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Zimbabwe adopts new conciliatory tone
First up was Mines Minister, Obert Mpofu, who sought to calm nervy investors by declaring - just as Central Bank governor, Gideon Gono, had done a few days ago with banks - that his ministry had no intention of cancelling mining licences. But amid...
19 September 2011
'Apartheid returns via the back door'
"We're being subjected again to white minority approval of what we must do and we cannot allow that," he said during a press conference jointly called by the youth league and Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association following Judge Colin...
19 September 2011
ICC fails to net top perpetrators of war crimes: HRW
The International Criminal Court was set up in 2002 to prosecute the world's worst war criminals and has opened investigations into six conflicts, all of them in Africa, and in June issued an arrest warrant for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.But in a...
19 September 2011
The Zezuru: Botswana's opportunity for industry
Last week's papers reported on the closure of a Zezuru 'initiation school' in Selebi-Phikwe. "This school was operating from a pastor's home and had 24 school-going children aged between five and 15 years," Mmegi reported. "Investigations...
19 September 2011
The BNF and BDP's 'fight' for the attention of the ANC: 1912-2004
The "Mandelamania" & its Michael Dingake spin-off, 1990-1998The historic announcement on February 2, 1990 by South African President F.W. de Klerk that the apartheid regime was unbanning the ANC and other groups, and was intending to begin...
19 September 2011
Our heritage
If this is to be a regular feature of the calendar, there will only be another four such months left before we hit the 2016 mark and presumably the culmination of the Vision campaign. I do now note, however, that the original Vision seems to have...
Sandy Grant 19 September 2011
BDP factional wars resurfacing?
At the centre of the party's traditional factional divide is the fight for the control of the party. The party's A-Team, which has for a long time enjoyed control of both the party and government, is reportedly at it again and wants to...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
Francistown heavyweight lifters dominate competition
The competition, organised by Body Building Weight Lifting Fitness Federation (BBWLFF), is an annual event, which attracts heavyweight lifters across the country. The event was sponsored by Galo Mall, Bres, Bokomo Botswana, KBL, BDF, Pick'n Pay, The...
Barati Mathambo &Keabetswe Newel
Correspondents 19 September 2011
Cadets defeat Eagles in Basketball league
It was however surprising that fortunes turned for Eagles in the last half as they had been able to maintain the lead in the first two quarters. The first quarter ended with Eagles leading 21-18 after Keabetswe Baoleki made the difference....
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 19 September 2011
No Mathata wallop Sankoyo
Phikwe first Division side, No Mathata beat Sankoyo Bush Bucks 3-1 in an entertaining First Division North match played on Saturday night at Selebi-Phikwe stadium. No Mathata did not panic despite Sankoyo being the first to score in the 11th...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Hogs romp in Rugby cup
The win means that Hogs get to face long time rivals BDF Cheetahs at the finals billed for September 24. It was however quite clear from the onset that Hogs who have been BRU league champions on several occasions were going to have a walk over...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 19 September 2011
BDF IX humiliate bears
The run-ahead rule had to come into play after BDF opened an 11 point gap at the end of the top four inning. The soldiers had an upper hand over their opponents right from the onset and made their intentions clear early in the game, with a Kabo...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 19 September 2011
BDF XI hammer Satmos 4-0
Satmos has only one point after playing five games in the top flight. For the second consecutive game, the Selebi-Phikwe based side conceded four goals. Last weekend Township Rollers hammered them 4-1 in Selebi-Phikwe. On Saturday,...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Tafic brushes aside GNT
As early as the 15th minute, Tafic had signalled their intention to entertain their hordes of fans with beautiful, exciting carpet football that their fans always crave for. TAFIC's winger Godfrey Lemphorwana upped the game's tempo when...
Keabetswe Newel & Kushatha Tabengwa
Correspondents 19 September 2011
Koko on fire as 10-men Rollers clobber GU
There was not much to celebrate until the 76th minute when the skilful winger's powerful volley sent the packed UB Stadium into ruptures of celebration on the side of Rollers supporters and agony for GU's followers. But Koko's goal only capped a...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Amantle ends season with +P1 Million earnings
Since May 5, the start of the Samsung Diamond League, Amantle has won four of the races and come second in two, earning her $52,000 or P360,000 before the grand finale on Friday, that took her total earnings from the Samsung Diamond League season...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
Soul food
There are still many people who continue to eat high-fat diets. Lowering fat in the diet can help prevent obesity, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. In addition, replacing saturated fat with moderate amounts of unsaturated fat can...
Boitshepo Giyose 19 September 2011
Good turn up for cinderella auditions
By 10am Saturday, 50 young people of all races had already shown up, readily rehearsing their scripts for the play, under the watchful eye of Brincat himself. Youngsters auditioned for singing parts, lead roles, as well as supporting roles in an...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
Maru-A-Pula hosts colourful concert
Drama and poetry celebrating Setswana culture were also staged on the night, while the audience had the opportunity to sample, through dramatic presentations, Kalanga marriage culture, among others. A theatrical offering simply and creatively weaved...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
Fashion week grand premier flops
Firstly, the show started late after 10pm, way after the scheduled 7pm. Attendance was also poor as most of the seats hired for the were not occupied. International fashion designers announced to present wears were a no show, leaving the stage...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Veteran musician Malombo Mmereki is dead
He was 60 and had not been well for some time. He was initially admitted to the Gaborone Private Hospital where he had an operation. His friends believe that he developed complications and was later referred to the Johannesburg hospital....
