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Project Syndicate
Among philosophers, the view that moral judgments state objective truths has been out of fashion since the 1930's, when logical positivists asserted that, because there seems to be no way of verifying the truth of moral judgments, they cannot be...
Peter Singer 21 July 2011
The challenges of a unitary, all powerful presidency
The implication, indeed the charge in this statement, is that there is a serious problem with the structural features of our constitutional architecture. The personal madness of any incumbent aside, Comrade Paul was concerned about the potential...
*DUMA BOKO 21 July 2011
Project syndicate
Even in its hey-day, from the early 1980's until 2007, American-style deregulated capitalism brought greater material well-being only to the very richest in the richest country of the world. Indeed, over the course of this ideology's 30-year...
Joseph e Stiglitz 21 July 2011
Old Palapye: bad omen or bright future
More recently the proposed Palapye University appears to be destined to devolve into a technical college. Such occurrences lead one to wonder what it is about Palapye that causes these disappointments. Historians would say the same thing...
*PHILLIP SEGADIKA 21 July 2011
The story of Mabesi's neglected grave
Abandoned and almost forlorn, one would be forgiven for thinking that it is the resting place of an ordinary person, not the wife of a figure that was prominent in the politics of this country, namely Kgosi Khama III. Khama III together with Dikgosi...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 21 July 2011
Dr Pinkie Mekgwe the philanthropist
In her early years, she became a founding member of Reetsanang, a national theatre group that used theatre to communicate development messages such as creating awareness on cholera. Alongside her peers, she acted and performed poetry. After her...
SIDIAPELO BABISH
Correspondent 21 July 2011
The power of music and political party song
In Botswana, for instance, it's uncommon for a political party function to run without music and song. It is believed that music has functions other than simple entertainment and aesthetic expressions for individuals. For those in the know, music...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
SA steel workers' strike impacts AK6 project
In a statement, the company said that the strike delayed deliveries to the project, though it did not yet know the full impact on the mine's schedule. At 60 percent complete AK6 is, however, on track so far. Tens of thousands of workers led by the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
Project syndicate
Its $470 billion (P3.07tn) public debt is very large relative to the Greek economy's size, but less than 1 percent of global debt - and less than half is held by private banks (mainly Greek). Barclays Capital estimates that only a few globally...
Kemal Dervis 21 July 2011
Corinthians pull out of deal for Tevez
Tevez is now running out of potential new employers following the official announcement from Corinthians that it was "impossible" for them to conclude what would have been by far the biggest transfer in the history of Brazilian football before last...
21 July 2011
Zambian players spared jail in Finland fixing scandal
The court handed suspended sentences ranging from six months to 20 months to the seven Zambian players connected with the scandal on Tuesday. The Singaporean man at the heart of the investigation, Wilson Raj Perumal, was sentenced to two years in...
21 July 2011
Pistorious runs Olympic qualifying time
With his final attempt the South African, known as Blade Runner because he runs with carbon fibre prosthetic running blades, qualified for next month's world championships by smashing his 400 metres personal best in Lignano, Italy on...
21 July 2011
Leal throws 'Mzambiya' a life-line
The dreadlocked player has made the cut after new coach, Julio Leal trimmed the squad from 44 to 32. The Brazilian who replaced Ruud Krol late last month, was forced to trim his squad with five new signings coming in. The Buccaneers have signed...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 July 2011
BSA struggles to drill World Cup team
The association has only managed to host two four-day training camps in Moshupa and Palapye where 28 players were selected. BSA president, Marumo Morule said without the involvement of teachers it is not easy to train the youngsters. "We do not want...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 21 July 2011
Mosele storms back with sizzling Across Equator
His latest album, which is available at the Botswanacraft Marketing, is titled Across Equator. Mosele collaborated with a number of local artists to come up with this well-crafted project. Local artists who worked with him include - his...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 July 2011
DT, Jackson off to Zim
The two left on Monday on a cultural exchange programme, which will review Zimbabwe's International Copyright Act, the music culture and the system the country uses to develop its artists. DT, as Selepeng is affectionately known, believes the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 July 2011
Aussie firm enters coal frenzy
Hodges is the latest company to enter the fray in energy mineral exploration in the country that has - until the recent entrance of the Chinese - been dominated by Australian, South African and British firms. Botswana has estimated coal reserves of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
Project syndicate
On this topic, there is no shortage of expert plans - among them bond buy-backs, bond swaps, and the creation of Eurobonds, a European version of the "Brady" bonds issued by Latin American countries that defaulted in the 1980's. What all...
