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Europe, heal thyself
Moreover, unlike the US, the eurozone does not have an external deficit, which means that the monetary union holds enough savings to finance all of its members' budget deficits and resolve their debt problems. But, despite this relative strength,...
*DANIEL GROS 13 December 2011
Climate deal fears emerge
"Of course it could fall victim," Trevor Manuel, the former South African finance minister who spent much of the last year working on the fund's design, told the Financial Times. "It's about the negotiating chip, not about this thing." The...
ANDREW ENGLAND and PILITA CLARK 13 December 2011
Peloetletse leads homophobic forum
He was joined by several subscribers of the social network and some dubbed homosexuality as "portent". Some of these (subscribers) were against Ndadi and BONELA for being pro-gay. However, some said the constitution of Botswana must be...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Living Fanon: The rationality of revolt
What better way to celebrate, commemorate and critically reflect on the 50th year of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth than with a new North African syndrome: revolution - or at least a series of revolts and resistance across the region. Fanon...
13 December 2011
Does sexual frustration boost aggression?
Many sportsmen swear by avoiding sex before a big sports event to keep their strength for the battle ahead. Those that practice a strict policy of sexual abstinence before playing are stern believers in the theory that sex before competitive sport...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 December 2011
The Talibanisation of Kgatleng
"It's a draw, a 50/50, and it is going to remain like this forever," said a middle-aged man among a crowd heading towards the northern gate of Kgosing, the main Kgotla in Mochudi, at the end of the meeting addressed by the Minister of Local...
13 December 2011
ETECETERA II
Come the first decent rain of the year and almost inevitably the internet system goes on the blink. When traffic lights cease to function, everyone carries on regardless. Unfortunately with the internet there is no such alternative. When it doesn't...
Sandy Grant 13 December 2011
Issues in education
The long awaited Oodi College of Applied Arts and Technology (OCAAT) is due to open early next year. Perched below the mountain and lying on the edge of the village OCAAT is a marvelous achievement. OCAAT is a non-degree granting tertiary...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 13 December 2011
The winners code
Guy Laliberte, founder of the world renowned circus Cirque du Soleil, is ranked by the famous Forbes magazine among the 500 wealthiest people on earth. He did not have the most auspicious beginning to his career. When he informed his parents of his...
George Chingarande 13 December 2011
Kill the presidential retirement act
And he was probably dead right. But following the deaths of former presidents Frederick Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa, questions are being asked whether it is prudent or wise to keep certain pieces of legislation in the statute books. The...
Terence Musuku
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Icons of Botswana
"Excellence means caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible." Ishmael Wame Komanyane lives by these words. Not...
Kgomotso Molelekeng
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Mashonja relives abuse
On the eve of her 48th birthday (on Thursday) Mashonja made startling revelations at a fully packed hall of The Rock Church during an occasion marking the Police Northern Division symposium on the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence on Women and...
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
Setback for Botswana games
The annual showpiece kicked off yesterday in Gaborone and the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) games standing committee's chairperson, Boitshoko Tsiane told the media yesterday afternoon that they had already encountered a few challenges. "We...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Gunners still to register Confederations Cup squad
Last season's Coca-Cola Cup winners, Gunners host Madagascar's TANA before playing away in the return fixture.The first leg will be played on the weekend of February 17-19 with the return match following two weeks later. Participating teams are...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Botswana needs pro-boxing body, WBF president
Goldberg, who is on a two-day official visit at the invitation of Scud Missile Promotions said Botswana has a fantastic future in professional boxing, but many of its boxers would never realise their full potential if they continued to be sanctioned...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
Dan Tshanda proteges ready to take the plunge
The two have separately released their own albums, Dandile debuting with Iyamayaya, while Mhlongo has done her second album in many years following the release of her first one nine years ago. Although her first album lacked that imposing presence...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Back stage
A Blonde in Love (1965) a.k.a Lasky Jedne Plavovlasky or Loves of a Blonde is being shown by the Gaborone Film Society at Maru a Pula School in the A/V Centre at 7 pm only today. It will be followed by the GFS's annual Christmas Party. A...
