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Will the US be saved by its military?
"We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world." Does the President really believe that the US is more respected around the world because of its military activities? Did...
05 February 2012
How to save the Euro
It follows the same pattern as my other books: it contains an updated version of my conceptual approach and the application of that approach to a particular situation, and it presents a real-time experiment to test the validity of my interpretation....
GEORGE SOROS 05 February 2012
Mogae unplugged- on family, university and Nchindo (Part 2)
Batswana are a gritty resourceful people whose struggles making a living in the dry desert often meant no rain for months if not years on end. Due to the seemingly endless droughts the people are prone to saving, and having to make do with what they...
05 February 2012
Electricity, railways and economic decline
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address and said those who think that America is in decline don't know what they are talking about. It's an election year and anything, even that which cannot be supported by...
05 February 2012
We need a budget with a human face
Awaiting the delivery of the national budget is on its own an emotionally engaging and sad process to the masses who deem the state as the provider of the much-needed panacea for their embarrassing socio-economic hardships. To many Batswana, Matambo...
* MCEDISIS RODGER SOLOMON 05 February 2012
our heritage
Yet, without them, people using the roads were always in big trouble in the past when there was decent rains and the rivers filled. The result, usually, was that travellers simply had to sit it out or sleep it out until flood levels dropped....
sandy grant 05 February 2012
Japan instructor meets BOKA
Uemura arrived in the country on Wednesday on an official visit that has been facilitated by the Japanese Embassy together with BOKA and will see the revered instructor drill the country's junior and senior karatekas.The local karatekas will be taken...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Ikgopoleng relishes Namibia, SA friendlies
Bathusi Mogajane, Mooketsi 'Tornado'Lekgetho, Mmoloki 'Muller' Nogeng, Oteng Oteng, Gomotsang Gaasite, Ofentse Kompone and Thato Batshegi are in camp preparing for the Rabat qualifiers at the Athletes' Village in Gaborone West. Ikgopoleng said they...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
The 'Raging Bull' ready to rumble
Before fighting what is probably the biggest bout of his career, Nkabiti will face highly rated South African welterweight boxer, Masande Kakaza in East London on February 11.This is the second time the two boxers have met in three years. Nkabiti...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
First cut
If Equatorial Guinea and Gabon AFCON 2012 were a fairy tale and big surprise for Botswana soccer, then South Africa 2013 is a must for the senior national soccer team, the Zebras. The Zebras finally bowed out of the race with grace on Wednesday when...
Dennis Keagile 05 February 2012
FC Satmos beef up squad to beat the drop
Satmos chairperson, Lecco Molefi said they have gone all out to find players who can do the job for them after a disastrous first round.He said the three, two strikers and a midfielder, were signed after a recent trial. The players are Mgcini Sibanda...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Ex-Fighters coach accepts fate
According to letter, the reasons behind his dismissal by the new executive committee is that they could not meet his demands and therefore opted not to continue with him after his probation period expired. Gaobone said: "I do not know what...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
No new faces at Buffaloes, Prisons XI
Prisons coach, Digger Montwedi has confirmed to Mmegi Sport that no new players were recruited by the warders adding that he also has retained his squad as no player left. "We missed the deadline because management was slow to release funds for some...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Tough contract talks for BFA, Tshosane
With the Zebras' exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, focus shifts sharply to coach Stanley Tshosane's contract, which runs out next month.Tshosane elevated his status when he became the first coach to take the Zebras to the AFCON...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Kabila's party loses 45% of its seats in the Congo
Kabila still will command a majority in parliament, where his coalition of several parties has won about 260 of the 500 seats, down from more than 300 in the previous assembly.Officials from the discredited electoral commission announced the last of...
05 February 2012
Afghanistan: Leon Panetta signals end to US combat role
Speaking while travelling to a Nato summit, Leon Panetta said the US hoped to switch to a role training and supporting Afghan forces. It is the most detailed public indication of when US troops might pull back from America's longest war.Some 68,000...
05 February 2012
Lesbian killers in South Africa get 18-year jail terms
The court found that the men killed Nkonyana because she was living openly as a lesbian. A crowd outside the court in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town township, cheered and danced at the sentencing. The constitution protects people on the grounds of sexual...
