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The clergy must always side with the oppressed
Firstly, may I address the title 'Moruti' I bestowed on MK because of his quotations of appropriate verses in the book of Isaiah in his article concerning the situation by then when Botswana clergy omitted to do that. Secondly, may I commend him for...
REVEREND JACOB ZACHARIAH 03 August 2011
Is the BDP a house divided?
FRANCISTOWN: Political parties, albeit to various degrees, do occasionally experience divisions. Up until last year, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) had been the icon of cohesion and stability in this country. On one hand, the...
03 August 2011
What failed in Norway?
Yet, confronted with their respective tragedies, Japan and Norway displayed a very similar combination of qualities and flaws. In both countries, civil society reacted to the events in a remarkable manner, with a sense of unity, dignity, and...
Dominique Moisi 03 August 2011
America's locust Years
If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about. Or the US Federal Reserve, the Peoples...
*J. Bradford DeLong 03 August 2011
Banda dissolves parly, sets election day Sept 20
In a televised national address, Banda said after consultations with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) he was now satisfied that the country was ready to hold the elections. "Today July 28, 2011, I have signed the proclamation of the...
Arthur Simuchoba
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Mccarthy's rust: cross between modern and traditional Botswana
McCarthy's Rust: "My cellular phone is being charged in Tsabong," says Kgosi Petrus Engleren of McCarthy's Rust to his son. The statement does not elicit a degree of consternation from the addressee, nor other kinsmen in earshot. This depicts...
03 August 2011
Dawn of a new era as football returns to Modipane
The last team to play in the First Division league was the then mighty Black Mambas who were relegated in 1996 following squabbles among management officials and this time it is its breakaway team, MU that is expected to carry the football dreams of...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Karate team surpasses medals' target
When the team departed last week, it had set itself a target of eight medals, but return with 12. The other medals were three silver and five bronze. Three gold medals came from the women's team kata made up of Baone Radiposo, Thato Malunga and...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 03 August 2011
BVF releases prize money breakdown - at last
Cellular phone services provider, Mascom, bankrolls the league competition. The men's champions will walk away with P75,000, an increase of P35,000 from last season. The runners-up will receive P60,000 and log anchors P17,000. In the women's league,...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Jomo in Da Gama's plans
Moatlhaping was one of the hottest properties in local football after racking up 30 goals in the last term, which won him trials with the Rustenburg outfit. Da Gama has revealed that last season's be MOBILE Premier League Green Boot Award winner is...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Fireworks expected at Catholic choirs festival
Among the VIPs expected to grace the event include former First Lady Barbara Mogae, Bishop Emeritus Boniface Setlalekgosi, the current Bishop Valentine Seane, two Ntlo ya Dikgosi members - Kgosi Mosadi Seboko and Puso Gaborone. The choirs will...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Slizer renews Zim romance
In exactly a fortnight's time, it will be a triple ace for music lovers in the country's second and third largest cities when Slizer performs alongside Sungura maestros Alick Macheso and Tongayi Moyo. Slizer relishes yet another opportunity to whirl...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Eureka embarks on music for charity
As stated by UNICEF: "Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development." My Music for Charity is an initiative by award-winning rapper, Eureka the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Never easily give up - Wareus counsels youth
Addressing the youth in Kanye on Monday, the beauty queen said there were many dreams to be pursued but that often people give up after failing at the first hurdle. Wareus said from a young age she knew she wanted to be a beauty queen and that...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 03 August 2011
Youth league seeks meeting with 'right-wing' Sowetan
"The ANCYL will soon seek a meeting with those who terminated the column to get an explanation on their application of principles, because they are simply out of line and abominable," league spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said in a statement. City...
03 August 2011
UN ups Somali aid
The WFP last week began airlifting a peanut-based paste for malnourished children in Mogadishu and widened the distribution to Doolow, in the south of Somalia. "Another aircraft arrived today (Tuesday), the sixth flight since the airlift began on...
