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Kutlwano out to consolidate lead
Kutlwano has so far collected 12 points after winning all their four games while third-placed Seekers have played five and won three. Kutlwano is not expected to have an easy game against the vastly-improved Jwaneng side. The last time the two sides...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 May 2011
AON sponsors inaugural bowls Invitation Trips
Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, John Gaborutwe, said 12 teams have confirmed participation with host club, Selebi-Phikwe and Jwaneng fielding two sides each. Orapa and Gaborone will send a team each with the remaining four sides...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
AJAC get underway as Botswana athletes falter
Officially opening the competition, vice president, Mompati Merafhe said Botswana is honoured to have been given the opportunity to host the tournament. Merafhe welcomed visiting countries and encouraged them to take time off during the games to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Rhinos seek to close gap on leaders
Hogs have started the season like a house on fire and have raced to 29 points from six games. Rhinos have played a game less than the defending champions and have 20 points. The students know what a win over Cheetahs mean. Rhino's chairman, Lesedi...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
First cut
Football purists call it the beautiful game simply because of its unpredictability. It is a sport full of myths and which does not follow the exact science of logic and at times physics. There is, however, one unwritten rule in football: There is no...
Dennis Keagile 13 May 2011
Crunch time for struggling sides
With the league reaching its penultimate stage this weekend, the Premier League office has scheduled games involving the trio to start at the same time tomorrow to avoid controversy. After a season in the top-flight, Black Peril returned to the First...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Chobe United hits grey patch
It has just had another fruitless campaign in its bid to return to the First Division next season doomed after a fourth-place finish in the Chobe Regional League. Despite a 4-0 win over Plateau on Sunday, Chobe could not overhaul leaders,...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Interest in Ramatlhakwana grows
The agent said the striker will move to a club in South Africa or Europe. Ramatlhakwana has been instrumental for the Zebras, scoring five goals in the current Africa Cup of Nations campaign and Paiva has disclosed that more than one South African...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Nare blames poor preparations for Under-23 exit
The Young Zebras are out of both competitions following losses to Egypt and Zimbabwe. Nare played the qualifiers without some of his key men because of club commitments and a busy schedule. The team travelled to face Zimbabwe in Harare with...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Can Buffaloes snatch title from Fighters?
The coach made the confident declaration after Fighters ended Letlapeng's promotion hopes with a 3-2 win in Mogoditshane on Saturday. "Right now I would say we are almost there. I watched Buffaloes struggling against Masitaoka last week and I feel...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
ABSA-Rollers in partnership talks
ABSA managing director, Bilkiss Moorad, said partnering with Rollers supports their strategic objective to deliver financial solutions in the Botswana market. She said the intention is to enhance the value of Rollers' offerings to its players and...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Rollers defy odds to retain title
When Township Rollers romped to their first league title in five years last season, few gave them a chance of retaining it given the recent record of defending champions in the competition. Since Mogoditshane Fighters achieved the feat a decade ago,...
13 May 2011
BFA on the radar as match-fixing probe widens
The world soccer governing body has set aside $28 million for Interpol to help fight growing match-fixing in the game. FIFA has declared that it has three weeks to clean up football in a major international investigation into corruption in the game....
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Row halts Zim constitution
The mammoth process of public consultations for a new constitution began in 2009, months after the deal between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, but has been repeatedly disrupted and marred by violence. The new delay was...
13 May 2011
US attacks militants in Pakistan as pressure grows over bin Laden
The killing of the al Qaeda chief in a US raid on May 2 has strained ties between Washington and Islamabad, with suspicion in the United States that Pakistan knew where bin Laden was hiding and Pakistan angered by a raid it saw as a violation...
13 May 2011
New hope for Government formation in Lebanon
Arabic As-Safir newspaper said in its front-page article that the biggest hurdle impeding the formation of the new cabinet, which is the fierce battle over the key interior ministry portfolio was resolved. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, a...
13 May 2011
Museveni sworn in amid post-election tensions with opposition
Thousands of people, the young and the old thronged Kololo ceremonial grounds to witness the swearing in ceremony that was also attended by several African heads of state, government officials and diplomats. Museveni swore allegiance to the...