Robert Skidelsky 21 July 2011
Why we cannot ignore the UK phone-hacking scandal
But this is a scandal that has very instructive lessons for us in the media and the country. In particular, oversight institutions such as the Press Council of Botswana, Media Institute of Southern Africa, Botswana Journalists Association,...
21 July 2011
Selefu 21 July 2011
21 July 2011
Mum's stress is passed to baby in the womb
They have seen that a receptor for stress hormones appears to undergo a biological change in the unborn child if the mother is highly stressed, for example, because of a violent partner. And this change may leave the child less able to handle stress...
21 July 2011
Obesity 'leading driver' of breast cancer
One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the majority of these tumours are "hormone sensitive" meaning their growth is fuelled by hormones. Too much stored fat in the body raises the level of these "sex"...
21 July 2011
Ntuane's speech on Essential Services instrument annulment
The statement, which purports to represent the views of government was published in response to the unanimous decision by Parliament to annul the Statutory Instrument on Essential Services. In the statement under reference,...
21 July 2011
BOSETU move weakens unions, benefits govt - UB don
Professor Richard Tabulawa was commenting in wake of BOSETU's decision to adopt a model similar to that of the Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) under which membership is open to all in the education sector from primary to tertiary against of focusing on...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
BCP hails benefits of opposition unity
"We would be much weaker had we not opened our arms to the National Democratic Front (NDF) and accepted a merger with Botswana Alliance Movement (BAM)," he told the BCP conference at Aerodrome Primary School. He said the combined efforts of the...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
Our heritage
The Sun, if I remember correctly - reported that the Palapye University was constructing a bridge of some kind, which necessitated this disruption. Mmegi reported the same story but without explanation. Then came a Water Utilities Corporation (WUC)...
Sandy Grant 21 July 2011
Politicians must be ambitious
Addressing the Botswana National Front (BNF) conference in Tsabong over the Presidents Day holidays, Motswaledi stated that he has no forgiveness for a politician who has no ambition for state power. He said that through the unity umbrella they can...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
Medical aid schemes shocker
Asked by Shoshong Member of Parliament (MP) Phillip Makgalamele during yesterday's question and answer session, Matlhabaphiri said that he was aware "that one of the four medical aid schemes does not pay for HIV testing". Given the escalating threat...
21 July 2011
Chinese construction chiefs granted bail
Lobatse High Court Judge Lot Moroka granted Xiaming Wang, general manager of China Civil Engineering, and Xiaoxing Qui, managing director of Whitacon Company bail and ordered that theycollectively pay P300,000 into government coffers. The two...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
BDP has betrayed the people - Masisi
The MP is elder brother to Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Minister Mokgweetsi Masisi. He was contributing to the Local Government Amendment Bill, which amongst others, seeks to bar councillors from crossing the floor with...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 July 2011
Former MP Omphitlhetse Maswabi has died
Maswabi was a long time Botswana National Front member and served as MP from 1999 to 2009 after which Abram Kesupile, also a BNF member, replaced him. BNF spokesman Moeti Mohwasa told Mmegi yesterday that Maswabi passed away last week Friday after a...
STAFF WRITER 21 July 2011
2000 soldiers promoted
In a press statement issued yesterday, the Commander in Chief, President Ian Khama has promoted to the rank of Brigadier three senior officers, nine Colonels and 29 lieutenant Colonels. Those who have been promoted to the rank of Brigadier are...
STAFF WRITER 21 July 2011
Merafhe falls ill again
Government Spokesperson Jeff Ramsay said that he was not sure whether Merafhe went for a 'check up' at the Milpark Hospital, where he was hospitalised earlier, referring some of our questions to his family. He however assured this paper that somebody...
