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Lekan outlines progress ahead of BRU AGM

Lekan is unopposed.He boasted that his committee has established a good working relationship with the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC), the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC), the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR) as well as the...

CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 February 2012

GU, Rollers ready to serve sumptuous derby

The game was originally scheduled for Molepolole Sports Complex, but the two giants managed to secure the venue late on Tuesday. The match, which is expected to draw a capacity crowd, has all the ingredients of a thriller if the form displayed by...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Neo-Nazi murders: Germany holds minute's silence

Nine men, most of them of Turkish origin, and a policewoman have died since 2000, but the neo-Nazi gang blamed for their deaths emerged only recently. A ceremony took place in Berlin and a minute's silence was held across the country to remember the...

24 February 2012

European Court censures Italy over African migrants

The 13 Eritreans and 11 Somalis were among a group of about 200 people who left Libya on three boats in 2009. Two of the 24 have since died. The court ordered Italy to pay each migrant in the case 15,000 euros (P142,208) in damages. Last year Italy...

24 February 2012

South Sudan expels Chinese oil firm boss

The Chinese national, Liu Yingcai, was asked to leave following an investigation into Khartoum's "theft" of oil worth $815 million (P6 billion).South Sudan has stopped production after Sudan seized oil - Khartoum says this is because of unpaid...

24 February 2012

Somalia's future is discussed at London conference

As it opened, United Kingdom, prime minister, David Cameron said he hoped the process would generate "new momentum".Somalia has endured more than two decades of civil war and famine.Representatives from many Somali factions are also attending, but...

24 February 2012

Consumer watchdog

According to a recently released report by Grant Thornton, an accounting and consultancy firm that has offices all over the world, and as reported in this esteemed paper, Botswana ranked "seventh out of 38 countries with high stress in the...

24 February 2012

BoB offers lifeline to commercial banks

This week, BusinessWeek established that the Bank of Botswana (BoB) has offered reverse repurchase agreements to banks squeezed out of the auctions under which the bank sells them BOBCs on a limited basis and at lower interest expense to itself. In...

STAFF WRITER 24 February 2012

Botswana gets P42m agric loan

The deal - which includes a US$4.04 million loan and a $1.61 million grant - was signed in Rome, Italy on Tuesday by the Minister of Agriculture Christiaan de Graaf and the president of IFAD Kanayo Nwanze. In a statement, IFAD said the project would...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 24 February 2012

Govt starts repaying loans on unfinished aviation projects

According to the 2012-13 budget estimates approved by Parliament this week, government will this year repay P4.4 million to the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) in interest on loans totalling about P117 million for the upgrading...

STAFF WRITER 24 February 2012

Dairy to produce 8,000 litres of milk per day

SMMA's P7 million dairy plant, which started operations in February last year, was built by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) after dairy farmers in the Central District complained that there was no market for their produce. The association currently...

CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

BoBA intensifies Olympic qualifiers preps

The team will take part in three international tournaments and one training camp before leaving for the Africa Olympic qualifiers set for Casablanca, Morocco in April and May. The team, which has been in camp since mid-January, will depart to...

FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Govt starts repaying loans on unfinished aviation projects

STAFF WRITER 24 February 2012

Lazare revives P1.8 billion diamond deal

The financial package put together in 2009 by USA's Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) diamond and jewellery company Lazare Kaplan Botswana (LKB) and ABN Amro was initially supposed to have been rolled-out two years ago, but the deal...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Nitty Gritty

This new monkey maxim was put in place to encourage the monkeys in the lower rungs and branches and trees, especially those at the bottom of Kgale Hill to be extremely nice to the other monkeys at the top of the hill, who lived around the Cave....

BAROLONG SEBONI 24 February 2012

Land grab or development opportunity?

Land deals as % of agricultural areaSOURCE: FAOSTATDR...

24 February 2012

Digging tswana roots

I only base my work on plausible science and indisputable evidence (never on wishful thinking or "pet theories"). As such, in the Mariner IX and Phobos II space expeditions, the probes saw complex underground structures in Mars with their infra-red...

