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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...
20 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...
20 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 20 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 20 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...
20 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 20 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...
20 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...
20 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 20 June 2011
BoBA set sights on olympics
Local boxers Bathusi Mogajane of BMC, UB Boxing Club's Oteng Oteng, Tirafalo Seoko of Kgalagadi Sands, Mmoloki Nogeng, Gomotsang Gaasite of BDF, Moabi Mothiba and Tsenang Mohuhuso have already qualified for September's All Africa Games to be held in...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 20 June 2011
Rollers' legends groom youngsters
Stars were founded by former Township Rollers' legendary Mmoni 'States' Segopolo and Mokwadi 'KK' Mokgathi. The two started their developmental side in August last year and hope to turn the 70 youngsters under their tutelage into future Zebras'...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 20 June 2011
BOBA ushers in new committee members
It however turned out that only two positions out of the four that were supposed to be voted for had contenders as two other candidates stood unopposed. Phetogo Tsheko remained in the post of competitions manager unopposed just like Marx Nthusang who...
frederick kebadiretse
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Dark day for Bright as Leopards return to premier league
Bright, who won countless titles in Botswana with Mogoditshane Fighters, from 1999 to 2002, had two opportunities to win the Cape Town side promotion to the elite league in the last four weeks. Just like it happened four years ago, when they were...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Smith wins Kopong cycling event
Smith won the tough 90km race on Saturday finishing ahead of Jabu Tabolane also from GCC. The physically draining race took riders from Kopong Filling Station towards Molepolole main road, then back past Kopong to Lentsweletau before passing through...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Hogs wallop Sharks in Sevens Tourney
Hogs A overcame 14 other teams to become champions in the competition that was contested in a round robin format. The first semi-final game featured Hogs A who beat Cheetahs A in a game that ended 20-7. Sharks A beat EMG Gunners 7-nil in the second...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 20 June 2011
Soul food
With all things back to normal, the strike over, everyone back at work, and the winter surely setting in, the time is now to prevent those common colds and flues. Did you know that an average person gets about 3.5 colds a year? Now that is a lot of...
Boitshepo Giyose 20 June 2011
Impeccable Norman bows out of Mystar
This is a contender who sang his heart out, especially for the older generation as he beautifully did the likes of Luther Vandross, Elton John and most of the celebrated music legends. He represented them well. Trouble began for Norman when...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Rapper, Ted Ozi F Teddy rocks the party
Performances to everyone's delight started early, but it was only because management had suggested that the venue should be closed by 11pm. The first performance was however by Dream Team who delivered three tracks from their latest offering...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 20 June 2011
A night of drama as locals and americans share stage
The students were the cast of, I Might Just Explode, a drama performance piece that, along with eight other theatre and dance pieces, made up Tapestry, a collaborative effort in the theatre and dance disciplines by students from Maru-a-Pula and New...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Gabz youth choirs are champs
The choir, under the leadership of Oarabile Bafitlhile, were crowned the winners on Saturday at the Gaborone West Community Hall, paving themselves a way to the national competitions, which will be held on July 9, 2011. Gaborone Youth Singers, along...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Bifm's airport junction centre takes shape
With 36 000 square metres of lettable space, the shopping centre is already attracting robust interest from the market. Bifm officials said already handovers were being made to tenants who have contracted space in the shopping centre. "Construction...
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Cresta pumps P70m into "African fingerprint"
The investment includes the P40-million Cresta Mahalapye Hotel whose groundbreaking was conducted recently. The 65-bedroom and 200-seater conference facility will be completed in 2012, becoming Mahalapye's biggest accommodation centre. Last week,...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
ICT anchors economic growth - BTA
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA), Thari Pheko, said this when officially launching Orange Money, a mobile phone-based banking service by network provider Orange Botswana at GICC on Thurday night. Pheko...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
The long and winding road to recovery
To be sure, the recovery was not expected to be smooth: historically, cleaning up after a financial crisis of this magnitude takes a long time, especially given high debt burdens, extended joblessness, and damaged banking systems. But risks to the...
