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Woes of a pseudo motorist
For instance, I was utterly shocked upon going to a 'gas station' in the United States and realising I had to fill the tank myself! Fortunately, I was with a local, and he laughed at me as he went about doing the job. I have thought about this Do It...
Kereeditse Lefatsi
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Umbrella - a common goal
According to recent media articles there seems to be a lot of dissent between some of the negotiating partners of the umbrella project. As an ardent supporter of the umbrella project, I feel compelled to express myself by writing part of my thinking...
MOHAMED KHAN 14 October 2011
A forgettable independence day
In my neighbourhood, everything was normal: kids played in front of their houses, an inconsistent trickle of cars drove past, one, two, three people walked to and fro past my house, my housemates slept and woke up in time for repeats of their...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
Selefu 14 October 2011
14 October 2011
Women's rugby coach worried over fitness
The team has only participated in one tournament, the CAR Castle Sevens, held in Zambia early this year. Lees said that he has since then slightly changed the team's game plan, which he now wants to put to practice. "The team is scheduled to take...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 14 October 2011
BDF VI, Kutlwano acknowledge tough task ahead
BDF VI are the men's defending champions, while Kutlwano won the women's title last year.The two made a positive start in the preliminary round in Mahalapye last weekend, booking their places in the quarter and semi finals respectively.Action shifts...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Sports briefs
A representative Zimbabwe women's national side travels to Gaborone today to play friendly games with their Botswana counterparts. This will serve as practice games for the Botswana team, which is preparing for a scheduled tournament in Uganda in...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer & NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Boxers clash in inter-club tourney
The inter-club tournament is a qualifier for the National Boxing Championships. BoBA spokesperson, Willoughby Kemoen, told Mmegi Sport that some boxers have already qualified for the national championships. He however, said the exact number of...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 14 October 2011
BVF committee remains in office despite lapse of term
The committee was elected in 2009 and its two-year term came to an end in June. The committee was supposed to vacate office after the Annual General Meeting (AGM), but there were delays as financial statements remain un-audited. The AGM, which...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 14 October 2011
BSA lose out on National Diamond funds
BNSC was forced to re-claim the money after BSA failed to utilise the funds within the stipulated period.The P750, 000 released in 2010, was meant for the expansion of the National Diamond to pave the way for National Stadium developments. The BSA...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 14 October 2011
First cut
It was only four or five years ago when I learnt of the head-to-head rule in Spain. As a Barcelona symphathiser, their arch-rivals, Real Madrid had pipped the Catalan giants to the league title by virtue of a better head-to-head contest. My initial...
Dennis Keagile 14 October 2011
More trouble for Gunners
Gunners' players were paid half salaries for the months of August and September salaries.The players expect to receive the balance after the GU game, which might pull a large crowd."We did not received our full salaries for August and September. We...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Masitara's deadly boot blasts Nico to the top
The physique of a bustling striker is absent as Masitara's lazy walk belies his fiery goal-scoring instincts.Unknown when he touched Botswana shores in 2007, he was soon introducing himself with devastating impact. He finished joint top goal scorer...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
Security Systems gunning for top spot
The new comers will be attempting to topple Prisons XI from the summit of the log, while Comets will be looking to use the opportunity to get off the base of the log and ease pressure. Systems are second on the table with nine points, just three...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 14 October 2011
No Mathata game moved to Senete
This is because the stadium has been booked for the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) Wellness Day, the Orange Youth Cup and the Gaborone United and ECCO City Greens ties. First Division (North) Secretary, Moraole Sikwane, said the game would still be...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO and KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondents 14 October 2011
Acid test for Nico United
The side from the copper-mining town has taken the Premier League by storm, winning six out of eight games to go joint top with former champions, Mochudi Centre Chiefs. Nico have proved this season that they are capable of winning away from home as...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
Hosts, Equatorial Guinea lowest ranked side at AFCON 2012
The oil-rich hosts are ranked 40th in Africa and a lowly 152 in the world.Sudan are 15th out of the 16 nations at number 27 in Africa and 103 in the world. The Zebras, ranked 25th in Africa and 95th in the world are only above Sudan and Equatorial...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
Satmos on the verge of landing Zim striker
The player was spotted training with the struggling be MOBILE Premier League side this week.Satmos spokesperson, Mpenzeni Sambandawe, said they are still assessing the player but hope to recruit the striker in a bid to halt the goal drought. If they...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Clubs want to control ticketing
Presently, ticketing is in the hands of the Botswana Premier League (BPL) and some clubs have previously complained of being cheated because of the current sharing formula. The current arrangement is that the host club pockets 70 percent, while the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Book view
Etienne van Heerden (2011) translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns. 30 Nights in Amsterdam with two maps (Karoo and Amsterdam). Rosebank, Johannesburg, Penguin Books, Softcover edition, 453 pages, P190. ISBN 978-0-1430-2677-8. Available at...
