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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 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
Hosni Mubarak denies all charges as Egypt trial opens
He was wheeled on a hospital bed into a cage in the courtroom to the astonishment of onlookers gathered outside, correspondents say. He is being tried with his sons, who also deny the charges, ex-Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six other former...
04 August 2011
'Half-a-million kids will die' - UN
Famine has already been detected in drought-hit northern areas of Uganda, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said. "Uganda may be the next country hit with these same sort of alarming malnutrition and drought conditions," FAO's Sandra Aviles...
04 August 2011
Weak consumer spending hits Sefcash margins
Sefcash's retail wing, Shoppers, expanded by seven outlets countrywide to bring the network to 11 in a year in which consumer demand was weighed down by increases in VAT and an alcohol levy, a freeze on civil service salaries and other post-recession...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Imara to close loss-making entities
In a statement announcing the results, the company says after budgeting for positive growth in earnings, the year ended with an after-tax loss of P7.69 million while it made an after-tax operating loss of P2.1 million on an adjusted basis. The...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Project syndicate
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Early in the financial crisis, a major emerging-market investor told me: "This is not a global, but a semi-global financial crisis." He was right: it really was a crisis of the United States, Europe, and Japan. ...
Anders Aslund 04 August 2011
Project syndicate
But, while the dust has not yet settled after months of turmoil in Tunis, Cairo, and elsewhere, the Arab revolts have already had a massive impact on the strategic structure of the Middle East. Until recently, the region was divided into two camps:...
Shlomo Ben-Ami 04 August 2011
Know your labour rights
Essential Services concept is a collective bargaining issue. Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act 03 of 2005 governs this provision. The Trade Dispute Act terminology of this provision has followed a list and the definition approach of the...
Advocate Mpho Ngwako 04 August 2011
We need police oversight body
The family of Olebile Kefhitilwe strongly believes that the police have something to do with his disappearance last year. The police have a different story but that is to be expected. Whether this is true or false, it must be said the...
04 August 2011
Selefu 04 August 2011
04 August 2011
Project syndicate
PRINCETON: Each February, I begin the introductory electricity and magnetism course at Princeton University by telling my students that the material we will cover during the semester provides the basis for modern civilization. Who could quibble with...
Tony Rothman 04 August 2011
Banda launches re-election campaign
LUSAKA: President Rupiah Banda has officially launched his re-election bid for the September 20 general elections by hingeing it on a seven-point development plan encompassing increased agricultural production, better schools, a better health...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Lumbar puncture not deadly - doctor
Take 46-year-old Leatile Nkomo [not her real name] who resides at Kgaphamadi location, for example. To begin with, Nkomo is one of the many people who believe that lumbar puncture operation is lethal. It seems nothing is ever going to change how she...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Zim man has no case to answer, rules Judge
Judge Rannowane said that he has found that the accused person has no case to answer. Rannowane was delivering sentence in a case in which Mkhululi Moyo was accused of killing Nhlalo Ncube along with other people in Tati-Siding in August 2008. ...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Judge counsels men on free love
Justice Chihnengo sentenced 37-year-old Mpho Tom of Mathangwane village to 15 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend in 2009. In sentencing him, Judge Chihnengo stated that the "deceased", who was not married to Tom, "had the right to...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 04 August 2011
Man goes missing from police custody
FRANCISTOWN: Police have claimed they are ignorant of the whereabouts of a suspected armed robber who went missing while in custody. The family of Olebile Kefhitilwe, are demanding answers about his whereabouts after he disappeared last year soon...
04 August 2011
ANC organs fight over Botswana
The ANCYL was rebuked by Mthembu on Monday, following the attack by its president Julius Malema on Botswana's government.Addressing a media conference over the weekend following the conclusion of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)'s...
04 August 2011
Public responds to census by availing cars
The coordinator of the 2011 National Housing and Population Census said that he is satisfied with the response by the public regarding the use of private cars for the census. Dabulani Buthali said they might not necessarily take a huge number of...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Residents warned against fake enumerators
The Selebi-Phikwe Assistant District Officer Letlhogonolo Nkolane raised the alarm on Monday during a Kgotla meeting called to sensitise the community about the August 8-14 census. He explained that it was possible that some criminals might...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 August 2011
New BMWU president lambasts Cut 8 project
The union boss said the project has made diamond giant, Debswana to surrender its core mining operations to another company, Majwe Joint Venture/Basil Read, which now operates a mine within a mine. He said Debswana has not considered future...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
Traditional leaders against sex education in schools
The Pitso, convened by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) was a follow-up to a national outcry earlier this year, on the content of a prescribed textbook for school children as parents felt that it was too explicit in its...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
BTC loses half million in stolen solar panels
Replacement of the panels coupled with the changeover from this system to the fixed wireless terminals (FWT) system means that the corporation will continue to lose more money. Speaking to Mmegi in an interview Golekanye Molapisi, communications...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 04 August 2011
ILEA admits five African countries
The ILEA has held a country expansion conference in Gaborone to determine the training needs of the new members namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia, The Gambia, and Togo. This brings to total 24 new members of ILEA. Senior law enforcement officials...
04 August 2011
BDP considers framework for 2014 elections
A Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) central committee meeting on Monday resolved to create a framework for the 2014 general elections, Mmegi is informed. In an interview yesterday, the Secretary General of the BDP, Kentse Rammidi, said they met...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 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 05 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...
05 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 05 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 05 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 05 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...
05 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 05 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 05 August 2011
Project syndicate
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Early in the financial crisis, a major emerging-market investor told me: "This is not a global, but a semi-global financial crisis." He was right: it really was a crisis of the United States, Europe, and Japan. ...
Anders Aslund 05 August 2011
Book Review
Sarah Vowell in her sixth book, Unfamiliar Fishes, has hit a nerve of popular interest: Hawaii, the first home of America's incumbent President Barack Obama. What kind of place is Hawaii and why has it produced Obama? Don't expect clear...
Sheridon Griswold 05 August 2011
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