*Olivier Blanchard, Jose Vinals, Carlo Cortarelli 20 June 2011
ETCETERA ||
The last two months have presented us with so many of the situations - inverted and the wrong way around - which G K Chesterton loved to describe. His, though, were cleverly contrived fictional stories; ours have been real life experiences with...
Sandy Grant 20 June 2011
The end of green ideology
The managers of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima reactors, have been justly criticised for using an old generation of poorly maintained generators. The Japanese, who perceive themselves as the world's best engineers, now...
*Guy Sorman 20 June 2011
Issues in education
Sometimes duty bearers ignore the interests of children and place their own interests first or think that another officer has responsibility and not them. The Children's Act of Botswana has reduced the gaps that used to exist, making duty...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 20 June 2011
The winners code
When the players gathered for a scrum and started whispering and encouraging one another, the two friends had different reactions about what they assumed was being said by the players. The first suspected that the players were conspiring to beat them...
George Chingarande 20 June 2011
Govt must be sincere
Because it is only suspended, there is a possibility that the strike could resume. Our belief is that peace-loving Batswana do not want retrogression. They do not want the riots that characterised the walkout just before it was suspended. And they...
20 June 2011
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20 June 2011
Where is modimo, the red mite?
Not so long ago, after some days of rain, crude circles and crosses would be found all over the ground, in and out of yards, signs of children's reverence for the mites. The reverence came from their elders' directions that when one finds a...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Neo Matome-harum: arts advocate
Matome adopts a contemporary approach to her work. She explores social issues through different media. Her art addresses the taboos of the society such as sexuality. One piece titled Mosadi Gender Series focuses on gender with emphasis on...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 20 June 2011
BPP Congress set for Nlapkhwane
Speaking in an interview with The Monitor, Peter said that the conference would run from July16-18. The BPP leadership, according to Peter, will dedicate the last day of the conference to capacity building. Concerned about the debilitating...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 20 June 2011
Heavy security for three murder accused
However, only Sebina left the court unchained as he was granted bail. The three had entered the court in style under a heavily armed SSG escort while a police helicopter hovered over the court for the duration of the proceedings that lasted for more...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Kalafatis killers to be sentenced on Wednesday
On Friday, Thabiso Tafila, on behalf of Dzikamani Mothobi, Gotshosamang Sechele, Ronnie Matako and Boitshoko Maifala told the court that the case has a likelihood of distracting other security agents from doing their jobs diligently. Tafila said the...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
We are slaves - interns
There is a new type of slavery in Botswana. The slaves consist of graduates attached to various government departments and some private companies as interns; the slave masters their supervisors. However, officialdom dismisses accusations as the...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Venson bets 16 percent to address students
Venson-Moitoi's visit was unannounced, but students took her presence as an opportunity to demand answers to the current impasse between her ministry and teachers that has affected their education. According to teachers, who did not want to be...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Unrest in schools
KANYE: Several students at Seepapitso Senior Secondary School were injured, while others were admitted to the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hospital after clashing with the police on Friday. The clashes, which happened towards lunchtime, ended with...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Khama's hatred for Modubule frustrates meeting
The President's nemesis, Modubule, was in the delegation, but his colleagues would not drop him as demanded by Khama. The Leader of the Opposition, Botsalo Ntuane, alongside Dumelang Saleshando of the BCP and Isaac Mabiletsa of the BNF, told a...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 20 June 2011
Still no BGCSE results for LobSec's 11
The students will get scholarships, cash prizes, laptops and vouchers. For 11 Lobatse Senior Secondary School students, though, that can only be a dream - even if one or all of them turn out to be the best performers in the country. This is...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 20 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 21 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 21 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...
21 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 21 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...
21 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...
21 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 21 June 2011
The winners code
When the players gathered for a scrum and started whispering and encouraging one another, the two friends had different reactions about what they assumed was being said by the players. The first suspected that the players were conspiring to beat them...
George Chingarande 21 June 2011
Where is modimo, the red mite?
Not so long ago, after some days of rain, crude circles and crosses would be found all over the ground, in and out of yards, signs of children's reverence for the mites. The reverence came from their elders' directions that when one finds a...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
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