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First cut
It is almost 10 years now since Ashford Mamelodi, the first chief executive officer (CEO) of the Botswana Football Association (BFA) retired from the local game to pursue an international career with the world football governing body, FIFA. By then...
Dennis Keagile 17 June 2011
Spartans humble BDF V in basketball encounter
After the encounter, the military men failed to swallow their pride and refused to shake hands with the youngsters - as is norm after each game - hurriedly leaving the courts in shame. BDF V's reaction to the results was however not surprising as...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Seoko won't throw in towel yet
Seoko had a controversial downfall last year after a marvellous performance in New Delhi, India bringing back home a bronze medal. His performance, however, deteriorated soon after that when he started loosing local competitions he was expected to...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Walker to represent Botswana in WSF Challenge
The prestigious championship kicks off with pools on September 6-8 while the semis and finals have been pencilled for September 9-10. This year's event features eight men and eight women competing initially in two pools of four, followed by semi...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Kwapa aims for top finish in Toyota 1000km race
Kwapa is among a handful of local riders aiming to hoist the Botswana flag in the wheelers category, when one of the most popular sporting events in the country celebrates its 30 years. The determined rider had a good debut in the race when he...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
'United we stand' is new BAA chief's motto
Mooketsi took over the hot seat after beating former president Moses Bantsi, Zambia Champi and Seitshiro Matlala in last weekend's elections. He said though a lot of events are centred in Gaborone staying in Maun will not stand in his way of running...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 June 2011
BoBA to host Zim, Mauritius boxers
This is because BoBA wants the national team to engage the visiting boxers in sparring sessions ahead of the September bouts. BoBA president Michael Moroka confirmed the development, adding that South Africa were also keen on coming to camp in the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Motlakase to take appeal to General Assembly
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Disciplinary Committee (DC) on Tuesday ruled that their appeal against demotion failed. However, the club has vowed to seek 'justice'. Motlakase chairman Mangisi Segadimo revealed yesterday that they were...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
BRU to launch its Re Ba Bona Ha program at Phikwe
The programme, which is an initiative of the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC), will be used to unearth rugby talent throughout the country. The programme was first adopted by football but other sporting codes have since followed suit. BRU...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Bay United in bid to buy keeper Marumo
Marumo has been with the club since last August and has made a major contribution to the club. The Port Elizabeth club hopes to enter into serious negotiations with BDF XI in the next few weeks to make permanent the transfer of Marumo. "My...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Tshosane calls up rookies
The team goes into camp on Sunday without any of the players who featured in the ongoing 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying campaign. Tshosane intends to give the youngsters a run in the near future and will assess them up to next...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
South Africa warns of UN fallout from Libya strikes
Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane gave a thinly veiled warning to the 15-member council that the air strikes in Libya were harming efforts to agree to a resolution on Syria's crackdown on protests. South Africa and the African Union demanded...
17 June 2011
Michelle Obama to honour Nelson Mandela
For her second solo international trip, the first lady has scheduled stops in South Africa and Botswana, two growing democracies, where she will continue her work encouraging young people to get involved in national affairs. She will...
17 June 2011
Nitty Gritty
The waitresses at the Nitty Gritty are adamant that their strike or go slow is very legitimate. Not only is it legitimate they also feel that Ausi Maggie had long promised them that she would look into the whole question ya gore they work until very...
Barolong Seboni 17 June 2011
BNF's five-in five-for five fundraiser
This project will include having proper offices and a state of the art information and Communication Technology infrastructure. The party's long held dream of developing its headquarters, Kopano House, has become more desperately urgent than...
17 June 2011
Jehovah's Witnesses hold a Special Assembly
Frequent natural disasters, on-going political unrest, widespread financial trouble and increasing lawlessness among other things have caused Global instability which has placed enormous pressure on millions of people who are in dire need of...
17 June 2011
Project syndicate
MILAN - The global economy's most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces. The post-crisis period has produced a multi-speed world, as the major advanced economies - with the notable...
