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The glue that binds Manchester City together is Roberto Mancini's goal
As he coped with the insubordination of his leading goalscorer, Roberto Mancini may have wished he were in charge of the deadbeats and has-beens of Neasden FC rather than some of the prima donnas currently wearing the shirts of the richest club in...
30 September 2011
Orapa TT Open slated for Freedom Day holidays
The tournament will be held at the Orapa sports hall. The open championships' system of play would include men and women singles' group round robin then singles knockout in unlimited entries. The men and women doubles would then include single...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Women basketballers told to be innovative
Speaking at a recent BBA event in Gaborone, Mokgwathi said the programme could entail conducting community projects or hosting clinics in schools to raise awareness. The women's league, which has struggled to retain teams, has six teams competing...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Ghanzi coaches equipped with basic medical skills
The Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) through Debswana's sponsorship gave the coaches a week-long course on emergency care. The course came at a time when most of the participants are located in some odf the country's remotest areas. They...
NOMSA NDLOVU-GHERKE
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Orapa TT Open slated for Freedom Day holidays
The tournament will be held at the Orapa sports hall. The open championships' system of play would include men and women singles' group round robin then singles knockout in unlimited entries. The men and women doubles would then include single...
KEABETSWE NEWEL
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Rammidi Independence Cup back
The annual soccer event initially started with 10 teams but now only Kanye Swallows, Kanye United, Blue Hunters and Southern Pirates still remain in the competition. Now in its fourth year, the soccer tournament has this time round been sponsored in...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Pilane at Namibia's Eleven Arrows
Pilane has been at the club for the past two weeks and indications are that the club has shown interest but the challenge is the amount of money his agent is claiming. The player's agent, Olebile Sikwane, of Sporthuis, confirmed the development...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 September 2011
BR Highlanders remain unshaken
Tonota FC also held the second placed No Mathata to a 1-1 draw. Highlanders continue to keep a clean slate, as they have not lost a single match since the beginning of the season. It seems like the Highlanders will end the first round of the league...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 30 September 2011
BDF XI seek redemption against GNT
Fresh from their 3-2 loss to Gaborone United (GU), BDF XI will have a chance to redeem themselves when they host Great North Tigers at the Molepolole Sports Complex. Matebele have shown glimpses of their magical days with victories over giants -...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Sukunyetsa's ECCO future uncertain
The lanky player's contract ends in December and the club is yet to open negotiations for an extension. Before the start of the season, the club's Zambian coach, Chris Tembo, indicated that Sibanda was not in his plans. Despite Sibanda's decent start...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 September 2011
New Satmos coach promises change
Tshegofatso takes over a dispirited team with just one point from five games. The former assistant coach said he has been with the club for a long time and that should serve him well. "I have vast experience in the Premier League. I have played big...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 30 September 2011
BFA, Tshosane start contract talks
Mmegi Sport can reveal that Tshosane met with BFA president, David Fani, and acting chief executive officer (CEO), Sonnboy Sethibe, to kick start the negotiations. Indications are that the talks are going on harmoniously and should be concluded...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Lab Services: Salary offer fair
"We have four unions for our members... three of them have signed... the offer is reasonable if compared to other settlements in the public sector industry," NHLS CEO Sagie Pillay said. "We can't put anything more on the table. If we continuously...
30 September 2011
Destroyed school raises questions for Libyans
A cupboard has been smashed. Bullet holes puncture computer screens and frame door locks. The Tareq Abu Zeyad middle school lies in ruins. Villagers in this isolated, dusty hamlet in Libya's western mountains say revolutionary forces carried...
30 September 2011
Europe: Sanctions dropped in new Syria resolution
Aiming to overcome Russian and Chinese opposition to council action, the new resolution drawn up by Britain, France, Germany and Portugal, with US backing, threatens sanctions if the deadly Syrian crackdown does not end. The first talks on the...
30 September 2011
Zuma spy tapes 'illegal'
Ruling in Davids' unfair-dismissal application, Bart Ford, a senior commissioner of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, found that the recordings were illegally obtained and could not be used in the arbitration hearing. "It...