21 July 2011
Serbia captures Croatia war crimes suspect
Hadzic is wanted for atrocities committed in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He led Croatian Serb separatist forces. The arrest comes less than two months after Serbia caught former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic. Hadzic is...
21 July 2011
UN declares famine in Somalia
Meanwhile, the UN and US have said aid agencies need further safety guarantees from armed groups in Somalia to allow staff to reach those in need. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia,...
21 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 21 July 2011
Project Syndicate
Among philosophers, the view that moral judgments state objective truths has been out of fashion since the 1930's, when logical positivists asserted that, because there seems to be no way of verifying the truth of moral judgments, they cannot be...
Peter Singer 22 July 2011
The challenges of a unitary, all powerful presidency
The implication, indeed the charge in this statement, is that there is a serious problem with the structural features of our constitutional architecture. The personal madness of any incumbent aside, Comrade Paul was concerned about the potential...
*DUMA BOKO 22 July 2011
Project syndicate
Even in its hey-day, from the early 1980's until 2007, American-style deregulated capitalism brought greater material well-being only to the very richest in the richest country of the world. Indeed, over the course of this ideology's 30-year...
Joseph e Stiglitz 22 July 2011
Old Palapye: bad omen or bright future
More recently the proposed Palapye University appears to be destined to devolve into a technical college. Such occurrences lead one to wonder what it is about Palapye that causes these disappointments. Historians would say the same thing...
*PHILLIP SEGADIKA 22 July 2011
The story of Mabesi's neglected grave
Abandoned and almost forlorn, one would be forgiven for thinking that it is the resting place of an ordinary person, not the wife of a figure that was prominent in the politics of this country, namely Kgosi Khama III. Khama III together with Dikgosi...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 22 July 2011
Dr Pinkie Mekgwe the philanthropist
In her early years, she became a founding member of Reetsanang, a national theatre group that used theatre to communicate development messages such as creating awareness on cholera. Alongside her peers, she acted and performed poetry. After her...
SIDIAPELO BABISH
Correspondent 22 July 2011
The power of music and political party song
In Botswana, for instance, it's uncommon for a political party function to run without music and song. It is believed that music has functions other than simple entertainment and aesthetic expressions for individuals. For those in the know, music...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 22 July 2011
Our heritage
The Sun, if I remember correctly - reported that the Palapye University was constructing a bridge of some kind, which necessitated this disruption. Mmegi reported the same story but without explanation. Then came a Water Utilities Corporation (WUC)...
Sandy Grant 22 July 2011
Bryant in talks over move to Turkey
"It is a fact that Kobe Bryant's managers have contacted us," the Turkish side's coach Ergin Ataman said yesterday, a week after Besiktas signed the New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams. Ataman said Bryant was waiting for an offer from...
22 July 2011
City will never eclipse United - Beckham
The former United midfielder admitted that City are a growing force in English football, but says his former club's history sets them apart. "They're bringing good players in, they've got strong people with a lot of money behind them as a club, so...
22 July 2011
Manchester City upbeat over Aguero
While City are increasingly optimistic of agreeing a £38m deal to extract Aguero from Atletico Madrid, Tevez is now waiting to hear when City expect him to return for pre-season training. He has been given a fortnight off to recover from the...
22 July 2011
Pilikwe United embraces SMC
Up to 25 players from the Second Division side were made SMC ambassadors after they were circumcised in an initiative spearheaded by the Palapye District Heath Management Team and ACHAP. SMC has been hailed as an add on strategy to fight the spread...
GASEBALWE SERETSE & THATO KALA
Correspondents 22 July 2011
Moreetsi captains Pilikwe United all the way
The initiative has been used by ACHAP to promote Safe Male Circumcision (SMC). Goaba Moreetsi, the captain of Pilikwe United leads the first football team in the country to take part in the programme. Speaking to Mmegi Sport, the player who recently...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 22 July 2011
AAG athletics team camps in Tlokweng
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) secretary general, Legojane Kebaitse said the team in the training camp is not the final one and they may be forced to cut it down. He said the team will be in camp until its departure for Maputo. He stated...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 22 July 2011
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