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Oil deal looms as Khama visits Nigeria
The Head of Chancery at the Nigerian High Commission in Gaborone, Moses Adeoye, has expressed optimism that Khama's visit will add impetus to the deal that was set in motion by an oil deputation from Botswana to his country last year. Following...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
BCL mine to reopen ahead of schedule
Speaking during the visit of Miss World First Princess to the mining town last week, BCL Public Relations and Marketing Manager, James Molosankwe, said the fast pace of work had altered timeframes. Molosankwe told Emma Wareus that the shutdown was...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 16 August 2011
We do not need the death penalty
No matter what reason the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) government gives for executing death-row prisoners, the death penalty cannot be separated from the issue of human rights. The country's leadership should be aware of what the death penalty...
16 August 2011
Projecy syndicate
MOSCOW: History's milestones are rarely so neatly arrayed as they are this summer. Fifty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was born. After some hesitation, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union's leader, allowed his East German counterpart, Walter...
Nina I. Khrushcheva 16 August 2011
As I see it
Readers of this column will pardon me if I am wrong by saying that our Foreign Minister, Phandu Skelemani is in the wrong profession. My honest and unbiased opinion is that he should be a professor of law, lecturing playful and dull students at the...
Michael Dingake 16 August 2011
Selefu 16 August 2011
16 August 2011
Venson-Moitoi as fair game
But even so, she still needs to watch what she says. It is not for nothing that she has come under attack for making an outlandish statement over the weekend. Faced with an egg and chicken situation, the minister now has egg all over her face. This...
16 August 2011
Locals hired to cut costs - Mokaila
The fence is meant to control the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the Boteti region. Yesterday Boteti North MP, Slumber Tsogwane asked Mokaila to state when maintenance of the fence would be commissioned and the date of...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Nostalgic Saleshando misses Kopano!
Hence, he started his address at the General Freedom Square in Selebi-Phikwe over the weekend by chanting the BNF, Botswana Congress Party and the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) slogans to indicate that the three parties are serious about...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Vision 2016 awareness drive stepped up
Themed "Living The Vision, Yame Le Wena", the campaign has been necessitated by a recent household survey conducted by the Vision Council, which established that 93 percent of Batswana know about the vision, 18 percent are living the vision while...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Masisi withdraws HIV/AIDS policy
The policy attracted widespread criticism from all Members of Parliament (MPs), as well as human rights activists who said that instead of the policy, government should come up with a law that will protect people living with HIV/AIDS. One of the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Tread where others fear, minister urges graduates
Speaking on Friday at the third graduation ceremony of Limko, as the institution is popularly known, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dorcus Makgato-Malesu, said the graduating class must look at what skills made them a cut above the rest and any...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Kgafela rails at Nyamadzabo
Motivating his application for the magistrate to recuse himself from the case, Kgosi Kgafela characterised Nyamadzabo as disrespectful. He said they feared that should the magistrate continue hearing the case, they were likely to be convicted and...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
P1m fine for a cigarette?
The same fine will be applied to a person who gets drunk on board - something, which Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonota South Pono Moathodi has described as unreasonable. Moathodi was commenting on the Aviation Security Act presented before the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Siele's actions 'a declaration of war on workers' - Union
The Botswana Diamond Sorters & Valuators' Union (BDSVU) has appealed to workers to rally behind Dumelang Saleshando's motion to annul an instrument that seeks to include diamond workers, teachers and veterinary officers in the essential cadre by...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Venson-Moitoi's tounge lands her in trouble
Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who officially opened the congress in Mmadinare over the weekend, said her mandate was to ensure teachers' welfare and professional ethics, children's rights to education and the nation at large. But when it...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
'ANCYL apology linked to ANC succession battles'
A source close to the ANC has revealed that the youth league made a tactical retreat and apologised for its public statement that the BDP government was a puppet regime under the control of imperialistic forces and that ANCYL would set up a support...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Kenya Airways adds 4th flight to Gaborone-Nairobi route
The airline now flies four times a week between the two cities. It previously flew the route three times a week. The Station Manager for Kenya Airways Botswana, Juliet Zintambila, formally launched the additional flight last Friday. The...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
The Metrophones ready to rock
Within minutes of arrival everyone is busy catching up on the latest news while plugging in amps, setting up instruments, testing mics and sorting out lyrics. The hustle can get a little hectic for anyone who is not used to seeing such a large...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 16 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 16 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...
16 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 16 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 16 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...
16 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 16 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 16 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 16 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 16 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 16 August 2011
The noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times, Kgosi Bathoen II
B2 was the eldest son of Kgosi Seepapitso III and Mogatsakgari Ratshosa (granddaughter to Kgosi Kgama III). Kgosi Seepapitso III's two siblings from (Bathoen I's house) were Moaepitso (brother) and Ntebogan (sister). Kgosi Bathoen II's...
* SEANE RAMAOLOGA KEBOETSWE 16 August 2011
Muffling the Leader of the Opposition
Since independence, the Leader of the Opposition has been treated as a partner in government. The position being equivalent to that of an assistant minister, the one who holds it is provided with official transport and staff. Most of the time, the...
