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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
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 21 June 2011
Volleyball teams unhappy with league fixtures
Coaches complained to Mmegi Sport this week that the fixtures were done in a way that disadvantages some teams. BDF VI Men's coach Selebatso Mabutho said it looks like there is no clear guideline that the league committee follows when drawing...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Netball coach happy with display in Malawi
Botswana three games, losing two against the Malawi national team and winning one against Tigress, one of the strongest netball clubs in Malawi. Botswana left for Malawi this past Friday and played their first game on Saturday against...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Motlakase ordered to pay ex-players
The two took their former employer to the Industrial Court in Selebi-Phikwe citing unfair dismissal while their contracts with the club were still running. They dragged the club to the Department of Labour after being sacked at the end of the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Tshidi the budding Afro-pop star
Tshidi, as she prefers to be called in music, is a budding Afro-pop star whose self-titled album is sure to help her carve a niche in this tough industry. She might not boast one of the best voices but she has enough talent to earn scores of...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Music industry is besieged - Alfredo Mos
The man has revealed in an interview that he will not release a new album unless the rough storms the music industry is sailing through have been resolved. The last time he released an album was last year and he says it was just by a stroke of good...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Beauty queens brace for Miss Botswana Top 10 finale
Sebaga Norwebb, Brenda Scotch, Nthabiseng Disele, Tapiwa Preston, Keletso Tselayakgosi, Karabo Sampson, Matildah Pelaelo, Edith Bosman, Bonolo Rangwanamong and Gaone Phuthego have outdid thousands other girls who auditioned for the pageant and they...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
President Bashar al-Assad keeps to hardline
In his third address to the nation since protests began, he said Syria should deal with people's demands for reform but that a "small faction" was exploiting popular grievances. He said a national dialogue would shape Syria's future and urged people...
21 June 2011
Student walkouts may coincide with strikes
Public sector strikes have followed student protests against higher tuition fees and the scrapping of allowances. Thousands of school and college students are expected to stage walkouts this month as part of a growing wave of occupations and...
21 June 2011
NATO suggests 'weapons systems failure' in Tripoli raid
The alliance said the intended target was a missile site, but "it appears that one weapon" did not hit it.The Libyan government earlier said NATO had bombed a residential area, killing nine civilians, including two babies. Meanwhile, rebel leaders...
21 June 2011
Ben Ali trial in absentia begins
Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14 following a popular uprising.He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on various charges, including corruption and drug trafficking. His lawyers said the trial was an attempt by Tunisia's interim...
21 June 2011
PPADB distances itself from project delays
Speaking at a media briefing last Friday, PPADB's executive director of works Mosimolodi Lefhoko said the statute (of 2001) establishing the board hindered it from overseeing contractors they awarded tenders to."The act does not allow us to...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
Central bank wary of "asset price bubble"
The Deputy Director of General Economics and Statistics, Matthew Wright, told Business Today that the central bank was looking for "systematic" information on housing prices, the most relevant area of study for Botswana in terms of asset price...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
New Human Resource body to start June 2012
A member of the advisory council of HRDC, Spencer Moreri, says the merger should be completed by June next year. "At the moment legal documents and many other things are still being processed," Moreri says. "It takes quite a lot of consultation for...
PATRICIA MAGANU-EDWIN
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
As I see it
Democracy is too precious to entrust to any government, including one that boasts to be guided by a roadmap of Five-Ds: Democracy, Development, Dignity, Discipline and Delivery. Democracy to be democracy, must have as one of its anchors,...
Michael Dingake 21 June 2011
Education as Essential Service heralds worst to come
The minister will point to recent disruption to education arising from the eight-week long public officers' strike as the excuse for this ill-conceived piece of legislation. Suffice to say, the strike itself was a creation of government's failure to...
