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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 01 June 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 01 June 2011
Immigration asks Cllrs' help to deal with illegal immigrants
"We are looking for your suggestions on how to best deal with the matter. It is becoming quite expensive for the government," Regional Immigration Officer Barulaganye Magowe told Francistown councillors. The officer said that the influx of illegal...
Patricia Maganu-Edwin
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Financial constraints halt conversion of industrial class workers
He explained during a full council meeting that the process was halted indefinitely by the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) after the intervention of trade unions. It has been discovered that there are no funds to pay the workers'...
Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
The magnificent hornbill
Most bird lovers know the hornbill as a bird that builds its nest in a hollow tree trunk, and that the male usually seals the entrance of the nest with clay once the female has laid her eggs in it. In doing this, the male leaves only a small slit...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Ex-convict finds success in farming
He talks with a slow deliberation about his broilers, the need to get rid of them before the winter frost comes, as well as the patient wait for the warm weather before he can acquire more to rear for sale. On a small ledge, he has placed a trophy...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
English FA calls for FIFA elections to be postponed
But, far from being satisfied by the latest partial purge of Fifa - Bin Hammam and the Fifa vice-president, Jack Warner, on Sunday became the third and fourth executive committee [exco] members to be suspended over the past six months - the FA...
01 June 2011
Scholes retires and takes Manchester United coaching role
There had been speculation about the 36-year-old's future in the past few weeks after he became increasingly dissatisfied with his bit-part role, and he will now take up a coaching position at Old Trafford from next season. The famously shy...
01 June 2011
Nato ruled out of Malawi tie
National team coach, Stanley Tshosane has said the Gaborone United (GU) linkman is not fit enough to play the Flames at the New Lobatse Sports Complex. Nato got injured during GU's Premier League game against Notwane a fortnight ago. The injury...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 June 2011
BNSC moves to stabilise BAA
In a press statement, BNSC chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoen has issued a roadmap to pacify and normalise operations at the rudderless association whose entire leadership was kicked out last Saturday. Under the roadmap, the BAA should have a full...
01 June 2011
Back stage
Sisters in Law (2005) was shown in May at the Gaborone Film Society at Maru a Pula School. It was the fourth of five films in May from the Majority World. Sisters in Law - the pun is intended - is a documentary film that is a quick snapshot of...
Sasa Majuma 01 June 2011
Zim's Macheso to spice up Slizer album
Botswana dance queen, Slizer (Naledi Kaisara), has revealed that the well-travelled musician will feature in her next album. Two shows have been slated for June 24 and the next day the two will take their acts to the capital, Gaborone. ...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Miss P up for possible eviction
The week's Head of House, Danny, decided to save his friend, South Africa's Luclay, and instead replaced him with Miss P (Peo Sebotho). Miss P is up for possible eviction alongside Bhoke (Tanzania) and Ernest (Uganda). In what was definitely...
STAFF WRITER 01 June 2011
Court rejects Mladic appeal, extradition cleared
The Hague court indicted Mladic for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8, 000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in 1995. Serbian security agents tracked the fugitive general last week, after 16 years on...
01 June 2011
India, Pakistan fail to make progress on glacier standoff
Defence secretaries from both countries held two days of closed-door talks in New Delhi on how to reach an agreement on withdrawing troops from the mountainous no-man's land above the Siachen glacier and defining the official border. Indian media...
01 June 2011
Suspected E.coli infection reported in Spain
The patient was admitted on May 20 and then placed in intensive care after his condition deteriorated, said a statement by the Donostia hospital in San Sebastian. "Until we have the necessary results we cannot confirm that this is a food infection by...
01 June 2011
Kenya loses bid to stop Hague trials
ICC prosecutors have accused six political and business figures of involvement in the 2007-08 violence that killed more than 1, 200 people. All six say they are innocent of the charges. In March, Kenya's government objected to the proceedings,...
01 June 2011
Rebels rename themselves National Liberation Army
"The NTC hopes that the temporary name will help better define the increasingly professional and disciplined military efforts to overcome the Gaddafi regime," said the statement. Rebels have been fighting troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar...
01 June 2011
SA president says Gaddafi ready to implement AU roadmap
"I can say that the Libyan leader is ready to implement what is in the roadmap by the AU," Zuma said at a press conference shortly before leaving Libyan capital Tripoli. Zuma, during his several hours' visit to Tripoli, held what he described as a...
01 June 2011
Today's work space
In the previous article I touched on different types of mistakes which take place in the work space, and gave an example of the mistake of offering a candidate a higher salary than intended. As said then, it is difficult in the context of a...
Joseph Masango 01 June 2011
Wilderness profits up, posts maiden dividend
Although the company's operating profit was down 26 percent to P50.5 million for the period, Wilderness' net profit rose 73 percent to P92.1 million, mostly due to a share of an associate company's profit that increased tremendously during the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Chobe pulls out of Namibia, Zambia
Already, Chobe has sold its majority stake in Ilombe Lodge and Fishing Camp in Zambia to the minority shareholding, while it has fully impaired its P4.2 million investment in Lianshulu Lodges on the Caprivi Strip. The tourism giant will hope to...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Minister Matambo should resign
I understand the charge emanates from deals he entered into whilst serving Botswana Development Corporation. (BDC). He apparently failed to disclose his interests in a company that BDC transacted with. The merits of the case are yet to be tested in...