16 August 2011
'Regime change' freedom square rhetoric and plain sloganeering
Like a bushfire, the chant has spread from the platform of striking civil servants to the society in general. The phrase that advocates revolutionary change of the guard, has became fodder for public and private debate and today continues to...
16 August 2011
BONELA blasts GUS over ARVs for foreign inmates
Speaking in Parliament, Matlhabaphiri defended government's stance not to provide foreign inmates with ARV drugs, saying it is costly to do so as inmates find such drugs unavailable in their home countries after returning there, which happens quite...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 16 August 2011
A Batswana ke Basotho?
Afterall, Botswana is a country made up of people who proudly call themselves Batswana and to call them Sotho might be offensive even though it is generally accepted that the Sothos and the Pedis are their ethnic cousins. History will record that...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 16 August 2011
The promise of four young men with green fingers in Pilikwe
Motswagole Mogare, Kabelo Mogare, Gosiame Molatlhegi and Mpho Mpofu started Heinz Farm with a loan from CEDA's Young Farmers Fund in 2005. "We managed to secure a place near the clinic where we grew vegetables," says the 28-year old spokesman of the...
Gasebalwe Seretse
Correspondent 16 August 2011
The missionary legacy: how the LMS helped build Botswana
Since the church emerged in Botswana in 1799, its contribution to politics, education and the economy is unprecedented. Robert Moffat was an LMS missionary who came to Botswana around 1817 and worked amongst the Tswana group called the Batlhaping in...
Gasebalwe Seretse
Correspondent 16 August 2011
BOKA members walk to raise P40,000
The biennial competition will be hosted in Melaka, Malaysia in October. The association failed to send a team to the same competition in the past due to financial constraints. This year, BOKA intends to send 15 athletes to the competition. BOKA...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Mozambique club challenges Masitara move
But the Mozambican side insists the player belongs to them after he signed a three-year contract in 2009. Masitara moved from Nico to Malcumana, but due to lack of game time, the Zimbabwean striker was loaned to Miscellaneous during the mid-season...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Chiefs' big win sends clear warning
Chiefs, Extension Gunners and Gaborone United (GU) all registered victories in their first games. But it was a sad story for defending champions, Township Rollers and former champions, ECCO City Greens who started their season on a wrong...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 16 August 2011
Moatlhaping signs for Platinum Stars
The national team forward played his last game for Mochudi Centre Chiefs on Saturday, bagging a brace in the 5-2 demolition of defending champions Township Rollers. Chiefs' communications manager Clifford Mogomotsi confirmed that the deal was...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Back stage
A British Prime Minister, Adam Lang (a brilliant turn by Pierce Brosnan of James Bond fame) has sequestered himself with staff, bodyguards and his wife from the 1970s, Ruth Lang (played by Olivia Williams), on a gated retreat on Martha's...
'We ghosts are sensitive spirits' 16 August 2011
T.H.A.B.O finds niche as radio presenter
Thabo presents RB 2's weekend morning programme, Groovers Mansion. The 30-year-old Thabo, who started presenting the programme in 2008, believes that he has made his mark on radio because the show has been growing from strength to strength in terms...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Zeus delight for Shanay
Shanay now intends to knock on doors with the new video and is convinced that the Zeus factor will open doors for him internationally. "Lorato Bophelong is one of the two music videos that I've shot. I intend to take the two videos to Channel O, MTV...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 16 August 2011
Turkish general faces Sledgehammer 'plot' charges
General Bilgin Balanli was in line to become commander of the air force until his arrest three months ago. He is among hundreds of military officers accused of planning to bring down the governing AK Party led by PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in...
16 August 2011
Outrage over victim jailing
The court jailed Ahmadiyah member Deden Sudjana for six months, a heavier term than many of the attackers received. Three Ahmadiyah members were bludgeoned to death in an attack by a 1,000-strong mob of hardliners in February. No-one was...
16 August 2011
India PM: 'Hunger strikes will not help fight graft'
Singh's remarks came a day ahead of a planned fast by activist Anna Hazare against a proposed new anti-corruption law that the government has presented to parliament. Singh promised what he called the "strictest" action against graft and promised a...
16 August 2011
Philippines Maguindanao governor survives bomb
Esmael Mangudadatu said he was shaken but unhurt after the explosion. One person was killed in the attack in the southern city of Tacurong. It was unclear if Mangudadatu was targeted. Mangudadatu's wife and his pregnant sister were among 57 people...
16 August 2011
Rights group - 'All
The campaign group says civilians are bearing the brunt not just of a famine but also a failure by any side to protect them. It says Islamist group al-Shabaab is guilty of unrelenting brutality, while government troops carry out arbitrary arrests...
16 August 2011
Rebels fight for key towns near Tripoli
Fighting was reported in both Zawiya, just 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, and Gharyan, 80km to the south. If the towns fall to the rebels, they would have Tripoli surrounded by land, with NATO blocking sea access. In comments broadcast on Libyan...
16 August 2011
Egypt ex-president back in court
He was again wheeled into court on a hospital bed, exchanging words with his sons Alaa and Gamal. The judge struggled to retain order, then turned to the presentation of evidence. Alaa and Gamal are also on trial. They deny charges of corruption....
16 August 2011
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