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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 22 August 2011
Sudan's NCP's threat to end UNAMID's mandate
"The Sudan government may possibly cancel the work of UNAMID or end the agreement from one side if the UN Security Council insisted on implementing its resolution on extension of the mission mandate," the secretary of Political Mobilization of NCP...
22 August 2011
Horn of Africa food crisis shameful: UN agency
"It is unacceptable for more than 12 million people to be at risk of starvation today," Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, said at the start of a conference on the drought crisis in Rome. "The required funding is lacking....
22 August 2011
Violence in Karachi kills 33 people
There has been a surge in killings in Karachi in recent weeks that many blame on gangs affiliated with the city's main political parties. The government has been unable to stem the violence, as it also grapples with a faltering economy and a raging...
22 August 2011
Rugby cup marred by controversy
The disputes were caused by a disruption in fixtures. Apparently, Hogs B who were supposed to play against 2011 national league champions, Black Rhinos pulled out at the last minute citing a shortage of players as some had been injured whilst some...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Brazil take u20 title with three goals
Oscar got the winner in the 111th minute, lobbing a shot from the right that was tipped by Portugal keeper Mika onto the underside of the crossbar before going in. He also scored in the fifth minute, and again in the 78th. Oscar made the difference...
22 August 2011
Botswana in fifth position play-offs
Botswana, which was in pool B, only beat Rwanda 3-0 but lost 3-1 to defending champions Algeria and Tunisia. The defending champions were also beaten 3-0 by Senegal. Botswana is likely to face Nigeria who also saw red, losing all their pool A...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 22 August 2011
UB Crystals trounce Notwane in netball thriller
After a slow start for Notwane, Crystals dominated play as their opponents struggled to find their shooters. Crystals' incisive goal shooter Botlhale Moeng thrust them into the lead barely a minute into the game after some lovely exchanges...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Rollers, Ecco share the spoils
After Rollers lost 2-5 to Mochudi Centre Chiefs and ECCO lost by a solitary goal to its Francistown rival TAFIC the previous week, the two wounded lions were expected to battle it out in what was billed the clash of the week. Though both showed...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Emulate BOKA, Serufho urges sports codes
The encouragement was made by the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) chief executive officer (CEO) Tuelo Serufho at the end of the 20km-sponsored walk in Gaborone on Saturday. The sponsored walk dubbed SAMURAI was organised to raise funds...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 22 August 2011
GU down Notwane
Gaborone United (GU) maintained their 100 percent win to the start of the beMOBILE Premier League after beating city rivals Notwane 2-0 in a pulsating encounter played at the UB Stadium on Saturday evening. A goal in each half by Ofentse Nato and...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Tafic claim a point from Gunners
Tafic Zimbabwean midfielder Tafadzwa Maingire equalised in the 81st minute to give his side a hard fought point over a superior Extension Gunners at the SSKB stadium on Saturday afternoon. Gunners have only themselves to blame for missing out on...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Soul food
Some wise person observed and concluded that "Do as I say, not as I do" is a directive that is pretty hard to sell to this generation of youngsters. I could not agree more. And with so much technology and information floating, I often feel that...
Boitshepo Giyose 22 August 2011
The metrophones' menu sampled to the media
The band's performance for the media came in a week in which the band was training under two South African music instructors from Cape Town, hired by Metropolitan to work with the band ahead of the much-awaited concerts also aimed at fundraising for...
STAFF WRITER 22 August 2011
Bakgatla songs thrill multitudes
Numbering close to 2,000, the initiates and their relatives marched in a single file from Molapong, just behind a hill next to the Deborah Memorial Hospital (DMH),. The initiates were geared in cultural attire; a coat made from animal hide and...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Riverwalk hosts fashion parade
The show was a follow-up to MQMA's inaugural event held last year aimed at presenting Batswana with new and fashionable ways of dressing. It, however, seems the show is growing by leaps and bounds judging by the increase in number of models,...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Kapambwe and friends shine in maitisong musical extravaganza
Just as often those dreams fade away because of cynicism cultivated in adolescence and hardened in adulthood. But after watching Moonga Kapambwe and his friends dancing and singing at Maru-a-Pula School's Maitisong Theatre last Saturday, one hopes...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Blowing 'em away with classicals musics
The show was, however, not very well attended possibly because of its nature as Laone played sonata's exotic to Botswana. It was not, therefore, surprising that a majority of the attendees were non-Batswana. However, this did not deter the...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Europe's financial wasteland
But, if Eliot had been a professional investor who had observed European financial markets over the last few years, I am quite certain that his choice would have been August. In August 2007, the decision by BNP Paribas to close two of its hedge...
22 August 2011
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Last week was one of those that hopefully doesn't recur for us for some time what with flu on the one hand and the collapse of Botsnet's service on the other. How are those of us who are Botsnet customers to interpret and react to its...
Sandy Grant 22 August 2011
On the flip side
Lying is common in our society. However wrong it may be we are all liars to a high degree! You hear someone say, 'You are voluptuously African' when we know that person is an obese fat blob. We charm people and say they are beautiful when they like...
