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Manchester United banish 2009 talk
Two years ago, Sir Alex Ferguson's side arrived in Rome brimming with confidence, ready to justify their status as the bookies' favourites by becoming the first side to clinch back-to-back titles. Ninety minutes and one passing masterclass later, and...
27 May 2011
Southern Open Darts tourney attracts huge field
Botswana Darts Association (BODA) tournament director, Ben Tshaba Moilwe, said the event, which is in its fifth year, has drawn 72 players from the south and 38 from the north. The tournament will be held at the Village Prisons Hall. Moilwe told...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 27 May 2011
First cut
Tension, drama and anxiety were the order of the day last weekend as the likes of Miscellaneous, Motlakase Power Dynamos and TASC were all fighting for a place in the elite league. In South Africa, Ajax Cape Town, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates...
Dennis Keagile 27 May 2011
Hotspurs and Wanderers clash over player
The tussle started after Wanderers refused to release the player's registration book when his contract ended in January. Hotspurs' spokesperson, Godfrey Ranthoka, said they showed interest in the player after his contract with Wanderers expired. He...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Kutlwano, Mafolofolo in top-of-the-table clash
After a poor campaign in the last season, few gave Mafolofolo a chance this season. However, they have recovered sufficiently and look set to give a run for their money. Currently, Mafolofolo trail leaders, Kutlwano, in the standings on sets...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Selebi-Phikwe hosts Central Golf Open
Puma Energy sponsors the annual tournament with P20,000. SPGC spokesperson, Palalani Moithobogi, explained that points acquired in the tournament will be considered when the national team is picked. "Some of the players that we expect to cause an...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Cricket side chokes at decisive times
The Botswana national cricket side dished flair and a serious lack of character in equal measure as it flattered to deceive in consecutive international tournaments this month. Botswana went to the ICC Division Seven tournament as firm favourites to...
27 May 2011
Rollers haunted by bonus issue again
"I'm not going to be rude or defensive. I am going to get straight to the point. In the Employment Act, there is nothing called bonus. It comes from your employer's goodwill if there is a surplus. So it is not the right of any employee. As you may...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Softball clubs battle for Top 8 title
The southern clubs are Bears, Wells, Police, Panthers and Dinare while the north has Rail Giants, Scramblers and Police. Wells who narrowly lost the league title to Bears and Police are the favourites. Bears, Police and Wells finished in the top...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 May 2011
The good, the bad and ugly of the 2010-2011 season
For the first time in a decade, the Premier League title has been successfully defended. Township Rollers broke the 10-year jinx when they won the Premier League for the second year running to clinch their 11th title. In the lower reaches of the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
Quotable quotes from coaches
It is the one that can bring you the title," Rollers' coach, Wesley Mondo, after clobbering Notwane 4-0 at the UB Stadium on November 20. Season's outcome: Mondo successfully guided Rollers to their second successive league title. "We had a plan to...
27 May 2011
Troubled BAA holds crucial meeting
The meeting is scheduled for Cresta President Hotel in Gaborone at 8am. It has been called after protests by clubs that the elections were not fair. Last week, Selebi-Phikwe Athletics Club, New Vision, distanced itself from one of the two people who...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Sudanese town of Abyei still tense after burning, looting - UN
The disputed town, which is contested by both north and south Sudan, has witnessed renewed clashes in recent days, including looting and burning earlier this week, following the takeover of the area by Sudanese government forces. The violence...
27 May 2011
US withdraws diplomats from Yemen amid clashes
Medical sources say 72 people have died in three days of clashes between tribal fighters and government troops.President Ali Abdullah Saleh has again said he will not step down and leave Yemen, despite mounting protests. He has so far refused to...
27 May 2011
Gbagbo's party - Not ready to join new gov't
Koulibaly who is also the speaker of Cote d'Ivoire's parliament, said on Wednesday that "The conditions are not conducive for the party to join the new government." He was speaking in Abidjan after a four-hour meeting of the FPI's Central...
27 May 2011
AU set to demand end to NATO Libya strikes
"Some international players seem to be denying Africa any significant role in the seach for a solution to the Libyan conflict," African Union Commission chief Jean Ping said late on Wednesday at a summit. "Africa is not going to be reduced to the...
