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Drillers disqualified from basketball league
He said Drillers failed to turn up for the game against Thebepahatshwa based Eagles a fortnight ago and the clash against Dolphins. He stated that the club's officials failed to give valid reason for the failure to honour the fixtures. Khama said...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 01 July 2011
GNT coach calls for reinforcements
"For the First Division, the players that I have are okay, but the reality is that a lot of them will have to be sacrificed as we enter new territory. We need at least six experienced players and I have made that clear to management," Leposo told...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Maposa seeks payment from GU
The player was off-loaded by the Reds late last year together with Bashin Modisaotsile, Vincent Phiri and Mpho Mabogo. Maposa, who is now at Black Peril claims that GU is yet to finish paying his signing-on fee. The two parties had reportedly agreed...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Mmipi seeks BPL's intervention to leave Gunners
The disgruntled player has written to the BPL to help him move from Gunners to another club. Mmipi tendered a resignation letter last season before the club's second round game against Black Peril, saying that Gunners had breached his contract by not...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Zebras' success, All Kasi's curse?
The agreement was signed and sealed during Philip Makgelemele's tenure as Botswana Football Association (BFA) president. All Kasi had broken new ground, becoming the first local company to dress the national team. At the time, the Zebras cut a sorry...
01 July 2011
Injured Mogaladi accuses BNSC of neglect
There has been an impasse between Mogaladi and the BNSC after the former Maritzburg United linkman indicated his wish to get medical attention from a Cape Town sports' injuries specialist. BNSC told the player that government does not allow injured...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Uganda lightning strike kills school children
The local district commissioner told Uganda's Daily Monitor paper 36 pupils had been admitted to hospital.Concern about the number of recent deadly lightning strikes has prompted MPs to raise the matter in parliament. Up to 28 people have been...
01 July 2011
Right to self-defence in British homes to be 'much clearer'
He told the BBC people were entitled to use "whatever force necessary" to protect themselves and their homes. David Cameron recently said the issue should be put "beyond doubt". Labour said the law was "already clear" and the remarks were a...
01 July 2011
Myanmar government warns Suu Kyi tour may cause riots
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi is planning her first trip outside the former capital Yangon since she was freed from home detention last year just after elections to end army rule. The military still effectively controls the...
01 July 2011
China and UK strike space deal
The deal was penned between Guildford satellite imagery provider DMCii and Beijing-based Company 21AT. It means DMCii can now roll out its new constellation of spacecraft that will picture details on the surface of the planet less than a metre...
01 July 2011
Nitty gritty
The convenor of the Eminent and Prominent Persons Group that was hastily put together to intercede between the waitresses and their employer the shebeen queen, is finding it difficult to proceed because there are accusations that one party or the...
Barolong Seboni 01 July 2011
BRU reviews Vultures' Performance
Botswana came last in their group after losing 30-12 to Senegal in a championship qualifier. The Vultures fell 17-12 to Zambia in the losers' final on Saturday. Senegal emerged the overall winners. Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, BRU president,...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Mozambique - the price of diversification
Is there really anything that Botswana, a peaceful and relatively prosperous nation can possibly learn from our still relatively impoverished SADC partner? In the area of economic diversification, a question now vital to Botswana's future,...
*DR ROMAN GRYNBERG 01 July 2011
Project syndicate
CAPE TOWN: Eliminating nuclear weapons is the democratic wish of the world's people. Yet no nuclear-armed country currently appears to be preparing for a future without these terrifying devices. In fact, all are squandering billions of dollars...
01 July 2011
Selefu 01 July 2011
01 July 2011
Opportunity beckons to empower our women
This is an important event that deserves the support of all of us, businesses, media, government, the public and NGOs. Over the years, the overall aim of the organisers of the event has been to afford women an opportunity to showcase what they...
01 July 2011
Chinese photo exhibition starts at Thapong
At the opening ceremony, China's ambassador in Botswana, Liu Huanxing said the exhibition will help Batswana to know the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) and his country's modernisation better. He asserted that the 90-year history has been an...
