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'Healthy' Mugabe presides over Zimbabwe independence
That trip prompted speculation that the 88-year-old leader was seriously ill. Zimbabwean prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai described as "repugnant" the theme of this year's celebrations - the "indigenisation" of businesses owned by white people.The...
23 April 2012
Spain King Juan Carlos sorry for Botswana hunt trip
His trip to Botswana, which was widely criticised, emerged after he was flown home for treatment for a fractured hip. "I'm very sorry, I made a mistake. It won't happen again," he said, as he left San Jose hospital in Madrid.It was widely reported...
23 April 2012
India test launches Agni-V long-range missile
The Agni-V missile was launched from a site off India's east coast and took 20 minutes to hit its target somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean. The missile has a range of more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets...
23 April 2012
Sudan president seeks to 'liberate' South Sudan
The former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has ruled South Sudan since it seceded from Sudan in July 2011.President Bashir described the SPLM as "insects" that needed to be eliminated. Fighting between the two countries has now...
23 April 2012
Trayvon and thefugitive slave mentality
Before he temporarily stepped down from his position last week as chief of the Sanford, Fla., police department, Bill Lee Jr gave an explanation of his decision not to arrest George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. Lee said he had no reason to...
23 April 2012
America goes to war in secret
One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. The drone's mission: to spy on Tehran's nuclear program, as well as any insurgent activities...
23 April 2012
Propaganda, prophecy and prosperity
Both the mass media and the clergy serve a system for communicating messages and symbols to their respective audiences, having a compelling function to amuse, entertain, inform, and to inculcate values, beliefs, and codes of behaviour designed to...
* REASON WAFAWAROVA 23 April 2012
The collapse of an education system?
The ISS African Futures Project policy brief, Knowledge Empowers Africa, highlights that it is imperative for African countries to increase educational spending in order to reap the rewards of a more educated population. Economics and education...
* HOPOLANG SELEBALO 23 April 2012
Mosinyi recreates her world through art
So forget that arts are not the best paying of industries in Botswana because Mosinyi is all set to bulldoze her way to the top with her God-given talent. Talk about discovering and following through your dream, then you are relating the story...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Digging tswana roots
Is belief in a 'tokoloshi' baseless superstition or not? This is a mysterious, often invisible creature that can be 'sent' to harass individuals. In this article, we are going to find a rather surprising answer to this. This takes us to a time...
L.M. Leteane 23 April 2012
FMD shatters farmers' dreams in Matsiloje
Farmers, herdsmen, the business community and just about every resident of the village are mourning the killing of cattle in the area in order to clear FMD. Livestock has always played a vital role in the rural economy of Matsiloje where there are...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Maokaneng finds his 'dream home' in the BNF
This was revealed by sources at Kopano House this week. Bontshetse, a long-time BDP activist, is among other eight card carrying members who defected from the ruling party earlier this week. This group was welcomed into the BNF fold by the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Remembering the mother of all strikes
Gaborone Industrial Court, 9th May, 3:28amWorkers happily singing in celebration as they leave court in the early hours of Monday after they successfully challenged the court, ruling that declared it unlawful for essential services workers to strike....
23 April 2012
Hogs impressive again in rugby league
Despite not playing to their usual structure, the former League champions, managed a routine success to make it four out of four this season. The match started off at a low pace with play concentrated in the middle of the park in the opening 30...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 23 April 2012
NICO, BMC share spoils
BMC and Nico United played to agoalless draw in a be MOBILE Premier League encounter on Saturday at the Selebi-Phikwe stadium. The two teams failed to utilise the many chances they created during the entire match. The first ten minutes of the...
Calistus Kolantsho
Correspondent 23 April 2012
GU thump Satmos 4-1
Gaborone United continued their revival from unpleasant start of the year with a hard fought 4-1 victory over bottom of the log FC Satmos at the SSKB on Saturday. The game had remained lukewarm and only came into live in the final ten minutes...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Diphatsa teams start Mascom volleyball on a high
Diphatsa men started their campaign against Magstimela and Serowe side Tanian, both which they brushed aside with ease. First on the menu was Magstimela which they beat 3-0. Diphatsa took first set 25-19, following up with 25-6 in...
