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As I see it
Recently we read in the press that the four opposition parties negotiating a coalition for 2014 general elections had submitted tentative names to the Registrar of Societies to register the Umbrella party. I had an instinct to deplete my...
Michael Dingake 21 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 21 September 2011
Yemeni forces open fire on protesters, 26 killed
Sunday's attack was the deadliest in months against protesters and comes as tensions have been escalating in the long, drawn-out stalemate between the regime and the opposition. The president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, left for Saudi Arabia for treatment...
21 September 2011
Police XI fire Hunda
Police are winless after five games and the club announced in a press statement yesterday afternoon that Hunda has been relieved of his duties. "The poor results posted by the team since the beginning of the 2011/2012 BeMobile Premier League has led...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
We need to up our game - Double Action coach
Podi admits that the league has become more competitive and Double Action cannot afford to be complacent. The champions have played four games and colleted eight points. The team face stiff opposition this season but Podi believes they should be able...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Mogaladi rues missed opportunities
The strongly built Mogaladi has been battling with torn ligaments and even after successfully undergoing an operation, he still claims his condition has not improved much. However, Mahindra, as the defender is affectionately known, believes his...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Radipotsane faces challenges on return
Radipotsane was banned from all football activities for 12 months for bringing the game into disrepute following what was termed disparaging remarks he made to the media. His six- month suspension was withdrawns on condition he does not commit a...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Reikeletseng appeals to govt to engage teachers
Teachers have refused to participate in extracurricular activities, demanding separate remuneration. Reikeletseng said teachers are critical stakeholders in sports and if the matter was not sorted out it could affect Botswana sport. The BNSC chief...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Botswana Fashion Week chiefs won't be deterred
The crew is already making arrangements for next year's fashion week in April. In fact two shows have been planned for the coming year, as prescribed by the World Fashion Organisation (WFO). But before that the BFW have said they would...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Domboshaba Festival next month
The theme of this year's festival is "My Language, My Pride." Pegged for October 1-2 next month, the Festival is expected to draw many people with Ikalanga food an attraction in itself during these celebrations. Organised by The Domboshaba Cultural...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Zuma: SA will support Palestine's UN bid
"We are dealing with a people who don't have rights, and as a follow-up to UN human rights kind of condition and principle, I think they have to be given an opportunity because they have been blocked all the time. "I think in their position I would...
21 September 2011
Songs start to resound in Tripoli school
The new semester started on Sunday in Libya. Many of Tripoli's primary schools have reopened, after almost half a year of suspense due to the outbreak of domestic rift, which has resulted in chaos and casualties across the country. Secondary schools...
21 September 2011
Zambia's general elections kick off
There are more than 6,400 polling stations in this southern African nation where voters will queue from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm to cast their votes. The tripartite elections, the sixth in Zambia since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1991, are...
21 September 2011
Today's workspace
One entrepreneur is contemplating developing policies, and seeks to get a view on the usefulness of organisational policies and procedures in the context of people management, to assist him assess whether it is worth his while developing them for the...
JOSEPH MASANGO 21 September 2011
India seeks to strengthen business ties with Botswana
Speaking at a seminar held at GICC on Monday, Nthekela said other investment opportunities in Botswana were in glass manufacturing and jewellery making. The Indian delegation, which was headed by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Jyotiraditya...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Govt agencies join forces against tender rigging
The MoU, which is to be signed before the end of this year, will spell out the roles of each organisation in the fight against collusion and rigging. Speaking yesterday at the end of a two-day workshop for Ministerial Tender Committees (MTCs), John...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
Mmualebe
Gangwe le gape go a tle go nne le dikgang tsa gore motho mongwe o bolailwe. Mo tirafalong ya go nna jalo, gantsi batho ba ba bolawang ke basadi, fa ba ba bolayang bone e le banna. E a re go ntse go tlhotlhomisiwa pego e tswe e re go belaelwa fa...
SEBOFO MOTSHWANE 21 September 2011
We urge double diligence
As Minister Ponatshego Kedikilwe accurately put it at the signing ceremony, this is a giant leap towards securing the economic future of Botswana. Significantly, government did not only succeed in acquiring an independent window to ensure a 10...
EDITOR 21 September 2011
Selefu 21 September 2011
21 September 2011
Our Heritage
Why would this be so? Stone is a prestige building material. But when so many of us, see the remarkable remnants of this one stone walled structure in Old Palapye our instinct tell us, for some reason, that it couldn’t have been a church,...
SANDY GRANT 21 September 2011
Lawyers in last ditch effort to save death row inmate
Appearing before a panel of three Court of Appeal judges, Moabi Madandume, for Thamo, said the conviction against his client was not safe. Madandume argued that the court erred by relying on the states case to the effect that Thamo was the one who...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
BPOPF fights pensioner
A few weeks ago, Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi directed the BPOPF, together with Alexander Forbes Financial Services and Teaching Service Management (TSM) to pay 68-year-old Botsane George a third of his total benefits as at August 31, 2008, reckoned from...
