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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 19 October 2011
The class warfare the rich don't understand
"Those who own the country ought to govern it." - Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going to ask the wealthy to kick in a...
19 October 2011
The pimples and truth of the cooperation project
Various theories and comments have been advanced regarding this key political arrangement. In this submission, I reveal the pimples and truths surrounding the 'opposition talks'. My inspiration to write this piece derives its legitimacy from the fact...
* KAGISO NAZRULLAH NTIME 19 October 2011
Issues in education
Zambia presents an important contrasting case study of long-term education reform as revealed in The Power of Persistence by John Gillies and supported by SADC and UNESCO reports over 20 years on Zambia's determination to shape the future through a...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 19 October 2011
Councillors fight abattoir closure
A DVS inspection on August 23, found that the abattoir had fallen foul of the Livestock and Meat Hygiene Act. In addition, DVS found structural defects that could result in subsidence and collapse, rendering the abattoir building...
Patricia Edwin
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Neighbourliness still practised
At Somerset Extension, Shadrack Kedirileng can pop next door unceremoniously or send a thumb-sucking child in soiled clothes to ask for sugar from his neighbour, Modiri Kgathanong. He would have woken up in the morning to a realisation that he did...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Thugs turn social networks into crime-infested sites
According to the Wikipedia, a social network is a "social structure made of individuals (or organisations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange,...
Barati Mathambo
Correspondent 19 October 2011
As I see it
The adage 'too many cooks spoil the broth' remains as valid today as it was when it was coined. The wrangling and fuss in and around the Umbrella negotiations table is a vivid reminder of its pertinence. The more the volunteer...
Michael Dingake 19 October 2011
Sport chat
Finest momentBright moments were far and wide in the last week. Both Township Rollers and Nico United deserve a pat on the back for dishing good football on Saturday night. What on paper seemed a mismatch, turned out to be a perfect exhibition of...
Mqondisi Dube 19 October 2011
Going tough for returning GNT, Satmos
The two teams' troubles are worsening by the day. On Saturday, Satmos lost 3-1 to Extension Gunners in Jwaneng, while GNT was demolished 5-0 by Mochudi Centre Chiefs in Mogoditshane on Sunday. After nine games, both teams have not...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Controversy surrounds cancelled Tonota, Tigers tie
First Division North secretary, Moraole Sikwane said it was not clear why the game was not played as scheduled.Sikwane said Tonota FC management informed him that they reached an agreement with Tigers to play the game at 6pm instead of the 3pm...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Young Zebras face unfancied Comoros in COSAFA Cup opener
The game is scheduled to start at 4pm at the UB Stadium immediately after the opening ceremony.Botswana is hosting the championships for the second successive year. The championships had always been hosted by South Africa.The Young Zebras have been...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Dube's comeback bid shattered
Dube was suspended from the association last year before the July elections, but has since been cleared of any wrongdoing.After the BAA committee was dissolved, the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) executive secretary, Kitso Kemoeng barred...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Zebras in bottom pot for AFCON draw
Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, hosts Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, are the top seeds. CAF considered the performance of teams in the last three editions of the AFCON finals, which weighed heavily against the Zebras who are only making their debut at the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Magang family documentary shown again
The documentary had been launched three weeks before.The documentary was inspired by Magang's autobiography entitled, The Magic of Perseverance, which depicts the family's struggle en route to unparrelled success. The inspirational story about the...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 19 October 2011
ATI, Ramosamo part ways
Rumours of the duo's relationship going bad surfaced in August this year when ATI was scheduled to release his 100% mixtape that was produced by Risk.Just at the dawn of the mixtape's release, ATI announced that he would postpone it to next April...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Cibil Nyte plans massive comeback
Scheduled for release next month, the album is expected to have 15 tracks most of which are complete with singles like I Just Wanna Holla already playing on local radio stations. According to Cibil Nyte, the album Nyte Time would enhance his status...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Culture Spears couple to tie the knot
The couple met before they founded Culture Spears and released their debut album, Korone, in 2005.Mogwe told Showbiz that all the traditional processes of arranging for marriage have been completed, but would not reveal how much he is paying in...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Celebration begins as Libya's NTC to fully control Bani Walid
Despite a lack of an agreed version on the progress in Bani Walid, some 170 km southeast of the capital Tripoli, fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC) at the front line seems assured that the final victory is just around the...