STAFF WRITER 01 July 2011
Opposition forms umbrella against BDP
The Botswana National Front (BNF), the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and the Botswana Movement for Democracy have over the last several months been negotiating a deal to form a joint front against the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). "The...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Food, folks and fun
For me "food, folks and fun" was an apt way of capturing the American way of life. Of course Yankees love their food, they are friendly and they know how to party! That feature of the American way of life has now hit our shores in a big way. And it...
TITUS MBUYA
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Banda's father was a Malawian, claims ex-envoy to Botswana
Phiri has lately been spreading the story that president Banda is disqualified to run in this year's presidential election because his father was not Zambian but a Malawian who worked on tobacco farms in Zimbabwe before settling in Zambia where he...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Consumer watchdog
Did you know that in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary they've removed the word "gullible"?OK, anyone with a DSTV subscription may recently have seen the inestimable Stephen Fry pretending to fall for this old skeptical joke. It is an...
01 July 2011
Book review
Yangzom Brauen (2011) translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire "Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet". London and Johannesburg, Harville Secker and Random House Struik, 324 pages, Softcover, with 17 colour plates, timeline and...
Sheridan Griswold 01 July 2011
Local boxers for Indonesia tourney
The Indonesian Amateur Boxing Federation (Pertina) is hosting the competition after a seven-year hiatus. Boxers from 30 countries, including three Indian teams - Garuda, Elang and Rajawali are expected to take part in the revived tournament. Kompone...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Back stage
"The Lincoln Lawyer" (2011) has been showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It was released in the United States in March 2011. If you thought this was another film about the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), you are most...
Sasa Majuma 01 July 2011
Michelle Obama shows Botho with magwinya and chips
Of course many Batswana would have wished that the lucky Mochudi restaurant could have served the USA first lady something more traditional, like Phane worms or Magwinya with Serobe - yes, a rich, juicy delicacy that is the cattle...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Govt suspends issue of coal, CBM licences
On Wednesday, senior ministry officials said the moratorium would last until the roadmap was finalised - a development expected within six months. In the meantime, issuance of the country's most popular prospecting licences would be frozen. Said...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
BMC confident of key Norway quota
Last year, the BMC equally shared the 2,700 ton Norway quota with Meatco of Namibia during a year in which the Botswana parastatal's gross sales revenues exceeded one billion Pula. While the BMC's biggest customers include the United Kingdom, South...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Lucara's diamond mine on course for commissioning
In a project update, Lucara says as at the end of May, there were over 400 construction crew members on site and a total of 326,000 hours worked. "With the overall project execution at 64 percent, the project remains on target for process plant...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 01 July 2011
Fraudsters strike BSE again
A local stockbroking firm was recently forced to refund a Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) investor shares worth P290,000 after fraudsters infiltrated the local financial services system with forgeries to impersonate the affected shareholder. The...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Italian firm sues LEA for P2m
Business incubators are on-site intensive nurturing and facilitation of SMMEs to foster their development and growth from greenfield companies. According to papers filed with the Lobatse High Court, Eurecna was contracted by LEA in 2008...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Ten reasons why china is different
Today's feverish hand-wringing reflects a confluence of worries - especially concerns about inflation, excess investment, soaring wages, and bad bank loans. Prominent academics warn that China could fall victim to the dreaded "middle-income trap,"...
Stephen S. Roach 01 July 2011
The atmosphere is saturated - Lesolle
The former Director of Meteorological Services, David Lesolle, told Mmegi in an interview this week that climate change is manifesting itself in climate variability and excessive rainfall that came even in winter, making its utilisation...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Low pay blamed for poor nursing care
Thandie Kgosietsile was speaking at the launch of a two-day workshop for the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Botswana held at Thapama Hotel yesterday (Tuesday). The workshop was aimed at enhancing professional code of conduct, identifying the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Flying Doves hosts tourney to raise funds
The theme of the tournament is 'Taking Netball To The People'. It will feature Jungle Queens, Gantsi Invaders, Gaborone Prisons and the hosts Flying Doves. In the men's section, there will be Ghantsi Invaders and Flying Doves. Flying Doves team...
