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BDP can and must be stronger post 50th birthday
The party has mostly been able to survive through battles and crisis as is natural for any political movement. On this occasion, it is important to recap elements of our past that helped us succeed and those that challenge us.The party was born of...
*THABO AUTLWETSE 06 March 2012
BNF rally hooks herd-boy to politics
For Obonye Lobang, who falls within the latter category, it was a rare visit to a Botswana National Front (BNF) rally in November 1998 that left him hooked to the world of politics and his future party.Mmegi had a chat with Lobang who will contest...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
How a soccer game turned fatal
Residents of Ledumadumane who live next to the soccer ground where the game was played, related that a fight started after one supporter refused to leave the pitch."Suddenly we saw the man lying down with a lot of blood oozing from him," said one...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Gaborone: the city without a face
Now, quick, what comes to mind at the mention of Gaborone? Perhaps it was easier to answer this question about the city at independence. In the mid-1960s, the country shed its image and identity as the Bechuanaland Protectorate of Great Britain....
06 March 2012
The BDP and Botswana's 'false decolonisation' Part 1
Our main concern here is that in the process, the party tried hard to re-invent itself or obscure the true facts about its history. This article seeks to challenge this obscurantism by briefly looking at the BDP's unpleasant past as...
COMRADE MOORE 06 March 2012
Nurses are disgruntled, burnt-out
One would expect that nurses would be among the better paid and well-looked - after cadres in the whole government system, but the opposite is the true. Nurses are presently disgruntled, disheartened and burned out. The police, teachers, and...
06 March 2012
ETCETERA II
I was, I suppose, put right by someone last week who responded to my comments on the heat by maintaining that he personally never complains about such matters, being well aware that it is so much hotter elsewhere. What we need to do, he...
Sandy Grant 06 March 2012
Kingdon-0-Metre
This week I had intended to discuss the issue surrounding Lieutenant General Tebogo Masire's Zimbabwe utterances. Ihave decided to put that on hold. Instead I want to turn my focus on the church. The church, as derives from ekklessia is a...
Dumi Mmualefe 06 March 2012
Issues in education
Last week's Issues considered some key problems in the education system that are causing a serious reversal in the direction of pubic education. The most critical factor identified was the general lack of textbooks for students in...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Griswold 06 March 2012
The winners code
Every weekend the community would gather to watch his dogs fight and they would place bets on the dog they believed would win. The monk would also place his bet. It was not long before the community noticed that the monk never got it...
George Chingarande 06 March 2012
Photo boot-camp impressive
And in the circumstances during some tasks I saw many of the attendees literally dripping with sweat and I'm sure some of them lost weight in the process of becoming better photographers. The workshop was different from previous ones, as it was on...
Ulf Nermark
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Life after cancer
The pain worsened, especially during winter and on cold days. Bontle Modige, 26, was later diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer at 14 years of age. "I had cancer for more than two years," she says. The rare nasopharyngeal cancer affects...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Boost for relay team ahead of Istanbul meet
Jamaica-based Isaac Makwala, Obakeng Ngwigwa, Thapelo Ketlogetswe, Pako Seribe and Sakaria Kamberuka will get to train together for three days before taking to the track. Makwala confirmed he will leave his Kingston base today. The Senegal-based duo...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Relegation battle intensifies
It was a great relief for Notwane coach, Clever Hunda who has seen his side lose to Miscellaneous and Mogoditshane Fighters in the last two weeks. The victory over Nico United is expected to restore some confidence in the young lads, while easing...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Gunners' continental dream up in smoke
Ezimnyama were eliminated from the continental club competition at the hands of Tana FC of Madagascar after a 2-0 away loss in Antananarivo on Sunday. Although many football supporters were left happy when the Lobatse giants fought from behind to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Singapore snatch three netball players in historic move
The three are national team players goal defender Kagisano Mawela, 29, shooter Tebogo Radipotsane, 25, and goal defender Ntebogang Motlakaloso, 20, who were spotted following their exploits during the 2011 World Netball Championships, which Singapore...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Back stage
Le Quattro Volte (2010) a.k.a The Four Times is being shown by the Gaborone Film Society at Maru a Pula School in the A/V Centre at 7 pm tonight only.Le Quattro Volte is set in southern Italy in Calabria, a place small in area, rugged and wild, where...
