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Judo hosts National Championship
The championship is the highlight of BJF's calendar as players use it to seek entry into the national team. The national team will then go into camp to prepare for the South African International Championships scheduled to take place in June. Also on...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Local squash in line for World Championships debut
The City of Manchester, home to England Squash and Racketball (ESR), will host the prestigious PSA Men's World Squash Championships in 2013 following last week's announcement. Botswana's squash side has been dormant for long, despite success by some...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Mascom Phikwe marathon sponsorship cut
The marathon will be held earlier this time, as it is to be used as a qualifier for the Olympics, which take place in London in July. A member of the organising committee, Ogomoditse Gaokgethelwe said that the sponsors Mascom, had informed them of...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Rasetapa appreciates support for disabled sport
Rasetapa, who has fought tirelessly for the recognition of disabled sportspersons in Botswana, said there is a lot of improvement. He said the government has shown its support through embracing Sports For All through its Vision, an indication that...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 27 April 2012
CWB to advocate for funds to build cricket facilities
Addressing journalists in Francistown on Wednesday, Botswana country manager for Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB) Clare Fallis, said that quality cricket facilities will complement efforts by BCA to grow the game in Botswana. Established in 2005,...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Remembering Tshimologo Boitumelo, a fiery yet gentle character
The office clowns, the likes of photographer Tsele Tsebetsame would cheer his charismatic and bold personality shouting: "Jola Jola wa ba ntwana! My love is not for sale." His middle name was Jola. It is amusing how I got to know Boitumelo. Unbeknown...
ERNEST KELAPILE
Correspondent 27 April 2012
No Mathata shifts focus to league title
The Botshabelo based side is the only team in the copper mining town left in the tournament after Nico United and FC Satmos fell at the first hurdle. No Mathata travel to Maun to play Maun Tigers tomorrow. Coach, Mosimanegape Kanono said that they...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO & CHAKALISA DUBE
Correspondent&Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Fastest 100m dash lifts Kambepera to stardom
On a weekend of surprises across the world of sport, little known Kambepera emerged the unlikely hero when he woke up on Sunday morning as Botswana's fastest man. He had eclipsed compatriot, Obakeng Ngwigwa record's, shedding 0.07secs of the national...
27 April 2012
Pharo, Rundofa dump TAFIC
The fast moving Pharo and sharp shooting Rundofa are the first players to desert the team, amid unconfirmed reports that a mass player exodus is looming at the Francistown based outfit. Pharo revealed to Mmegi Sport this week that he has quit TAFIC...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Gunners confirm Moyo's departure
Club spokesperson, Abdul Kgengwenyane said Moyo had hinted that he would like to leave at the end of the season. "We accepted his request and he was serving notice until the end of the season," Kgengwenyane told Mmegi Sport. He explained that they...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
'Tse Ditona' set to prevai in Top 8
Mochudi Centre Chiefs, ECCO City Greens, Township Rollers and Gaborone United (GU) find themselves one foot in the semi finals after registering home victories in the first leg three weekends ago. It is now time for Nico, BMC, BDF XI and Uniao...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Morule fires salvos as he steps down
Outgoing Botswana Softball Association (BSA) president, Marumo Morule will not seek re-election because he feels unappreciated. As the softball family converges in Palapye tomorrow for the annual general meeting (AGM) to among other things, elect a...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Top Kenyan judges declared 'unfit for office'
The vetting panel was set up as part of the deal to end post-election violence in 2008 when it was agreed to reform political and judicial institutions. Those dismissed include Justice Riaga Omollo, the appeal court's president. Five other judges...
27 April 2012
Brazil sex worker may sue US embassy over injuries
Romilda Aparecida Ferreira, 31, and her lawyer said they plan to file suit for injuries, medical expenses, lost income, and psychological trauma after an embassy van ran over her and left her stranded in the club parking lot with a broken collarbone,...
27 April 2012
Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes
However, prosecutors failed to prove that he had command over the rebels, said Justice Richard Lussick of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.The former war lord faced 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other international...
27 April 2012
To the victors go the foils
An incomplete list includes Russia, China, France, the United States, Egypt, Mexico, and South Korea. At first glance, these countries have little in common. Some are well-established democracies; some are authoritarian systems; and others are...
