ferguson could finally proclaim them as "the most successful team in the...
10 May 2011
Tempers flare at Radipotsane hearing
Radipotsane appeared before the Botswana Football Association (BFA) Disciplinary Committee accused of bringing the association's name into disrepute by making comments in the media. The initial hearing did not come and go without any drama either....
THATO KALA
Correspondent 10 May 2011
Satmos' promotion confirmed as three clubs fined
Three clubs - Mahalapye Hotspurs, Maun Terros, and Orapa Bucs - were hauled before the committee after failing to honour some fixtures and causing some matches to be abandoned. Divisional secretary Moraole Sikwane said the three clubs were fined in...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI & CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 May 2011
Relegation fight goes down to the wire
Once a formidable side in Botswana football before they vanished into oblivion for years, it was celebration time for Tlokweng residents when the team made a long-awaited return to top-flight football at the beginning of the season. However, they...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Back stage
It is the second of five films in May from the Majority World. On June 12, 2000, Sandro Rose do Nascimento muffed a robbery on a bus and ended up taking it and 1n hostages. ïnibus 174 opens with extraordinary helicopter footage flying low...
Sasa Majuma 10 May 2011
DJ O'Neal's Switched On transcends barriers
Switched On covers a variety of topics from abstinence, delayed sexual debut, penile cancer, male circumcision, communication between couples, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and condom negotiation tactics, among others. Discussions on...
10 May 2011
Nominations start as BBAA housemates split into two groups
During the eviction show, housemates were asked to randomly pick gloves, without looking inside the bag. Their fate was decided by the colour of the glove they picked, but however none of the housemates was evicted at this stage. Fifteen...
STAFF WRITER 10 May 2011
NATO left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst
A boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli for the Italian island of Lampedusa. Despite alarms being raised with the Italian coastguard and...
10 May 2011
Moroccans march for reform
The rally in Marrakesh was the latest organised by the February 20 youth movement, challenging the government of King Mohammed, which fears that the protests could turn into an Egyptian-style revolt. Demonstrators marched past a cafe where a blast...
10 May 2011
Trade deficit widens to 'worst' level
According to Statistics Botswana data released last week, February's trade deficit marks the most extreme monthly gap between exports and imports, being higher than each of the quarterly deficits recorded last year. From a moderate deficit of P197...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Damtshaa prepares to reopen as industry recovers
Damtshaa was mothballed in early 2009 along with other Debswana mines at the peak of the global economic recession that knocked down demand and prices for diamonds. However, Debswana's other mines - Jwaneng, Orapa and Letlhakane - were reopened after...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 10 May 2011
Lies and mysteries surrounding Bin Laden's death
They had gone through a rigorous selection process and were trained to accomplish special missions. It is known that the US President can even communicate with a soldier in combat. A few hours after accomplishing that mission in the Pakistani...
10 May 2011
As i see it
There has been so much hullaballoo about opposition party leaders addressing striking workers at their assembly points that one wonders what faultfinders are trying to say. Is the 'Second Coming' around the corner? It all started on the eve of the...
Michael Dingake 10 May 2011
President must address the nation
There is no doubt that the cost of the strike to government and the nation will be enormous once everything has been quantified. We believe it will run into several millions a day. That the cost is likely to shoot up should the strike...
10 May 2011
Selefu 10 May 2011
10 May 2011
Strike chokes Chobe District
On Sunday morning a nurse on duty left some of the patients in the queue at Kazungula clinic because, as he told the security officer, he had to attend a union meeting at the Rural Administration centre. Some of the patients waited for more...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 10 May 2011
BDP Women endorse controversial compromise list
Reports reaching Mmegi indicate that concerned women took turns criticising the organ's current executive leadership for "serving their interests first, ignoring the party's standing principle of party interest first and then individual interests...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Govt relaxes movement of cloven-hoofed animals
A press statement issued by the director of veterinary services, Dr. Phillemon Motsu last Friday reads in part: " After the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Matsiloje, the department of veterinary services wishes to inform the general...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
BDF drone crashes in Thebephatshwa
Sources have revealed that the machine, which was operated from an office on the ground experienced technical problems and was brought down after several hours in flight circling above the camp. Unconfirmed reports suggest that there was poor...
STAFF WRITER 10 May 2011
CEDA hit by corruption as govt calls for forensic audit
The Government Gazette, published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, yesterday invited companies to tender for the forensic audit at CEDA. There will also be a parallel forensic audit for the CEDA Venture Capital Fund (CVCF). The audit will cover...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
More security agents charged with extra judicial killings
Lobatse High court Judge Zibani Makhwade will next month resume trial for four police officers facing a murder charge. The accused persons are: Modiredi Modise, 34, a local police officer based at Boatlaname Customary Court, Montshwari Ramatebele,...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 10 May 2011
Govt, Dikgosi on collision course?