13 May 2011
Thai Court denies fresh bail request for two red-shirt leaders
The lawyer of Jatuporn Prompan and Nisit Sinthuprai, the core leaders of the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), submitted the bail request at 1 pm after the court earlier revoked bail for the two for breaking bail...
13 May 2011
Gaddafi meets tribal heads as NATO airstrikes continue
Video broadcast on Libyan state TV on Wednesday night showed Gaddafi talking with what the broadcast said were tribal leaders in a hotel in Tripoli. The date of the meeting was not provided, but some news reports suggested it might have been on...
13 May 2011
Nitty Gritty
There is a "to do" at the Nitty Gritty shebeen. If you remember, dear reader whose memory I can always depend on, Ausi Maggie is a bit hot under the collar. The reason for this is that her girls, on whom she depends for the smooth running...
Barolong Seboni 13 May 2011
Project Syndicate
CAMBRIDGE - I have been presenting my new book The Globalisation Paradox to different groups of late. By now I am used to all types of comments from the audience. But at a recent book-launch event, the economist assigned to discuss the book surprised...
Dani Rodrick 13 May 2011
Venson-Moitoi is at it again
And she comes with her guns blazing in state media on May 11 2011 with innuendoes that Lobatse Secondary School students' looming uprising is a product of teachers on strike. The Minister should note that Lob Sec students and others around the...
13 May 2011
Whither Botswana
Today, I take the unpopular position, in some quarters, of daring to question the justification for the ongoing strike by elements of the country's public service. I do this fully aware that the more fashionable thing in the four weeks since the...
Dan Moabi 13 May 2011
An educated and informed nation?
Or are we thinking at a tangent? These are the worst affected by the strike. A lot of harm has already been done to their education and callow minds. Within a short space of time, many of these students will have to sit their final examinations: the...
13 May 2011
Selefu 13 May 2011
13 May 2011
Top mine faces tax evasion allegations
This follows a decision by a consortium of five international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that campaign for economic fairness to lodge a complaint against Mopani Mines' business practices to the international economics watchdog, the...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 13 May 2011
South of the Revolution
If so, it would mean shifting from production of commodities to higher-value manufactured products. It would also mean looking objectively at the concept and aims of international development cooperation beyond the lifespan of the United Nations'...
* KANDEH K. YUMKELLA & ROB DAVIES 13 May 2011
Does govt care about education?
Last year's chaos during the external examinations in junior and senior secondary schools is still fresh in most people's minds. Instead of tackling the matter and making sure that she works closely with the teachers in schools, the Minister of...
13 May 2011
Consumer watchdog
This was a person I'd briefly worked with before and thought I knew well enough to take the big step of employing him. He flew all the way out from Europe and I got him somewhere to live, lent him a car and helped out financially until we could start...
13 May 2011
Book review
Linda Grant (2011) "We Had It So Good". London, Virago Press, 340 pages, Softcover, P220. ISBN 978-1-8440-8638-2. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Reviewed by Sheridan Griswold Linda Grant's We Had It So Good looks in depth at the...
Sheldon Griswold 13 May 2011
Back stage
Unknown (2011) has been showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It is a surprisingly good movie on a theme that Hollywood liked 60 and 70 years ago - amnesia. It has a great cast, a dramatic wintry view of Berlin, returning the city to its former...
Sasa Majuma 13 May 2011
Fashion essentials for winter
If you live in a cold climate it is essential that you take fashion for winter seriously. Here are the must-haves for a fashionable winter. Boots: Buying boots has never been on my purchase list because where l come from we don't experience winter,...
REMI ADEOYE
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Zim sculptress defies the odds
Never mind the challenges that come when a woman tries to venture into sculpture because Manhotoma has overcome them systematically, ascending the ladder of success. Her star continues to shine brightly with new projects on the horizon here in...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Top artists mount 'Surprise Surprize' exhibition
Some of the artists who are exhibiting are the who-is-who of the country's art industry. The exhibitors include Ann Gollifer, Abel Manatsha, Kentse Bogatsu, Uhuru Kgope, Veryan Edwards, Ngozi Chukura, Moratiwa Molema, Modirwa Kekwaletswe, Vivek...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Half of Batswana are middle class - AfDB
According to the report, 47 percent of Batswana are considered to be in the middle class, although only 29 percent is in the stable category (non-floating) and are therefore not susceptible to falling back into poverty in the event of exogenous...