*RICHARD N. HAASS 27 April 2012
Ruling on journo's sources a victory for media freedom
In his ruling against Bosasa in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday morning, Judge Moroa Tsoka established a legal precedent for journalists not revealing their sources. The case pitted Bosasa against the M&G and investigative...
SIPHO KINGS 27 April 2012
Keeping cool in the nuclear heat
But of all the charges thrown at President Barack Obama by his domestic political opponents, the hardest for most outsiders to accept is that he is too emotionally disengaged: all brain cells and no red-blood cells. Certainly in defense and foreign...
* GARETH EVANS 27 April 2012
Somali women escape to the gym
Every morning in a building in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, women can be found pumping iron, pounding running machines and spinning furiously on exercise bikes. Unlike in the bullet-scarred streets outside, where suicide bombers are a constant...
27 April 2012
My verbal sparring with Charles Taylor
He first came to international prominence after an interview on the BBC's Focus on Africa programme with its then editor Robin White, who looks back at Charles Taylor's rise and fall. New Year's Days are usually a bit thin on news and much of the...
* ROBIN WHITE 27 April 2012
Misery that is Oodi-Modipane Road
Recently it was a school in Shakawe that was apparently constructed without brick force. But where were inspectors during the processe of construction? Is it not obvious that such massive projects taking millions should be monitored closely? Anyways,...
KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Staff writer 27 April 2012
Princess Marina P20m in the red transformation
It is feared that the country's top referral hospital Princess Marina's 2012-13 budget allocation would be severely depleted when it attempts to pay off P 20 million in debt it owes local and South African clinics and referral hospitals. According...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Land unavailability moves paraffin production from S/Phikwe
The group that has registered a company called Openly Africa collects plastic bags, containers and all sorts of plastic products and heats them at high temperatures to produce paraffin. They tested the product in their homes and it proved to be safe...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Book review
Christian John Makgala (2010) The Dixie Medicine Man, New York, iUniverse, Softcover, 470 pages including a glossary of Setswana words, two maps, no index, US$25.95, ISBN 978-1-4502-35237-2. [Launched in Botswana in January 2011.] Available at...
Sheridan Griswold 27 April 2012
Back stage
"Joyful Noise" (2011) has been at the New Capitol Cinemas. For those who like Dolly Patton, and adore Queen Latif and still love choral music, this is the film for them. They will find it a joyful noise, and it is still fun. For others, who don't...
Sasa Majuma 27 April 2012
The evolution and apex of the Bakalanga State of Butua (Part VI)
I pointed out that this chiefdom had gained substantial control of trade in gold, copper and animal furs by around AD 1000. In exchange for these items, the Leopards Kopje people acquired glass beads, cowrie shells and some cotton garments. We now...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Kuru dance festival returns
"It was the first time in my life I had been to an event organised entirely by the Basarwa. I felt very, very proud. I was happy to see all the Basarwa dances and that is why I was motivated to be part of the festival," he told Arts &...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Makacana 'cement sculpts' with finesse
However, can the same thing be said about 'cement sculpting'? Cement sculpting is certainly something that a layman has to think about a thousand times before laying his hands on it. Eager to break new ground in the art sector, young...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Emma Wareus' Chinese trip yields 200 wheelchairs
The last time she was in China, Wareus was crowned the Miss World First Princess. This time she was part of a four-member team of the Botswana-China Friendship Association (BOCFA) that visited Shanghai, China from May 14-21 on a charity mission,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Mining: The super-rich and the poor
First and most importantly not one of the top 10 billionaires is an American or an EU national, and with no surprises almost all are men and third and perhaps most instructive from a policy standpoint is the fact that almost all were either...
* ROMAN GRYNBERG 27 April 2012
Call national poll on opposition cooperation
This is a good reminder to the three leaders of the opposition, who formerly referred to themselves as the holy trinity of Botswana's politics, and who now deserve to be called the 'three false prophets'. They demonstrated great solidarity and...
27 April 2012
Floor-crossing is unprincipled
This is a practice that is not only a political patent, it goes beyond politics, and is also found in other spheres of any social institutions, but here we will restrain ourselves to the political arena. There has been a debate around the issue of...
