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History of violent expansionism
It reminded us of a history of mass violence directed against specifically defined population groups, which had to a certain extent its origins and roots in the violent expansion of European colonialism. The German empire played a particularly...
*HENNING MELBER 27 March 2012
Mokhethi to be exhumed and reburied in SA
Mokhethi, who was buried near his fellow comrade Abram Onkgopotse Tiro in the old Gabrone cemetery, died in 1985 after a long illness. He was born on April 29, 1952 in Evaton, Vereeniging. Mokhethi matriculated at Morris Isaacson High School in...
27 March 2012
I survived cancer
SELEBI-PHIKWE: A 63-year-old woman who has been living with sugar diabetes and high blood pressure for the past 15 years is a living testimony that cancer is curable if detected early and is subsequently well managed. Not only did Mantina Pheko...
27 March 2012
America's shrinking global power
The combination of concern over China and the US debt crisis could set Washington on a course to becoming a mere regional power in the Asia Pacific. According to a just published report by the London-based International Institute of Strategic...
*ALISTAIR BURNETT 27 March 2012
SADC integration 20 years on
On August 17, 1992, at their Summit held in Windhoek, Namibia, the Heads of State and Government signed the SADC Treaty and Declaration that effectively transformed the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) into the Southern...
27 March 2012
The Umbrella Paradox: Manipulation, False Ideation And Utopian Reforms
The ordinary people were tantalised and believed that they will be freed from the BDP imperious neo-liberal zealots, who like the BCP believe in capital market liberalisation and privatisation. It has to be noted that the opposition is...
Dama Mosweunyane 27 March 2012
ETCETERA ||
You may be okay and understand perfectly what is going on. But I am totally lost. The other day, with much fanfare BEDIA/Brand Botswana signed a partnership with Debswana, pics were taken, hands shaken and the future sorted...
Sandy Grant 27 March 2012
Kindom-0-metre
I teach a course on Politics of Gender and the question I am often asked is, "what does politics have to do with gender, or what is this politics in gender." My answer is always informed by the conviction that as gender is about power and its...
Dumi Mmualefe 27 March 2012
Issues in education
In last week's Issues it was noted that, according to a variety of research findings, as analysed by Professor Gerard Guthrie in his book, The Progressive Education Fallacy in Developing Countries: In Favour of Formalism (Dordrecht, The Netherlands,...
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Sheldon Weeks 27 March 2012
The winners code
There are more than seven billion people in the world presently. How many of them are leading significant lives? How many of them are known beyond their villages, streets, towns or their countries? Many job advertisements are flighted...
George Chingarande 27 March 2012
Clay courts could ruin Mogopodi's chances
Sibanda said Mogopodi, Botswana's only representative in the prestigious tournament, was prepared in every way for the competition, but pointed that playing on a clay court, the weather and being coached by a new mentor could work against...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Chiefs surge forward as rivals falter
The Kgatleng boys have watched as their distant rivals try in vain to cling to their coat tails with the home stretch in sight. Chiefs were ruthless with a 5-1 mauling of Great North Tigers (GNT) in Francistown on Saturday.Chasers, Township Rollers...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Back stage
Hidden (2005) a.k.a "Cache" is being shown today only at 7 p.m. at the Maru a Pula School, A/V Centre (Gaborone Film Society). Hidden is an unusually gripping movie by the Austrian director, Michael Haneke. In 2006 it was Austria's nomination...
Sasa Majuma 27 March 2012
Dancer-turned-singer aims for the stars
After an introduction to the music world two years ago, the young performer hopped from one group to another in search of greener pastures and refining her dancing skills in the process.She got her first break dancing for the talented Maxy (Olebile...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Masego and Aubrei Woki's debut album simply sensational
The song is the couple's best hit and has been played by many radio stations, including Radio Botswana's RB1, Duma fm, Gabz fm and across the border such as South Africa's Motsweding fm where Cebo Manyaapelo once announced that it was his favourite...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Salford mother hurt in Pendleton racist acid attack
He made a sexual and racist comment to her before throwing a container of corrosive liquid over her.The victim, who is black, was taken to hospital with burns to her chest and back, and is in a stable condition. Her baby was not injured.A police...
27 March 2012
India activist Anna Hazare threatens new protest
He has been campaigning for a strong anti-corruption bill.Hazare's hunger strike in Delhi last August almost brought the government to its knees.He started another hunger strike in December, but called it off and threatened instead to launch a...
27 March 2012
Kenya oil discovery after Tullow Oil drilling
The discovery was made in the country's north-western Turkana region.Kibaki said it was "the first time Kenya has made such a discovery" and called it a "major breakthrough".Kenya is a regional business and tourist hub with the largest economy in...
27 March 2012
Nato troops killed by gunman in Afghan army uniform
The shootings took place at an international military base in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, yesterday.Nato said the attacker was shot dead by International Security Assistance Force soldiers. The nationalities of the dead troops have not yet been...