30 September 2011
Nitty gritty
The glasses on the oblong table of the Shebeen Nitty Gritty are dry. This rather rare phenomenon can be attributed to the fact that the strongman of the association for men has called for an adjournment to the meeting at the insistence of one Nikita,...
Barolong Seboni 30 September 2011
Digging Tswana Roots
There is no culture today without a legend of giants in their folklore. In Sotho-Tswana tradition they were called bo-dimo. Last week, I revealed the only logical and scientific reason for their enormous height - uncovered probably for the first time...
I.M Leteane 30 September 2011
Selefu 30 September 2011
30 September 2011
Stalemate exposes hindrances to regional integration
The South African courts are not willing to allow the extradition of murder suspects to Botswana unless there is an assurance that they will not be executed if found guilty. Botswana through Attorney General, Athaliah Molokomme has made it...
30 September 2011
Book review
Orlando Fernandez (2008) "Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Uganda: The Civil Society Coalition on the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Uganda, The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative". Kampala, Fountain Publishers, Softcover edition,...
Sheridan Griswold 30 September 2011
The world of entertainment moves to Malawi
But come October, musicians and tourists from across the continents will grace the majestic beaches of Lake Malawi, with the likes of African music maestros Freshlyground featuring in front of thousands of revellers at an event dubbed the Lake of...
MALLICK MNELA
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Shell introduces more efficient fuel
The company says the launch of the product, New Shell Unleaded Extra, follows months of research into how best to mitigate customers from the global economic uncertainties and subsequent challenges. Said the chairman of Shell Oil Botswana, Boitumelo...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Consumer watchdog
Apparently the decision to stop deducting payments from government staff directly from their salaries will adversely affect the companies that have lent them money. I suppose the assumption is that if public service employees have to make these...
30 September 2011
Anxiety over investments befalls unions
Presenting the chairman's report to BOFUS annual general meeting at Lady Khama Hall here on Monday, the president of the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) and chairman of BOSETU Funeral Scheme (BOFUS) expressed trepidation about...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Minister hails business mission to Australia
Addressing journalists at a press briefing in Gaborone yesterday, the Minister of Trade and Industry said five more Australian companies would visit Botswana between October and November this year. Minister Dorcas Makgato-Malesu and a multi-pronged...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
SA moves against used car imports
South Africa has launched a probe on what its media has termed "the pouring across" of used second-hand vehicles from Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland BusinessWeek has learnt. The probe comes as South African carmakers, many of them under the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Economic growth to continue at 6.2% - Standard Bank
In its September 2011 outlook for African markets, the banking group says strong export growth, particularly that of diamonds, will continue to boost the economy in 2011 as the country reaps the rewards of the surge in diamond prices, which are...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
We can learn a lot from Zambia
Addressing journalists in Gaborone yesterday, the duo said that Botswana should adopt a 48-hr cooling period prior to elections, instead of closing campaign activities at 12 am, a few hours before elections. They said this would help people to...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
"There shall be a good harvest"
Ngami MP, Taolo Goyamang Habano of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), is a proud Moyeyi. When he talks about his boyhood in the land of his birth, Gumare, it becomes obvious that the Wayeyi are not referred to as 'the river people' for nothing. It...
30 September 2011
BOSETU members urged to be health conscious
Speaking at the BOSETU Funeral Scheme (BOFUS) annual general meeting held in Serowe, BOSETU president Shandukani Hlabano said: " At times when we are caught up in the stranglehold of routine in the workplace, we forget about ourselves." BOSETU...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Death row inmates to know fate today
Thamo was convicted for the 2007 murder of his girlfriend, Sihle Dube. Her mutilated body parts were dug up from various shallow graves along the Tati riverbank, a month after she went missing from her rented house in Somerset where she had lived...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Constable in court over child dispute
Magistrate Daniel Nkau advised the couple to act in the best interest of the child and advised female constable, Kgakgamatso Pule, to allow her ex-boyfriend to see their son. "Why can't the child be granted access to his father if the father is...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Rantshabeng applies for stay of prosecution
Just a day before the 45th independence anniversary of the country, the deputy PS will be keeping his fingers crossed for a favourable judgement. Rantshabeng approached Lobatse High Court seeking permanent stay of prosecution because the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
The teacher who defied rules
He was even clueless as to what he wanted to become as his peers shouted, "I want to be a soldier when I grow up! Want to become a doctor!" or something like that as primary school teachers demanded to know what their pupils' dreams were. It was...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
BEC blamed for 2010 exam fiasco
The Committee of Inquiry into the credibility of the 2010 national examinations concluded its public hearings on Wednesday after interviewing former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Ruth Maphorisa, and Botswana Examinations Council...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
BDP U-turn could spell doom for opposition
While the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) welcomes BDP sudden support for direct election of the state president, Leader of Opposition, Botsalo Ntuane has reiterated his known dislike of the idea dating back to his days as BDP executive secretary. At...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
World Tourism Day commemorated
The centre of attraction was the exhibitors' stalls, which glittered with paintings, leather bags, clay pots as well as traditional food. Motivational speaker and businessman, Bolaane Mazebedi, encouraged Batswana to support local markets and urged...
