Archives
Explore
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Full Picture
Featured Videos
More
About Us
Advertise with Us
Archives
Sitemap
Contact us
Sign in
Create account
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Select Year:
2024
|
2023
|
2022
|
2021
|
2020
|
2019
|
2018
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
2014
|
2013
|
2012
|
2011
|
2010
|
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
2003
|
Select Month:
January
|
February
|
March
|
April
|
May
|
June
|
July
|
August
|
September
|
October
|
November
|
Archives:
Wednesday May 02
Thursday May 03
Friday May 04
Monday May 07
Tuesday May 08
Wednesday May 09
Thursday May 10
Friday May 11
Monday May 14
Tuesday May 15
Wednesday May 16
Friday May 18
Monday May 21
Tuesday May 22
Wednesday May 23
Thursday May 24
Friday May 25
Monday May 28
Tuesday May 29
Wednesday May 30
Thursday May 31
Montsho to compete at SA Open
According to the Athletics South Africa website, Montsho intensifies her Olympics preparations at Pilditch Stadium alongside several other Botswana athletes including new 100 metre record holder, Yatea Kambepera. The 28-year-old Montsho holds the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Don't panic, Chiefs' supporters told
This was said by Chiefs spokesperson, Clifford Mogomotsi on Wednesday, days after the log leaders escaped with a 5-4 aggregate win in the Mascom Top 8 quarterfinal clash against Nico United.Mogomotsi said their supporters are used to winning and...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
No end to Zebras kit trouble
The Zebras are without a technical sponsor- and a kit- as the Botswana Football Association (BFA) delays the announcement of a new partner, amid reports of divisio½½ns in the association.The BFA was expected to make an announcement when...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Syrian students 'killed at Aleppo protest'
As many as 200 students are thought to have been arrested during the raid.Aleppo has so far not experienced the violence and large-scale protests seen in other cities during the uprising.But there have been almost daily demonstrations by its...
04 May 2012
Somali reporter Farhan Jeemis Abdulle shot dead in Galkayo
Somalia is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, according to the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders. Somalia has not had a functioning government for more than 20 years.No-one has yet said it carried out the...
04 May 2012
Kenya's Raila Odinga warns of ethnic election violence
Odinga joined a coalition government with his rival president, Mwai Kibaki to help end violence after the 2007 poll when more than 1,200 people died."When the ethnic drums are being sounded, we know" what that means for the country, he told the BBC....
04 May 2012
Aisha Gadhafi calls for probe into father's death
Aisha Gadhafi, who fled to Algeria in August 2011, asked International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo last year to open an investigation. The letter said Moreno-Ocampo had earlier replied to the initial request, "indicating that he...
04 May 2012
Nitty gritty
I am the Lord your Speaker of Parliament. Poverty has brought you out poverty, out of the house bondage and anonymity.Thou shall have no other speech before mine unless it's The Budget Speech for I am a jealous Speaker, but not as bad as the men...
Barolong Seboni 04 May 2012
Digging tswana roots
Most people, after casually reading Genesis in the Old Testament, believe that there was only one forbidden 'tree', the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil whose 'fruit' cost us immortality when Eve tempted Adam to taste it. Genesis 2:9, however,...
I.M.leteane 04 May 2012
Article stigmatises gay community
Speaking on behalf of the organisation, BONELA executive director Uyapo Ndadi said that whilst the article was relevant as the increase in rape cases is a cause for concern, BONELA's bone of contention emanates from the fact that the article contains...
04 May 2012
The state of Botswana journalism
Last year's public workers strike showed several instances in which there is a meeting place between the interests of the labour movement and the press. The largest chunk of the country's radio stations, television and publications are wholly owned...
04 May 2012
Inaugural bowls league launched
The first games were played last weekend. BBA spokesperson, John Gaborutwe said the games are played in singles, pairs, trips and fours for both women and men's categories. Gaborone hosted Jwaneng and in the North, Selebi-Phikwe travelled to Orapa in...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Punishing Mutharika's accomplices: The morality of forgiveness
Certainly not, but Malawi is a country where the unimaginable can happen. Barely a decade later, a new tyrant emerged in the name of Bingu wa Mutharika, who held himself out as a Banda reincarnate of some sort, arrogating to himself the names...
04 May 2012
May Day and pro-labour Umbrella policies Part 1
Three of the four parties, namely the BNF, BMD and BPP have decided to press ahead with the project. What was intriguing about the BCP decision was that there was so much at stake, not least because of the prospect of a full strength Umbrella...
