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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...
24 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...
24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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....
24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 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 24 April 2012
Going gets tougher for Buffaloes
Their recent form does not paint a positive picture at all. A 0-0 draw against Prisons XI a month ago kick started a dark spell that included a 3-2 loss away to lowly placed Masitaoka a fortnight ago before they were held to a 1-all draw by Jwaneng...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Botswana still hopes to send 20 athletes to London
So far only four locals have qualified for the games billed for London, United Kingdom in July. Athletes already assured of a shot at glory are world reigning 400 metre champion, Amantle Montsho, Pako Seribe, Isaac Makwala and Nigel Amos, the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 24 April 2012
Job half done, says new 100m champion
New 100 metre champion, Yatea Kambepera is not celebrating his success yet, until qualification to the London 2012 Olympics is achieved. The diminutive athlete from Sehitwa in the Ngami region tore the 100 metre record to shreds on Saturday,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Back stage
The Skin I live In (2011) a.k.a La Piel Que Habito is showing on May 1 at the Gaborone Film Society at 7:00 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. It is one of the better films of 2011, but perhaps also one of the most outlandish, because it...
Sasa Majuma 24 April 2012
Musician Tee Peggos returns with extra drive
Like a brave ram, she chose to step back a little after presenting a disappointing debut album. She now returns stronger and with a high zest for success. After the release of her debut album in 2001,titled Gae Gamalete, the 38-year-old former KTM...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Shumba's East Africa tour shows set
The man who rose to stardom with the hit track Makhirikhiri a few years ago, seems to have found a 'happy hunting ground' in East Africa, having performed there on several occasions in 2010. His song Makhirikhiri is so popular that East Africans,...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 April 2012
Perseverance pays off for My Star hopeful
Shirley is the only contender in this year's edition to have competed in all the six seasons of the competition. Six years ago when she made her first appearance at the inception of the competition, she could barely sing, something that saw her sent...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 24 April 2012
UN set to renew Western Sahara force despite criticism
The renewal of the mandate of the peacekeeping force, known as MINURSO, marks an annual battle in the council between Morocco, backed by France, and African nations supporting Polisario. The African countries have repeatedly called for UN...
24 April 2012
African bank chief ready to commit $45 million to Malawi
Speaking after meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, African Development Bank president, Donald Kaberuka told Reuters that he was determined to support Malawi as it tries to resume economic reforms. He said he had...
24 April 2012
First diamonds recovered from Karowe mine
The announcement comes at a time when the company has also closed a P187 million ($25 million) revolving credit facility from Bank of Nova Scotia to finance operations and further development of the mine in diamond rich Boteti...
Brian Benza
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Kedikilwe lends weight to BPC
Kedikilwe's media address yesterday comes as the maelstrom of public outrage over excessively inaccurate power bills continues. The BPC has pledged to normalise all monthly bills by the end of April, with 98 percent of complaints already...
STAFF WRITER 24 April 2012
As I see it
The attitude of not turning back after the historic 2011 BOFEPUSU strike is right. Looking back to look forward is doctor's prescription. The workers met the wall of government intransigence to their legitimate demands without flinching for eight...
Michael Dingake 24 April 2012
The West needs to wake up to a new world
He was chosen not because he possessed any qualification above Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigera and Jos Antonio Ocampo of Colombia. It was simply because Yong Kim was American. There is an agreement made between Europe and the United States of America...
24 April 2012
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24 April 2012
Serowe connected to North-South carrier
Kedikilwe who was addressing a political rally in Phikwe on Saturday, said this is part of government efforts to ensure sufficient water supply to the people, despite unfavorable economic conditions. He said Serowe is being supplied by water from...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
On the anniversary of the strike: Can BDP survive as it is?
They have not been able to respond to issues: that is they have failed to align with the desires of Batswana and offer them realistic alternatives to what the ruling party offers - rather, they have been trying to sell what they wanted to sell and...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE
Correspondent 24 April 2012
Govt to sponsor students for A'levels
The decision is meant to empower the local institutions while cutting down on the cost of enrolling students on bridging courses outside the country. The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi told Mmegi recently...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Btv 'guard' had legal gun
In an exclusive interview with this reporter yesterday, Botswana Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Christopher Mbulawa said the guard (name withheld) was not arrested after the incident. "There was no need to arrest him because he has a...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Bakgatla royals judgement postponed to May 28
Former Customary Court of Appeal President, Mothibe Linchwe, is charged alongside six members of the royal family as well as members of the tribe's regiments. Judgment was due to be delivered on Friday but Regional Magistrate Barnabas Nyamadzabo...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
North-South pipeline bursts
The carrier is the backbone of the country’s water system supplying the central and eastern areas from Letsibogo Dam. The Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) has already issued a water shortage warning for Palapye, Mahalapye, greater Gaborone...
STAFF WRITER 24 April 2012
BDP winner alleges trafficking
At the BDP election, a total of 76 voters voted and Bogatsu's complaint meant that only about 26 people or one third of those who participated in voting were legitimate voters, while the rest were trafficked. The BDP primary election was held in...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
I have never been part of BMD - PHK
Kedikilwe, who is also the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, further emphasised that he never, at any point, intended to join the new party. Addressing a political rally during Selebi-Phikwe East MP Nonofo Molefhi's victory...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 24 April 2012
Nyamadzabo for High Court
Although the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary, Godfrey Nthomiwa has said that they have not made any appointments, sources say the two are on their way to the High Court bench. Nthomiwa said the JSC is yet to finalise the recruitment...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 24 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...
25 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...
25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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....
25 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 25 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 25 April 2012
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