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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...
05 September 2011
Zeus, Scar dish out rap
However, the much publicised battle of the two rappers was reduced to a night of impressive showcasing of rap talent by the country's highly gifted rappers. Zeus's song, Summertime, was used as a signature tune in the Mascom summer promotion two...
Lawrence Seretse
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Chengeta unveils trailer for upcoming movie
Ending up at a club, being killed by your boyfriend (because he discovers you with an older man), being discovered by your married lover's wife in her house - all of these are possible outcomes judging by a trailer from Ndinaye Chengeta's...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Ignorance of agoa hurts ngami weavers
The women basket weavers, whose artistry has put Botswana on the map internationally, have expressed ignorance of AGOA's provisions, while bemoaning the slow death of their businesses. Ironically, Americans have one of the biggest appetites for...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Francistown Airport opens-at last
Minister of Transport and Communications, Frank Ramsden, briefed the media last week on the completion of the airport at a media tour organised by the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB). Ramsden said that almost everything was in place. "We...
Patricia Edwin
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Statement on bofepusu's intention to sue against Edward Tswaipe
Following the notice to sue we have given the matter to our lawyers, who have already indicated to BOFEPUSU and its affiliates of our readiness to defend. The ball is in their court, but we are prepared to go all the way. I stand by the words I...
05 September 2011
ETCETERA II
Late August-early September is always special with flowering aloes, bauhinias, coral trees and the sickly scented mopipi. But this year has been even more special with Amantle's Gold. A British newspaper reported that Africa has a new...
Sandy Grant 05 September 2011
Einstein The Realist
Unexpected by researchers, such a force had nevertheless been predicted in 1915 by a modification that Albert Einstein proposed to his own theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. But he later dropped the modification, known as the...
*David Deutsch 05 September 2011
Issues in education
Child protection has been one of the major subjects discussed in many of the past articles in Issues. Cases and acts of moral indifference, child abuse, corporal punishment, unsafe schools, unfriendly classrooms, insensitive education policies,...
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S. Weeks 05 September 2011
The winners code
The story is told of a school kid who was very passionate about rugby. He wanted to play every minute of every game, but the school teacher who was also the rugby coach never selected him. Although the boy was passionate about the sport,...
George Chingarande 05 September 2011
Acts of torture by police must be punished
On September 14, armed robbery suspect, Olebile Kefhitilwe, will now be missing for one year. None of the two things that should ordinarily be done have happened: the police are yet to allocate someone to investigate Kefhitilwe's 'escape from...
05 September 2011
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05 September 2011
The Chobe holds key to regional integration
The double-decker boat full of ministers, top government officials and journalists from Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia kicked into gear as it took its passengers deep into the belly of the Chobe River. It was going to be an exciting...
05 September 2011
'Philanthropy? go tell it on the mountain!'
It is not unusual to see a board or signage standing at some household bearing the words, Donated by So and So. Footages where some good Samaritan rescued someone as poor as a church mouse feature prominently on TV today. I recently witnessed the...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
MSSS in housing purchase plan
Since the boarding school opened, it has faced acute shortage of accommodation for its teachers. In an interview with our sister publication Mmegi in April, Belpet Kauraisa, school head of MSSS said about a 100 houses meant for teachers, had been...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Botswana's first cattle 'clone' to be launched tomorrow
The pride of the Ministry of Agriculture's Department of Agricultural Research (DAR), the animal is such a sterling product that it has outperformed South Africa's top composite breed, Bonsmara, which is a cross between the Afrikander and Hereford...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 05 September 2011
High deputy sheriff fees compel re-think at MoESD
Ministry spokesperson Nomsa Zuse told The Monitor that the government would seek ways to make debtors deposit payments into bank accounts. "We were forced to return to the drawing board," she said. "Student loan debtors - locally, regionally and...
Peter Madiya
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Govt hires bush firefighteras
The 182 firefighters are part of a 2,000-strong group that the DFRR trained for veldt firefighting in collaboration with the Australian government. The 182 will be spread across all the districts in Botswana. "There will be a total of 14 fire...
Nasaretha Kgamanyane
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Mokolodi residents block Landboard
This is what the villagers did last week in their bid to prevent the Mogoditshane Sub Landboard from allocating plots to 'outsiders' before they each could get a plot. The Landboard, said the villagers, had promised them that it would only start...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Freak accident invalid recounts his woes to Khama
After recounting his woes at a kgotla meeting addressed by the President last Thursday, police said they would investigate what had happened to the accident report involving George Marumo nearly 15 years ago. Marumo was in a comma for two years...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Missing man was tortured by police - CID report
The CID report, which has been leaked to The Monitor, falls short of suggesting that the police killed Kefhitilwe. A sub-inspector with the Molepolole Police and five special constables know what happened to Kefhitilwe, according to the report. ...
Ryder Gabathuse
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Maun cut off
This is because the only bridge connecting the town to areas south of it has collapsed. The bridge at Setatunga collapsed on Friday, virtually cutting off travel in and out of Maun through the western exit point, after floodwaters overwhelmed the...
