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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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 August 2011
Cricket training sessions for juniors enter final leg
The Under-19 side will compete in a 35-over round robin tournament while the Under-13 team face their Namibian counterparts in three 20-over games. Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) chief executive officer (CEO) Girish Ramakrishna said the the...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 24 August 2011
New kit deal for Gunners
Gunners' talks with the Chinese firm's representatives, who watched the club end a 19-year drought by winning the Coca-Cola Cup final in May, bore fruit last Thursday when their new kit and other club merchandise arrived. All Kasi director Ludo...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Netball coach won't challenge sacking
Gaelesiwe was sacked last week and her assistant, Delroy Nkomazana was thrust into the hot seat. Kelebogile Mocuminyane will assist the new coach. Gaelesiwe has said she would not contest her sacking, which she feels was unfair. Announcing...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Today's workspace
Some employers complain that supervisors fail to manage poor work performance. Some have learnt the hard way in court in the course of locking horns with applicants over matters of alleged poor work performance. There is a request for...
Joseph Masango 24 August 2011
Hana bullish on Ghanzi project
The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed company, which has plans to open the first copper and silver mine in the Ghanzi district, says that the recent results were encouraging as the scoping study conducted on the South Limb South area, confirmed the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
BoB keen to halt 'booming' currency black market
According to a report released yesterday, the Central Bank conducted on-site examinations last year, which indicated that bureaux de change profitability was shrinking due, in large part, to the burgeoning currency black market. The trend was seen...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
Rebuilding Libya
If the rebels are to ensure their revolution's long-term success, they will have to overcome the weaknesses that plague them. In the days following the start of the uprising in February 17, the rebels formed a political body known as the National...
*BARAK BARFI 24 August 2011
BOFEPUSU shows the way in post-strike fallout
This is what the news that the Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions (BOFEPUSU) intends to get jobs abroad for nurses sacked for joining the recent civil service strike suggests. It is possibly the first time a trade union in the country is...
24 August 2011
Mmualebe
Mo malatsing a le bangwe re santse re aloga, mafoko 'monna' le 'mosadi' a ne a dirisiwa ka phuthologo go se sepe selabe mo go one. E ne e a re fa motho a a dirisa a se ke a ikakanye pele gore a o tlaa bo a dirisa mafoko a a siameng kgotsa nnyaa....
Sebofo Motshwane 24 August 2011
Selefu 24 August 2011
24 August 2011
Our heritage
Unlike the old tribal capitals, Phikwe was everyone's town, a cosmopolitan place, a lively, crude mix with the best and the worst rubbing shoulders with each other, probably to the infinite pleasure of both. Bit by bit Phikwe was doomed, of...
Sandy Grant 24 August 2011
Mutharika dissolves cabinet as pressure mounts
By Sunday, it was still unclear whether his decision to dissolve his cabinet was in a reaction to calls by members of the civil society to opt for a lean cabinet as the country faces numerous political, social and economic problems. "It's not...
MALLICK MNELA
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Jehovah's Potter's Assembly take 'War of Armageddon' to Serowe
The church, leases a hall that fills to the rafters every Sunday inside the Botswana Railways (BR) office complex in Francistown. Here, demonic spirits are exorcised and spiritual healing takes place, not only on Sundays but also Wednesday and Friday...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 24 August 2011
BCPYL backs move to withdraw anti-Mbaiwa motions
BCPYL president Lotty Manyepedza said they understand the position of the party leadership and agree that much has to be done first to address the long-standing divisions among BCP councillors in Selebi-Phikwe. The divisions have negatively affected...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
Police officer refuses to give specimen after fatal accident
The police suspect that the driver lost control of the vehicle, which then rammed into a security wall and overturned inside a residential compound, where it hit a 23-year-old man. The man later died at Selebi-Phikwe Government Hospital. "The driver...
CALISTUS KOLATSHO
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Nature Care defies Kombucha ban
Despite the two-months-old MoH ban, the drink, being peddled under the name Kombucha, continues to be sold to the unsuspecting public. In a letter written to Nature Care, the distributors of the drink, the Director of Health Services at the MoH...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
Phikwe civil servants raise funds for sacked colleagues
The money collected will be used to pay rent and buy food for the affected people. The employees chose the fundraising committee during a meeting organased by the Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions (BOFEPUSU). They expressed mixed feelings...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Five suspects arrested in P2m robbery
The robbery occurred around 3am near Ditlhakane River in Kumakwane when two security guards driving to Gantsi were attacked by seven men armed with pistols and other weapons. No injury was reported. The five suspects arrested in connection with the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
Intelligence gathering vital - Motlhanka
Senior Assistant Commissioner Kelebamang Motlhanka was speaking on Friday at Otse Police College during the graduation ceremony for 18 law enforcement officials from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, who completed a two-week...