Sasa Majuma 13 December 2011
Musicians discuss the alcohol levy
This meeting came just a few days before the Christmas and New Years holidays, a time when the artists expect to cash in on their music. At the meeting, vice-president of the Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU), Otsile Ramorwa said entertainers need to...
NELSON DIRENG
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Mr Drummer praises the Zebras
The team have for the first time qualified for the 2012 African Cup of Nations which will be hosted in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea early next year. It has never before competed in the finals of a major FIFA recognised tournament. The song has depth,...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 13 December 2011
First post-Gbagbo election in Cote d'Ivoire ends peacefully
The second national poll in more than a decade in the West African nation was boycotted by the party of former strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who was arrested in April. He is awaiting trial in The Hague for war crimes. The polling stations were scheduled...
13 December 2011
Police launch crackdown as explosions hit northern Kenya
Regional police commander, Leo Nyongesa, said security had been beefed up in the two districts and urged locals to give helpful information that may lead to arrests. "We have beefed up security in the two districts to apprehend those behind the...
13 December 2011
Linden executed in China after Zuma intervention fails
"He [Zuma] did intervene. All the necessary interventions were done at every possible level, even the highest ones," said the spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Clayson Monyela."Everything had to happen...
13 December 2011
Consumers snap up S/Phikwe co-op stock
The Deputy Commissioner for Co-operative Development, Motse Othabanye, recently ordered the co-op closed after an investigation revealed that the organisation owed P2.5 million to various creditors. Othabanye also ordered the co-op to lease its...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Diamond exports rebound in October
The latest figures suggest a resurge in demand for diamonds after a transitory reduction in the market's appetite for the precious stones, which resulted in a flattening out of prices in the third quarter. Prior to the third quarter slowdown,...
STAFF WRITER 13 December 2011
As I see it
Government and opposition parties seem to disagree on the concept 'regime change.' The ruling party interprets regime change as unconstitutional change of government. The government then feigns a at the mention of regime change. For the opposition,...
Michael Dingake 13 December 2011
Congratulations Fani but . . .
Indeed, preceding months have been full of goofs at the BFA for which Fani has been chided, especially when he failed to take action. But as his house burns, Fani finds himself rewarded with a plum post at the regional soccer body, COSAFA, where he...
13 December 2011
Selefu 13 December 2011
13 December 2011
Erectile dysfunction cited in domestic violence
Speaking at a special meeting held at the Gabane Kgotla to mark the end of 16 Days of Activism Against Violence on Women and Children over the weekend, Gender Links coordinator, Keabonye Ntsabane, called for behavioural change among couples. "Peace...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Litter chokes Francistown
She points out that there are few vehicles that collect litter in such a big city. "We try as much as possible to follow the routine, but after we have done so it takes time again to go back to the same location, hence causing complaints," she...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 13 December 2011
Leaders face 'impasse' headache
According to a press release from the conveners of the opposition unity talks, Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and Botswana National Front (BNF) presidents are expected to come up with the final solution to the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff writer 13 December 2011
Okavango becomes UNESCO World Heritage site
The director of the department, Gaogakwe Phorano, said at a press conference in Gaborone yesterday that the department intends to list one site as a UNESCO World Heritage site every two years. The first site to be listed is the world famous Okavango...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
Court defers ruling on murder confession
Sime's attorney Dumezweni Mthimkulu made a counterclaim and urged the High Court to order that an admission of guilt purported to have been done by his client was involuntary. He mentioned that the judicial officer, who recorded the confession...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
Molepolole water wastage worries WUC
Addressing a stakeholders' meeting in Molepolole yesterday, WUC General Manager, Boitumelo Kgaodi, said that they record about 32 percent of potable water that goes to waste or simply cannot be accounted for. The wastage is due too old, small pipes...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
BDC partner in money laundering paradise
According to this year's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report annual report compiled by the United States Department of State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. The report, which traces patterns of financial...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff writer 13 December 2011
Strike case for 2012
Appearing before Justice (Dr) Key Dingake of the Lobatse High Court yesterday, the parties agreed that the matter would be argued on May 9 next year. BOFEPUSU took government to court over unfair dismissal of essential services employees who were...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 13 December 2011
Europe, heal thyself
Moreover, unlike the US, the eurozone does not have an external deficit, which means that the monetary union holds enough savings to finance all of its members' budget deficits and resolve their debt problems. But, despite this relative strength,...