Keletso Thobega 22 August 2011
Issues in education
Public schools re-opened last month following a cut-short three-week vacation in the public basic-education and senior secondary schools' calendar. This was caused by the public sector industrial action that also involved teachers and thus...
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SHELDON WEEKS 22 August 2011
The winners code
In the last issue we introduced the anecdote of the man who had many challenges in his life but did nothing about them. Trapped in a state of inertia, the man, like so many of us, kept thinking, hoping and wishing that things would get...
George Chingarande 22 August 2011
This shouldn't have happened
What is intriguing about this story is that this is a minor who is not even supposed to be flogged under Botswana laws. But surprisingly, the headman who ruled that the boy be lashed four strokes doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this...
22 August 2011
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22 August 2011
Water divination is a god-given talent - Sesa
The Monitor undertook a fact-finding mission to establish the 'truth' about water-divination and stumbled upon one Segomotso Sesa of Tebele Ward in the Tswapong Village of Mahalapitsa. "Water-divination is neither witchcraft nor bongaka ja Setswana,...
Gasebalwe Seretse
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Tebelopele hits a stalemate over retrenchment packages
The war on HIV/AIDS came to a standstill for two days this week in the southern part of Botswana as employees of Tebelopele Voluntary Testing and Counselling Centres waited to hear about their retrenchment packages. However, the issue stalemated...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Ever changing times
Specifically, my mother was referring to the way pregnant women dress these days and young women's (in her opinion) heavy reliance on literature relating to pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing. My mother asserted: "The children they write about...
Kereeditse Lefatsi
Correspondent 22 August 2011
The BDP welcoming event was a no-show
In the run-up to the rally, the media was awash with news that the BDP was going to welcome into its fold, more than 300 members from the opposition. The announcement went into overdrive when, on Saturday morning and afternoon, BDP vehicles drove...
Edward Bule
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Angry teachers lock-up school head
The teachers demanded to know why Letsoalo-Lethola wrote to the Regional Education Office on May 19 indicating that seven teachers (names withheld), are ring-leaders and that they are destabilising the school without first talking to them about her...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
GCC officials donate to abandoned child
The city council's community service committee took a break from the pressing needs of providing service to Gaborone residents to gush over six-month-old Vincent* and to hand over gifts to him at Princess Marina Hospital's Children's Ward. Oblivious...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Mogoditshane teachers to petition MoE
A highly placed source at the school revealed that handing over the petition to the PS has proved impossible over the past few weeks as the PS was continuously unavailable to receive it. The petition paints a gloomy picture at the school. The...
Peter Madiya
Correspondent 22 August 2011
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22 August 2011
Masisi struggles to explain 'government'
The minister was put to task after his ministry released a statement entitled 'Parliament move disappoints government'. The statement was published in the state-owned Daily News on July 8, 2011. Initially Masisi told Parliament that 'government' in...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 22 August 2011
Youth dies after flogging?
The victim, a Form I student in the village, was buried on Sunday, after complaining of pains on the back and waist, following the flogging. The juvenile, 15-year-old France Kalodi, of Tsetsebjwe died last week at Nyangabwe Referral Hospital after...
onalenna modikwa
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
MPs warn MoA against Live cattle exports
Firing a question during the ministers' question time in Parliament on Friday, Kwelagobe said that a similar practice was responsible for the collapse of the ostrich industry in Botswana because buyers needed not to buy ostrich meat from Botswana. He...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Matambo can't quit over 'trumped-up charges' - Tafa
Matambo's legal counsel Parks Tafa, told Gaborone Chief Magistrate Lenah Oahile-Mokibe that their client cannot resign his Cabinet post because of the "malicious and trumped-up charges" that the state cannot substantiate. Tafa's averments come amid...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
New regiment named Matlotlakgosi
Embattled Bakgatla sovereign Kgosi Kgafela II was the epitomy of joy as he joined an 850-strong regiment that was led by his eldest son and heir to the throne, Matshego, at the Mochudi Kgotla on Saturday morning. Perhaps it was the joy of a father...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Tourists-focused mall opens in Maun
The mall, which offers a variety of shopping facilities all for the shopping convenience of tourists, was officially opened last week by North West District Council Chairman, Tebogo Bethia. Some of the facilities housed by the mall include a coffee...
Boniface Keakabetse
CORRESPONDENT 22 August 2011
MVA welcomes new Board members
The members, Moakofhi Modisenyane and Pauline Sebina, were credited for being part of the team that tremendously transformed the fund. At a ceremony held in Gaborone last week, the Acting Chairman of MVAF Tendekani Malebeswa said that during the...
Isaiah Morewagae
Staff Writer 22 August 2011
Food price gallop gathers pace
Statistics Botswana data released last week indicates that in the last 12 months up to July, an index tracking aggregate food and non-alcoholic beverage prices have risen by an average 6.8 percent, and by 5.6 percent in the last six months alone....
Mbongeni Mguni
Staff Writer 22 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 22 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...
22 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 22 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 22 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...
22 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...
22 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...
22 August 2011
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