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The US uses peace talks to divide the Taliban from Pakistan
Senior administration officials hope to use the talks to sow suspicion between the Taliban and their main ally, thus weakening the Taliban resolve to negotiate on a peace settlement only if the United States offers a timetable for troop withdrawal....
GARETH PORTER 10 June 2011
The city: Gaborone
African cities can be discouraging. Many are surrounded by skirts of shantytowns or informal suburbs, as they are charitably described. A visitor to Cape Town in South Africa, for example, must drive through miles of lean-to dwellings before...
10 June 2011
Our heritage
Nowhere, however, have I seen any mention of the fact that General Warren's announcement to the three key dikgotla, Kanye, Molepolole and Shoshong - that they were now part of a British declared Protectorate - marked the beginnings of the new State...
Sandy Grant 10 June 2011
First cut
Up until Stanley Tshosane helped the national team, the Zebras to qualify for AFCON 2012, he had lived in the shadow of David Bright despite his success with BDF XI. Bright who currently is coach of South Africa's Bay United in the Coastal First...
Dennis Keagile 10 June 2011
Panthers-Relics clash in crucial match at UB
The tactician said yesterday that the game is critical as the two sides are separated in the standings only by goal difference. Both have three points after a win and a lose with Panthers ahead in fourth place on goal difference. Panthers have...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Phikwe wins national bowls crown
After the national championships, Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, John Gaborutwe said that Geogie Mckechnie and Ray Mascarenhas will represent the country at in the singles at the World Champion of Champions in Cyprus next...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
GNT sinks Hotspurs
GNT re-affirmed its dominance over the Mahalapye side with a 1-0 victory secured in the dying minutes to book a date with Mochudi Buffaloes in the play-off for the last slot in the Premier League. The game started late because of clashing kit...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Sevens' coach keen to set up good second-string rugby side
Ramakele was speaking ahead of the Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) National Sevens Club Tournament to be held in Francistown tomorrow (Saturday). Speaking to Mmegi Sport, Ramakele said in Gaborone yesterday that in the past, players representing the...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Black Peril celebrates relegation
"We don't consider it to be a downfall. It is a success," says Black Peril team manager, Moganetsi Odirile."We feel it was a success as we have learnt a lot about the Premier League," he adds. He says their players have acquired invaluable experience...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Victory Seekers have tough time in volleyball league
The team that joined the league at the beginning of the season and are still having a tough time as the league reaches the end of the first round. It consists of mostly young and inexperienced players. The team was formed few years ago before it...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Stan is the best man for the job
Tshosane critics mainly based their argument on the fact that his club, BDF XI, had to survive relegation playoffs in the season he was appointed national team coach. "How can he be appointed national team coach when he almost saw BDF XI relegated?...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Nthobelang to stay at Prisons
They argue that when the season started the aim was promotion to the be MOBILE Premier League "not position four" and that they believed that the experienced Nthobelang would lead them to the elite league.However, Prisons management seem contented...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Burundian custodian disputes reasons for sacking
"I am not one to bottle up when something is not being done properly and that put me on the wrong side with some people in the team. There are two people who have not hidden that they did not want me in the team and although I am disappointed at the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Nico express interest in re-hiring Masitara
The Zimbabwean striker is a free agent after his contract at Mozambican side Liga Moculmana and loan deal at Miscellaneous expired. "We haven't met him to discuss his contract with the two clubs. He is now free and it is in the pipeline but at this...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Mogorosi denies he wants to return to Rollers
I have no intention to go back to Rollers because I am happy at Chiefs," he said. He added that the club had honoured all the promises they made when he joined them. Reports say that though Mogorosi wants to go back to Rollers, the club is not keen...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Nico probes match- fixing reports
Assistant manager, Masego Ntsatsi told Mmegi Sport that they are worried about the allegations, which could seriously dent the club's reputation. "As far as we are concerned, it is illegal to receive a bribe and we would do our best to investigate...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Madinda Ndlovu linked with Chiefs
Gumbo joined FC Platinum of Zimbabwean last week, leaving the Chiefs' hot seat vacant. Sources within the club have revealed that Ndlovu is interested in the Chiefs' job and has been in touch with club officials this week. "He actually contacted...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Africa demands more help at UN AIDS summit
Thirty presidents and heads of government were at the summit marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, which will set a target figure for the numbers who will receive retroviral treatment in the coming years. More than six million...
