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Lovinah Nomasonto Gwebu: A life that provoked history
The life and death of Lovinah Nomasonto Gwebu illustrates such a history. In fact, it would be impossible to write a full account of the history of the pentecostal movement in Botswana, and Lobatse in particular, without reference to her contribution...
PHILLIP SEGADIKA 10 November 2011
Botswana should concentrate on development and forget detractors
Recently, a South African youth leader described the Botswana government as a puppet regime. By so doing, the youth leader was actually echoing one of the labels used against Botswana even by some of its own opposition parties, including such labels...
*EDWARD MAGANU 10 November 2011
Capturing a president on camera
For the 35-year-old husband and father of two, photography is more than just a job: it is a way of preserving the history of a country. How many people have seen the image of the moment Botswana gained independence, he asks rhetorically. ...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
We welcome whistleblowers' law
We welcome the news, especially that it is coming from no less an authority than the President. A law on whistleblowing, the cornerstone of which is to protect the whistleblower in order to root out malpractice and its perpetrators, must of a...
10 November 2011
Our heritage
But having watched the gay scene in Gaborone I was obliged to refocus my attention on the photo I had previously chosen for this week's Heritage. There could hardly be a greater contrast between the setting in front of the National Assembly and this...
Sandy Grant 10 November 2011
Butt files appeal against prison sentence
The former Pakistan opening bat and captain must serve a minimum of 15 months before he could be released on licence after he was found to be the "orchestrator" of the spot-fixing plot at Lord's in the fourth Test between England and his side. Butt...
10 November 2011
Troopers inch closer to basketball title
Troopers only need to win tomorrow's game to lift the trophy for an unprecedented 12th time in a row. Second placed Spartans will keep their fingers crossed that their bitter rivals lose, a result that would hand them the title. Flames manager,...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 10 November 2011
Volleyball league finish pushed back
The Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) holds its delayed annual general meeting (AGM) in Gaborone on Saturday, which means all games will only be played on Sunday. BVF vice president, Odisitse Keotsene said it was envisaged that the league would...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 November 2011
BFA paints gloomy picture
The team has been drawn against tough opposition, Ghana, Mali and Guinea and now it has emerged that their Franceville base is nothing, but an underdeveloped urban settlement. "There are no banks, the hotel that the team is supposed to stay in has...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Nare denies sabotaging Gunners
In fact, Nare claimed that he never wanted to leave Gunners and that after BMC came up with a better offer he informed his bosses at Gunners who made it clear that they could not afford to counter the package. There have been allegations that Nare...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 November 2011
Calvary simply irresistible
The gospel sensation's debut Calvary is an album for all your moods. If you feel happy and want to release a little bit of energy there are tracks like Evangeli and Ke Lakatsa, danceable tracks, which would make your praise of the Almighty all...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 10 November 2011
Preserving disappearing culture with art
A garden erected at the Thapong Visual Arts Centre in Gaborone is beautifully decorated with Piet's sculptures, most of them carrying a theme on Botswana's disappearing heritage as well as aspects of traditional life that are fast being dumped, all...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
UCCSA Broadhurst Choir releases Di Ile Dipitse
The single is expected to hit the market tomorrow while the DVD is expected to follow later. The single, according to UCCSA conductor, Omphemetse Chimbombi, contains three versions of Di Ile Dipitse, thus vocals and instrumentals, acappela and...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Up to 70 Taliban dead as Afghan attack thwarted: official
The attempted assault happened late Tuesday at a combat outpost in Paktika province bordering Pakistan where militants have hideouts. Mokhlis Afghan, a spokesman for the governor of Paktika, said the attackers were likely to have come from the other...
10 November 2011
Silvio Berlusconi: I will not run again in early polls
"I will resign as soon as the law is passed... I see elections being held at the beginning of February and I will not be a candidate in them," he said. Berlusconi's party wants fresh elections, but the opposition wants a national unity...
10 November 2011
France warns Iran of "unprecedented" sanctions
"Convening of the UN Security Council is called for," Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told RFI radio. In a statement, Juppe said diplomatic pressure needed to be ramped up. "If Iran refuses to conform to the demands of the international community and...