Sasa Majuma 06 March 2012
Take your work seriously, minister tells artists
He was speaking at the Francistown Civic Centre where he addressed employees from government departments under his ministry. He said constituency competitions are not going to last forever, they need artists to graduate and stand on their own. "You...
PINI BOTHOKO & SALIFI RATSHEE
Correspondents 06 March 2012
Meet Patricia Motlhabi the people's beauty queen
Motlhabi was crowned queen for this year during the Miss Millennium's pageant held last month at the Millennium Jazz Restaurant in Mogoditshane. Motlhabi, who is working as a senior technical assistant at the Government Printer, hails from...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Ramco relocates Matsieng, Mmurubele to SA
Ramco, who leaves today, says he has achieved a lot locally and felt it was time to introduce traditional music to a much bigger market. "I am done here and I believe it was time to take a step higher. It is time Setswana traditional music was...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Malema rivals on ropes
At what insiders said was an "emotionally charged" meeting, the national executive committee of the league on Sunday reined in treasurer-general, Pule Mabe and read him the riot act.A unanimous vote of no-confidence in him was passed.Other members...
06 March 2012
Black market dirties Zimbabwe diamond fields
The traffic-stopping occasion was the burial of the area's apex gem dealer, Bothwell Hlahla, an ally of president Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, who made his fortune in the rough stones at the centre of a human rights storm."His funeral helped to...
06 March 2012
280 CEDA projects cost P209m - Seretse
Submitting budget proposals for his ministry recently, the Acting Minister of Trade and Industry, Vincent Seretse, said the agricultural sector had 134 projects financed at P107 million, the service sector 101 projects financed at P52 million while...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Leaner CIC Energy fights cash drain
According to available documents, CIC Energy had 39 employees as at November 2010, with the figure declining to 27 by November 2011, enabling it to slash operational expenses. In the three months ended November 2011, CIC Energy spent 1.21 million...
STAFF WRITER 06 March 2012
New hotel to fill accommodation gap
During a media tour on Friday, the general manager of Travelodge, Cecilia Ponde, said the hotel was well positioned to meet the customer's needs since it was close to the airport. "Since we are close to the CBD, we are in a good market place and we...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 06 March 2012
As i see it
Had I been invited, I would have declined. Through the media, I knew there was hullabaloo about opposition parties 'boycotting' the celebrations. Some felt it was not a done thing in Setswana lore and custom. Gabz fm morning show, the Pulse led the...
Michael Dingake 06 March 2012
The buck stops with you Mma Venson-Moitoi
We want to believe she made the statements in the heat of the moment when cornered by opposition MPs in Parliament. Otherwise, it would be a serious indictment on her judgement if she believes that opponents of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party...
06 March 2012
Selefu 06 March 2012
06 March 2012
The curious case of one Julius Malema
In explaining the creation of Malema within the ANC, we need to go back a bit, before the Zuma Tsunami. Malema's real origins lie in what happened with Fikile Mbalula, the person who led the ANC Youth League before Malema. After the relatively sober...
06 March 2012
SADC Secretariat holds workshop on cyber security
The objective of the workshop was to review, amend and validate regional model legislations on electronic transactions, as well as protect personal data in the fight against cyber crime. According to HIPPSA Project Coordinator, Ida Jallow, draft...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Molapo Crossing intersection will not be changed
Since the construction of a new road from Molapo Crossing to Motsemotlhabe, traffic accidents have spiked. Some motorists from the Botswana Television (Btv) circle are illegally making a U-turn at the Molapo traffic lights to enter Molapo Crossing...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Tonota residents complain about poor service
Frustrated complainants related how they would spend a whole day or two at the CNRO, which is housed at the Tonota Sub-district building, and leave unattended. "I doubt if I will get help today. When I arrived here at six in the morning (Thursday)...
Gaone Chepete
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Judge delivers verdict today
The prosecution and the three respondents submitted their heads of arguments last Friday. The accused persons allegedly murdered Tshokodiso Plots who was then working as a Botswana Defence Force soldier stationed at Area S camp and made off...
