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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...
15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 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 15 June 2011
Ceragem -panacea for stiff joints
She knew, from the word go that she had found the panacea for stiff joints, chronic back pains and other health problems afflicting the people of Francistown, and others from afar. For those who have since discovered CERAGEM, they are coming to the...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 15 June 2011
When on-lookers become victims
As the police and the workers were sizing each other up, even the usually busy shoppers stopped their shopping businesses to gawk at the spectacle before them. A number of them, hence were caught in the crossfire as the police using rubber bullets...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Shooting practice with BDF officers
The purpose of our trip was to witness the end of the three weeks peacekeeping exercise conducted by BDF and their French counterparts. Though it was still early, the mood in the bus was very high but yours truly decided to sleep. Being the only...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Schools cricket on course despite strike, says BCA
BCA chief executive officer (CEO) Girish Ramakrishna said in Gaborone yesterday that they have recently incorporated five new schools from Lobatse, bringing the total number of schools on the programme to 123. He said that the programme currently...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Tough job lies ahead for new BAA chiefs
Top of the list of the tasks Kemoen has given the new committee is to investigate the whereabouts of kit items given to the BAA for use during the Africa Junior Championships in Athletics (AJCA) that Botswana hosted last month. Kemoen told the...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Nico retain almost the entire committee
In their annual general meeting held in Selebi-Phikwe on Sunday, members re-elected almost the entire team for the next coming four years. Chairman Robert Wankie, who has also been re-elected, told Mmegi Sport yesterday that out of the committee...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Bright faces final hurdle
United meet Leopards in the first leg of the final today, with the second match set for Saturday in Limpopo. The winner of the two-legged tie will play in the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) next season. Bright's Port Elizabeth outfit...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Boxer Seoko awarded silver medal
This comes after the Sri Lankan boxer, who won gold, was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs. This now means Botswana won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 'Club' Games. Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA)...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 June 2011
I'm no Slizer copycat - Tyte
Instead, Tyte believes she and Slizer have the same 'preferences' possibly because of their musical backgrounds. The new kid on the block unwittingly dances like Slizer in some of her songs and her singing mode is no different from Slizer. She has...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Five up for possible eviction in the Tails House
Karen couldn't believe her ears when her name wasn't part of this week's Nominations, but after Ghana's Alex (the week's Head of House) saved himself, he didn't bat an eyelid and put the Nigerian Tailsmate up for possible eviction. This means that...
STAFF WRITER 15 June 2011
Belle set to revolutionise Bots Showbiz
Many countries have professionalised show business to a point that all levels of talents from modelling, musicians, actors, personalities, etc, are required to have agents, to curb irregularities and malpractices like artists being ripped...
STAFF WRITER 15 June 2011
Gender-based violence in spotlight again
The horrific assault was only a few days before the Department of Justice's meeting with gay and lesbian organisations to find a solution to the scourge of attacks on lesbians. Nkosana, 23, was getting out of a car on Friday night,...
15 June 2011
Mugabe 'fumes' as Zuma report adopted
Britain's The Telegraph reported on its website that the two leaders were involved in "a bad-tempered exchange" at the two-day Southern African Development Community summit. According to the newspaper, Zuma "rejected Mugabe's attempts to...
15 June 2011
Today's workspace
One of the amendments relates to entitlement to severance benefit on termination of the contract of employment. Due to popular request, I will briefly touch on the amendment itself, as well as clarify some aspects which relate to entitlement to...
Joseph Msango 15 June 2011
Trade deficit hits P2.6bn in first quarter
While Statistics Botswana figures indicate that the March 2011 deficit narrowed to P174.1 million - among the lowest in 12 months - a record P2.26 billion shortfall for February pushed the quarterly performance down. For the quarter, the economy...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Bokamoso finances recovering - AFA
The Managing Director of Associated Fund Administrators (AFA), Rose Tatedi, told journalists at a press conference in Gaborone yesterday that the hospital has been able to meet all its costs - including paying employee salaries - without seeking...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
The struggle betrayed - Part 1
They were yielding batons and holding tear-gas guns. They positioned their water cannons and armoured vehicles. The Botswana Police Service helicopter hovered above. The police proceeded to read the riot act, a presidential proclamation declaring...
15 June 2011
our heritage
In Mochudi - and in Mochudi alone, I believe - the 1965 election prompted a protest which has to be the first in the Independence era. It was, as can be seen, not much of a protest - just seven women, with their party flag, making their point. But it...
Sandy Grant 15 June 2011
A most commendable spirit by the Police Service
Indeed it is the wish of every citizen that the strike should end, and we hope that the union representatives and those representing government and currently negotiating will reach a win-win agreement. Now when all has been said and done, it is...