* COMRADE MOORE 04 May 2012
The power to deport without reasons
He usually wore his trademark khaki trousers without a belt. His veins snaked through his limbs. In his 70s his body had warped. He cut the picture of the Hollywood flick professor; who appears not to have a life apart from his science. As soon...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 04 May 2012
The law does not exist
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain the equality of all men. The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. Justice is incidental to law and order.Justice...
TONNEY RAMMIDI 04 May 2012
The DRC, Botswana and the Inga Dam
In its early post-independence years, it had developed the Inga I and II projects which supplied the country, with increasingly intermittent hydro-electric power. The government of DRC has long wanted to develop the Inga III dam on the Congo....
ROMAN GRYNBERG* 04 May 2012
We hail the Public Accounts Committee
To that end, next Monday will mark an important landmark in the history of our Republic when PAC will begin its work to audit government departments for 2010 with its doors open to the public. The idea was first espoused by Minister Ponatshego...
04 May 2012
Selefu 04 May 2012
04 May 2012
BNFYL message to delegates of the 2012 special congress
This theme rhymes with the demands of workers (both in public and private sectors), poor Batswana, students across the breadth and length of Botswana, traditional leadership, the so-called minority interest groups and members of the Umbrella...
* ARAFAT KHAN 04 May 2012
Of Botswana identity and tribalism
And we ask, what is freedom? The Longman Dictionary defines it as "the right to do what you want without being controlled or restricted by anyone". And who is this 'anyone'? It may be a parent, a brother, a sister or a relative. It may be...
* DIVETERO MAX MUNIYAPE 04 May 2012
Ipelegeng will never release people from poverty - Mhotsha
"As the union rallying call states, 'United we stand and divided we fall'. So let us throw away all unnecessary encumbrances and unite for a common cause and as we all call for a living wage for decent work for all workers", he stated. He told Mmegi...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Bridge to send players to SA congress
According to a BBF statement, the highly competitive tournament will feature players from Australia, Botswana, Denmark, England, Kenya, Poland, Zimbabwe and the hosts, South Africa. The tournament will be played in two categories, pairs and teams. In...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
AG pays up to save DIS agents from public glare
Mmegi has established that the Attorney General, in her capacity as the legal representative of DIS agents, paid over P200,000 to spare the security officers the glare of court proceedings. DIS and 10 of its agents agreed on a P220,000 payout in...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
BPC wins P2 million claim
The case arose from the claim for arrear electricity charges amounting to P2,724,303.86 raised by BPC against the liquidator (Christopher John Bray) of the insolvent estate of the two aforementioned companies. The companies were placed under...
NICHOLAS MOKWENA
Correspondent 04 May 2012
PAC to publicly examine govt accounts
The meeting, which examines accounts and statements of government departments and ministries, is due to start Monday 7th May and will run until the 31st, Nehemiah Modubule, chairperson of the committee told journalists yesterday. Modubule said the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
CTO boss fired
Transport and communications minister Nonofo Molefhi yesterday told Mmegi in Gaborone that they in fact tried to extend Thebe's contract but were advised he had to go on medical grounds. An Indian officer seconded to the Botswana Defence Force (BDF)...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writter 04 May 2012
Botswana police rep scoops gender summit award
Senior Superintendent Thatatsotlhe Nwokoro, emerged the winner ahead of 12 other presenters from nine countries in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV)-Support category.Speaking to Mmegi in an interview, Nwokoro said that police officers have one of the...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
DPSM chief says his officer misinformed unions
BOFEPUSU publicity secretary, Goretetse Kekgonegile said that they are still waiting for government to furnish them with documents that would conclude a concrete and informed demand. He added that the salary negotiations for the year 2012 would...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Health workers can't unionise yet
Keitseng said this to the Minister of Labour and Home affairs, Edwin Batshu, who was here to address BFTU members on the International Labour Day.Keitseng said nurses and doctors had applied for unionisation in the middle of last year, but their...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
No remote area allowance for Dibete workers - MoA
In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Principal Public Relations at the ministry, Boikhutso Rabasha said that workers there do not deserve a remote area allowance since they are not in a remote area. These are 43 staff members, six being permanent...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
AB to introduce Maun-Cape Town route
Maun serves as the gateway to the world famous Okavango Delta which offers an opportunity for the holiday of a lifetime. Demand for the route has grown over the years and will provide the tourist market with an opportunity to combine the sea and...
