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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 08 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...
08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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...
08 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 08 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 08 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 08 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...
08 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...
08 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...
08 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...
08 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...
08 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...
08 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 08 August 2011
Opposition of goes to court over Banda's 'foreign parents'
If the court rules in PF's favour, it means President Banda, who is the current chairman of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) troika on security, will be disqualified from the September 20 elections. PF general secretary Wynter...
Arthur Simuchoba
Correspondent 08 August 2011
P250,000 lawsuit against Government for police assault
Moroka resident, Alphius Tafa, alleges that two constables Joshua Bonyongo and T Botshome assaulted him after he tried to talk to his friend whom they had just interrogated. Tafa says that the two officers grabbed him by his genitals and kicked and...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 08 August 2011
Court to deliver judgement on threat-to-kill case
According to evidence presented in court by Detective Sergeant Phirinyane, who was investigating officer for the case, on February 24 last year, the accused, Ogomoditse Lekono (34), went to Mmei CJSS where he coerced his girlfriend's son to get into...
Isaac Pinielo
Correspondent 08 August 2011
Judge demands efficiency from prosecution
He said that the prosecution should bear in mind that for the court to be able to make informed decisions on applications all the necessary documents must be availed. Phumaphi was speaking on Wednesday after several applications where brought before...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Stifle unions? never, says Siele
Speaking in an interview with The Monitor last Thursday, Siele said they are not trying to prevent teachers, veterinary officers and others whom the government seeks to include as part of the essential service cadre from exercising their basic right...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Japanese cars fuel global warming - Mokaila
Infact, there is law in the offing to regulate the importation of fongkongs through rigorous gas emission tests before the cars may be driven on Botswana roads. The move is aimed at cutting down on gas emissions in a bid to join the international...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 08 August 2011
Shavathon supports cancer patients
The event was held at Riverwalk under the theme, "Dare to go bare."CAB coordinator Letsebeng Mosimi- Gabontshwe said cancer patients' often lose their hair during chemotherapy and shavathon is a way for people to show their care and support during...
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Minister warns Mmopane villagers of looming danger
The warning came from the Minister of Lands and Housing, Nonofo Molefhi, who had accompanied President Ian Khama to Mmopane to address a kgotla meeting on Friday. The minister ran short of telling the residents that they will need to relocate to a...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Tobacco products act urged
The non-governmental organisation (NGO), which aims at controlling and reducing tobacco use in the country, has implored government to adopt punitive measures to curb tobacco use in line with the Framework Convection on Tobacco Control (FCTC), to...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Triple appointments at UB court controversy
The appointments were announced by means of a memo in April, prompting criticism that they were at variance with existing structures. It is understood that the post of executive assistant to the vice-chancellor exists in the UB structure. However,...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
BOSETU congress postponed
The congress, which was billed for last Thursday until today, did not take place because authorities at the venue, Mmadinare Senior Secondary School, said it was too soon to have the convention there as schools have just reopened. Usually the...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Water connection cost rockets To P6,000
While government has reduced electricity connection cost from over P20,000 to P5,000, today water connection costs can be as high as P6,000 or more if your home is more than 25m away from the main water pipeline, it has emerged. Batswana blame the...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Family struggles to come to terms with tragedy
The surviving father, 34-year-old Kagelelo Tidige, still finds it difficult to explain what actually transpired on that fateful night of July 6. Nursing the surviving twin baby girl on his lap, who chuckles as if nothing has happened to the family,...
Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
PDT employees allege maladministration
In a letter (which this publication is in possession of) the workers allege gross maladministration of the institution that is threatening government takeover scheduled for August 24. "We believe the Board of Trustees does not use the Trust's policy...
Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Accused is prejudiced - Judge
The applicant told the court that he has been coming to court since August last year to apply for bail pending appeal but the prosecution would either not show up or say that his trial record was missing. Solo ordered that the state should produce...
Patricia Edwin
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Fumbling cop reels off wrong stats for Khama
The Commander of Old Naledi Police Station, Superintendent Molatlhwa, was booed by cabinet ministers and senior government officials as he proudly reeled off exponential crime statistics after a preamble that promised declining crime rates linked to...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Sino Hydrodumps local subcontractors unpaid
Sino Hydro is engaged by government to carry out expansion works in the P600 million project that is nearing completion. While the contractor is already winding up, some local contractors who were involved in minor works have been left with...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Mubarak's last laugh?