MOGOMOTSI BUZWANI
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Magistrate to give evidence in murder trial
The Phikwe magistrate Haiwu Nuru is expected to give evidence in connection with the confession statement made before her by Modimoesi Godfrey Mooketsi in 2007. Meanwhile, one of the state witnesses, who is also a cousin of the deceased, has told...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Batswana's contribution to the World Wars
At the outbreak of the World War II, Batswana chiefs pledged their allegiance to the King of England and placed themselves and their people at his disposal. Despite the fact that at this time 15,000 to 20,000 thousand men from Bechuanaland were...
01 July 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 01 July 2011
Schools close after tumultuous term
The term was memorable for another reason - students in secondary schools closed without writing their mid-year examinations. Directors of regional operations in the regional education offices that Mmegi spoke to confirmed this. Speaking to Mmegi in...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Anti-Anthrax campaign suspended to focus on FMD
Chief agricultural information and public relations officer, Boikhutso Rabasha said yesterday that they have suspended the campaign because they had to pool resources to focus on FMD because it has the potential to harm the country's economy. "We...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Court throws out Mochudi complex owners' bid
This is in respect of the three-storey shopping complex in Mochudi, which the company built in 2003. But the complex has never been occupied since the council insists that the company contravened building regulations. The council...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Botswana-US youth tackle global issues in special link up
Aimed at exchanging ideas, the forum discussed, among other things, the world's shared challenges in HIV/AIDS, education and violence against women. Tumie Ramsden, Uyapo Ndadi and Bogolo Kenewendo represented Botswana. The three panellists...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Judge reserves ruling in teachers' asset case
Lesetedi reserved judgment on Tuesday after hearing deliberations from lawyers representing the two teacher organisations, Duma Boko for BOPRITA and Batsho Nthoi for BOPRITU. This followed a joint meeting held on June 11. The issue at stake is...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Judge asked to show mercy in another crime of passion
Counsel Mogaetsho Keoagile of Keoagile and Associates told Justice Tshepho Motswagole in the Francistown High Court that the complaint's infidelity had contributed to Menaganang Sebopilwe's actions of unlawfully possessing a shotgun and attempting to...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Blame game puts students' future in jeopardy
The school and the BEC have disagreed over what caused the late release of the students' double science results in the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE). All the students failed the science subject with BEC saying that the...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Mohambi contemplates retirement
The 29-year-old former youth international has told Mmegi Sport that he wants to end his career at Gunners and the recent turn of events have left him disappointed. "I do not know what to do but I have been seriously thinking of hanging up my boots....
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 01 July 2011
Army chief cautions against regime change calls
Commander of Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Lieutenant-General Tebogo Masire has denounced calls for regime change saying change could only come through the ballot. Addressing members of the media yesterday, Masire fired from all his artillery hitting...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
BDF boss gives assurances on succession plan
He told journalists yesterday that the army has a succession plan and there is no cause for alarm about his departure. The BDF succession question arises because of the recent retirement of commander of the Air Wing, Tumelo Paledi, the ouster of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
GCC clerk fumes at KDC for exposing debt
The irate GCC official refused to answer questions about the debt it owes and chose to attack the KDC for the expose. "Tell KDC to learn to keep things secret. Tell them that they should talk privately about these matters and not to give them to the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 01 July 2011
Tanian faces disciplinary action for no-show
Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) vice president, George Keotsene said the club has not explained why it did not turn-up for the fixture. The competition's organising committee has written to the club demanding answers. Keotsene said they...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 01 July 2011
First cut
From a strictly business perspective, privatisation means the leveraging of an organisation's operations. It involves the stream-lining of the day-to-day activities of an organisation and most importantly its operational costs with a long term view...
Dennis Keagile 01 July 2011
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