04 May 2012
BDP castigated at Workers' Day
Speaking at Workers Day commemorations in Mochudi Lekabe said the workers' struggle in Botswana continues, "Ga se gore strike se fedile. Re se khurumetse", (It's not that the strike is over, we have only taken a break), he explained and the hall...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Zimbabwean golfers to take part in Central Golf Open
Selebi-Phikwe hosts the tournament sponsored for P20,000 and expected to attract between 70 and 80 local golfers. SPGC spokesperson, Palalani Moithobogi told Mmegi Sport that the two-day tournament will be held on May 26 and 27. Moithobogi said an...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 May 2012
BMC in precarious financial position
Botswana Meat Commission is in bad shape, the latest Auditor General's report indicates. The report covers the year ending March 31, 2011 and takes a dim view of the beef parastatal's weak finances, mysterious bank accounts, questionable accounting...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA & MONKAGEDI GAOLTHOBOGWE
Staff Writers 04 May 2012
BOCCIM calls for diamond Gaborone
Speaking at the 32nd High Level Consultative Council (HLCC) meeting held in Gaborone yesterday, Monchusi said that Gaborone should be re-branded with a diamond theme so that one would think of diamonds immediately at the mention of the capital...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Botswana scribes battle to access information - MISA
World Press Freedom Day is being commemorated over three days ending tomorrow(Saturday). This year's theme is 'Difficulty in Access to Quality Information Undermines Media Freedom.' Butale said the lack of access to "quality" information hinders...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Book review
Tim Winton (1996) <br>The Riders. Johannesburg, Picador PanMacmillian, 377 pages, paperback. P200, ISBN 978-0-330-33942-1. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. The Riders is Tim Winton's sixth published novel in Australia in...
Sheridan Griswold 04 May 2012
Back stage
American Pie-4: Reunion (2012) has been playing the New Capitol Cinemas. It is either the fourth or eighth in the series, depending on what you include and how you count. The first American Pie (1999) was a reasonable and innovative film with some...
Sasa majuma 04 May 2012
Tshega sway' catapults Shumba to global stardom
Anyone can take too lightly the sway that tshega, a Tswana traditional loin-skin worn by young boys covering only the front while the buttocks are left exposed until an individual reaches adulthood, possesses. Ratshega, probably Botswana's...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Mmopane youth recycle tyres to make beautiful chairs
Now a group of innovative Mmopane youth have started to make gorgeous outdoor or garden chairs using recycled tyres. One of the pioneers of the project, Matla Ramotswaledi, has told Arts & Culture that they started the project with the help of...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 04 May 2012
Life experiences inspire Mandumbwa's art pieces
His recent exhibition at the Frame Gallery might have not been a big event but it was certainly a heart-warming illustration of how interesting the simplest aspects of our lives can often be. The Zambian painter's exhibition's theme - "Embracing...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Debswana studies new deposit in Jwaneng
While Debswana has known about DK7's existence for decades, various factors such as the company's decision to focus on existing operations and vacillating profitability over the years, have held back the deposit's development. However, with...
STAFF WRITER 04 May 2012
Key study could rescue ailing textile sector
For the past two years, the textile and apparel sector has been supported by a P38 million government bailout that expired in December. The sector has been teetering again, in the aftermath of the bailout's expiry, with the sole exporter of garments...
STAFF WRITER 04 May 2012
First cut
When Major David Bright took over the coaching reins at South Africa's Premier League side Engen Santos, we all rejoiced. We all rejoiced because this was Botswana's first export coach to a highly professional league. We also rejoiced because this...
Dennis Keagile 04 May 2012
African Energy markets Botswana coal in Asia
The company which had a trial coal export of a 25 tonne wagon to Maputo last month, aims to open Botswana's second coal mine next year and immediately start commercial exportation of coal to India and China. In a statement released this week, the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 04 May 2012
Discovery ponders second copper mine
The deposit is now estimated to contain some 1.2 million tonnes of copper metal and 36.7 million ounces of silver."With the upgrade to the Plutus deposit, the Boseto project's measured and indicated mineral resources has increased to 36.2 milion...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Diamond rebound fails to erase trade deficit
The trade imbalance or the difference between the level of the country's imports set against its exports, has been in the negative since the fourth quarter of 2008 when the global recession deflated diamond exports. With diamond exports generally...
STAFF WRITER 04 May 2012
Letshego's retail banking project takes shape
Letshego which is the country's most successful micro-lender with a loan book of over P3 billion, announced plans to venture into fully-fledged commercial banking as a way of diversifying income streams. In an interview with Business Week, finance...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 May 2012
Sneak peek reveals revenue jump at BR
The Auditor General and the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies have slammed Botswana Railways for failing to provide updated audited financial statements. This year, the Parliamentary Committee was forced to rely on the 2008/09...
STAFF WRITER 04 May 2012
Subscribe
Receive latest and breaking news via email
Submit
Have a Story? Send Us a tip
Invalid key
Send