21 June 2011
Selefu 21 June 2011
21 June 2011
Murder convict faces the music alone
Information before court is that Boitshepo Dingongorego and the now deceased Gorogang Tshotlego murdered Nkululeko Chinga at Kazungula in 2006.Dingongorego was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The two accused are said to have attacked Chinga...
21 June 2011
BOPRITA, BOPRITU case not final
Justice Isaac Lesetedi will hear the matter again when lawyers for both parties make submissions on June 28. On Friday the two lawyers, Duma Boko for BOPRITA and Batsho Nthoi who is representing BOPRITU, briefed the judge in his chambers about a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 June 2011
DPSM threatens teachers over backlog
Bakwena told Mmegi yesterday that teachers must do the work they are required to do, otherwise they will face severe action. She urged supervisors in schools to take action against teachers who do not do their work or choose to skip topics. She...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
Are Batswana racists?
Ironically, for the duration of the public servants' strike during the speeches, dance and song, Khama was the object of racist taunts from the strikers and newspaper columnists. This is also ironic because in a patriarchal society, which Botswana...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Motorists targeted by remote control criminals
'Aag...I will finish that report tomorrow morning,' you think. You get to work the following morning to find that the laptop is nowhere to be found. You wonder where you could have left it. One thing is for certain though. You are sure you packed it...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
Four boreholes for CKGR Basarwa
The company said in a statement last week that it will drill four boreholes in the CKGR in partnership with an Non-governmental Organisation, VOX United. "Gem Diamonds Limited is pleased to announce that it has successfully established a partnership...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
Gaborone deputy mayor in shocking racist rant
The deputy mayor was responding to a presentation to the council by mapping and surveying director Bareng Malatsi. The director was accompanied by an official from the Swedish land authority, Ake Sinnstrom. In his response to the presentation,...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 June 2011
Date rape on the rise in G-West - police
The couple end up sleeping at one of the parties' places and the woman reports that she was raped the following day. Bareki says such cases are difficult for the police to deal with and they do not know how to advise women regarding such...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Judge excoriates prosecutors for shoddy preparation
"I warn the state that in all cases they should be ready with the necessary information," said Justice Chinhengo. He said this during a murder trial which was scheduled for two days last week, ending at 6.45pm on the second day after convicting and...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 21 June 2011
Police volunteer programme expands
Police spokesperson, Christopher Mbulawa informed the media last week that they have realised the importance of the volunteer programme in the fight against crime. Therefore, they have decided to raise the maximum qualifying age to expand the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 21 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 22 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 22 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...
22 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 22 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...
22 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...
22 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 22 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 22 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 22 June 2011
As I see it
Democracy is too precious to entrust to any government, including one that boasts to be guided by a roadmap of Five-Ds: Democracy, Development, Dignity, Discipline and Delivery. Democracy to be democracy, must have as one of its anchors,...
Michael Dingake 22 June 2011
Sladden, Tiptoe challenge Sankuyo promotion
The two contend that Sankuyo's promotion was unprocedural and unconstitutional because the team took part in the promotional play-offs before finishing their league games, contrary to the constitution. The two clubs launched their case before the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 22 June 2011
Rugby gets Re Ba Bona Ha programme
So far only football, volleyball, softball and athletics have been running the programme. At the Selebi-Phikwe launch, Debswana corporate social investment manager, Barulaganye Mogotsi said 3,100 youngsters between age five and 17 and 200 coaches...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 22 June 2011
Chiefs faced with player exodus
The contracts of key players like Moloi, Moemedi 'Jomo' Maotlhaping, Tshepo Motlhabankwe, Oteng Moalosi, Jabu Pilane and goalkeeper Noah Maposa have expired with indications that they are looking for greener pastures after the club's failure to...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 22 June 2011
Six players to share Coke Cup prize money
Coca-Cola Cup organising committee chairman, Gaolatlhe Kelesitse told Mmegi Sport that they would have tried a different formula to choose the top striker if one of the six players scored in the final. "We would have maybe said although they are...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 22 June 2011
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