10 June 2011
Malema says no fight with Zuma
"These people going around saying that we don't want President Zuma... they are using President Zuma against us," he told journalists at Luthuli House in Johannesburg. "They want to create a fight between us and President Zuma. So what is this...
10 June 2011
Gaddafi ordered sex drugs for Libya rapes: prosecutor
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Wednesday he may ask for a new charge of mass rape to be made against Gaddafi following the new evidence. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is expecting a decision from judges within days on his...
10 June 2011
Radebe doesn't know how Ratels got to Libya
Radebe was responding to a question from Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier, who has circulated a Reuters photograph taken this week, showing Yemeni soldiers, who had defected to opposition forces battling the regime, sitting on a Ratel in...
10 June 2011
African leaders to hold new summit on Zim
Leaders in the 15-country Southern African Development Community (SADC) are to meet in Johannesburg on Saturday, the South African foreign ministry said on Thursday. SADC's security organ in March lashed out at President Robert Mugabe's failure...
10 June 2011
Project Syndicate
Recoveries are rarely without blips, especially when they are as weak as this one. But, regardless of whether the factors behind the latest slowdown are fleeting or enduring, there will be calls on the US Federal Reserve to do something. Some...
Raghuram Rajan 10 June 2011
Project Syndicate
BERKELEY: The dollar has had its ups and downs, but the downs have clearly dominated of late. The greenback has lost more than a quarter of its value against other currencies, adjusted for inflation, over the last decade. It is down by nearly 5...
Barry Eichengreen 10 June 2011
Project Syndicate
WASHINGTON, DC: At a time when the global economy is suffering from a crisis of confidence, structural imbalances, and subdued growth prospects, looking ahead 10 years to predict the course of development requires careful modelling and something...
Justin Yifu Lin 10 June 2011
Whither Botswana
I'm not a blind supporter of either President Ian Khama or his government. My attitude towards them depends on what they do or say rather than on any preconceived ideas about them. I've therefore criticised them when necessary, and commended them on...
Dan Moabi 10 June 2011
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10 June 2011
BONELA whips up support for Saleshando motion
The crusade comes after recognising that the country's Constitution neither contains nor guarantees second generation rights with financial implications such as the rights to health, the right to work and the right to education. Dubbed 'From...
KATLEGO SIBANDA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Mowana tree causes havoc in Ext 27
The cause? An itinerant and intractable baobab tree that has given Ramotopi sleepless nights, not to mention gnawing anxiety as he tries to figure out a lasting solution to the problem. "Do you see how thin I am?" he asks the Mmegi team...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Libyan mobile phone chiefs sticking to their guns despite the odds
The Libyan shareholding has had to be frozen in line with the resolutions of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on the Libyan situation. Still, the firm, which has said that the share freeze would not affect its operations, appears to be...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Banda's MMD in bid to 'gag' radical Catholics?
National secretary of the governing party, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) Major Richard Kachingwe has indicated that the party has already written to the Church to initiate the meeting and emphasized that the MMD will always use...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Issues for BMWU special council tomorrow
The council meeting, which will bring together delegates from across the BMWU branches, comes at a time when lobbying for union positions has reached an all time high. Importantly, the weekend meeting will attempt to bring to rest some of the issues...
10 June 2011
Book review
The long-awaited Death of the Mantis by the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip published under the name "Michael Stanley" is out. It has been included by Exclusive Books in their latest Hombru collection. It is the third...
Sheridan Griswold 10 June 2011
Back stage
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) a.k.a Pirates-4 is now showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It was made for P700 million less than Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). Pirates-4 has a new director, Rob Marshall,...