19 October 2011
Dalai Lama comes back to haunt Zuma
The fresh application will be yet another headache for President Jacob Zuma, who was accused of ducking the issue as controversey swirled around the government's stonewalling of the Tibetan spiritual leader's visa bid earlier this month. Buthelezi...
19 October 2011
Today's workplace
Employer Y got a rude awakening upon being taken to court for something which its employee (a supervisor) had involved himself in with neither Y's authorisation nor knowledge. Y could also not believe it when it was subsequently held...
Josep Masango 19 October 2011
Balance of payments surplus rises to P5.5 billion
The balance of payments, or Botswana's net financial position with the rest of the world, has been in deficit since 2008, with trade imports heavily outweighing exports and net international investment earnings waning due to the recession.A P4.6...
STAFF WRITER 19 October 2011
Central Bank keeps interest rates steady
Fuel prices, which constitute a significant portion to the inflation basket, have already been adjusted upwards four times this year putting pressure on national inflation rate, which currently sits at 8.6 percent as of September. In a statement...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
The other Horn of Africa
Such perceptions, however, are not only tragically one-sided; they are short-sighted and dangerous.Behind the stock images of a region trapped in chaos and despair, economies are growing, reform is increasingly embraced, and governance is improving....
19 October 2011
Mmualebe
Ke eletsa gore gompieno re tlhome megopolo ya rona mo lefokong la go ema ka sengwe, sekai e le 'go ema ka thobane'.E rile mo malatsing a a fetileng, ka bua ka go ema pele kana go eta pele. Nako eo, ke ne ka tlhalosa gore go ema pele/go eta...
Sebofo Motshwane 19 October 2011
Plane crash highlights air travel safety issues
Thus, after diamonds, tourism has become Botswana's second biggest foreign exchange earner. But the achievement of the tourism sector could be blighted by the weekend's Okavango plane crash unless enough assurance is given that aircraft flying...
19 October 2011
MDT to take legal action against previous board
The decision to take legal action against the previous board of trustees was made at the MDT Annual General Meeting. The local community there was unanimous in the decision that action be taken against those responsible for the missing funds....
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Climate change not taken seriously - MP
Speaking in an interview with Mmegi this week, Mmolotsi emphasised the importance and seriousness of the effects of climate change on Botswana noting that it remains one of the serious threats to the survival of people in Africa after HIV/AIDS. He...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
HIV tests for BDF recruits important - NAC
NAC was responding to Botswana Network on Ethics, Law, HIV/AIDS (BONELA) argument that recruits in the armed services should not be forced to undertake HIV tests as this is an invasion of their privacy.At a meeting in Gaborone yesterday, NAC...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
74 light industrial plots handed to SPEDU
The P78 million project by the town council is expected to house small business owners operating from their homes with a view of improving the economy of the town. The cost includes that of developments in Mekorong.Deputy mayor Maxwell Kelebetse said...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
State media regulation challenging for NBB
Mpotokwane said the challenge ensues from the fact that Department of Broadcasting Services (DBS), which houses the two government controlled radio stations, Radio Botswana 1 and 2, as well as the Botswana Television, is not only supervised through...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Stepping Stones International launched
With a holding capacity of 200, the orphanage is aimed at giving orphans and vulnerable children aged 12 and older hope by helping them "find themselves"."These are mostly out of school youth, primarily in Kgatleng district, however, we will expand...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Party talks reach stalemate
Things are much worse than they look to the outsider, say insiders in the current opposition talks taking place among Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Botswana National Front (BNF), Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and Botswana Peoples Party...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Army colonel - first aid is crucial to saving lives
The coal mining company was winning the competition for the second time in a row, while the audience was stunned to hear that BCL had been disqualified from it.Speaking at the event, the Commander of Eastern Military Garrison (EMG), Colonel Sydney...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Private broadcasters deserve better deal - Rampha
He said that the government would rather disseminate any information through its own stations - Botswana Television (Btv), Radio Botswana (RB) and Radio Botswana 2 (RB2). Rampha was making a presentation at the National Broadcasting Board (NBB)...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 19 October 2011
Land dispute looming between Gabane and Mogoditshane
Speaking at a kgotla meeting yesterday in Gabane the residents complained that Gabane land such as Nkoyaphiri, Mogoditshane Block 7, Lesiriane and Lesetlhaneng has unlawfully been incorporated into Mogoditshane. They argued that the Surveys and...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Ombudsman Lepodise passes on
A lawyer by profession, Lepodise was appointed the second Ombudsman for the Republic of Botswana on August 1, 2006. Having joined the Office after its inception, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Ombudsman institution in...