Boniface Keakabetse
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Kgafela arrival sets new standard for Kgatleng protocol
Everyone sat waiting in the tent as the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Band played a tune. Kgosi Kgafela had not yet arrived and already some within the VIP tent were asking how the Master of Ceremonies (MC) would proceed with protocol. For in...
05 September 2011
Missing man was tortured by police - CID report
The CID report, which has been leaked to The Monitor, falls short of suggesting that the police killed Kefhitilwe. A sub-inspector with the Molepolole Police and five special constables know what happened to Kefhitilwe, according to the report. ...
05 September 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...
05 September 2011
Future heart health 'shaped by diet'
Researchers in The Netherlands tracked the heart health of Dutch women who lived through the famine at the end of World War II. Those living on rations of 400-800 calories a day had a 27 percent higher risk of heart disease in later life. It's the...
05 September 2011
Is regime change in Libya in aid of democracy?
Even at the onset of the military campaign, many accused America, Britain and France of using the United Nations' Resolution 1973 to fulfill their neo-colonial, imperialistic and economic interests in the oil-rich country. A few weeks into the...
EDWARD BULE
Correspondent 05 September 2011
My 'outlandish' burial options
We are suddenly thankful that we are not lying in that box that the men are shovelling dirt onto, to bury forever. Our appreciation of purpose and the brevity of life are further enhanced by the sight of hundreds - or even thousands of graves in the...
GREG KELEBONYE
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
No bias in committee, ANC tells Malema
It found that insufficient facts had been presented to show bias or a perception of bias by chairperson, Derek Hanekom, Mining Minister, Susan Shabangu, and Minister in the Presidency, Collins Chabane, ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said in a...
05 September 2011
Libya promised France 35% crude oil: Report
Liberation newspaper published a copy of a letter in Arabic from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya, the forerunner to the rebels' council, addressed to Qatar, in which the rebels apparently refer to a deal to give 35 per cent of Libya's...
05 September 2011
Zimbabwe's empowerment law not nationalisation
The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act, signed in 2008, has been driven by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, but has been criticised by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who shares power with Mugabe in a fragile coalition. "It is a...
05 September 2011
Au Morake: The minstrel of soulful rhapsodies
Better-known as Au to denote his station in the family, Morake was baptised on December 25 1970, setting the stage of service to God that would dominate his life. He was confirmed on December 5 1985 and remained firm and steadfast in the Cause of...
DOUGLAS TSIAKO
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Choppies reaches neighbourhoods
But there is unease among traders in the area, who feel they may be forced to close because the chain retailer is taking business from them. Zanele Ndlovu whose home is near the resplendent shopping complex lightened up when asked what it meant to...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 05 September 2011
UN resident coordinator Lwin leaves enviable legacy
"One of the most significant changes we made collectively as the UN team in Botswana is that we have moved from one single UN programme in support of the NDP10 to 14 programmes," she said in an interview with Mmegi. Lwin said seven of the 14...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 September 2011
BDF beat Panthers in softball season opener
The game had a rather uneventful start with all Panthers batters, who were second to bat, unable to get safe on base. Earlier on in the top one inning, BDF's batter Lebogang Ntsang had secured the first home run of the game before her teammate...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Cheetahs, Hogs in rugby cup finals
Hogs thrashed White Rhinos 38-3, whilst Cheetahs beat defending league champions, Black Rhinos 16-18 in a game Rhinos could have easily won. Both games took place at the Wharic Park grounds. Cheetahs and Hogs winning means that they would face each...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 05 September 2011
Diphatsa wins all three Games
Though they collected the maximum points from Tainan, it was not very easy for Diphatsa to win all the three sets with a big margin from Tainan. Tainan's setters could have taken advantage as Diphatsa seemed to be weaker in blocking. In the second...
Mogomotsi Buzwani
Correspondent 05 September 2011
BDF V defeat eagles in basketball show
However the tough encounter saw Eagles finishing in the lead in the first three quarters. Eagles dominated the first quarter as they drew first blood through captain, Collen Semele. BDF however retaliated moments later with two successful free-throws...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 05 September 2011
World champ gold earns Amantle P400,000
Montsho has already bagged approximately P342,000 from the Diamond League Series which she dominated throughout the year. And she will pocket a further P250,000 from the Diamond League at the end of the year if she manages to stay on top by...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Jackson crowned Miss Earth Botswana
It was second time lucky for Jackson, who has tried unsuccessfully before, for the crown. She will represent Botswana in the next level of the competition. Tshireletso Moatlhodi was named Miss Fire, Refilwe Tlotleng walked away with the Miss...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 05 September 2011
Soul food
Now that spring is finally here, there is definitely room for improvement in your pantry. Some spring cleaning of sorts, starting on the outside and ending inside the body and the soul. I can only imagine that the cereals and flours in...
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 05 September 2011
Music stars grace Limkwo freshers' Ball
Mosako was the first musician scheduled to perform for the party-hungry first-year students, but his performance was delayed due to equipment problems. When he was supposed to jump on stage to wow the crowd, his music disc would not play as it was...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 05 September 2011
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