03 August 2011
Malawi faces Mutharika 'dynasty'
State radio said on Monday that Peter wa Mutharika, a retired US law professor and the current education minister, would be the party's likely candidate for the next general election. "The National Governing Council has nominated Professor Mutharika...
03 August 2011
BEDIA to help set up Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, told Parliament on Monday that her ministry had decided to give BEDIA the task pending the development of a regulatory framework for SEZs. The body will soon be merged with the International...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
BoB keeps bank rate steady again
The decision is a boon for borrowers because it means interest rates in Botswana have been torpid for the past 8 months. It was taken at this week's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. After slashing rates by 550 basis points to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Project syndicate
We are not worried by visible dangers, but by vague ones that could strike when least expected - and against which we are insufficiently protected. There are, of course, specific, identifiable dangers, but what worries us most about terrorism, for...
Javier Solana
Daniel Innerarity 03 August 2011
Project syndicate
But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has followed the raid reflects deeper sources of mistrust and mutual suspicion. The latest round has focused on the alleged activities of the Pakistani military's powerful intelligence agency, Inter-Services...
Shahid Javed Burki 03 August 2011
Mmualebe
One a re 'Le go twe motho ga a tshwanela go ipolela, nako nngwe ga re a itsatsanke bogolo jang fa go se na yo o mo kgwang kgaba.' Polelo e mafoko a a tswang mo go yone, e bua ka mosadi mongwe yo o dirang tiro ya diatla jaaka go bopa dinkgwana le go...
Sebofo Motshwane 03 August 2011
Bring back that mother-tongue question
The census will provide the government and other stakeholders in policy-planning with invaluable data about the nation and its demographics. The census provides an opportunity to kill several birds with one stone. For example, any citizen...
03 August 2011
Selefu 03 August 2011
03 August 2011
Our heritage
With due respect, I regard her claims as assumptions which ought to be correct but which, when considered more carefully, are not as convincing as might first appear. As a generalisation, it is routinely correct to note that people today, here as...
Sandy Grant 03 August 2011
Man gets 23 years for muder
Boheho Ramasimo of Nxaraga Village, who pleaded guilty to all counts, flew into a rage when his girlfriend refused to go with him to his house and a fight erupted during which he eventually killing her. Ramasimo has been sentenced to 13 years for...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Botswana donates to Somalia refugees
The airlift is a product of a joint effort by the Botswana government and the local business community. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Phandu Skelemani, said that the donation effort was organised in response to...
03 August 2011
2010 exams:Khama misled the nation
Contrary to what President Ian Khama told the nation last year, the government has finally accepted that there were serious problems surrounding final-year examinations at all levels last year and that the problems merit an investigation. After...
BAME PIET and GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writers 03 August 2011
Govt avoids ethnicity question
Mmegi had sought the government statistician, Annah Majelantle to explain why since the first census in 1904, Botswana still does not have official data on its ethnic make-up and languages spoken countrywide. There was hope a few months ago when the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Impasse over invigilation persists
After making little progress at a meeting last Friday, the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU), the Botswana Teachers Union (BTU), the Botswana Primary Teachers' Association (BOPRITA) and MoE adjourned for further...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Govt paid P14m for outsourced legal services - Batshu
Answering a question in Parliament yesterday, the Acting Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Edwin Batshu, revealed that five law firms secured most of the outsourced services and were paid a total of P13,700 691. The highest paid was an...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Why police did not probe calls for mutiny
Acting Minister of Defence Justice and Security Edwin Batshu told Parliament yesterday that no investigations were conducted by Botswana Police to establish whether politicians encouraged members of the BDF to engage in acts of mutiny during the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
Two-horse race for BDP executive secretary post
Mmegi investigations have revealed that UB politics lecturer Lawrence Ookeditse is vying for the plum post, against BDP youth leader Bontsi Monare. Alhough a lot of democrats applied for the post, including a BDP activist in the Ngami region, Mmegi...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 03 August 2011
The clergy must always side with the oppressed
Firstly, may I address the title 'Moruti' I bestowed on MK because of his quotations of appropriate verses in the book of Isaiah in his article concerning the situation by then when Botswana clergy omitted to do that. Secondly, may I commend him for...
