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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 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
Back Stage
The approaches that made T-1 and T-2 stand out have been amplified, as that is what the producer, director, scriptwriter, scorewriter and editors plus CGI executors all believe their public, not the critics, want. Only you can really decide...
Sasa Majuma 05 August 2011
Hunt for origins of beautiful Tsodilo ritual stones begins
The rare finds that startled researchers include chalcedony, silcrete and an as yet to be identified shiny, white, silcretised organic material. Researchers are convinced that Tsodilo, whose rocks or stones are mainly quartz, cannot be the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
15-year-old Matinkeja on tract to become supermodel
But, as the contents of one of her rucksacks illustrate, the 15-year-old may be on a fast track to a modelling career beyond her imagination. In an interview Arts and Culture held with her and her mother Doris Matinkeja, unassumingly bandies around...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Consumer watchdog
What I really, REALLY dislike is when a proud, intelligent adult is made to cry by a nasty, vicious, cheating pyramid scheme that has stolen her money and left her ashamed and poor. A couple of weeks ago a reader emailed us asking for our help in...
05 August 2011
IMF raises Botswana growth forecast
Last April, researchers at the IMF said they expected the Botswana economy to grow by six percent in 2011, an increase from the 4.8 percent they had predicted in October last year. In its Article IV consultation report released this week, the IMF...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Second quarter diamond exports smash records
The record-breaking performance closely mirrors De Beers' recently released historic sales figures for the first half of 2011 in which the diamond giant's rough diamond sales reached P22.5 billion. Although the P9.1 billion exports recorded up...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Mmamabula investors 'hang tough' in share price rollercoaster
Since the announcement of a separation from potential takeover partner JSW Energy on May 31, CIC Energy's BSE investors have maintained faith in the counter, withstanding selling pressure despite the silence over the future of the project. CIC...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Govt focuses on trimming P27bn debt
Government has hinted at an array of strategies, including fast-tracking cost-containment in the fiscus, as it attempts to restrain the P27 billion public debt from several triggers threatening to blow it beyond control. The cost-containment...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Botswana reclaims diamond producer top spot
According to statistics release by the Kimberley Process (KP), despite Russia producing more rough diamonds in 2010 at 34 million carats worth P15.94 billion ($2.38 billion), Botswana's 22 million carats dug in 2010 were worth P17.35 billion ($2.59...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Key deadline looms in EPA talks
A market access regulation giving SADC states, including Botswana, duty and quota-free access to the European Union is expected to elapse soon, potentially squeezing the affected states out of the world's biggest market for beef, minerals, textiles...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Tide turns against Malawi's Mutharika
The 77-year-old former World Bank official once heralded by economic analysts has declared Malawi "a black country for black people". And a British diplomat whom Mutharika expelled from the country describes the president as "becoming ever more...
05 August 2011
Syria's bloody assault on Hama breaks UN logjam
The only dissenter in the council was Lebanon, where Syrian influence is strong. Beirut disassociated itself from a formal statement, agreed by the other 14 members, that backers said helped to isolate the Syrian leadership. The statement, read out...
05 August 2011
China arrests 2 000 people in food safety crackdown
The campaign was launched in April after scandals from glow-in-the-dark meat to buns injected with dye to make them look like a more expensive kind. Nearly six million food-related businesses have been investigated. Police have also destroyed a...
05 August 2011
Banned Swaziland opposition slams bailout
South Africa announced a 2.4-billion-rand ($355 million, 259 million euro, P2.3bn) loan to neighbouring Swaziland on condition that King Mswati III opens talks on reforms in Africa's last absolute monarchy. The People's United Democratic Movement...
05 August 2011
Bots bowlers beat Kenya in Africa tourney
Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson John Gaborutwe said the pair's team of Oabona Motladiile, playing as skip and Joshua Mothusi as lead beat Kenya 16-13. The other win came from the trips side, which had Kitso Robert (skip), Boitumelo...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Is England too good or India mediocre?
What was supposed to be a brutal quest for the top spot in test cricket is panning out to be an embarrassingly one-sided affair. England pulverized India at Lords and then the contest moved to Nottingham's Trentbridge, and the result was even more...
05 August 2011
First Cut
Dear Mr President, I trust you are in good health and good spirit and having weathered the recent public sector storm as well as the smooth running of your Botswana Democratic Party's (BDP) recent congress, I am sure that you are looking forward to...