The repercussions for Egypt, indeed for the entire Arab world, will be profound. This is not the first time that an Arab dictator has been put on trial. Saddam Hussein and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali preceded Mubarak in the dock. Hussein was...
Omar Ashour* 08 August 2011
Etecetera II
The caption explained that the Council's failure to collect the dumpster had forced residents to burn its contents.It then quoted the deputy city clerk as saying that because people from other areas had used this dumpster for their garbage, the...
SANDY GRANT 08 August 2011
On the flip side
I have observed with growing interest the changes that our country, culture has gone through, an evolvement that is expected. Our social landscape has not been without changes, as modernisation and development take heed. All aspects...
Keletso Thobega 08 August 2011
Issues in education
Every teacher has a preferred learning style; as a result they tend to teach their students using their own learning style. However, the teacher's preferred learning style is not necessarily their students' learning style. Consequently,...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 08 August 2011
The Winners Code
This was not a very important book, according to most accounts. In fact it was deemed to be so unimportant that a poor man bought it for a few coppers. Once home the poor man discovered that inside the book was thin vellum on which was...
George Chingarande 08 August 2011
Water becomes costly
Recently government decided to hike the cost of all water supply services to the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC). Whereas WUC mainly provided water to towns and major villages in the past, the Department of Water Affairs provided water to larger...
EDITOR 08 August 2011
Selefu 08 August 2011
08 August 2011
Poor visitor traffic at show blamed on strike
Organisers say the show attracted over 450 local, regional and international exhibitors to the show that registered a slight reduction in visitor traffic compared to last year. Fairground Holdings says this is inspite of an aggressive marketing...
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Budget cuts will curb tax increases - Matambo
Speaking at the Budget Pitso at Boipuso Hall in Gaborone last Thursday, Matambo emphasised that cuts in the 2012/13 budget would focus on recurrent spending where previous studies have suggested widespread inefficiencies and wastage."The last thing I...
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Soul food
And with so much technology and information floating, I often feel that kids today know more than we do. This can be a good thing if well-managed. Who wants their child to wander about the internet without monitoring what they are reading or...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 08 August 2011
RB2 frustrates Jazzelle's show?
The show hyped by its studios and promoters Virgin Brew two weeks ago, never saw the light of day since it failed to go on air on July 16 as scheduled. Recently the promoters of the variety show, which would have been known as the Essentials With...
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Bontleng artists strut their stuff
After the morning occasion that involved Bontleng residents going around picking up litter to better their community, the crowd was directed back to the Bontleng Hall for the formal occasion. The formal occasion was, however, characterised by a lot...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 08 August 2011
Khama charms magwera with P800
Last week the troupe won itself P800 cash from President Khama and his entourage after group leader, Kgathatso Sebetlela impressed. Magwera would soon put on a show to remember, as they danced to the tune of whistles and drums for the...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Evergreen 'Tuku' has revellers dancing all night long
After all, how does one choose which hits to perform for a two-hour session from over 40 albums from a career spanning more than two decades? However, the legendary performer, affectionately known across Africa and beyond as Tuku, lived up to...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Traditional dance, song and poetry add colour to Dithubaruba
Once again the two-day cultural event proved that the Bakwena tribe is endowed with immense talent as the organisers did not have to look further but only tap on homegrown talent to mark the celebrations. Two-time President's Day competitions...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 08 August 2011
Mmadinare SSS to host Phikwe open
According to BTTA, the following associations will also take part in the Open Championships, BOPRISA, BISA, BOBSA, BOTESSA, PASSOBO, and Special Olympics. BTTA President Robert Maabong said the tournament is aimed at achieving certain goals in...
Moemedi Matebu
Correspondent 08 August 2011
No sports centres for primary schools-Siele
Siele, who was standing in for Minister Shaw Kgathi, was responding to Tonota North Member of Parliament (MP) Fedelis Molao who had asked what progress had been made regarding the establishment of centres of excellence. He had also wanted the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 08 August 2011
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