27 March 2012
Mutineers return to barracks
Petrol stations and market stalls reopened in Bamako, the capital, after the military junta that ousted president, Amadou Toumani Toure in an overnight coup last Wednesday ordered all soldiers back to barracks. There was also less gunfire and...
27 March 2012
Wade asks supporters to eye Next polls
"The presidential elections are now behind us, we should now concentrate on the legislative elections that will be held in June, " he told his supporters in a press statement released late on Sunday. Wade also asked his supporters to "remain...
27 March 2012
Revolt against Zuma
Packed at Nkowankowa stadium outside Tzaneen in Limpopo to celebrate the ANC centenary, youth league members openly revolted against Zuma and endorsed his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, both in song and on T-shirts.Embattled youth league president,...
27 March 2012
Women's capital limitations addressed
In response to a question from the MP for Okavango, Bagalatia Arone, Siele said the ministry is putting up some measures to address the needs of women."In the short-term, deliberate measures that have been put in place to address this gap include...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Karowe mine to boost diamond auctions market
The owners of the mine, BSE-listed Lucara Diamonds, says it expects to sell 300,000 carats from Karowe in 2012, becoming the second company to hold independent diamond auctions in Gaborone outside the DTC framework.The selling of Karowe production...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
As I see it
Good for President Ian Khama, to have outgrown his phobia of denying the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, the privilege of meeting visiting dignitaries. First Ladies, Heads of State and Government, were up to March 19, 2012 denied the...
Michael Dingake 27 March 2012
Selefu 27 March 2012
27 March 2012
Fare thee well, Wade
This is a rare occurrence for Africa, a continent whose history is marred by countless coups d'etat, civil wars, hunger, poverty and all the negative ills of humanity. Wade's gesture is all the more inspiring for its sharp contrast to the situation...
27 March 2012
Project syndicate
BEIJING: The first principle that I learned when I started focusing on China in the late 1990's is that nothing is more important to the Chinese than stability - whether economic, social, or political. Given centuries of turmoil in China, today's...
Stephen S. Roach 27 March 2012
Kazungula Bridge Project Bill gets the nod
The bill, which mandates the Botswana government to raise a loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for facilitation and financing the project, received overwhelming support in the House.Finance and Development Planning Minister...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Councillors vow to incite residents to break law
At a recent special full council meeting, the councillors wondered why the law is only perculiar to the town's businesses.The meeting came about after the said councillors wrote a letter to the mayor and council management expressing concern over...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Botswana has improved corruption image - Seretse
Presenting his ministry's budget recently, the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security said Botswana was currently ranked 6.1 on a scale of 0 to10 and 32 out of 183 countries assessed.Ramadeluka Seretse said the country had gone 0.03 points up,...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 27 March 2012
ISPAAD to cover commercial farmers soon
Though the programme covers all farmers, it allows a farmer to cultivate only five hectares for free, provides free fertilizers for five hectares and seed for the first 16 hectares free, while a commercial farmer might want to cultivate at least 20...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Key BNF region issues ultimatum
BNF president Duma Boko violated the resolutions of the party's central committee by his "selective suspension" of three executive committee members, Harry Mothei, Akanyang Magama and Maemo Bantsi, a key region of the factious party has...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Old Naledi facelift completed, says mayor
The project, originally planned for completion in December 2010, was meant to include provision of a sewerage network, tarred roads and associated storm water drainage system, water reticulation and street lighting to Gaborone's oldest and largest...
GOTHATAONE MOENG< BR>Staff Writer 27 March 2012
BCP exit disappoints Umbrella
Speaking in an interview with Mmegi yesterday, BNF spokesman Moeti Mohwasa said based on the opposition's bad experiences with the pact model, "we had thought that the Umbrella would help us to deliver a government to the people".The BNF, the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Kanjabanga to get his e-passport
A letter from Department of Immigration and Citizenship Director Mabuse Pule addressed to Kanjabanga says the department made a "serious" consideration of his case and reversed its position."After serious consideration of your case the Department of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Kgafela: real case resumes
He appeared for a brief mention before Gaborone Chief Magistrate Christopher Gabanagae yesterday in a case in which the Bakgatla traditional leadership is accused of flogging people in the Kgatleng region of Mochudi in 2009.Kgafela threw yet another...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
Health minister squares up in court with maids
The crime is said to have occurred at the minister's residence in Moshupa village where the two women worked as his maids.According to the particulars of the offence, the two maids Selinah Kwenaetile, who is the first accused, and Kelesitse Mosepele,...
PETER MADIYA
Correspondent 27 March 2012
Kanjabanga to get his e-passport
A letter from Department of Immigration and Citizenship Director Mabuse Pule addressed to Kanjabanga says the department made a "serious" consideration of his case and reversed its position."After serious consideration of your case the Department of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 27 March 2012
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