CHAKALISA DUBE & KUSHATA TABENGWA
Staff Writer Corespondent 06 March 2012
Chinese tussle over P1.5bn tender
Sinohydro, Consolidated Companies and Quingian Group, which have been winning major multi-million Pula projects back-to-back in Botswana, are wrestling over a P1.5 billion tender for the North South Water Carrier Project 2 before Justice Mercy...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Masisi rubbishes constitutional review motion
Mabiletsa tabled a motion requesting government to set up a constitutional review commission that will "undertake the process of soliciting the views of Batswana countrywide on a comprehensive review of the Republican constitution in order to make it...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Ipeleng tantamount to slavery, charges Boko
Addressing a political rally in Tlokweng over the weekend, Boko said hapless Batswana work long hours in harsh conditions with no protective clothing to shield them from the sun or injuries while on duty. "The police have now been given new uniforms...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 06 March 2012
SRC is being blackmailed to join BDP - president
Infact, Richard Khumoekae has almost pinpointed the vice-chancellor of the University of Botswana, Professor Thabo Fako, as the mastermind behind the scheme. He told a BNF rally in Tlokweng on Saturday that Fako is a member of the BDP, saying that...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Customers at risk of static at Rail Park Choppies?
This is despite the fact that some customers have complained of being shocked by trolleys. Nonetheless, Kodukkadek has indirectly admitted the existence of such a risk when he told this newspaper that there was excessive static electricity in the...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 06 March 2012
Medical, research institute a must - BEH chief
Kewagamang said this trend deprives the local health care system of the much-needed skilled human resource despite government expenditure in educating them. He was addressing an exploratory education mission made up of university professors from the...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Unions lambast govt for intolerance
The joint presentation from the Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) and the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) lambasted government for failing to see unions as partners in democracy. The BTU secretary general, Ibo Kenosi said they stand...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
Now Seabelo's son sues bus mogul for P286,000
In an out-of-court settlement reached on February 22, senior Tlhaselo will have to pay his son the owed amount in instalments over an extended period. However, Gago, who is also the son to Mmapona, the wife who recently divorced the transport...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 06 March 2012
BDP can and must be stronger post 50th birthday
The party has mostly been able to survive through battles and crisis as is natural for any political movement. On this occasion, it is important to recap elements of our past that helped us succeed and those that challenge us.The party was born of...
*THABO AUTLWETSE 07 March 2012
BNF rally hooks herd-boy to politics
For Obonye Lobang, who falls within the latter category, it was a rare visit to a Botswana National Front (BNF) rally in November 1998 that left him hooked to the world of politics and his future party.Mmegi had a chat with Lobang who will contest...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 07 March 2012
How a soccer game turned fatal
Residents of Ledumadumane who live next to the soccer ground where the game was played, related that a fight started after one supporter refused to leave the pitch."Suddenly we saw the man lying down with a lot of blood oozing from him," said one...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 07 March 2012
Gaborone: the city without a face
Now, quick, what comes to mind at the mention of Gaborone? Perhaps it was easier to answer this question about the city at independence. In the mid-1960s, the country shed its image and identity as the Bechuanaland Protectorate of Great Britain....
07 March 2012
The BDP and Botswana's 'false decolonisation' Part 1
Our main concern here is that in the process, the party tried hard to re-invent itself or obscure the true facts about its history. This article seeks to challenge this obscurantism by briefly looking at the BDP's unpleasant past as...
COMRADE MOORE 07 March 2012
Nurses are disgruntled, burnt-out
One would expect that nurses would be among the better paid and well-looked - after cadres in the whole government system, but the opposite is the true. Nurses are presently disgruntled, disheartened and burned out. The police, teachers, and...
07 March 2012
ETCETERA II
I was, I suppose, put right by someone last week who responded to my comments on the heat by maintaining that he personally never complains about such matters, being well aware that it is so much hotter elsewhere. What we need to do, he...
Sandy Grant 07 March 2012
Kingdon-0-Metre
This week I had intended to discuss the issue surrounding Lieutenant General Tebogo Masire's Zimbabwe utterances. Ihave decided to put that on hold. Instead I want to turn my focus on the church. The church, as derives from ekklessia is a...
Dumi Mmualefe 07 March 2012
Issues in education
Last week's Issues considered some key problems in the education system that are causing a serious reversal in the direction of pubic education. The most critical factor identified was the general lack of textbooks for students in...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Griswold 07 March 2012
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