05 February 2012
Activists call for Senegal president to quit
One protester, a 32-year-old university student, was killed when he was hit by a police vehicle. Others sustained injuries when police tried to break up demonstrations, government sources told dpa.President Abdoulaye Wade has been cleared by...
05 February 2012
AU 'has let Zim down'
Zanu PF last week reportedly resolved to unilaterally call for elections to end the wobbly coalition government.Tsvangirai, on the other hand, is resisting early elections, arguing the environment is not conducive because of fears that violence could...
05 February 2012
Son of ex-Zambian president wanted for corruption
Zambian police have issued a "warrant of arrest and written to all 190 Interpol member states. Henry has to answer to serious allegations of corruption," police inspector general Martin Malama told AFP. Henry Banda has been sought for questioning...
05 February 2012
Nitty Gritty
The big debate that has attracted the fellows to gravitate towards the centre of the room, is whether it is better to buy a house or rent it.The position that has been taken by Nikita is that he will forever be a tenant paying rent as long as his...
Barolong Seboni 05 February 2012
Nigerian brinkmanship
A new image of Nigeria's president has emerged in the first month of this year.It is not that of the ever-smiling and reluctant leader many Nigerians had taken him for over the past three years. The President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan we knew...
05 February 2012
Mabiletsa deserves to be Leader of Opposition
There is no such revolt. In fact a majority of BNF members and structures want the party through its vice president to take over the leadership of opposition in Parliament.It is unimaginable that any right thinking BNF members would not want...
05 February 2012
Soccer is once again mourning
Up to 74 people have died in Egypt after violence broke out in a league match between African giants, Al Ahly and lightweights, Al-Masry. For a country that has been at every Africa Cup of Nations since the competition was started in 1957, Egypt...
05 February 2012
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05 February 2012
You lazy (intellectual) African scum!
In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa is the trailblazer. Some still call it "he dark continent"for the light that flickers under the tunnel is not that of hope, but an approaching...
*FIELD RUWE 05 February 2012
Afrimond to fill diamond skills gap
Speaking at a diamond beneficiation workshop recently, the Managing Director of Afrimond, Todd Majaye, said these services were essential to Botswana and many other African countries. The institute was established in South Africa in 2000 in response...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Book review
Erin Morgenstern (2011) "The Night Circus: A Novel". London, Harvill Secker, Softcover edition, 381 pages, P202. ISBN 978-1-846-55524-24. Available at Exclusive Books. Erin Morgenstern, of Salem, Massachusetts, has written in The Night Circus an...
Sheridan Griswold 05 February 2012
Back stage
Drive (2011) was just at the New Capitol Cinemas. The DVD was released this week. It is a hunk of American cinema noir that has made it mainstream and become a big hit. It is a cerebral film about payback and dying quickly that is enraptured by slow...
Sasa Majuma 05 February 2012
Remembering the Tigerkloof of Bukalanga
How many really know the exact location of the school, which some people equate to the famous Tigerkloof College of South Africa due to its contribution in provision of education in the country during colonial days? These questions persistently...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Kgosi Seboko's old house a deserted monument
However, one thing is for certain it is one of those colonial era buildings found in tribal capitals around the country, which housed royals. A rough guess would indicate that the house was built some time after 1912 since that was the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Batswana artists develop knack for graffiti
The picture was not there when you arrived from a local eatery last night but there it is on your electric-fenced wall.While still trying to figure out who put up this gory image on the wall thoughts of what it could mean conjure up in your mind and...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Cresta buys Zambian hotel
The agreement entails the sale to Cresta of the movable assets of the hotel and a lease of the immovable property of the hotel. Total consideration in respect of the business is $2.5 million.Cresta, which is the operating company for eight Cresta...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 05 February 2012
'Traditional murderers'
Of course there are exceptions. A few people are bad neighbors and refuse to obey the basic rules of conduct (don't murder, rape, steal or drive like a combi driver). Similarly a few companies refuse to play the game according to the rules and they...
