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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 09 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...
09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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...
09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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...
09 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...
09 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...
09 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...
09 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...
09 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...
09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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* 09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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 09 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 09 August 2011
Botswana is out of step with Africa
What business is it of the youth league to become involved in Botswana's internal politics? We are implementing a decision taken at the World Festival of Youth and Students last November. It was agreed that in countries with Africom interests, there...
09 August 2011
How hatred led to a brutal killing
In a parking lot on the western side of town they found their victim.James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, was standing in a parking lot, near his car. The teens allegedly beat Anderson repeatedly, yelled racial epithets, including...
09 August 2011
HIV/AIDS programmes sideline PWD
This is according to the Baseline Report on HIV/AIDS and Disability in the South East District on the needs of People Living With Disabilities with regard to HIV/AIDS services. The report says People Living With Disabilities do not know why...
09 August 2011
Orapa Mine Hospital scores hat-trick
Speaking at the celebration of the hospital's accreditation held in Orapa last Friday night, Orapa and Letlhakane Mines General Manager, Dr Adrian Gale said this was the third achievement for the hospital. The hospital was first accredited in 2002...
ISAAC PINIELO
Correspondent 09 August 2011
Batswana view ministers, Chinese with suspicion - Tawana
The motion was tabled by Trade and Industry Minister Dorcus Makgato-Malesu last week. Moremi said the adoption of a policy on Special Economic Zones would help as different zones will be given particular treatment on the basis of prevailing...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 09 August 2011
Siele accused of dishonesty
BFTU secretary general Gadzani Mhotsha said that they are shocked that Siele has acted contrary to what he told them at a June meeting when he said that he would table the bill on amending the Trade Dispute Act, in the November parliamentary sitting...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Ditshwanelo calls for recognition of Basarwa
"Ditshwanelo notes that the Basarwa/San people are not officially recognised by the government of Botswana as the indigenous peoples of Botswana," says a statement from the Botswana Centre for Human Rights. "Instead, they are recognised as being a...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
NALCGPWU wins battle of the unions
After nearly two years of legal haggling by the two warring unions, Justice Singh Walia of the Lobatse High Court yesterday ruled in favour of NALCGPWU, declaring that government's decision to recognise BOGOWU was unlawful. NALCGPWU had approached...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Tie your dog - BDP man tells ANC
Ntirang, who was addressing a rally at the Tatitown freedom square on Saturday, said he was prepared to die in defence of Botswana against "prematurely-aged Malema". "Malema is a loose canon," he said. "He insults everybody, including his own...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 09 August 2011
Khama lacks discipline, says Maun West MP
Moremi who was a guest speaker at a Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) rally in Gaborone on Sunday said he is amazed by Khama. "[He] likes to say politicians lack discipline and accuse people of being unpatriotic. When the Ombudsman told him to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Ntuane barred from meeting Mauritius PM
Foreign Affairs Minister Phandu Skelemani told Ntuane yesterday that meeting Ramgoolam is none of Ntuane's business and that such a meeting would be a waste of the Prime Minister's time and government resources. Ntuane had written to the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Botswana represented at Taiwan centenary
Phoebe Ramaloka and Donald Molosi will leave for the event, dubbed SayTaiwan, on Thursday. They are expected to spend two weeks in Taiwan, where they will stay with local families in order to fully immerse themselves into the island nation's...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Back Stage
It is one of the better films of 2010. It was awarded "Best Picture" sweeping the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Peter Travers, film critic for Rolling Stone wrote in June 2010, "Winter's Bone faces the...
SASA MAJUMA 09 August 2011
Bathoen statue to be unveiled on Friday
The location where the statue is erected was wisely chosen. It (statue) overlooks a beautiful scenery down a hill, which happens to have more modern structures than Ko Ntsweng. The statue of the late paramount chief will literally seem to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 09 August 2011
Culture essential for tourism diversification
The Marketing Manager of Botswana Tourism (BT) Obenne Mbaakanyi said this when addressing guests at the Annual Dithubaruba Cultural Festival in Molepolole on Saturday. Mbaakanyi, who was standing in for BT Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Myra...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Zim promoters courting DT
Selepeng, popularly known as DT, recently attended a workshop in the neighbouring country. The workshop was part of a cultural exchange programme between Botswana and Zimbabwe, which sought to review Zimbabwe's International Copyright Act, the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 09 August 2011
MDC wants police to act within law
Gonese was making presentations during the second reading of the Public Order and Security Act Amendment Bill this week. "We have a serious problem in that regard where the police have applied or misapplied and misinterpreted the law," he...
09 August 2011
Salary cuts for Swaziland civil servants
The document which details salary cuts as part of the government austerity measures to trim down the country's bloated wage bill was tabled in parliament on Thursday and distributed to unions for their consideration. All servants will be affected...
09 August 2011
BBL wins five-star safety award for the third time
The award, which is the highest of the star ratings, ensures that companies have thorough processes in place to manage occupational health, hygiene and quality management. The NOSA system also focuses on processes that manage social...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 August 2011
Boseto signs contracts to protect copper prices
Boseto is currently under construction and is scheduled for commissioning in the first half of 2012. The hedge contracts are meant to cushion the mining company's revenues against fluctuations in international commodity prices of copper and silver...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
Project Syndicate
And there is little doubt that how Ukraine develops will be of great importance for Europe's future. Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004 ignited the hope of a new wave of democratic reforms in the countries to the east of the European Union - a...
CARL BILDT 09 August 2011
Caution on that 'fong-kong' Measure
For years now, some sections of society have urged caution as Botswana opened its doors to tens of thousands of the so-called 'fong-kongs'. They warned that many of these vehicles would have gone past permissible emission limits in their countries of...
EDITOR 09 August 2011
First Division League kicks off in September
Sam Keeitire said it is important to give teams especially those who only recently got promoted time to reinforce their squads to withstand the stiff competition when the league starts. He said that for the standard of football to improve it is...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 09 August 2011
BNOC maintains focus on Olympic targets
He revealed that the target for next year's Olympics is no less than two medals, preferably gold while the target for the 2016 event is four medals. Kgosietsile was speaking at the official opening of the boxing star coaching course in Gaborone...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 09 August 2011
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