10 November 2011
Third quarter diamond exports lose pace
Released yesterday, the BoB data indicates that diamond exports were healthy in the first two months of the third quarter, averaging P3.6 billion in July and August. However, at P1.2 billion, exports for September weighed the third quarter figures...
STAFF WRITER 10 November 2011
BBS profits hold steady despite margin squeeze
According to interim results released today, a P99.6 million jump in long and short-term loans owed to the Society in the six months to September 30 did not proportionately translate into higher interest income. Prime lending rates have been pegged...
STAFF WRITER 10 November 2011
The Church should put its vote where its mouth is
The campaign is steadily gaining sure momentum and the Church, as the nation's morality compass can ill afford to sit back and spectate in a game in which it should be wearing the captain's armband. I have read several articles by such able...
10 November 2011
Europe's darkness at noon
European Union leaders failed at their summit two weeks ago to produce anything of substance. China and Brazil are clearly reluctant to come to the rescue by providing a large injection of foreign cash. And the recent G-20 summit in Cannes...
*BARRY EICHENGREEN 10 November 2011
Know your labour rights
Any form of harassment amounts to unfair discrimination. If you are unfairly discriminated against because of your sexual orientation, race, HIV status, our Constitution guarantees you protection under the Fundamental Bill of Rights...
Mpho Ngwako 10 November 2011
Heads must roll
The nation has been losing P1 million a week to fraudsters, and as far as we know, nobody has been punished. While none other than the President of the republic made the announcement of the theft, for some reason, we have not heard of anybody being...
10 November 2011
Freedom is a state of the mind
Most of what we meet in life can either make or break us depending on whether we take it positively or negatively. Positive thinking has been known to overcome such things as stress and terminal illness. The opposite is also true; a negative...
AGREEMENT NDLOVU
Correspondent 10 November 2011
MYWO vows to combat baby dumping and abortion
The chairman of the organisation, Nkosi Bentu said they intend to engage the youth in recreational activities as well as various interventions in schools and the community at large. Bentu said it is important to protect newly born babies. "I want to...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 10 November 2011
Hire people with disabilities, appeals Red Cross boss
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of BRCS- co-ordinated Tlamelong Rehabilitation Centre in Tlokweng, he said it is important for employers as significant stakeholders to have an input in the lives of people living with disabilities. He hailed the...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Huge education budget shows commitment-Mokaila
The minister said this is an illustration of the government's commitment to ensuring that Botswana is an educated nation by 2016. Speaking at the graduation ceremony at Botho College campus in Gaborone this week, the minister said that although...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Ballot papers printed outside Botswana
Baloi was answering a question during a workshop organised for VDC's by Independent Electoral on Tuesday. He said that like bank notes, ballot papers need to have security features and that there is no local company with resources to do that. He said...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Children want 'their' land back
Keotsenye Ntwayagae (89) of Matshelagabedi appeared before Monarch Customary Court accused by his brother-in-law (Oteng Segwapa) of selling him the land in Monarch location, which he the (accused), now wants back for his children. The children were...
LINDIWE MOZOLA
Correspondent 10 November 2011
No water for Masunga Senior Secondary
The teachers are said to be unhappy with management for failing to attend to serious leakages in the school reticulation system, which has been hampering water supply. "A meeting between teachers and school management this week, literally...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Water crisis looms
Addressing journalists in Gaborone yesterday, Mudanga said that the takeover of provision of water throughout the country from the defunct Water Affairs has proved more challenging than anticipated and P7 billion is needed in the next four years to...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
SA produces more contaminants than Botswana - DWA official
A Limpopo Basin official, Naidoo Kurugundla said that a systematic water quality joint survey showed that minerals found in water samples collected from Botswana are within acceptable international limits, while those from Crocodile River in South...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Young chief commits suicide
The man is said to have left for his farm near Rakhuna village where he parked his vehicle in a thicket and waited for an oncoming evening train. A relative of the deceased, Sello Motseka, revealed in a telephone interview that the chief had tried...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Early intercourse spreads cervical cancer
He said that sex before the age of 18 is one of the major causes of cervical cancer in young women. Other causes are multiple partners, smoking and not having frequent pap smear examinations. Sibanda added that women with compromised immune systems...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Oppenheimer sale of mining shares suspicious - Ntuane
Responding to President Ian Khama's State of the Nation address yesterday, Ntuane said as the opposition, they suspect that there is more "to this abrupt development than what we [Botswana] as partners are being told." The Oppenheimer family have a...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 November 2011
Boko says inequality threatens national unity
"When the masses of our people are living in deprivation while a few live in wealth, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep those who live on the margins of this country's economic life peaceful" he said at a press conference in response to...