05 August 2011
Rookies Security Systems have learnt their lessons
With a reputation of causing upsets, their arrival in the First Division South would be met with a grin. But it would be foolhardy for any opponent to take them for granted. Security Systems officials are aware of the daunting task ahead...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 05 August 2011
BONA loses players to constituency league
The teams told BONA that they could not participate in the league largely due to failure to raise enough players and lack of funds. The five teams are Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB), Moshopa Lovers, Debswana Young Stars, Modipane United and...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Botswana Life golf tourney attracts 60 entries
SELEBI-PHIKWE: A strong field of 60 golfers will tee-off in the Annual Botswana Life Insurance Golf Tournament at the Selebi-Phikwe Golf Club (SPGC) tomorrow, SPGC captain Palalani Moitlhobogi told Mmegi Sport yesterday. Botswana Life Insurance...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Platinum Stars coming to Botswana
The opening game pits Santos against Lobatse side Gunners at 9am before Chiefs square-off against Stars at 11am. The losers' final will be played at 1pm hrs while the final has been scheduled for 4pm. Platinum Stars coach Owen da Gama has said they...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Washington and the art of the possible
Why, the public asks, can't politicians sit down together like sensible adults and come up with a timely agreement that commands broad consensus? If we can balance our household budgets, they ask irately, why can't our political leaders? The...
05 August 2011
Prisons, Untouchable eye cup final spot
The other semi-final tie pitting league champions, Double Action and Mochudi Eastern Pirates, has been postponed as the former is in Zimbabwe for a tournament. A tough game is expected between Prisons and Untouchables as the two eye a place in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Zebras snub Lesotho for Harambee Stars
Lesotho were scheduled to play the Zebras last Wednesday during their Pretoria camp in South Africa but pulled out on the 11th hour citing 10 August - a FIFA international friendly match date - was the most ideal. However, BFA had already reserved...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 August 2011
Mongala joins Bloemfontein Celtics
In what should come as good news for Zebras' coach, Stanley Tshosane, Mongala joined the Bloemfontein-based side yesterday after enduring a frustrating season at Pirates. The dazzling winger told Mmegi Sport yesterday that he had joined Celtic but...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
D-Day looms for All Kasi, BFA in trademark war
The three were given seven days to surrender all apparels, which bear the Zebra mark, for destruction. BFA received their letter on Monday while the other two were given theirs the next day. All Kasi director Barnes Maplanka said their lawyers are...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Do presidents age faster in office?
At 50, which he turned yesterday, his hair is a little grayer, and his face and neck are a little more creased, than on the day he took office in January 2009. You'd expect some of that -- he is older. But Obama, like his predecessors, has had...
05 August 2011
Knocked up out of wedlock
This, of course is the super edited version of how a young man and woman meet, become intimately involved in a relationship and later have a child. The couple has conveniently skipped the part which society expects before two people decide- or end...
KEREEDITSE LEFATSI
Correspondent 05 August 2011
The root of all sovereign-debt crises
There is a simpler way. Irresponsible borrowing by governments in international credit markets requires irresponsible lending. Bank regulators should just say no to such lending by institutions that are already under their...
Amar Bhide and
Edmund S. Phelps 05 August 2011
This is how it should be
We take this opportunity to congratulate the two parties for striking a deal after five months of negotiations. Early this week, it appeared the deadlock would not be broken. This raised fears that there could be a repeat of the chaos and...
EDITOR 05 August 2011
Breivik's call to arms
This assumption is not so far-fetched. Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never...
05 August 2011
Whither Botswana
This is necessary to avoid the split-votes problem that occurs where there are, say, ±four almost equally strong political parties. In the latter kind of situation, for example, the following kind of electoral result would be...
Dan Moabi 05 August 2011
Selefu 05 August 2011
05 August 2011
BMC working hard to meet deadline
Speaking at the official opening of the second annual National Agriculture Show (NAS) on Wednesday, the Minister of Agriculture, Christiaan de Graaff, said Botswana was on the right track to that end. Regarding the foot and mouth scourge that was...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 05 August 2011
BCP digs in for Mbaiwa's ouster
This comes hardly four months after Mbaiwa assumed the council's hot seat. Of the five motions to be tabled by councillor Leungo Mataio of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), three specifically call for the mayor to vacate the mayoral...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
The ball and chain of addiction
As someone who has made many mistakes in life, I found temporary comfort in that statement. Then I thought to myself, "what if it's the same mistake being made over and over again? Has one then failed dismally at this thing called...
KEREEDITSE LEFATSI 05 August 2011
Zim elections determined by GPA - SADC
Addressing members of the press, ahead of the SADC 31st Summit of Heads of State in Luanda, Angola, on August 17 - 18, SADC Executive Secretary Dr Tomaz Salomao said that no single party has the power to call for elections in Zimbabwe if others are...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Joubert runs back to BDP
The Lobatse Farms councillor has retraced her footsteps to BDP saying that opposition politics is a waste of time. "I simply realised that the people were wasting my time. You see up there, the leaders of the opposition umbrella are united....
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
Kerala community in Botswana donates wheelchairs
"Kerala Samajan has been active in organising cultural events and festivals for the past several years. These occasions always cater for all religions of the state, which is noted for the communal harmony prevailing there. A big chunk of the proceeds...
MOTHUSI JOWAWA
Correspondent 05 August 2011
BOFEPUSU moves to block Siele again
This emerged yesterday after Siele re-tabled a statutory instrument to introduce an amendment to the Trade Disputes Act for that purpose only a few weeks after he was forced to withdraw it on July 6. The Leader of the Opposition, Botsalo Ntuane,...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 05 August 2011
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