27 April 2012
Digging tswana roots
In my previous article, we saw how after losing Dumuzi - the love of her life - and following her traumatic experience at the hands of her suspicious sister Ershkigal, the Sumerian goddess Inanna became lonely and miserable. Her complaint that she...
L.M. Leteane 27 April 2012
NACA intervention welcome
We are informed that Makgabaneng will receive P9 million whilst TEC will get P17.4 million and the objective is that they will help the nation achieve the zero infection rate by national Vision year, 2016. Makgabaneng is a well-known radio drama...
27 April 2012
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27 April 2012
Borolong has exigent problems
This happened at a Kgotla meeting addressed by the Deputy District Commissioner, Khumo Keeng, and the Senior Assistant Council Secretary of Tonota Sub-district Council, Terence Ntalabgwe, on Tuesday. The councillor for Borolong/Chadibe, Jabulani...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Tati Nickel donates porta cabin to police
The managing director of TNMC, Bogdan Kuzhel, who noted that Botswana was the only country in the world where police went on the street unarmed, performed the handing over to the Commissioner of Police. "It is a token of gratitude from TNMC showing...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Galo FM lightens up the ghetto
The 32-year old man who is increasingly becoming popular in the town, spends the day hogging the city's uncontested airwaves selling sim cards, and sometimes memory cards, card readers and memory sticks. He is one vendor of a kind. He has customers...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
All-Africa education conference ends today
The fifth continental conference at which debate on the implementation of the African Union's Action for the Second Decade of Education (2006-2015) topped the agenda, ends today. The Assistant Minister of Education and Skills Development...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Bosilong gets a new contract
Bosilong was supposed to retire this year but The Commissioner gave him a one-year contract for reasons not known by anyone. In an interview with The Public Relations Officer at Botswana Police Services Christopher Mbulawa he told Mmegi that he...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Sowa Town celebrates 20th anniversary
Frederick Ramoleele, coordinator of the event, said festivities will start off with a sponsored walk at 6am. "The Minister of Local Government was supposed to grace the event but it looks like he will not manage. We have arranged with the first chief...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 27 April 2012
BMWU reinstates suspended members
Tlhagale told Mmegi in an interview that general secretary Bob Malele, vice-president Joseph Tsimako and a member of the Orapa branch, Bapamizi Mocheregwa, were reinstated after they reconciled with the union at a general council meeting held in...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Search for herdsboy still on
On the day he went missing, he told his employer that he was going to look for cattle but never returned. Police investigations have revealed that he was spotted near a shebeen late on the day he went missing. However, his employer did not report the...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Encourage electorate to utilise govt schemes - Makhura
He further advised them to work as a team, despite their different political denominations. Makhura has informed the council that the development budget for KDC stands at P52,927,432, which he said is meant to cater for the final accounts of various...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Water flows to Mahalapye, Mmamashia
"We have started pumping water in to the North-South Water Carrier pipe and we hope Mahalapye and Mmamashia will have water in the next 24 hours," said Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) corporate communications manager, Matida Mmipi. Mmipi said that...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Council chairman's business goes under the hammer?
For the second week running, the Government Gazette has run a notice of sale in execution for the specially-elected councillor's business. According to the notice, this follows the successful application of creditors First National Bank against P.C....
STAFF WRITER 27 April 2012
Business opposed to state majority in parastatals
Government owns 51 percent of shares in Botswana Telecommunications Corporations and in the National Development Bank. Speaking during Public Enterprises Evaluation and Privatisation Agency (PEEPA)'s address on privatisation programme, members of...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
Some schools in Kweneng still face critical challenges
The councillor for Mmopane, Phagenyane Phage, singled out Taumanthe Primary School where he said there are up to 65 children per class. The schoo1 had a total enrolment of 1,050 pupils but suffered a serious shortage of facilities, including...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 27 April 2012
Still no audit of alcohol levy, copyright funds
Government began collecting levy on imported and locally-made blank sound and audio visual carriers (CDs, tapes, DVDs) and equipment capable of being used to copy protect materials in 2008. According to the March 2011 auditor general's report, the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
NACA injects over P9 million into Makgabaneng project
However, in an interview yesterday, the Makgabaneng producer, Ben Ngwato, cautioned that the P9 million was not only for the TV drama. "There are other activities that involve community outreach both in schools and out of schools," he...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 27 April 2012
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