05 February 2012
Matambo forecasts risk-laden surplus
However, the minister was also the first to cast doubt on the surplus being realised, listing a plethora of threats to the country's core sources of revenue.Hence his guarded tone at a time when the figures before him suggested he should have been...
STAFF WRITER 05 February 2012
Sefalana credits consumer division for profit growth
In a statement accompanying the results, the company said revenue growth for the period was largely in line with inflation, gross profit increased by a healthy nine percent while a 30 percent increase in net asset value was realised. "This...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 05 February 2012
Mozambique withdraws Maputo Port offer
Mozambique had offered some space at Maputo Port for Botswana's coal exports but later withdrew the offer because of its own rising coal exports.Speaking at the Coal Pitso in Gaborone this week, Transport Hub coordinator Thapelo Leareng said the five...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Diamond slump widens trade deficit
The gap between the values of exports and imports had averaged a deficit of P570 million in the eight months before September 2011, with the trade balance recording only its second surplus since late 2008 in June.The lower deficits were buoyed by...
STAFF WRITER 05 February 2012
Matambo projects lukewarm growth rate of 4.4%
The forecast, which Matambo presented to Parliament in the 2012/13 national budget on Wednesday, falls considerably short of the World Bank's projection of 6.2 percent.Matambo painted a gloomy picture of the Botswana economy for the next two years,...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Debswana workers fear radiation exposure
Mmegi has learnt that the company's employees are unhappy with the X-ray full body search machines, as this has not been preceded by relevant research on the impact of radiation exposure on the health of workers and by close consultation with...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Vet seeks nod for FMD-free Zone 6
The move follows the fact that the cattle destruction exercise in the zone, to get rid of cattle with FMD, is now complete. In a press statement, the department also announced that it will continue intensive surveillance to ascertain the absence of...
STAFF WRITER 05 February 2012
Summary of the Botswana Financial Budget 2012
After three years of deficit budget, it is nice to note that the 2012-2013 budget shows a surplus and the revised 2011-2012 budget estimates a reduced deficit of P 3.76 billion. It could be argued that the balancing of budget comes through reduced...
*VIJAY KALYANARAMAN 05 February 2012
Khama slams lethargic land boards
The President expressed his ire at a Kgotla meeting he addressed in Palapye yesterday. He said landboards frustrate Batswana and the country at large. "We tried in the past to decentralise some powers from the Minister of Lands and Housing to...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Another suspect dies in police custody?
His relatives fear that he has since been killed while in the hands of the police. Olefile Momphithi of Difetlhamolelo ward in Molepolole, was allegedly taken into custody at the Molepolole Police Station in August last year after handing himself to...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Sata raps 'extravagant' perm secs over knucles
This was only one of the few occasions that the president has openly rebuked the country's top civil servant.Sata, who campaigned on a platform of reducing poverty and prudence in the use of public resources, took the unprecedented step following the...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Masisi threatens to seal plots without standpipes
Addressing a Kgotla meeting at Monarch Customary Court here yesterday, Masisi said people who cannot afford to connect water to their plots should approach the council for assistance before the end of April.He encouraged the residents to develop...
LINDIWE MOZOLA
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Wetlands protection a major challenge in Botswana
This is according to the Minister of Environment Wildlife and Tourism, Kitso Mokaila at a conference in commemoration of the World Wetlands Day, which took place at the President Hotel in Gaborone yesterday. The theme of the day was: " Wetlands...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Wildlife decline in Okavango Delta ignites tourism fears
It is common knowledge that the Okavango Delta, which originates in the Angola highlands, is renowned as Africa's most beautiful wetland; a habitat of various animal and plants life species visited by queens, kings and other imminent persons from...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 05 February 2012
Close to 1,000 Namibian refugees to be repatriated
A Namibian refugee residing in Gaborone, who preferred to remain anonymous confided in Mmegi that the process is at an advanced stage and within the first half of 2012 hundreds would have returned home. However, there is still uncertainty as to...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
Saleshando to 'grill' Venson -Moitoi on chaos at medical school
Students of the medical school met the MP last week and gave him their perspective of the problems that "hinder our education". The School of Medicine (SOM) has experienced such an exodus of teaching staff that an internal report presented to...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 05 February 2012
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