27 May 2011
Security Council: Somalia risks losing support
The British ambassador to the United Nations, Mark Lyall Grant, told a news conference in neighbouring Kenya on Wednesday that the European Union could pull funding for lawmakers. "Strong messages, as I said, were given and we made it clear that the...
27 May 2011
Nitty gritty
Albert G.T. Malikongwa remains one of the most consistent and dedicated poets that Botswana has ever produced. Too often people claim to be writers and poets and only produce one or two poems or stories to back up their claim. A serious writer and...
Barolong Seboni 27 May 2011
We are all concerned about this strike
To us parents who have children doing form four and other parents who have children in other classes, this is a bitter pill to swallow. When the form fours reported for school after the start of the first term, we were made to pay for the first term...
27 May 2011
Arrest not a few but all of us
Actually, I am one of strike engineers and I know my comrades who teamed up with me to lead 'the mother of all strikes'. So arrest me and I will give you others! It will make no difference to arrest the few and leave a lot of us because we shall...
27 May 2011
Project Syndicate
NEW YORK - In almost every part of the world, long-festering problems can be solved through closer cooperation among neighboring countries. The European Union provides the best model for how neighbors that have long fought each other can come...
Jeffrey D.Sachs 27 May 2011
Local Oil Company long overdue
For a long time there has been instability in the energy sector that really exposed our vulnerability. Not a long time ago business in Botswana was disrupted by a national strike by long distance haulage truck drivers in South Africa. Because oil...
27 May 2011
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27 May 2011
Banda detects 'insanity' in foe's allegations
It is a match in which Mpombo makes a string of serious allegations of wrongdoing against Banda who is seeking re-election in this year's tripartite elections. While the allegations require concrete proof, Mpombo - who resigned from the ruling...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Freedom fighter Kaunda's monument mounted in Chilenje
Although it was unveiled on April 28 to coincide with Kaunda's 87th birthday, barely a month from that date it was again to be used as a symbol for the freedom struggle during the Africa Freedom Day celebrations on May 25. May 25 is the day on which...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Ditshwanelo calls for urgent talks over strike
We have noted with concern, the decision taken by five (5) public service unions for public sector employees to engage in strike action since 18 April 2011, their subsequent decision to extend the strike indefinitely and the impact which the ongoing...
27 May 2011
Book review
Alice Walker (2005 and 2010) In Search of Our Mothers' Garden: Womanist Prose. London, Phoenix, Orion Books, 395 pages, Softcover. ISBN 978-0-753-81970-9.Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems. Novato, California, New World Library, 165 pages,...
Sheridan Griswold 27 May 2011
Back stage
Fast and Furious Five (2011) a.k.a Fast Five is now showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It is the fifth in the Fast and Furious films. If you like them, you expect to be entertained visually, but not really challenged by the dialogue...
Sasa Majuma 27 May 2011
Rest in peace Botswana's self-publishing true story
Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah had this to say from the perspective of a writer resident in Africa at the dawn of creative writing works from the African continent. 'If you [the writer] set out to print anything on your own, the printing costs will...
27 May 2011
Consumer Watchdog
I asked myself that question last week. Do I care?No, I wasn't having a mid-life crisis, that would be MUCH more exciting. This was prompted by a response to a Mmegi article in April that I posted on our blog. The article was called "Do things...