STAFF WRITER 10 November 2011
Naughty baboons save Botswana rivers
Now the mischievous primates have proved to the world that they are not just disobedient creatures but can be useful as well. They have literally saved a whole river bio-network from an invasive river-killing weed in the process saving Botswana...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 10 November 2011
Lovinah Nomasonto Gwebu: A life that provoked history
The life and death of Lovinah Nomasonto Gwebu illustrates such a history. In fact, it would be impossible to write a full account of the history of the pentecostal movement in Botswana, and Lobatse in particular, without reference to her contribution...
PHILLIP SEGADIKA 11 November 2011
Botswana should concentrate on development and forget detractors
Recently, a South African youth leader described the Botswana government as a puppet regime. By so doing, the youth leader was actually echoing one of the labels used against Botswana even by some of its own opposition parties, including such labels...
*EDWARD MAGANU 11 November 2011
Capturing a president on camera
For the 35-year-old husband and father of two, photography is more than just a job: it is a way of preserving the history of a country. How many people have seen the image of the moment Botswana gained independence, he asks rhetorically. ...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 11 November 2011
Our heritage
But having watched the gay scene in Gaborone I was obliged to refocus my attention on the photo I had previously chosen for this week's Heritage. There could hardly be a greater contrast between the setting in front of the National Assembly and this...
Sandy Grant 11 November 2011
Third quarter diamond exports lose pace
Released yesterday, the BoB data indicates that diamond exports were healthy in the first two months of the third quarter, averaging P3.6 billion in July and August. However, at P1.2 billion, exports for September weighed the third quarter figures...
STAFF WRITER 11 November 2011
BBS profits hold steady despite margin squeeze
According to interim results released today, a P99.6 million jump in long and short-term loans owed to the Society in the six months to September 30 did not proportionately translate into higher interest income. Prime lending rates have been pegged...
STAFF WRITER 11 November 2011
The Church should put its vote where its mouth is
The campaign is steadily gaining sure momentum and the Church, as the nation's morality compass can ill afford to sit back and spectate in a game in which it should be wearing the captain's armband. I have read several articles by such able...
11 November 2011
Europe's darkness at noon
European Union leaders failed at their summit two weeks ago to produce anything of substance. China and Brazil are clearly reluctant to come to the rescue by providing a large injection of foreign cash. And the recent G-20 summit in Cannes...
*BARRY EICHENGREEN 11 November 2011
Know your labour rights
Any form of harassment amounts to unfair discrimination. If you are unfairly discriminated against because of your sexual orientation, race, HIV status, our Constitution guarantees you protection under the Fundamental Bill of Rights...
Mpho Ngwako 11 November 2011
Book Review
Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberia is an epic tale of exploitation, civil war, exile and survival. Steinberg devoted nearly two years in 2007 and 2008 in Liberia and New York City to Little Liberia. He went to Monrovia and the hinterland...
SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 11 November 2011
Back Stage
Violence permeated through South African society as mob justice was perpetrated in the name of freedom. In the locations people were necklaced based on allegations that they were informers against the cause, serving the enemy or some other reason...
SASA MAJUMA 11 November 2011
A panoramic view of the south
The Southern Region Heritage Trail is part of the Greater Gaborone Heritage Trail, which details almost all places of prime tourist interest in the Greater Gaborone area. Through this essential tourist package, the Botswana National Museum offers a...
*ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE 11 November 2011
Dignash - still funny
"Yaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!" roars the dreadlocked man standing in the middle of the Main Mall. Lumpy dreads. In knots from the dirt, the grime, dog-eared bible in his hand. The crowd mills about, some look, but uninterested. Some in theatrical expressions...
11 November 2011
Consumer watchdog
One pulls rabbits from a hat, the other pulls habits from a rat. See, I said it was hilarious. In fact psychology is full of jokes. Just think of anything ever said, written, thought or published by Freud or Jung. Hilarious, pseudoscientific,...
11 November 2011
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