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Swedes keen to partner WITH S/Phikwe
A vanguard Swedish delegation lead by its mayor, Peter Erikson and international relations officer, Livio Benetton, last week toured the copper and nickel mining town as well as the Letsibogo Dam near Mmadinare. Prior to the Phikwe visit, the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Insurance industry launches charter
The ICB - which represents most of the country's insurance houses, brokers, agents and other stakeholders, launched the charter at the end of a two-day conference held in Gaborone. The Charter comes as the insurance industry and the Non-Banking...
By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Zimbabwe's surviving political spouses: silence of the lambs
Starting with my own relative, I still cannot stomach the congeniality of Mbuya Angeline Tongogara amid all the doubts, ill-treatment and neglect at the hands of Robert Mugabe and his party. Her husband, Josiah, liberated Zimbabwe, not Robert...
Don-Martin Ropafadzo 19 September 2011
ETCETERA ||
After my recent comments on Vision 2016, it seemed best to give the topic a rest. But oh dear, it didn't take long. Within a week of my suggesting that the millions invested in the Vision were likely to be spent on the usual fripperies,...
Sandy Grant 19 September 2011
The fear factor
In response to the global recession of 2008, the United Kingdom embarked on an austerity program while the United States enacted an $800 billion (P5.5 trillion) fiscal stimulus. Despite a softening economy, British Prime Minister David Cameron...
Roger E. A. Farmer 19 September 2011
Issues in education
Last week Issues introduced the topic of education reform. The objective is what can be learned from a major twenty-year longitudinal study of educational reform in five countries reported on by John Gillies (see last week's column on...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 19 September 2011
The winners code
One day an old professor was invited to lecture on the topic of Efficient Time Management, so goes the tale. Standing in front of this group of elite managers he said, "We are going to conduct an experiment". From under the table that stood between...
George Chingarande 19 September 2011
BPC is simply joking!
There is no question that BPC was careless. The amount of damage to his muscles, nerves and tissue are apparent as the burns required grafting. He has since been paralysed. What we do not know, though, is the amount of damage to his...
19 September 2011
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19 September 2011
'UNIP is my mother; my father; how can i leave my parent?'
We are doing our field rounds checking on the multiple contenders for political power in what here is officiously referred to as the 2011 tripartite elections. Earlier on we met the United Party for National Development (UPND) of Hakainde...
Butsalo Ntuane 19 September 2011
'Setswana' Worw demeaned-Kgathi
During a discussion at the the Ngwao Pitso last week, Minister of Youth Sports and Culture (MYSC) Shaw Kgathi said Batswana should be proud ambassadors of their country because it is only them that are in a better position of branding...
Nelson Direng
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Basarwa want special consideration in exams
The children, many of whom have no understanding of either Setswana or English are forced to study in the two languages. And they fail.Now Basarwa are requesting the Botswana Examination Council (BEC) to grant their children special consideration...
Keobonye Majatsie 19 September 2011
Otukile entertainment aids handicapped man
Sello's determined will to survive has earned him much admiration by many people and organisation. The gospel oriented entertainment organisation Otukile Entertainment (OE) is among the many that have been encouraged by the man's sheer will to...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Kamuzu Banda's son arrested for insulting Mutharika
This brings to five the number of people arrested this year on charges of insulting the Malawian leader. Police publicist for central Malawi assistant superintendent John Namalenga told a local radio station, Zodiak Broadcasting Station, that...
Mallick Mnela
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Officers complain of unfair police transfers
And it can be very frustrating, if you ask former Botswana Local Police Service (BLPS) officers who became members of the Botswana Police Service after it merged with the BLPS 2009, and the BLPS was dissolved. The officers, almost in tears, told The...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
'My muti refused to work for her' - sangoma
This is what you would conclude after listening to evidence in an attempted murder case at the Francistown High Court last week. In the case a traditional doctor gave evidence in court... He claimed to have tried assisting Olivia Keboletse of...
Tebogo Kgalemang
Correspondent 19 September 2011
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19 September 2011
BMD donates blood
This has been government's call as it encourages people to donate blood. That call has been taken up by an unlikely source...the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). This weekend the party pitched a tent at the Gaborone Main Mall and with the...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
BPC negligence caused this...
You would also cringe at the sight of his webby armpit and knee areas where flesh came together as a result of injury. "Leoto le le botlhoko. Ke fisitswe ke motlakase waitse," he keeps saying as if he does not mean it, as if pleading with you to...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
I underwent demilitarisation process - Fisher
He says he is now a civilian and does not like it when institutions are militarised. He is able to know that it is not proper, he says, because after leaving the army, he underwent a vigorous demilitarisation process which turned him into a civilian....
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
Man molests child and police drag their feet
The 23-year-old is a mother of two girls: a six-year-old she dropped out of school at 16 to have, and a one-year-old. Along with mothering her children on the scanty pay she gets from the Ipelegeng programme, Pitagano has over the past few months...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
The cat, the Kgosi and the excited morafe
He had just come from killing the animal to satisfy the cultural requirement that stipulates that he should kill the cat before he can be enthroned. Then on the day of his enthronement, which will be early next month, he will be draped with its...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 19 September 2011
Deputy registrar appears for fraud in Zim court
He recently visited his homeland, Zimbabwe and got arrested by the country's police, according to the Herald Newspaper of September 16. They said he had to answer to charges of fraud, where about P700,000 was involved. According to the paper Manzunzu...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 19 September 2011
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