15 June 2011
Selefu 15 June 2011
15 June 2011
30 arrested were not detained, says police
The mass arrests took place at the Gaborone City Council offices in a random swoop as the police officers, in riot gear and guns, had just dispersed striking workers from the Gaborone Secondary School. They surrounded people outside the city council...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
New institutions needed in water sector reform
He was addressing participants at the recent water pitso in Selebi-Phikwe. Thabeng said a budget for both recurrent and development that was committed for NDP 10 for Department of Water Affairs and district councils should be made available to...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Ruling in murder case reserved
Rannowane reserved ruling to a date yet to be set as he had to look at the admitted evidence. The case before court is that the accused person Mkhulule Moyo killed Nhlalo Ncube on August, 2008 in Tati Siding. The murder trial proved to be...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Shortage of drugs continues to bite
The hospital Chief Medical Officer, Dr Joseph Sharma said despite receiving funds from the Ministry of Health to purchase drugs locally, the local pharmacies are still unable to meet the demand needed by the hospital. Dr Sharma was addressing...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Shortage of drugs continues to bite
The hospital Chief Medical Officer, Dr Joseph Sharma said despite receiving funds from the Ministry of Health to purchase drugs locally, the local pharmacies are still unable to meet the demand needed by the hospital. Dr Sharma was addressing...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Botswana-Havard HIV lab awarded SANAS accreditation
The laboratory got the recognition after showing improvement in effective diagnosis and management of diseases as well as accurate, reliable and timely lab results, among others. The Havard laboratory was formed through partnership between the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 June 2011
Nchindo/Matome appeal continues
State prosecutor Matlhogonolo Phuthego said during the on going criminal appeal by Joseph Matome and Garvas Nchindo that it is in their evidence that a proposal was put forward to Debswana Board and that the company was to inject about P600 million...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Botswana Police introspect
The Commissioner of Police Thebeyame Tsimako said yesterday that they have gathered to review their work and plan the way forward for better service delivery to the community. "We shall use this conference to interrogate our strategic...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Basarwa borehole dries up
A team of experts from Vox International went into the reserve to re-commission the borehole during the Easter Holiday but found that it has dried up, said one of the lawyers Seranne Junner, representing two Basarwa Matsipane Mosetlhanyane and...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
BOSETU accused of 'poaching' from BTU during strike
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview yesterday, the publicity secretary of BTU, Tidimalo Maeletso, said they received information that as people gathered at different venues across the country during the eight-week strike, BOSETU activists set about...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Queen Elizabeth's daughter to visit
The visit is intended to reinforce the friendship and good cooperation between the governments of Botswana and the United Kingdom. The visit will be the Princess Royal's third official visit to Botswana, having previously visited in 1999 and...
15 June 2011
Local pilots feel sabotaged
Speaking at an induction for interns organised by the Department of National Internship Programme in Gaborone yesterday, a pilot (name withheld) on internship with a local company, complained that he spends his working time "supervising drivers and...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 15 June 2011
Dikgosi attend workshop on gender violence
Kgosi Moeti Moeti II and Kgosi Tsaxlae Martha Xao are attending the workshop, in New Castle, following an invitation extended to the Ntlo Ya Dikgosi by the Women's Affairs department in the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs. The workshop started...
STAFF WRITER 15 June 2011
Ngwao Putswa vows to win Presidential arts contest
The competitions, spearheaded by the Youth Department, under President Ian Khama's tenure, are to be held in Gaborone next week after the regional competitions to determine the best performers countrywide. Nkhurutshe has matured into a poet of great...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 15 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...
16 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 16 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 16 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 16 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 16 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 16 June 2011
Ceragem -panacea for stiff joints
She knew, from the word go that she had found the panacea for stiff joints, chronic back pains and other health problems afflicting the people of Francistown, and others from afar. For those who have since discovered CERAGEM, they are coming to the...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 16 June 2011
When on-lookers become victims
As the police and the workers were sizing each other up, even the usually busy shoppers stopped their shopping businesses to gawk at the spectacle before them. A number of them, hence were caught in the crossfire as the police using rubber bullets...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 16 June 2011
Shooting practice with BDF officers
The purpose of our trip was to witness the end of the three weeks peacekeeping exercise conducted by BDF and their French counterparts. Though it was still early, the mood in the bus was very high but yours truly decided to sleep. Being the only...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 16 June 2011
our heritage
In Mochudi - and in Mochudi alone, I believe - the 1965 election prompted a protest which has to be the first in the Independence era. It was, as can be seen, not much of a protest - just seven women, with their party flag, making their point. But it...
Sandy Grant 16 June 2011
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