Already five of the Dikgosi have, in defiance of the minister, allowed the representatives to address the people. First was Balete's Mosadi Seboko, who not only gave BOFEPUSU a platform at the Ramotswa Kgotla on Friday, but also read a...
GREG KELEBONYE &GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writers 10 May 2011
Project Syndicate
JERUSALEM: The Arab revolt against inertia, despair, and decline has rightly inspired the admiration of civilised people everywhere - everywhere, that is, except in Israel. The fall of corrupt Arab dictatorships is being met in Israel with...
Shlomo Ben Ami 11 May 2011
Project Syndicate
India's defense ministry deemed the two American contenders, Boeing's F/A-18 Superhornet and Lockheed's F-16 Superviper, not to fulfill the requirements that it sought in a medium-size multi-role combat aircraft. With the Russian MiG-30 and the...
Shashi Tharoor 11 May 2011
Of opposition unity, hope and the desire to wrestle power from BDP
"They were saying that we would not make it. Look around. As you can see for yourself the hall is full, delegates have come from 50 constituencies. We are the only opposition party to attract so many people, especially for an inaugural congress. This...
11 May 2011
Open relationships good for love grown cold?
But what exactly is an open relationship? Is it more or less the same with the friends with benefits concept? According to Urban dictionary, an open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional and or...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Toilets of hope for Matsiloje paupers
Matlhadisa said the clinic raised funds and built the toilets for Garebihele Pateye (71) and Josephine Moalosi (71). Their poverty compelled the clinic to do something, she said. "These women were our patients. When we visited them, their living...
Keabetswe Newel
Correspondent 11 May 2011
A man of great determination
The 34-year-old Zezuru man has not had any formal education, but his literacy levels match that of a university graduate. The owner of a successful carpentry company, Model Furniture, he says the fact that he did not go to school did not put him off...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 11 May 2011
The rise and rise of a secretary
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well,'. Had Martin Luther King Jr lived long enough to see Geneuvieve Twala, he would have directed these...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Local boxers off to a good start
With no local boxer in action on Monday, Bathusi Mogajane was the first to step into the ring yesterday afternoon against Mozambican Crimildo Guifutela in the 49kg category. Mogajane did not disappoint the local crowd as he easily trounced his...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Players deny engineering Naughty Boys' downfall
The heavy loss has resulted into finger-pointing at the club as its heads to the regional league. There are accusations that two senior players, Mooketsi Mogale and Tendai 'Makota' Mutare, engineered the club's departure from the First...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 11 May 2011
Botswana to lose England FA's aid
According to media reports in England, the FA board will meet next week to consider ending funding to Malawi, Botswana and Lesotho. It is said the meeting will decide the budget and strategy for international development and the relationship with the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Controversy mars boxing tourney
Masiyambumbi was allegedly barred from competing because he was over the weight limit of 57kg. But a Zimbabwean boxing official has said this is an anomaly caused by the weighing scales that gave conflicting readings about the boxer's weight. Petros...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 11 May 2011
It is all systems go as AJAC start
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) president, Solly Reikeletseng, said it is all systems go after months of intense preparations. Initially, the tournament was supposed to be held at the National Stadium, which is still under...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 11 May 2011
6 'Heads' to roll in BBAA's first evictions on Sunday
They are Confidence (Ghana), Danny (Ethiopia), Jossy (Namibia), Vina (Nigeria), Weza (Angola) and Vimbai (Zimbabwe). Confidence is the one who received the most nominations, with five housemates nominating her for possible...
STAFF WRITER 11 May 2011
Matsieng's new album yet to be released
When contacted yesterday, Leero refused to entertain any enquiries from Showbiz and referred further questions on the issue to Roy Kgabuki, another Matsieng singer. Only in February this year, Leero, aka DT spoke in glowing terms about the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Kganka recovering after road accident
Kganka, who rose to prominence three years ago with the release of his debut album titled Ke Thutswe Ke Koloi Ya Di Gas, was travelling with his band from a gig in Bobonong when the accident occurred in the early hours of the morning. "It was just...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 11 May 2011
Lauri Kubuitsile among top 5
Kubuitsile, one of five writers to make it to the shortlist for the influential prize, is the first Motswana to make it there. Kubuitsile was shortlisted for her short-story In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata, published in The Bed Book of Short...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 11 May 2011
Ugandan lawmakers hold hearings on anti-gay bill
Lawmakers indicated the bill could be voted on this week. The bill was first proposed in 2009 but made little progress after a storm of criticism over a death penalty provision in the original bill. A committee meeting last Friday was its first...
11 May 2011
Libya suffers continued bombardment
Libyan officials said that four children were injured by flying glass shards as a result of the apparent NATO air strikes, including two who were seriously hurt and had been put in intensive care in the hospital. A government building which had been...
11 May 2011
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