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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...
17 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 17 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 17 August 2011
Moloi 'dribble' leaves SA agent fuming
Rasthoem Simons, of SimSport International, is also furious that he heard through the grapevine that his client penned a six-month deal with Notwane. Simons claims the Zebras' playmaker has been ignoring his phone calls.In an interview with Mmegi...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 August 2011
Soccer agent optimistic despite poor business
Ramatebele told Mmegi Sport that his agency, Glamour Sport Football Agency, managed to transfer only one player from a lower division team to an unnamed Premier League side. He said the agreement between him and the other parties in the deal was that...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 17 August 2011
Hectic schedule ahead for boxers
As a result, boxing would start on September 1 at the AAG to allow boxers to travel to the World Championships on time. The seven-man team is scheduled to leave for Port Louis, Mauritius, today for their final preparation camp and join the rest of...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Govt cracks the whip over stadium
LOBATSE: The government has ordered a contractor to pay for the costs of the re-grassing of the Lobatse Stadium, which began three weeks ago. The stadium was closed recently, only a few months after it was officially opened by Malawian President,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Bathoen II statue: The dream that nearly went up in smoke
But now there is an even more fascinating feature on the opposite side though a little higher than the holy place, the Bathoen II statue. To many who would often stop by to admire the bronze sculpture, it would just be a good piece of artwork...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondence 17 August 2011
My Star's Kalvin, a force to reckon with
As hard as it is to believe, the lanky artist says that he only became part of My Star after his cousin urged him to enter and he adds that he wanted his little niece "to have a good story to tell". Interviewing the talented emerging artist is...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 17 August 2011
Juanita Bynum is coming
Known for her fresh collection of funky urban worship and gospel ballad blues, Bynum will be the main guest speaker at a conference themed, 'Quest for His Presence'. The annual conference, set for September 15-18, has been organised by a local...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 August 2011
AFRICOM offers to help Nigeria check security breaches
Ham made this known at a roundtable conference with reporters in the West African country's capital Abuja on Monday. The commander told his audience that he was in the country to find out areas where the U.S. could assist Nigeria, especially with...
17 August 2011
Obama, 2012 Republicans clash on jobs
Reeling from one of the bleakest patches of his crisis-strewn presidency, Obama boarded his new $1.1 million Secret Service armored bus for a three-day, three-state bus trip at a time of deep national gloom over the economy. He pressed the flesh,...
17 August 2011
Annual inflation falls to year low
Having peaked to 8.5 percent this year mainly due to a rise in fuel prices, the lowest annual inflation rate achieved on a year-to-date basis was 7.9 percent in the months of January and June. In a statement, Statistics Botswana (SB) says...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Botswana to export live cattle to Angola
The deal is expected to boost agricultural activities in western Botswana where farmers have for years been excluded from lucrative markets due to intermittent outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The CEO of the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC),...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
The Tea Party's modest proposal
There are legitimate fiscal issues that demand serious discussion, including how to control growth in health-care spending and how best to structure tax reform. But the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party cares more about small government...
Simon Johnson 17 August 2011
Mmualebe
Kgang ya me gompieno e tlaa remelela mo go 'kgonafala.' Go alela kgang e, a re re o kwa masimo o ipaakanyetsa gore fa e ka re phara, o thelele thotse, gongwe o ka dika o orile wa mariga. Go na le temanyana ke e le o ne o ikaeletse gore mosong...
Sebofo Motshwane 17 August 2011
Shift to Africa crucial for BMC
In Ngamiland, the nightmare began many years ago with the suspension of the region's EU-export status and the closure of the Maun abattoir. For more than a decade, farmers in the area have not fully reaped the benefits of cattle-rearing as...
17 August 2011
Selefu 17 August 2011
17 August 2011
Our heritage Sandy Grant
Wearing dress uniform on the left is Arthur Douglas, Government Secretary and Deputy Resident Commissioner. Sitting next to him in a wig is Alan Tilbury, Legal Advisor and later the first Attorney General. Resident Commissioner Peter...
17 August 2011
Democracy loses in front of masses
Inspite of this demonstration of popular opposition to the bill that seeks to make the cadre essential service employees, what the gathered throng witnessed was the defeat of the motion seeking to block the enactment of the proposed law. Of the 50...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Bangwaketse need P2m to install Kgosi
The ceremony is billed for October 7 and will be attended by other magosi from Botswana and neighbouring countries. Speaking at the launch of a logo and a special bank account for the occasion, the coordinator of the event, former MP Otlaadisa...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Magistrate withdraws from Kgafela's case
In her ruling on Monday, Brown said her close relationship with Mmusi's wife forced her to recuse herself from the case. Before she became a magistrate, Brown and Mmusi's wife worked together at Collins Newman law firm. When recusing...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Moagaesi's construction price guide obviates queues
The guide is a comprehensive index of prices of building materials for residential houses, through all stages of the building process, sourced from seven towns and cities across the country. "My mother was building a house and had to run around and...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
SA turns Batswana away
They were told that they should get vaccination certificates before entering the South African territory. In Africa, countries that are listed as yellow fever threat include Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria. However, the South African...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Undaunted Venson-Moitoi displays valour
However, this did not happen. Not even the boos that were expected from the enraged teachers, who have been baying for her blood, were heard. Instead an applause and praises filled the Mmadinare Senior Secondary School's multipurpose hall as...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
BOSETU wants long term solutions
The union calls on the employer to do so chiefly looking at the issue of teachers' hours of work, levels of operation and sports allowances to correct damages that have occurred due to change of syllabus, the new academic year and the recent public...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
Govt workers 'moonlight' on the census
Mmegi is informed that some government employees from various ministries have taken official leave from their normal duties to work as drivers during the 10-day population census exercise, which ends tomorrow. They loaned out their cars to be used...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 17 August 2011
BAC students complain of 'irrelevant course'
The students are on a two-year diploma programme named Contact Centre Management that they allege is unnecessarily long. They say the course is also poorly delivered because it has neither textbooks nor lecturers. "The course content is...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 17 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 17 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...
17 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 17 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 17 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...
17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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...
17 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...
17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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 17 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...
17 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....
17 August 2011
The Tea Party's modest proposal
There are legitimate fiscal issues that demand serious discussion, including how to control growth in health-care spending and how best to structure tax reform. But the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party cares more about small government...
Simon Johnson 18 August 2011
Mmualebe
Kgang ya me gompieno e tlaa remelela mo go 'kgonafala.' Go alela kgang e, a re re o kwa masimo o ipaakanyetsa gore fa e ka re phara, o thelele thotse, gongwe o ka dika o orile wa mariga. Go na le temanyana ke e le o ne o ikaeletse gore mosong...
Sebofo Motshwane 18 August 2011
Womens bowls team leaves for African States tourney
Their departure coincides with the arrival of the men's team, which returned from the same tournament last week. Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, John Gaborutwe said Nelly Senna would manage the women's team. Gaborone Club's Ivy...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 18 August 2011
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