LINDIWE MOZOLA &KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondents 30 September 2011
Ramsay threatens civil servants
On Tuesday, Ramsay threatened action against public officers who attended the awards. As a result, no civil servant was present during the ceremony, which was held at Maharaja Conference Centre in Gaborone. Public officers were allowed to...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
F/town cllrs refuse to waive allowances
In a debate on the issue, the councillors were unanimous that the trip should be postponed if there was no money for it. The councillors questioned why they should be asked to relinquish their allowances if the trip had been budgeted for. Councillor...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Former police inspector challenges defilement conviction
Othusitse Marape (47) is seeking leave after the High Court dismissed his application to move to the Court of Appeal. Previous attempts by the former inspector to challenge the 10-year jail sentence at the Court of Appeal were dismissed by the High...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Botswana extradition target is no more
Botswana national, Emmanuel Tsebe, is said to have died last year and was buried in a South African prison graveyard. One of the lawyers who represented Tsebe in South Africa said that his client was being held at an immigration detention centre when...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
BOPEU and DPSM to meet over boarding masters
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview yesterday, Topias Marenga, BOPEU general secretary said the union is expected to meet with the employer on October 5th. Marenga said the Public Service Act of 2008, which became effective May 2010 had...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Rabies cases on the rise - medic
Speaking at an event to commemorate World Rabies Day in Gaborone yesterday, Dr Nesredin said that people seek rabies treatment after coming into contact with infected animals. He said that children are the main victims of death from the disease....
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 30 September 2011
Back stage
Friends with Benefits (2011) is now at the New Capitol Cinemas. It is the latest romantic comedy from Hollywood. And just in case the audience is not aware that this is a LA, California production, one scene has the two star-crisscrossed lovers...
Sasa Majuma 30 September 2011
Handmade products dominate Kanye exhibition
Exhibitors mostly from the Southern part of the country took the opportunity to expose their products to a bigger audience. From well-polished clay pots to interior decorations made from animal horns, they had it all much to the amusement of...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 30 September 2011
Arts and Culture dept boosts tapestry awareness among youth
Senior curator of arts at the Botswana National Museum, Monica Selelo, told Arts & Culture that after the last Presidential Arts Exhibitions held in July, they had realised that amongst many art disciplines, the textile art of weaving, otherwise...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 30 September 2011
The strategy behind the debacle at GCC
This is a reflection of democracy, as the majority must decide who will lead. But it is also a reflection of strategic manoeuvering that does not always come to the fore. It came as a surprise to many, even the opposition, that the councillor for...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 30 September 2011
The BNF and BDP's fight for the attention of the ANC: 1912-2004
The Beware of Wolves in Sheep Skins was an attack on Pamphlet No.1 by Daniel Kwelagobe in the 1970s (Kwelagobe c.1979). However, some BNF members got carried away by accusations and the perception of the BDP having been an anti-ANC outfit. For...
CHRISTIAN JOHN MAKGALA 30 September 2011
My unexpected trip to a Libyan hospital
One was holding a razor. A little later the lights blinked on again. A Ukrainian nurse was now gripping a large syringe."What are you doing?" I asked.She shrugged. "This is not your concern."Let me rewind a little. A day earlier, I was...
ANDREW HARDING 30 September 2011
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