Sheridan Griswold 14 October 2011
Back stage
Viva Riva! is the first full-length feature film to be made in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 25 years. The Congolese director, who also wrote the script, is Djo Tunda wa Munga. He was in Gaborone for the premier and spoke about his film...
Sasa Majuma 14 October 2011
Heritage sites in the Greater Francistown (Part 2)
It covers an area of approximately 16,500 km, which is inhabited by Bakalanga and other ethnic groups. The predominant people found in this area, the Bakalanga, are a complex ethnic group, comprising many different cultural groups whose heritage...
ABEL A. MABUSE 14 October 2011
A poetry feast
Dreaming Is A Gift For Me is a spoken word CD compilation featuring Botswana's foremost poets. The CD was launched on September 20 when contributors gathered to listen to the CD in the company of well-wishers, journalists and an odd critic. It is...
14 October 2011
Exploring Viva Riva!
Mmegi: Viva Riva!, the first feature film you wrote and directed has been greatly acclaimed all over the world, and has won numerous awards including six African Movie Academy Awards. Where did the idea for the film come from?Munga: After...
14 October 2011
Food prices continue to soar
This year the theme of World Food Day is "Food prices: from crisis to stability." Rarely could the subject have been more relevant for economies and people across the globe.According to the UN, world food prices surged to an all-time high back in...
14 October 2011
'Steve Jobs 1955-2011'
I've tried hard but I can't resist it.I thought of writing about my passion for Apple products, about the overwhelming level of innovation Apple seems to possess and about how utterly, completely and staggeringly cool Apple products are. But everyone...
14 October 2011
PPADB produces "world class" training modules
The modules were produced in partnership with Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), Crown Agents and the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Speaking at the launch in Gaborone yesterday, the executive chairperson of the procurement...
14 October 2011
Zim approves Botswana credit facility
Zimbabwe's pro-government newspaper, the Herald, reported that the House had approved the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) that seeks to promote and protect investment between the two countries. Other BIPPAs approved...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 14 October 2011
CIC's financial woes worsen
Mmamabula Energy Complex promoters, CIC Energy's losses continue to skyrocket as the search for new suitors to breathe life into the 2.4 billion tonne coal project prolongs. This week, the Toronto and Gaborone-listed coal developer, reported a net...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 14 October 2011
Sun set to go down on Letshego's heyday
However, the future does not look as bright for the micro lender due to a recent decision by the government to cease facilitating deduction of loans at source.For the interim period ended 31 July 2011, the BSE-listed company, which now operates in...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
The death penalty again
The one that gained the most publicity was the execution in Georgia of Troy Davis, who had been convicted of the 1989 murder of Mark McPhail, an off-duty police officer.Davis's death sentence was carried out despite serious doubts about whether he...
* PETER SINGER 14 October 2011
Takeover of brigades nearly completed- Zuze
The principal public relations officer in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Nomsa Zuze, says the two-phase programme saw 21 brigades taken over in 2009 and 18 this year. Speaking in an interview with Mmegi this week, Zuze said the...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 14 October 2011
A 'working girl's tale
Lindiwe rolls over on the weather-beaten bed and in one fluid motion reaches for the ringing phone and turns off the alarm.She arduously lifts her reluctant body out of bed, her face scrunched in defeat. It's time to get up and go to work but she...
14 October 2011
Thais race to shore up Bangkok defenses against floods
So far, 281 people have been killed and two people are missing in Thailand, according to the government website Thaiflood.com. Some 61 of the country's 76 provinces have so far been affected, impacting more than eight million people. More than...