Sasa Majuma 10 June 2011
First research at Koanaka Hills yields 43 mammal species
The research findings by researchers Adam Ferguson, Molly McDonough, Monte Thies, Patrick Lewis and Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe in 2008 and 2009, appear in the latest journal of the Botswana Society, Vol 42, 2010, which was launched in Gaborone last...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Never too late for Motonto, Motsumi and Balathi
By their own admission, the trio did not do much in their youth to keep the tradition of pottery alive in their home village, but that does not deter them from doing something even in the twilight of their lives. "When I was still a child, I used to...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
consumer Watchdog
I'm on holiday as I write this. Away from home for a few days, enjoying the silence of the bush, enhanced only by the sound of children playing and the occasional cork being removed from a bottle of wine. But not everyone has such a positive...
10 June 2011
Aussie firm finds more coal at Moiyabana
The company, which hopes to build a open cast mine soon, has completed the technical review and reviewed the quantity and quality of the previously estimated coal exploration target and its mining potential. "Total in situ coal resource...
STAFF WRITER 10 June 2011
EU satisfied with Botswana's progress-de Graaf
Botswana was de-listed as a beef exporter to the EU in March on compliance issues, with the country's farmers and authorities given six months to address concerns and apply for re-listing. The EU consumes most of Botswana's beef exports, which...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Fraudsters hit BSE investor and brokerage
A Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) shareholder recently lost nearly P500,000 after fraudsters duped his brokerage firm into selling his shares and depositing the proceeds into a bogus account, BusinessWeek has learnt. This week, police sources...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff writer 10 June 2011
Strike to undermine GDP forecast - economist
Botswana, which has usually run a budget surplus, has been posting deficits in the past three years and was hoping to balance its books again by next year. In an analysis report, Standard Chartered Bank economist, Razia Khan, says the strike - which...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 10 June 2011
The 'politicising' of workers' struggle
I would like to think it is from a right thinking member of civil society who cares not whose political career ends but more about whether the great traditions of this great Republic endure and the citizens of this great Republic are well provided...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 10 June 2011
When the strike turns violent
These are the words of 37-year-old Khumoetsile Mabalane as she relates to Mmegi her terrifying experience of the riot on Tuesday as security agents clashed with striking government workers. She says ever since she was born, she has never witnessed...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
What this strike is about and what govt should be doing
Politics is about one thing: politicians come up and say entrust us with all your monies; we will collect rents, taxes and other revenues on your behalf and distribute them appropriately. When the people vote a government in to power, they are...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 10 June 2011
Makgadikgadi locals in poverty cycle
Makgadikgadi encompasses villages and settlements like Zoronga, Nata, Rakops, Gweta, Mopipi, Mmatshumo, Xhumaga and Mosu. A study by the Department of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism has revealed that households...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Construction conference for government projects
Themed "Building Botswana, the conference will serve as the venue for the kick-off of this initiative by the Department of Building and Engineering Services, to ease the participation of small and medium contractors in government projects, Nic Van...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Spate of abortions hits S/Phikwe
The Commander of Selebi-Phikwe Police Station, Superintendent Victor Nlebesi, says a foetus was found in a culvert at the bus rank while another was recovered from a pit latrine at New Stands on Saturday morning. In addition, a passerby found a...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 June 2011
Villagers lose trust in state media
State media is the major and in some villages, the sole source of information. The villagers rely heavily on Radio Botswana, Daily News and Botswana Television (Btv) for news but now they are not happy with what has become of their once...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Police foil students 'strike' attempt
Mmegi received a tip-off that students at a Ledumang Senior Secondary School had unceremoniously left school early yesterday. At 12.05pm, the Mmegi team met scores of Ledumang Senior Secondary students walking in groups towards the BBS mall,...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 June 2011
Court confused as defence counsel weeps
This followed several misunderstandings with Francistown High Court judge Moses Chinhengo on Wednesday.Sekga was representing Gofaone Magwaneng (28) of Maunatlala Village who attempted to kill her newly born baby by throwing it into a pit latrine...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
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