*DANIEL GROS 14 December 2011
Climate deal fears emerge
"Of course it could fall victim," Trevor Manuel, the former South African finance minister who spent much of the last year working on the fund's design, told the Financial Times. "It's about the negotiating chip, not about this thing." The...
ANDREW ENGLAND and PILITA CLARK 14 December 2011
Peloetletse leads homophobic forum
He was joined by several subscribers of the social network and some dubbed homosexuality as "portent". Some of these (subscribers) were against Ndadi and BONELA for being pro-gay. However, some said the constitution of Botswana must be...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 14 December 2011
Living Fanon: The rationality of revolt
What better way to celebrate, commemorate and critically reflect on the 50th year of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth than with a new North African syndrome: revolution - or at least a series of revolts and resistance across the region. Fanon...
14 December 2011
Does sexual frustration boost aggression?
Many sportsmen swear by avoiding sex before a big sports event to keep their strength for the battle ahead. Those that practice a strict policy of sexual abstinence before playing are stern believers in the theory that sex before competitive sport...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 December 2011
The Talibanisation of Kgatleng
"It's a draw, a 50/50, and it is going to remain like this forever," said a middle-aged man among a crowd heading towards the northern gate of Kgosing, the main Kgotla in Mochudi, at the end of the meeting addressed by the Minister of Local...
14 December 2011
Kill the presidential retirement act
And he was probably dead right. But following the deaths of former presidents Frederick Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa, questions are being asked whether it is prudent or wise to keep certain pieces of legislation in the statute books. The...
Terence Musuku
Correspondent 14 December 2011
Icons of Botswana
"Excellence means caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible." Ishmael Wame Komanyane lives by these words. Not...
Kgomotso Molelekeng
Correspondent 14 December 2011
Mashonja relives abuse
On the eve of her 48th birthday (on Thursday) Mashonja made startling revelations at a fully packed hall of The Rock Church during an occasion marking the Police Northern Division symposium on the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence on Women and...
Staff Writer 14 December 2011
As I see it
Government and opposition parties seem to disagree on the concept 'regime change.' The ruling party interprets regime change as unconstitutional change of government. The government then feigns a at the mention of regime change. For the opposition,...
Michael Dingake 14 December 2011
Sports chat
Finest momentThe Young Zebras made a spirited run in the Metropolitan COSAFA Under-20 Youth Championships, which ended in Gaborone on Saturday. The youngsters finished third to ensure a podium finish and a bronze medal. Finest athleteYoung Zebras...
Mqondisi Dube 14 December 2011
Hunt for striker shocks Prisons XI coach
This follows an advert, which was carried in a local newspaper on Monday that the First Division south log leaders were looking for a striker. "I do not know who put that advert in the news papers because I have not discussed looking for a striker...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 14 December 2011
Kgathi salutes Botswana Games organisers
Speaking at the official opening of the games in Gaborone on Monday, Kgathi said it was a big challenge to host a competition of this magnitude. He said it showed that they are ready to host even international competitions. The games, despite...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 14 December 2011
Foreign-based trio join Zebras camp
The team left yesterday for a 10-day training camp in South Africa in preparation for next January's Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Marumo is recovering from an injury that has kept him out of his side,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 14 December 2011
Mascom Boosta Bash organisers adopt 2010 World Cup strategy
Promoter Seabelo Modibe told the media that they have devised strategies that will ensure people attending the festival are well protected. He said they have also come up with strategies to curb drunken driving. He said firstly, they have secured a...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 14 December 2011
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