14 October 2011
Amnesty urges Libya to tackle 'stain' of detainee abuse
In a report, the London-based rights group said it had uncovered evidence of torture and ill-treatment of thousands of people detained in recent months.Sub-Saharan Africans suspected of being Col Muammar Gaddafi's mercenaries were particularly...
14 October 2011
SA isn't kowtowing to anyone on foreign policy, insists Zuma
Zuma, who was speaking at a public lecture at the University of Pretoria, said: "Our foreign policy is independent and decisions are formed by national interest. We are not dictated to."Zuma made the comment after highlighting that South Africa's...
14 October 2011
Uganda ministers deny corruption allegations
Kutesa, chief whip John Nasasira and junior labour minister Mwesigwa Rukutana appeared in court a day after they resigned. They are accused of abuse of office as well as financial loss over the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Uganda, in which scams...
14 October 2011
Tripoli celebrates capture of Gaddafi's son
The capture of the deposed leader's national security advisor, and the first member of the Gaddafi family, is a big boost to Libya's new rulers whose forces are still battling pro-Gaddafi fighters in his home town of Sirte.National Transitional...
14 October 2011
Nitty griffy
The fellows are in the middle of the discussion on how government can cut costs in this never-ending recession. The topic now, as they swirl and swig their drinkables and nibble the eatables, is on how the various senior Government...
Barolong Seboni 14 October 2011
Rwanda- A new 'favourite friend'
Like early childhood friendships of this type, they tend not to last. The key to being a 'favourite friend' of the World Bank, the IFC, the IMF and developed countries that control policy in these institutions, has been a rapid rate of...
14 October 2011
Refugee's open letter to American Ambassador
When we sent the first letter, our names were not attached and your office contacted us, your secretary informed us that since we are coming from different nationalities, you would like to know who and how many we are so that you can be...
14 October 2011
Digging tswana roots
In Genesis 6:5-7 of the biblical Old Testament, we are told that God created the Flood in order to wipe out mankind and start afresh. This, ostensibly, was because mankind's 'every inclination and thoughts were towards evil'. In the Flood that duly...
L.M.Leteane 14 October 2011
Enough of this govt-Kgafela fight!
The move followed Kgosi Kgafela Kgafela's instruction that his headmen should not allow any government minister to address meetings in their dikgotla until government accepts a request by the Bakgatla leadership to meet and discuss issues of concern...
14 October 2011
From used car salesman to alleged assassination plotter
To US authorities, the 56-year-old naturalised US citizen is a suspect in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States."It was shocking because it didn't seem like he would be the type of person to do...
14 October 2011
Iran plot story a shot in the arm for hawks
If anyone comes to you with firm conclusions drawn from this, stop listening. It's far too early to do that. America was rushed into a war in Iraq eight years ago without scrutinizing our evidence and theories enough, and we're still paying the...
*JUSTIN LOGAN 14 October 2011
Strauss-Kahn sex case: French inquiry dropped
It said there had been "recognised sex acts", but that there was prescription, Reuters news agency reports.French writer, Tristane Banon had accused Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape in 2003. Her accusation emerged while Strauss-Kahn was accused of rape...
14 October 2011
Blackberry says services 'fully restored'
In a press conference at 15:00 BST, Lazaridis said the company would now begin a full investigation of what happened.He apologised again for the problems customers had experienced."We know we've let many of you down. You expect more from us. I expect...
14 October 2011
Libya's shadow on Sovereign Wealth Funds
The National Transitional Council is debating who should take over Libya's Central Bank and the LIA's assets - an especially important decision, given that oil production is not expected to return to pre-war levels for several years. Regardless of...
EFRAIM CHALAMISH 14 October 2011
Opposition parties' failure to cooperate costs them Speaker post
In fact had the opposition 'alliance' parties worked as promised during the election campaigns, they would have swept most of the posts in the National Assembly.The new Speaker polled 78 votes against 77 for Richard Kapita, vice-president of the...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 14 October 2011
Is Mo Ibrahim's award building or hurting Africa?
And yet, something about the $5m (P35.7 million) prize has always bothered me.Lurking behind Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front...
ANDREW HARDING 14 October 2011
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