13 May 2011
New chapter as govt handholds small-scale miners
Acting Director of Mines, Gabotshwarege Tshekiso, revealed government's plans on Wednesday when briefing stakeholders at the launch of the Department of Water Affairs' strategic plan. The grand plans for small-scale citizen industrial miners are part...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Cabinet okays mining investment company
Government has varying levels of shareholdings in Botswana Ash, Tati Nickel Mining Company, BCL Mine, Debswana and Morupule Colliery which represent the cream of mining companies in Botswana. By establishing a mining investment company, Botswana will...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Why democracy sucks
Meanwhile, the children they often had on their laps do not. Democracy sucks. By it 'sucks' I mean it in the sense rich and spoilt kids who follow contemporary hip hop use the word the same way they say 'screw'. That it is bad, boring, awful,...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 13 May 2011
Public service strike a major turning point
With the law somewhat on the employer's side, frustrations are mounting and the strike is evolving into a different object altogether - a nationwide struggle, the "Tahrir Square" type that threatens to introduce a new, frightening chapter in the...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Botswana turning inwards
As usual what he delivered what was a thoughtful, intelligent and well considered lecture. The main theme of the lecture was Botswana's apparent quiet change in the direction to a more inward looking approach to its development. Dr Jefferis...
*PROFESSOR ROMAN GRYNBERG 13 May 2011
The day striking workers invaded Tonota
At the sports ground overlooking the A1Francisown-Gaborone Road, adjacent the Phase IV community hall and the Chedu Choga shopping complex in Block 4, they receive with indignation news that the Industrial Court judge, Tebogo Maruping has ordered...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Students revolt
The protest followed the announcement by the Minister of Education Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi who requested to address the Form 4s on how the national strike has affected them. This did not go down well with the Form 5s who said they were being given a...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Bin Laden demise: Why Batswana should be indifferent
This historic event prompted many high profile politicians and personalities to make public their views about the death of the alleged terrorist and mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, and the...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Striking civil servants walk out on Seretse
The civil servants were angered by an announcement by the District Commissioner and his deputy that led to the director of ceremonies ordering the civil servants to shut up. The assistant minister made the situation worse when he said that he was...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Trade unions and partisan politics
Perhaps those worried should take solace from what one BOFEPUSU official said recently; that his organisation will not give blind support to anybody. Tshekstsheko Lekang has said that if the BDP were to lose power, BOFEPUSU would support the...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 13 May 2011
Botswana - the year ahead
While official estimates suggest that growth will bounce back to 7.9 percent in 2010, the medium termoutlook, especially for the non-mining economy, remains subdued. Ambitious fiscal consolidation plans (perhaps in reaction to an earlier downgrade of...
RAZIA KHAN 13 May 2011
Inmate threatens to beat prosecutor
Botsi Kefitile, currently serving 22 years for armed robbery, threatened violence on state prosecutor Thato Dibeela when he learnt that he was about to be arraigned for a robbery case committed in Ramotswa sometime back. Kefitile was appearing for...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
How to have a close parent teenager relationship
Children have few expectations for privacy from parents, Adolescents expect more. Late adolescence and adults expect a great deal of control over the information they choose to share and what they choose to keep to themselves. This seems to parallel...
13 May 2011
Police officers' committed to the High Court
The High Court is being called upon to decide on the admissibility of some of the contents in the summary of evidence filed by the state. Yesterday, Broadhurst Magistrate Hauwa Nuru ruled that there is evidence that some material might be...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 13 May 2011
Selebi-Phikwe Council abattoir reopens
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview, the Town Clerk Mompati Seleka said they have been given a go-ahead by the Department of Veterinary Services to start receiving and slaughtering cattle. He said the shutdown had given them an opportunity to inspect...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 13 May 2011
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