27 May 2011
Private sector scurries to beat tax deadline
Gazetted in February, amendments to the Income Tax Act will abolish Additional Company Tax (ACT) from July 1, meaning tax credits that companies have accrued will also disappear under the new tax regime. Under current laws, the only solution for...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
P4 million in old banknotes is still out there - BOB
Over P4 million in Botswana's old P5, P2 and P1 banknotes is yet to be returned to the BoB five years after the central bank first announced it was collecting the notes from the public. Since that call was made, only 23, 001 banknotes to the value...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
Wingate opens in Francistown
Situated near the BMC Circle, the Wingate is an enterprise wholly owned by Judith Ntelecha, a Motswana woman.Construction of Wingate Lodge started at the beginning of the year 2009. From the entrance, the Wingate depicts exquisite accessories. The...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Wildlife prices up as 23 jumbos fetch P653,000
The price is three times more than the amount realised at last year's sale at which the same number of elephants was auctioned. The auctioneers were selling the elephants for the Thamalakane Community Trust.However, the auctioneers say the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
High-powered delegation courts EU for beef re-entry
Scheduled to end today, the OIE conference brought together nearly 200 countries and international organisations, providing the perfect platform for Botswana's technocrats to market the country's beef to alternative destinations. The high-powered...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
Debswana targets 25m carats this year
Addressing external stakeholders in Gaborone this week, Managing Director Jim Gowans said despite minor production challenges in the first quarter of the year, the company was poised to achieve its target production this year as productivity...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
At the end of the world-the great hoax
You are reading this because it never was. Old creaky earth still orbits with no sign of crashing down on us! May 21: in the early morning Gaborone is smothered by a sheath of mist. One cannot see beyond a 100 meters perhaps. It is a chilly morning...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Africa is open for business
In addition, conflicts and war emanating from undemocratic elections, undemocratic practices, corruption and abuse of good governance compounded to the unattractiveness of doing business in Africa. But, with fewer conflicts, more democratic elections...
*SERETSE KHAMA IAN KHAMA 27 May 2011
Remembering Shoshong after 120 years
On the contrary, Shoshong, an African town established by the Bangwato during the 18th Century was a village like any other of those days. It became prosperous as it was located strategically on the Road to the North. As a major settlement...
*ABEL A. MABUSE 27 May 2011
Paraffin price hike leaves grandmother in darkness
The grandmother, who lives with two of her grandchildren at the Diphiring lands, told Mmegi in an interview that the recent hike in fuel prices has hit her below the belt. Babedi, who uses illuminating paraffin for lighting purposes, said...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
Unionist in peripatetic court appearances
However, Baeng did not enjoy his freedom because he was immediately whisked away to Ramotswa Police Station where he was to be detained until he appeared in court today for another offence he allegedly committed when he addressed striking employees...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
A tribute to Tebza, the teacher and choirmaster
It was after he was immediately transferred from the Tutume Primary Hospital to the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital that I reached him on his mobile and he conceded to be morbid, but had hope that he would recuperate in time to join the rest of...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
How to handle of office conflicts
Then your company lands a huge new contract and everyone is working overtime. Voices are rising and fingers are pointing and much of your time is taken up by playing referee. You walk outside to see if there is a full moon in sight. When you...
REMI ADEOYE
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Who else is likely to follow Rammidi?
Reverend Dr John Seakgosing 'aka 99.9 percent'NO! Why? Because he has been dying for a political position for many years - council or parliamentary seat. After losing in Francistown on two occasions the man tried his luck in Thamaga and succeeded in...
27 May 2011
DCEC advised to form own prosecution wing
Speaking at the first Commonwealth Regional Conference for heads of anti-corruption agencies in Africa in Gaborone on Monday, former Dean of Social Science and University of Law School, Professor Kwame Frimpong said, "a situation where the Attorney...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 27 May 2011
Union leaders vow to educate strikers on media tolerance
In Francistown for instance, reporter Patricia Maganu and photographer Karabo Sename had to drive away speedily as they were pursued by an angry group of strikers who accused them of being members of the Directorate of Intelligence Services...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
When truth becomes a casualty
For many years, it has been a legitimate and accurate image, a fact from which many Batswana took pride.However, recent years have gradually built up a sense of paranoia for many in Botswana. Recent happenings, such as the ongoing public...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
Return to negotiations - BALA
Whereas we agree with the principle of delivering services to the people as fundamental to the existence of government, we kindly request government to resume negotiations, given the Setswana saying that "Ntwa kgolo ke ya molomo." The protracted...
27 May 2011
Mukokomani's wish granted as Matenge is transferred
It all started on February 23 and Mukokomani, was by then the mayor and by virtue of his position, he chaired an All-party Caucus meeting whereupon a decision was made that the then town clerk, Kutlwano Matenge be transferred. A motion of no...
RYDER GABATHUSE & ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writers 27 May 2011
Mukokomani challenges Mayor Mbaiwa's legitimacy
Mbaiwa was reinstated as mayor through a special full council meeting after the High Court ruling that nullified the previous elections of mayoral office bearers. Councillor Amex Mponwane, who argued that there had been a lot of irregularities in the...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 May 2011
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