STAFF WRITER 24 August 2011
Sebina behind bars as bail is revoked
Sebina's bail was revoked after Magistrate Game Yuyi committed him, Thabo Stimela and Aubrey Nkuna to the Lobatse High Court to be tried for murder. The three men are facing a single count of murder following the death of Lesley Manga Ntswane. It is...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
PSP rushes to plug govt leaks
In a savingram written on August 3, 2011, the head of the civil service expressed concern that despite heads of ministries and government agencies being told to guard against it, it appears "no such measures were put in place or where they were put...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 24 August 2011
NRH employees tell PS of corrupt promotions
They said that friendships and connections are more important than merit in promotions at the institution. "We do not know exactly on what basis promotions are done. Long serving employees with potential are left out whilst only the incompetent ones...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 24 August 2011
Hurricane Irene strengthens as it swirls over Caribbean
Forecasters say Irene is set to intensify further as it heads north-west towards the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas. The storm is forecast to reach the south-eastern US by last weekend, possibly making landfall in Florida, Georgia or South...
24 August 2011
Australian MP, Craig Thomson, in sex scandal inquiry
Police said they were examining new evidence against Craig Thomson. Thomson has denied any wrongdoing, and has already said an unnamed friend forged his signature to use the card. A conviction for theft or fraud could bring down Julia Gillard's...
24 August 2011
African leaders to pledge funds for Horn drought crisis
African Union Commission chairman ,Jean Ping, will appeal to the continent's leaders and the international community to assist more than 12 million drought-hit people in the region, during a pledging conference in the Ethiopian capital. "(I) wish to...
24 August 2011
UN driver arrested in DRC for trafficking mineral
"The security services at the DRC-Rwandan border, at the level of the main roadblock in the town of Goma, stopped a jeep," said a statement from the provincial minister of mines in Nord-Kivu, Kubuya Ndoole. The vehicle was driven by UN employee...
24 August 2011
SA denies it's helping Gaddafi flee
"The South African government would like to refute and dispel the rumours and claims that it has sent planes to Libya to fly Gaddafi and his family to an undisclosed location," she said. Nkoana-Mashabane was speaking at a briefing following a meeting...
24 August 2011
Back stage
A Single Man (2009) was shown of August, 23 only, at the Gaborone Film Society, at the Maitisong Hall at Maru-a-Pula School (the A/V Centre is being renovated). Colin Firth won a BAFTA as Best Actor in England and a Volpi Cup at Venice for his...
Sasa Majuma 24 August 2011
Double joy for Kabelo Eric
The modest artist will battle it out for the Best Gospel Song accolade in next month's Afrotainment Museke Africa Music Awards in New York, United States of America (US). The nomination comes barely three months after another nomination at the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 August 2011
The Hub, ACHAP to stage Miss All-Schools pageant
Pageant organiser Marc Themba told journalists at a press conference on Monday that they are aiming at providing a platform for the youth to address challenges and sensitise the general public on issues like HIV/AIDS and safe male circumcision...
KARABO SENAME
STAFF WRITER 24 August 2011
Five suspects arrested in P2m robbery
The robbery occurred around 3am near Ditlhakane River in Kumakwane when two security guards driving to Gantsi were attacked by seven men armed with pistols and other weapons. No injury was reported. The five suspects arrested in connection with the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 24 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 24 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...
24 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 24 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 24 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...
24 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...
24 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...
24 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 August 2011
Rebuilding Libya
If the rebels are to ensure their revolution's long-term success, they will have to overcome the weaknesses that plague them. In the days following the start of the uprising in February 17, the rebels formed a political body known as the National...
*BARAK BARFI 25 August 2011
Mmualebe
Mo malatsing a le bangwe re santse re aloga, mafoko 'monna' le 'mosadi' a ne a dirisiwa ka phuthologo go se sepe selabe mo go one. E ne e a re fa motho a a dirisa a se ke a ikakanye pele gore a o tlaa bo a dirisa mafoko a a siameng kgotsa nnyaa....
Sebofo Motshwane 25 August 2011
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