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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
Rugby team focuses on endurance
He said the team has been training for over two months and has greatly improved its fitness but he is still worried about their stamina. Speaking to Mmegi Sport, Lees said that in the past the team has fallen in the closing moments of the match...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Botswana targets 20 medals at All Africa Games
Botswana will compete in athletics, badminton, boxing, chess, judo, karate, netball, paralympics, swimming, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball (women). The 20 medals will be expected from a large contingent of 96 athletes, who leave for Maputo on...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Poor start for Botswana in volleyball championships
The women's side, bubbling with confidence ahead of their opener, lost the first set 25-12 to the North Africans before recovering in the second set to win 25-18. However, it went horribly wrong in the third set as the local side went down 25-18,...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Against all odds
The 18-year-old lad, who has become an overnight sensation, said despite Botswana's tough industry he sees music affording him a lavish life of fast cars and big houses in the future. To ensure a solid foundation, the lad spends most of his...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Who are 30 Botswana Fashion Week finalists?
The BFW auditions kicked off late last month and ended on August 7. Earlier this week the organisers came up with a provisional list of 40 female and 20 male models from auditions that were held in Gaborone, Maun, Kasane, Francistown, and Palapye....
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Kobamo Obusitse shows potential in Tswana poetry
Indeed the world is changing fast and nobody wants to be left behind. If rhyming the hip-hop way is the in-thing then quite a substantial number of young people just find themselves caught up in the mix of things. But there are still...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 18 August 2011
AMISOM needs better quality military equipment: AU says
After holding a closed session on Somalia at the AU Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security told Xinhua that Uganda and Burundi have pledged to deploy further troops to AMISOM. Lamamra said...
18 August 2011
Gaddafi troops seize hospital
They forced doctors to perform hours of consecutive surgeries, put snipers on the roof and an anti-aircraft gun in a yard, right outside the window of the emergency room near the main entrance to the hospital, two doctors who managed to escape...
18 August 2011
Companies to reap big from COM4DEV
The network, called COM4DEV (Community for Opportunities For Development), was launched in Botswana for the first time yesterday (Wednesday) at GICC through the assistance of Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Govt, OPEC sign US$40m road transport loan
The programme, officially called the Road Sector Investment Project, is part of the Integrated Transport Project Botswana and is undertaken in conjunction with the World Bank and OFID. According to official briefs, the Integrated Transport Project...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Can poverty be eradicated in Botswana?
Up to now, it is not entirely clear from where this strategy originates, how it has been developed, or why government believes it will succeed. Judging by the administration's public statements on the matter, poverty eradication appears to...
*FRED MORTON 18 August 2011
History will judge you harshly
The opposition and other government critics are all over the place blasting the move to add teachers, veterinary services and diamond sorters to the essential service cadre. But they conveniently forget the long-term role they have played in...
18 August 2011
Selefu 18 August 2011
18 August 2011
Lack of office space frustrates e-passport processing
E-passports are processed in villages like Masunga and Tutume because the Immigration Department in Francistown lacks office space but this has not saved residents the agony of a long wait for services. The Francistown Immigration offices are too...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Habitual criminal due in court for more sentencing
Setlogelwa Teseletso (37) of Lekobeng cattle post has been convicted of threat to kill and stock theft. The serial offender who has several convictions to his name is said to have committed the two offences in early 2009. He reportedly threatened to...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 18 August 2011
Khama faces censure motion
The motion has already been filed and it is just a matter of time before Saleshando gets an opportunity to present it. Although the motion is not likely to pass, Saleshando will be able to highlight the shortcomings of the Botswana Democratic Party...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 August 2011
BCP withdraws motions against Mayor Mbaiwa?
Gobotswang said after lengthy deliberations the mover of the motions "agreed to withdraw the motions". He said the decision was taken on account of the need for councillors to focus on service-delivery and defer discussions on the election of mayor...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
First mephato inspire cultural revival in Ga-MmaNgwato
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview, Badirwang - who is a key member of the Royal Council of Uncles - said the two male and female mephato (regiments) that were named Malomakgomo and Marema-ka-Tshaka had attracted over 840 participants. "Many are...
GASEBALWE SERETSECorrespondent 18 August 2011
Minister pledges to help CBNRM body
Environment, Wildlife and Tourism Minister, Onkokame Kitso Mokaila has said that the government will allocate the proposed body a concession area in one of the wildlife rich regions. At the moment community trusts, especially those operating in the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Opposition members swell BDP ranks
BDP Francistown region boss, Botho Ntirang said they will welcome the defectors in style at a rally in Chedu Choga Freedom Square. The event will start with a motorcade from Marang filling station. The rally will be addressed, by among others,...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 18 August 2011
The chief violators of labour laws revealed
The objective of the forum was to achieve good industrial relations and strengthen partnerships between the sector and the Labour and Social Security Department. The Commissioner of Labour, Rose Sennanyana, implored industry captains to have a...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Kalafatis' killers seek bail pending appeal
Botswana Defence Force (BDF) officers Goitshosamang Sechele, Ronny Matako, Boitshoko Maifala and Dzikamani Mothobi's bail application will be heard today by Justice David Newman who convicted them early this year. Newman sentenced Sechele, Matako...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Botswana outsources Walvis Bay dry port project
The private developer will build and operate the facility before tranferring it to the Botswana government. Despite being the first country to be offered land by Namibia in 2006, the Botswana plot at Walvis Bay remains undeveloped, while other...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Seretse must wait again
Seretse was due to know his fate yesterday, but the ruling by Magistrate Barnabas Nyamadzabo was deferred to a date yet to be confirmed. The former cabinet minister is in the dock for allegedly failing to declare his interests in a company that...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 18 August 2011
Rammidi Resigns
This was confirmed by BDP acting executive secretary Lee Lesetedi who said, "He resigned today. I received his letter. We can't comment further as we haven't yet notified the relevant authorities," he said. Leader of opposition in Parliament and...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 18 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 18 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...
18 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 18 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 18 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...
18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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...
18 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...
18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 19 August 2011
BRU revives Knockout Cup competition
The cup competition will be held in Gaborone and Francistown tomorrow with eight teams participating. Black Rhinos, White Rhinos, Gaborone Hogs team A and B, Francistown Sharks, Ghanzi Desert whales, BDF Cheetahs and EMG Gunners will battle it...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 19 August 2011
First cut
I think it has now been proven beyond reasonable doubt that any fixture involving Mochudi Centre Chiefs and Township Rollers is always a sell out. In the build-up to last Saturday's season opener at the University of Botswana Stadium, it looked...
Dennis Keagile 19 August 2011
Selebi-Phikwe sides seek redemption
The two have vowed to pull out all the stops in their second game. Satmos coach, Stanford Ntini told Mmegi Sport that their game against Notwane, which they lost 1-0, was an eye-opener. He said they lost as a result of lack of endurance. Veteran...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 August 2011
Ross Branch readies for Zim challenge
The neighbouring country will host the FIM Africa Motocross Championships in Harare at the home of motor sport in Zimbabwe - Donnybrook. More than seven African countries including the hosts, Botswana, regional powerhouse South Africa, Namibia,...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 19 August 2011
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