I.M. LETEANE 24 February 2012

BDP celebrations: The opposition flunks maturity test

Whatever its errors of omission or commission, the BDP deserves credit for the good that it has done for Botswana. The party has the capacity of causing serious trouble given its numerical strength in Parliament, but it has acted with much more...

EDITOR 24 February 2012

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24 February 2012

Domkrag and the abiding narrative of Tsholetsa House

The history of the Botswana Democratic Party's headquarters, Tsholetsa House, is a long narrative that weaves through decades, painting a young and struggling political party that rose from a Morula tree in Gaborone to become Botswana's only ruling...

24 February 2012

Women and Tsholetsa Domkrag!

FRANCISTOWN: As Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) faithful commemorate the party's 50th anniversary, former cabinet minister, Dr Gaositwe Chiepe, has encouraged women in politics to position themselves strategically. "Women must fight for anything...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Seretse Khama in his own words

"It should now be our intention to try to retrieve what we can of our past. We should write our own history books to prove that we did have a past, and that it was a past that was just as worth writing and learning about as any other. We...

24 February 2012

Four clubs apply for BAA affiliation

Among the items on the agenda will be applications for affiliation by four new athletics clubs from Matshelagabedi, Lobatse, Serowe and Tlokweng. BBA spokesperson, Ipolokeng Ramatshaba, told Mmegi Sport that it will be up to the BAA general...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

The day I met Seretse

On Saturday November 1st 1969, an album titled Abbey Road by a British band known as The Beatles hit the No. 1 spot on the charts in that country. The Beatles? The United Kingdom? What? That was not just some 43 years ago, but 8812...

24 February 2012

Does cohabitation signal a morally dysfunctional society?

But in today's glass-ceiling breaking, is this notion a bit antiquated? We live in a day and age where men and women do not wait until they are married to move in together. Cohabitation - generally defined as an arrangement whereby two people decide...

THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 February 2012

Disease busters going bust

World attention has been trained on the Occupy movement, which has challenged the "1 percent" of the global population that exercises disproportionate influence on economic and social policy. But this week, many activists from the developing world -...

*SISONKE MSIMANG 24 February 2012

What to do with the poultry industry

If the Department of Agriculture's statistics are to be believed Botswana now produces somewhere in the vicinity of 60,000 tonnees of poultry meat per annum. This would mean that Batswana who are fast becoming urbanized are now consuming more...

*ROMAN GRYNBERG 24 February 2012

Jews and Christians share the same prophecy as Muslims

Jenny White is a professor of anthropology at Boston University in Massachusetts, United States of America (US). This is her fifth book and her second novel in her Kamel Pasha series. The first one was called The Sultan’s Seal. It...

Sheridon Griswold 24 February 2012

Back Stage

It is odd to have a non-Damon derivative out now when Bourne-4 is due later this year from the same studio. But then they are out for the money. In the United States of America (UDS) it was top of the box office last week, even though reviewers gave...

SASA MAJUMA 24 February 2012

Domboshaba and Bakalanga initiation schools

Nonetheless, there are few prehistoric ruins that are generally accepted as highlighting the importance of these schools in the area that is presently known as Bukalanga and beyond. The complexity of this issue is exacerbated by the near lack...

ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 24 February 2012

Wild child

Designer’s name : Mummy Doreen Molapo Date of birth : November 3, 1987 Home...

24 February 2012

Domestic mishap ignites Ngulubes artistic talent

Today the young Zambian currently residing in Gabane shows signs of a great artist in the making. His paintings are inspiring while his tattoos can be quite intriguing. Ironically, Ngulube does not even know the name of the man who led him to his...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Facing the scanner

"Before then we would on a good month collect P10,000 a month," says Phodiso Valashia, who has been the Commissioner of Customs and Excise at BURS since last December. But the signs have been there. Last year alone, manual officer checks unearthed a...