Kushatha Tabengwa
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Olympic dreams elusiveat national championships
Three hundred athletes took part in the IAAF sanctioned event that came at a time when athletes are trying to look for a place in the world games. However, the upcoming 100 metres runner Yatea Kambepera was probably the toast of the day breaking the...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 23 April 2012
GNT upset Gunners
The visitors started the match like a house on fire, launching early attacks that gave the GNT defence led by Captain, Osenyeng Tsenang a torrid time. The Peleng boys never gave Tigers space to breath with their trade mark passing game. Gunners'...
Chakalisa Dube
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Fighters stun Chiefs
Mogoditshane Fighters staged one of their best performances this season when they stunned be MOBILE Premier League title favourites, Mochudi Centre Chiefs 3-2 yesterday. It was Chiefs' only second loss of the season. BDF XI is the only other side...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Kenyans dominate GC marathon
The Kenyans had to beat stiff competition from a strong Lesotho contingent of Jacob Khatoane, Tshepo Ramarene and Ramolefi Motseloa. The two were separated by some milliseconds to the finish line with Kipkorir finishing at 02:16:25, while Serem...
Frederick Kebadiretse
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Scramblers crowned champions
Eric Simwanza got the only home run of the game in the bottom one inning to thrust them ahead before first base man, Oteng Modise got another run to make it 3-0. The three bottom one runs were all Scramblers needed to wrest the title from BDF as they...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Food for the soul
Easter bliss is long and the reality has set back in. Not to mention winter is fast-approaching if not here already and the number of people with sniffles is multiplying fast. So taking care of and better still preventing colds and flues...
Boitshepo Giyose 23 April 2012
History of Batawana in paintings
Attendants of the event held at the Debswana House in Gaborone were especially captivated by the narration of how Kachikau village in the Chobe district came into being, its strong links to the Batawana chieftainship wrangles which resulted in the...
Chippa Legodimo
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
'News editors don't prioritise arts & culture'
This emerged at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) media workshop on strengthening reporting and implementation of the 2003 Convention on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Gaborone on...
Chippa Legodimo
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Welcome to Botswana on show again
The play, which saw a very low turn up, opens with a tourist arriving in Botswana and is welcomed and shown around the country's tourist attractions. Then narrations on places like the Okavango Delta, Chobe, Tsodilo Hills, Matsieng Footprints...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Three My Star hopefuls out of the running
Five contenders were up for eviction and had to battle it out to keep their places in the race. Boikanyo Sejallolwane, Mpho Ketlogetswe, Leina Rabasha, Boemo Mokgatlhe and Segopotso Tlhalerwa had the least number of votes and had pinned their hopes...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Opera: slater & co treat revellers to unique setswana solos
But last weekend, music lovers were treated to a rare delight from Italian composer Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera Cavalleria Rusticana translated and set in Botswana. The sumptuous show took place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the No.1...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Matambo to chair key World Bank meeting
The Africa Group 1 Constituency meeting, which will take place alongside other World Bank and IMF deliberations, is primarily designed to enhance Africa's voice and status within the Bretton Woods institutions. The meeting this year comes as...
Keikantse Lesemela
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Plan for life after retirement
However, Premier Wealth financial planner, Martin Hoko, explains that simply waiting and believing that one can rely on their pension is unwise and carries high risks of frustration.Rather, Hoko says, people should develop life plans which entail...
Keikantse Lesemela
Correspondent 23 April 2012
That old tax magic
The system, Americans have been reminded, has become painfully complex, with many a loophole through which one might try to squeeze. The fear of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service lurks in homes across the country. At such a sensitive time, it...
*Simon Johnson 23 April 2012
ETCETERA II
Recently there have been two official launches which rightly received significant press attention. One was the launch in Tlokweng of the government's programme to eliminate poverty and the other of the train taking coal from Sese to Maputo. Despite...
Sandy Grant 23 April 2012
Kingdom-0-Metre
The past week marked one year since the "mother of all strikes." Among other things the workers were complaining about was money. Years had passed without any increment. My take is that the workers were not under any illusion that Botswana was...