19 October 2011
'No Swede died in plane crash'
Swedish spokesperson, Abdool Rahim Khan, confirmed that someone had mixed up the two countries - Switzerland and Sweden - and said no Swedish was involved in the accident that claimed eight lives."The journalist who first wrote about the accident...
STAFF WRITER 19 October 2011
The umbrella project is on course - Mpotokwane
In a missive to the media, signed by conveners Lebang Mpotokwane and Emang Maphanyane and party team leaders Nehemiah Modubule (Botswana Movement for Democracy) Batisani Maswibilili, Richard Gudu of Botswana Peoples Party and Abram Kesupile of...
STAFF WRITER 19 October 2011
Siele suspends kgotla meeting
Bakgatla tribal leaders, led by their chief Kgafela, have said that they do not want cabinet ministers and President Ian Khama to use their dikgotla because there is a pending matter between the government and Bakgatla.Local Government Minister,...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 19 October 2011
Selefu 19 October 2011
19 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 20 October 2011
The class warfare the rich don't understand
"Those who own the country ought to govern it." - Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going to ask the wealthy to kick in a...
20 October 2011
The pimples and truth of the cooperation project
Various theories and comments have been advanced regarding this key political arrangement. In this submission, I reveal the pimples and truths surrounding the 'opposition talks'. My inspiration to write this piece derives its legitimacy from the fact...
* KAGISO NAZRULLAH NTIME 20 October 2011
Neighbourliness still practised
At Somerset Extension, Shadrack Kedirileng can pop next door unceremoniously or send a thumb-sucking child in soiled clothes to ask for sugar from his neighbour, Modiri Kgathanong. He would have woken up in the morning to a realisation that he did...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 20 October 2011
Thugs turn social networks into crime-infested sites
According to the Wikipedia, a social network is a "social structure made of individuals (or organisations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange,...
Barati Mathambo
Correspondent 20 October 2011
The other Horn of Africa
Such perceptions, however, are not only tragically one-sided; they are short-sighted and dangerous.Behind the stock images of a region trapped in chaos and despair, economies are growing, reform is increasingly embraced, and governance is improving....
20 October 2011
Mmualebe
Ke eletsa gore gompieno re tlhome megopolo ya rona mo lefokong la go ema ka sengwe, sekai e le 'go ema ka thobane'.E rile mo malatsing a a fetileng, ka bua ka go ema pele kana go eta pele. Nako eo, ke ne ka tlhalosa gore go ema pele/go eta...
Sebofo Motshwane 20 October 2011
France name unchanged side but tensions remain
Facing criticism from all quarters about the quality of his team's play during the tournament, in which they lost pool matches to the All Blacks and Tonga before beating Wales' 14 men by only a single point in the semi-final, without getting close to...
20 October 2011
Gunners to launch supporters' branch
The newly established branch has an ambitious plan to help the team financially and already a concert featuring popular radio personalities DJ Sly (RB 2) and Motsweding FM's Douglas Mosadi is scheduled on the same night.Interim branch chairman,...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 October 2011
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