TOMELETSO SEREETSI
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

UB teams leave for Zim games

UB Acting Director of Culture, Sport and Recreation, Raj Rathedi told Mmegi Sport on Wednesday that the University of Lesotho has cited last year's strike by lecturers as one of the reasons they cannot host the games this year. He said...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO

Masisi requests P81m for Parliament

This parked a debate in Parliament as some of the members feel that he did not address important issues. He said the National Assembly has encountered challenges in project implementation due to shortages of funds. He said due to shortage of funds,...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 24 February 2012

Training on management of chemicals vital

Speaking at a chemical risk management workshop on Monday, he noted that training on preparation, handling, storage, transportation and safe disposal of toxic chemical products is invaluable. The workshop, which is scheduled to run for a week, is...

LAWRENCE SERETSE
Corespondent 24 February 2012

Mzwinila applies for bail

Mzwinila has been charged for the robbery along with his brother Michael, mother Elizabeth Surtee and Happy Charumbwana. Surtee and Charumbwana were granted bail when the case came to light. Yesterday, Edward accused the prosecution of...

GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Defections will bring stability to BMD - Mmolotsi

"We are happy that they have gone. It will bring stability to the organisation," he said. Recently, three former BMD youth league leaders, including the former interim president Armstrong Dikgafela, tracked their way back to the BDP. Mmolotsi said...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 24 February 2012

Prosecution seeks extradition of suspects in Tinley murder case

State prosecutor, Tyron Mokgathong, told the Extension II Magistrate Court that authorities are consulting with their counterparts in South Africa concerning other possible suspects. South African authorities recently arrested two suspects, Nigerian...

ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Kgafela in another legal wrangle with govt

Kgafela and DITSHWANELO want to stop the government from executing convicted triple murderer, Gotlhalosamang Gabaokelwe - whose appeal against a death senwas recently dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Gabaokelwe has been convicted and sentenced to...

ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Govt slaps Google with public education bill

So far, the American company has not agreed to the condition, it emerged yesterday at a press conference addressed by both parties at the Btv auditorium. The public education is meant to let the people know about their rights and appreciate the...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

System blamed for late payment of teachers again

The ministry said the problem only affects temporary teachers because payment processes for permanent staff is done at the beginning of the year. MoESD principal public relations officer, Oarabile Phefo, said it is difficult to use a similar...

BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Ntuane defies BMD over BDP

He told Mmegi yesterday that although the BMD executive committee resolved that the party should not honour the BDP invitation to attend the festivities in Gaborone tomorrow, "as an advocate of political tolerance, respect and peaceful co-existence I...

EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Youth decry opposition's lack of seriousness

In an interview, they said while youth voter apathy is rife, it is a double blow to see young politicians leading in defections this year. One Ronald Antonio, said most young people look up to political figures they identify with and the fact that...

BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

ECCO out to halt Chiefs' juggernaut

Meetings between the two are never short of drama and tomorrow is expected to be no exception.Chiefs have been relentless in their march towards their second league title, beginning with that opening day's comprehensive 5-2 destruction of Township...

KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 24 February 2012

Talks to dispel GMO fears in offing

However, this trend is expected to change soon thanks to a newly formed body - the Botswana Bio-safety Public awareness and Participation Innovation Platform (BOPAPIP) - which will be imparting knowledge to the public and relevant...

MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Judge to decide Matome's fate

The case has been set for February 28 when he and Garvas Nchindo will also know whether they would be granted leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal's next session. Late last year, Matome and young Nchindo approached the High Court seeking leave to...

ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 February 2012

Botswana supports Friends of Syria Contact Group initiative

In a press statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that: "Botswana fully supports this initiative, which serves as another alternative international diplomatic effort aimed at resolving the current crisis in Syria." The statement...

24 February 2012

First Cut

Every coach, player or supporter has always wished the lanky Zimbabwean born player could be in his team. Despite earning a modest salary by Botswana football standards, Sukunyetsa has given all his best for Ecco City Greens aka Mamojadiski. In fact,...

DENNIS KEAGILE 24 February 2012

Tshosane looks ahead with optimism despite rough ride

Mmegi Sport: Please sum up your AFCON experience? Tshosane: After our qualification, I forwarded my plan to the Botswana Football Association (BFA), which included playing friendly matches against strong opponents and training camps, even outside...

24 February 2012

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