Michael Spence 17 June 2011
Whither Botswana
The recently suspended eight-week public sector strike was an important experience for both the unions and the government. It affected the various parties in different ways from which all need to take the necessary lessons. One clear lesson from the...
Dan Moabi 17 June 2011
Etv move: Spare a thought for the poor
The effect of such an action could result in millions of households watching little or not watching television at all. Many households in Botswana are dependent on the cheaper free-to-air decoders like Philibao and others. It is from these decoders...
17 June 2011
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17 June 2011
Lover died after fight over cellphone
During his evidence-in-chief, Ishmael Bapasi told the court that things had been going well with his girlfriend of seven-years until last year when a third party came into their lives. He said their relationship was built on trust such that they had...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Project syndicate
But now America's debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors. And, obviously, the outcome has implications that go well beyond the US. As part of America's system of checks...
Mohammed a.el-Erian 17 June 2011
June 16 and Botswana
The unprecedented covert action of the SADF followed the killing in custody of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, in 1977. Majority rule was achieved in Zimbabwe in 1980 against the backdrop of an increasingly costly ant- guerrilla war in...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 17 June 2011
GSS grounds a symbol of unity
One, two, three passers-by walk across the grounds, solitary across the vast red dust. It is business as usual once again at the Gaborone Secondary School sports and recreational grounds. One would be hard-pressed, looking at the grounds...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
Mascom launches new banking product
This comes barely a week after Mascom's rival and biggest competitor Orange Botswana introduced a similar product that is due to be officially launched tonight. Mascom has partnered with Barclays Bank Botswana for provision of the service while...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
Consumer watchdog
My dictionary says that a liar is someone who tells an intentionally false statement. It's not a lie if you're mistaken, ignorant or confused. It's a lie when you know for sure that what you're saying is false. You need to understand someone's...
17 June 2011
May inflation rises marginally
The marginal increase was largely influenced by the increase in the retail pump price of fuel in May, while a reduction of cellphone tariffs in the same month balanced off the effects. Figures released by Statistics Botswana show that three group...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 17 June 2011
Trans Kalahari Rail project reaches key crossroads
Originally, the two governments had hoped to finalise a shortlist of bidders by November last year, with spadework beginning in June towards the 1,500-kilometre milestone project. However, BusinessWeek this week learnt that Gaborone and Windhoek...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
BoB leaves bank rate unchanged
The Central Bank, which adopted a neutral monetary policy last year, last raised the bank rate in 2009 as it seeks to boost the recovering economy through a low interest rate regime. "Maintaining the prevailing level of interest rates is consistent...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 17 June 2011
Letlole La Rona shares heavily undersubscribed
From the 280 million linked units available at the Initial Public Offer (IPO), BDC intended to take up only 84 million shares (30 percent) through a private placement and dispose of 196 million shares (70 percent) of the property company to both...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 17 June 2011
Letshego considers banking operations
Letshego's long-running operational dilemma is that a good portion of its funding is sourced from banks whom it also competes with in the market. Over the years, this put a squeeze on Letshego's margins, resulting in the group seeking to diversify...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
Book review
Rebecca Skloot (2011) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. London, Pan Books, Macmillan, Softcover edition, 431 pages, 27 colour plates, acknowledgments, notes and index, P107. ISBN 978-0330-53344-7. Available at Exclusive Books. Rebecca...
Sheridan Griswold 17 June 2011
Back Stage
The films based on the old Marvel comics serial are now 11 years old. The last one here was X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) (Mmegi, 8 May 2009). First Class goes even further back and thus is a prequel about the assembling of the mutants, their...
Sasa Majuma 17 June 2011
Sir Terry Pratchett unswayed by assisted suicide film
In Choosing to Die, the 63-year-old author - who has Alzheimer's disease - went to Switzerland to see a British man with motor neurone disease dying. Liz Carr, a disability campaigner, said it was pro-suicide propaganda and that she was surprised...