REVEREND JACOB ZACHARIAH 04 August 2011
Is the BDP a house divided?
FRANCISTOWN: Political parties, albeit to various degrees, do occasionally experience divisions. Up until last year, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) had been the icon of cohesion and stability in this country. On one hand, the...
04 August 2011
What failed in Norway?
Yet, confronted with their respective tragedies, Japan and Norway displayed a very similar combination of qualities and flaws. In both countries, civil society reacted to the events in a remarkable manner, with a sense of unity, dignity, and...
Dominique Moisi 04 August 2011
America's locust Years
If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about. Or the US Federal Reserve, the Peoples...
*J. Bradford DeLong 04 August 2011
Banda dissolves parly, sets election day Sept 20
In a televised national address, Banda said after consultations with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) he was now satisfied that the country was ready to hold the elections. "Today July 28, 2011, I have signed the proclamation of the...
Arthur Simuchoba
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Mccarthy's rust: cross between modern and traditional Botswana
McCarthy's Rust: "My cellular phone is being charged in Tsabong," says Kgosi Petrus Engleren of McCarthy's Rust to his son. The statement does not elicit a degree of consternation from the addressee, nor other kinsmen in earshot. This depicts...
04 August 2011
Project syndicate
But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has followed the raid reflects deeper sources of mistrust and mutual suspicion. The latest round has focused on the alleged activities of the Pakistani military's powerful intelligence agency, Inter-Services...
Shahid Javed Burki 04 August 2011
Our heritage
With due respect, I regard her claims as assumptions which ought to be correct but which, when considered more carefully, are not as convincing as might first appear. As a generalisation, it is routinely correct to note that people today, here as...
Sandy Grant 04 August 2011
16 qualify for Zone VI youth darts tourney
Botswana will host the Zone VI championship in Gaborone next month. The weekend competition saw 39 players turn up but only 16 made it to the zonal championship. Of the 16, there are eight Under-18 players, and the same number for the...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Zebras fans' fund raising campaign off to a positive start
Some fans are keen to accompany the national team to the finals in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon next January and they have begun fundraising for the trip. The Zebras will be making a maiden appearance at the finals. The Gaborone branch's fund...
STAFF WRITER 04 August 2011
BCA to host girls' four nations tournament
The tournament will be held from August 26-28 and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has said if Botswana successfully hosts the competition, the country might earn the right to stage the Under-19 World Cup qualifiers. Four nations - Namibia,...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Premier League ticket prices remain unchanged
BPL general manager Phuthego Setete confirmed the status quo. "It has been long since we increased the prices, but we will keep them at P25," Setete said. But the price might not remain at P25 for long, as there are reports that the BPL is...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Ndoro agent in transfer talks with Chiefs
Ndoro signed a two-year contract with Chicken Inn in June but it appears the club has not fulfilled some of the promises made. His agent, Omega Sibanda, has been in talks with Chiefs and confirmed that the player is also eager to join the Kgatleng...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Hule forms foundation to help needy artists
Hule, who has been in the local music industry for over 10 years, said that he took the step after realising that the local music industry was not taken seriously anymore something he blamed on the mushrooming of artists and producers. He said that...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Author Molefhe to steer writers' workshop
The workshop, to be held under the topic "Writing Short Stories" will be led by award-winning short-story writer, Wame Molefhe. Writers interested in taking part in the workshop have been advised to apply to WABO by August 13. Aspirants are...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
SA Kgosi to officiate at Dithubaruba festival
As always the festival is once again loaded with activities, including poetry, traditional song and dance, not forgetting mouth-watering Setswana dishes. The main event on Saturday is scheduled to start at 07.00 am with a publicity walk from the...
STAFF WRITER 04 August 2011
Setswana sweet (able) for any music genre - Kay-Zee
He also believes that most local musicians, save for traditional music artists, are unable to successfully execute this because they cannot resist the urge to bring a second language into the mix. But through his music, Kay-Zee said he would...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 04 August 2011
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