TEBOGO KGALEMANG
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Botswana silent on Manzunzu fraud charges
On Monday the Registrar Godfrey Nthomiwa only stated that they were aware of Zimbabwe reports. "I can't say what we are going to do right now, but we are aware of the reports in newspapers," was all Nthomiwa could share with this paper. However, he...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
BDP moves swiftly to quell rifts in Tonota
The party has appointed a delegation headed by its new secretary general, Mpho Balopi, deputy Speaker Pono Moatlhodi and acting executive secretary Lee Lesetedi, to hold a meeting with all BDP councillors in the Sub-District following the recent...
EDWARD MPOLOKA
Correspondent 21 September 2011
KDC cllrs ditch council business and go on safari
Kweneng District councillors have embarked on a P400,000 two-week trip claiming that they have no business to transact. The council took a decision to cancel a scheduled two-week full council meeting and replaced it with a trip to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
Kgari averts Kumakwane chieftaincy dispute
Addressing Kumakwane residents at the village kgotla yesterday, Kgari announced that Opelo Chommie Seboni, the eldest son of the incumbent chief Opelo Kgabo, should be the heir to the throne. Kgari named Chommie the rightful heir over his cousin...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
Zim woman escapes death
Eyewitness said the woman who works for a salon was running away from the police. Apparently she had thought that the police officers were looking for her as she is working without a permit. The woman who was bleeding from her left foot, was...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 September 2011
BALA condemns GCC for adjournment
In a media missive yesterday, Moruakgomo, who is also a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activist said BALA condemns the attitude displayed by council and councillors, in particular where territorial political fights are taken to the council chambers...
STAFF WRITER 21 September 2011
Nthomiwa testifies in ex-colleagues' legal battle
The case involves former Broadhurst senior magistrate, Shavirai Mawere, who is suing former Molepolole principal magistrate Nehemiah Mugoni for P250,000. The lawsuit comes after Mugoni wrote to the Judicial Service Commission and Registrar of the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
NFTRC reaches out to the youth
The NFTRC public relations manager Thatayaone Kepaletswe, told a full Kgatleng District Council meeting in Mochudi yesterday that her institution offers a wide array of services and training opportunities to anybody who has interest in the food...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 21 September 2011
Declare Maun a disaster zone - DC
Malala said failure to declare the area a disaster zone could impair the country's tourism industry. She said that at present there is no water at Maun airport. The situation was painting a negative picture of Botswana on the international...
NOMSA NDLOVU-GHERKE
Correspondent 21 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...
21 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...
21 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 21 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 21 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 21 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 21 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 21 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 21 September 2011
Back Stage
Colonel Redl (1984) a.k.a Oberst Redl is on today (September 20), only at the Gaborone Film Society, 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. This is Istvan Szabo's famous film on betrayal, socially unacceptable sex, military intelligence and...
Sasa Majuma 21 September 2011
US evangelist Bynum trails the blaze
The multi-gifted Chicago native drew crowds of not less than 10,000 during her four meetings that ran from Thursday to Sunday. The Rainbow school's hall was filled to the rafters and the meetings drew such a large audience that over 1,000 people...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 September 2011
We all get our beauty from our grannies
This emerged when women aged 60 years and above showcased their beauty at Mochudi's Segale Primary School in one of Sedibelo Heritage Festive events. The grannies showcased their talents when they were competing for the Sedibelo Heritage 2011...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 21 September 2011
16 school pupils take their lives each month
The beleaguered Eastern Cape education department's biannual "Learner Mortality Report" paints a harrowing picture of the plight of the province's school children. On average, 16 school children have committed suicide in the Eastern Cape every month...
21 September 2011
Strauss-Kahn admits "moral fault" with no plan for presidential election
It's "a moral fault," he said, referring to the case charging him with sexual assault against a hotel maid. However, the former IMF chief insisted he had not forced the maid with violence. The televised interview with French TV TF1 was the first of...
21 September 2011
TNMC gets laboratory accreditation
Accreditation is formal recognition of competence, in this instance for the analysis of nickel, copper, platinum, gold, palladium using various analytical methods. The Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC) laboratory joins a family of laboratories...
STAFF WRITER 21 September 2011
Asia stifles local textile companies market
Speaking during a tour of Microlith textile factory by a delegation from Trollhattan City in Sweden, the director of the company last week, Ashwin Singh, said since the decision to allow Asian manufacturers to sell to the American market, competition...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 21 September 2011
Deal secures economic future-PHK
Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources signed on behalf of the government while Nicky Oppenheimer, De Beers chairman penned the deal for one of the world's top diamond producers. In the previous three-year agreement, production from...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 21 September 2011
Mmualebe
Gangwe le gape go a tle go nne le dikgang tsa gore motho mongwe o bolailwe. Mo tirafalong ya go nna jalo, gantsi batho ba ba bolawang ke basadi, fa ba ba bolayang bone e le banna. E a re go ntse go tlhotlhomisiwa pego e tswe e re go belaelwa fa...
SEBOFO MOTSHWANE 22 September 2011
Our Heritage
Why would this be so? Stone is a prestige building material. But when so many of us, see the remarkable remnants of this one stone walled structure in Old Palapye our instinct tell us, for some reason, that it couldn’t have been a church,...
SANDY GRANT 22 September 2011
Defiant Wenger rounds on his critics after backing from board
The Frenchman brushed off speculation regarding his position hours after the club's chief executive, Ivan Gazidis, said the manager had the "total support" of the board and promised to make significant funds available in January's transfer...
22 September 2011
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