01 June 2011
No work no pay principle; implications to the education sector
The Trade Dispute Act Section 41 (3) categorically stipulates that; "Notwithstanding subsection (1), an employer is not obliged to remunerate an employee for services that the employee does not render during the strike or lockout in compliance with...
01 June 2011
As i see it
True or false? False! Where was the rule of law when the BDF Act and many other legal precedents were violated? What we dare not dispute is that Botswana has from time to time produced situational leadership to overcome new challenges and maintain...
Michael Dingake 01 June 2011
Please resolve strike and move forward
In return, they want government to waive the 'no work no pay' clause in the strike agreement and to reinstate the dismissed essential service employees. We take this opportunity to applaud the sign of movement in the negotiations, which seemed dead...
01 June 2011
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01 June 2011
Our heritage
The recent International Museums Day in Shoshong may finally have done the trick in rescuing the place from the obscurity to which it has been consigned since Independence. Shoshong residents may resent the idea that their home town has ever...
Sandy Grant 01 June 2011
No one to meet ministers at tribal capitals
In Ramotswa, the Minister of the Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Kitso Mokaila, was greeted by empty chairs in the offices of Kgosi Mosadi Seboko and her deputy, who had reportedly only learned about the meeting earlier that morning. A similar...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Seametso remains defiant
Seametso, who recently resigned from the BDPYL citing lack of freedom of speech, told striking workers in Kanye that he decided to call it a day because he is a concerned citizen. "I took this decision not to show lack of respect to anyone but as a...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Murder accused must decide on attorney
Kabo Holland, who is accused of the murder of his girlfriend in October 2009, was once represented by Tshekiso Tshekiso who worked for Kgalemang and Associates. The accused person has now been asked to decide whether he wants to find another...
PATRICIA MAGANIU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Mother gets 15 years for murder of baby
In sentencing Atamelang Lesole, High Court Judge Terrence Rannowane told her that as a mother her actions were not only revulsive but also morally repugnant. "You have in cold blood, deliberately and without any compassion smothered to death your own...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Botswana gets anti-tobacco network
Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration and ATN founding patron, Mokgweetsi Masisi said that he was compelled to support the movement by the fact that tobacco and poverty are closely interlinked. He said it is a sad reality that...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Mokaila faces empty Kgotla as Ramotswa snubs him
Addressing a workers' rally in Gaborone later on the same day, South East South legislator Odirile Motlhale said Ramotswa residents and other community leaders were not informed about the meeting until late. "Kwa gatwe Ramotswa, it's no playground....
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Revolution will not topple BDP - Merafhe
At a Kgotla meeting he addressed alongside the Assistant Minister of Local Government Botlhogile Tshireletso on Monday here, Vice President Merafhe urged unionists, politicians and public servants to refrain from their abusive language because it...
DIRANG LEKUNTWANE
Correspondent 01 June 2011
P500m for e-Govt
This is contained in the country's National E-Government Strategy document, revealed yesterday at the opening of a two-day e-government strategy conference in Gaborone. The document states that costs for the year 2011-2012 are expected to run...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Civil servants vow to continue with strike
Etlhomilwe Raditshego applauded Minister Molefhi's approach when he addressed them, showing them respect unlike his Cabinet colleagues. He mentioned that some ministers had used Botswana Television (Btv) to inform the nation that civil servants were...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Land Commission to be set up in Phikwe
FNB Director of Marketing and Communications Bomolemo Selaledi said; "Guided by the Bank's credit policy, an application for a loan is assessed using set qualifying criteria, therefore, every application case is assessed on its merits," Selaledi...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Matambo vows to prove his innocence
At the arraignment hearing in Gaborone, Matambo acknowledged that he understood the charges against him. The second cabinet minister in less than a year to face criminal charges in court, he is scheduled to enter a plea later next month. Matambo,...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Masisi runs for dear life as talks collapse
The unions had indicated that they would accept the three percent offer on condition that dismissed workers were re-instated, the No Work No Pay is waivered and the offer is distributed in a pyramid form. The unions requested for an adjournment until...
EPHRAIM KEORENG & CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writers 01 June 2011
FNB refutes 'loan freeze' for striking workers
FNB Director of Marketing and Communications Bomolemo Selaledi said; "Guided by the Bank's credit policy, an application for a loan is assessed using set qualifying criteria, therefore, every application case is assessed on its merits," Selaledi...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 01 June 2011
Tawana drops bombshell: I quit BDP
The outspoken legislator 'ambushed' a heated meeting addressed by Cabinet ministers Shaw Kgathi (Youth, Sport and Culture), Frank Ramsden (Infrastructure) and Vincent Seretse (Assistant Trade and Industry) to explain government's position on the...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 01 June 2011
Is milk good for you?
For others, it's associated with anaemia, high cholesterol, respiratory problems, and severe stomach pains. Some studies have even linked it to cancer and Parkinson's disease. The milk industry has spent billions of dollars trying to manipulate...
01 June 2011
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