17 June 2011
Molosi hosts theatre workshop in Dar es Salaam
Yes, there is no stopping this Botswana-born actor, Donald Molosi. He ended last year on a high note when he became the first Motswana ever to perform on Broadway. In a rare feat, Molosi added to his list of accomplishments three off-Broadway...
STAFF WRITER 17 June 2011
Malema affirms support for President Zuma
Speaking at the opening of the Youth League's elective conference, where he is set to sail into a second term as president of the most powerful bloc within the ANC, Malema accused the media of fabricating a rift between him and Zuma. "Sitting here...
17 June 2011
Jolie free to meet Syrian refugees
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Selcuk Unal, said the actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees could arrive in Turkey today but the date remained uncertain. Earlier, the Anatolia news agency said Jolie was...
17 June 2011
FMD mitigation
The Assistant Minister of Agriculture Oreeditse Molebatsi has said that this will be done urgently to prevent disease recurrence once and for all. Addressing the community from villages in the zone 7 in Mmadinare yesterday Molebatsi said ranches are...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
On Evil
TIRO SEBINA (2010)Author: Terry EagletonPublisher: Yale University PressPlace of Publication: New Haven and London ISBN: 978-0-300-17125-9 Using sources from theology, philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, the book administers a clever check-up...
17 June 2011
Wal-Mart and the Game in Botswana
This gives the global wholesale and retail giant a foothold in Africa from which it will almost certainly expand. As throughout much of Southern Africa Massmart is better known as Game and therefore by extension a decision made in Pretoria,...
*PROFESSOR ROMAN GRYNBERG 17 June 2011
Malema speaks at ANCYL Congress
We welcome all delegates and guests to the 24th National Congress of the African National Congress Youth League. We welcome the ANC Youth League back in Johannesburg, because it was here in Johannesburg, 67 years ago that the ANC Youth League...
17 June 2011
Botswana Railways mall to open October
The managing director of Botswana Railways Properties, David Tsheboeng said that the new mall to be known as Rail Park, is expected to be opened in October, and will be located beside Gaborone station. "We are left with four months to complete and...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 June 2011
How the police jeered and taunted
It was an ordinary striking day for the strikers. They did not expect the show of might that was to be displayed by the police. In the morning, they sat under the Morula tree as had become their wont since the strike started. They were waiting...
17 June 2011
Govt negotiated in bad faith says UB lecturer
Speaking in an interview, Molaodi, who is a lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, pointed out that the manner which government dealt with the workers leaves much to be desired. Molaodi said while government had...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 June 2011
BOPRITA, BOPRITU ruling expected today
BOPRITA lodged a case againt BOPRITU after the latter transformed their First National Bank account into their own name. According to BOPRITA, officials of BOPRITU have been withdrawing large sums of money from the account and some of the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Reminiscing with Dr Chiepe on the history of education in Botswana....
Mmegi: What are your thoughts on the history of education in Botswana? Who came up with the project, and as you reflect on its past, where would you say it all began? Chiepe: Botswana's education system has evolved, rather than was produced, by one...
DR LILLIAN MOKGOSI
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Rapture predictor receives no sympathy after stroke
Radio host Harold Camping is said to have suffered a stroke last Thursday and is in hospital where the doctors are now monitoring him. When the world did not end on May 21 as he had predicted Camping changed the end date to October...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
Lawyers argue over declaration
Plaintiff's attorney Isaac Seleka of Isaac Attorneys said that the case would have gone to trial if it were not for the fact that the defence decided to file their papers a month late. Seleka applied to the court for default judgement, stating that...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
Magang angry with visa delays
Though the move is aimed at rationalisation of operations, Magang says it is slowing the country's economic growth down. Magang was speaking at Tourism Pitso 2011 that was held at GICC, where other participants also bemoaned the sluggish service...
KATLEGO SIBANDA
Correspondent 17 June 2011
Botswana invests P6 million in indigenous knowledge
Briefing the media on Wednesday in Gaborone, Director of the Department of Research, Science and Technology, Lesego Motoma said the research would enable policy and a legislative framework for preserving indigenous knowledge. Matoma said together...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 17 June 2011
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