Dumi Mmualefe 23 April 2012
Issues in education
The relationship between teacher unions and government is inevitably necessary. The two need each other for the sake of the desire to develop and provide the best quality education so desperately needed by the society and the countries. The two...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 23 April 2012
The winners code
After being hospitalised for three weeks a plane crash survivor regained consciousness. A few days later she was discharged from hospital. On the day she was discharged she gave her first interview in which she narrated what she could remember about...
George Chingarande 23 April 2012
Ipelegeng feeding scheme impoverishes our people
Genuinely so because no one expects that this feeding programme would come at a loss to the women providing these services to Ipelegeng workers. Indeed the ripple down effect of this programme would be felt seven folds across many families...
23 April 2012
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23 April 2012
Molepolole goes green
The Bakwena capital is the first village where waste segregation will be implemented and become the norm, as envisaged by Wena Environmental Education and News Trust chiefs. In partnership with the US Embassy and Recycle IT Company, the trust...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Icons of Botswana
To his legion of fans, veteran Radio Botswana presenter, Geoffrey Motshidisi carries a barrage of signatures such as Moshombororo, Rraagwe Malaakatse and Rraagwe Shombi. Motshidisi has been on the airwaves for over 40 years. He joined Radio Botswana...
Bathami Chilume
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Cuban Ambassador dies after collapsing at President Hotel
On Sunday a manager in charge at President Hotel refused to talk to The Monitor about the incident saying the general manager will contact this paper about the incident but never did. However sources tell The Monitor Ramon was giving a speech when...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Double house break-in trio remanded
The revelation came after three middle-aged men appeared before Kanye Principal Magistrate, Janet Phosa, on charges of burglary and stealing from a dwelling house on Thursday. Karabo Kgosithaba (28) of Ranaka village, a labourer at the South East...
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
DVS approves BMC for eu market
Principal public relations officer at the Ministry of Agriculture, Boikhutso Rabasha revealed that the licence was issued after a recent inspection of the BMC carried out by the DVS. She noted that the DVS is set to contact the EU for the re-listing...
23 April 2012
Braille centre to open next year
The association will convert ordinary literature to Braille using a Braille embosser purchased through the assistance of the Orange Botswana Foundation. The association's secretary general, Omphemetse Ramobokwa, said the centre would help blind...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
BCA drafting leather technology course
Speaking to The Monitor at a seminar that analysed the leather industry in Botswana, BCA lecturer, John Moreki disclosed that the college is drafting the course. He revealed that the accreditation of the course will be finalised after a needs...
Keikantse Lesemela
Correspondent 23 April 2012
Monametsi to represent Bdp in by-election
The seat fell vacant after councillor Mothusi Lekoko who was also a BDP member, died early this year. The by-election will be held on May 26, while nominations of candidates should be received on May 4 at the District Commissioner's office...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Security guard terror
Sources at the government media house say the first incident happened around six o'clock in the evening when Btv news reporter Nenguba Fati was confronted by an aggressive security guard who arm-twisted him and pointed a pistol under his chin. The...
Ephraim Keoreng
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
BOSETU maintains stance on extra-curricular activities
The union's secretary general, Tobokani Rari, has urged members not to go for what he called 'piece meal' temporary arrangements such as overtime. In a statement released by the union this week, Rari said the permanent solution to the issue of...
Baboki Kayawe
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
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23 April 2012
Kidney disease sufferer cries for help
A kidney transplant operation costs around P500,000 and can only be performed abroad as there are no facilities for such a medical procedure in Botswana. All along Madigele was an ordinary bubbly student, full of life. He rarely complained of any...
Chippa Legodimo
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
Ipelegeng feeding scheme in teething problems
Obonye Maranjane, a caterer for 61 Ipelegeng workers in the Bontleng ward, told The Monitor that she is worried that she may not recoup all her costs at the end of the month. Maranjane said to feed the 61 workers, she uses over 31kg of flour...
Gothataone Moeng
Staff Writer 23 April 2012
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