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Non-mining sector growth seen decelerating
In the first quarter BIFM Economic Review report, economist Dr Keith Jefferis says after rising by 5.1 percent last year, economic growth in 2012 is likely to be similar to or slightly lower than in 2011, at around 4-5 percent. "This growth rate...
STAFF WRITER 10 May 2012
Air passengers near one million in 2011 - report
The number of air passengers last year was the highest in the country's aviation history, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana data indicating steady annual growth from 427,356 passengers in 2001. A Statistics Botswana brief released last...
STAFF WRITER 10 May 2012
As I see it
Dogs are known to be the most loyal of pets. I have heard of only one case where a dog attacked its owner and killed him. You have guessed it: The owner forgot to feed it. Don't forget to feed your dog, lest it devours you for...
Michael Dingake 10 May 2012
Project Syndicate
NEW YORK: This year's annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy. Financial leaders, from finance ministers to leaders of private...
Joseph E.Stiglitz 10 May 2012
Sekotswe's title bout postponed
Promoter, Thuso Khubamang of Scud Missile Promotions confirmed to Mmegi Sport in an interview yesterday that they had to push the fight from its scheduled date of May 25 so that they can source enough funds for the fight. He said they realised that...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
BFA neglecting injured Ramohibidu - Nare
Ramohibidu suffered a groin injury while on national duty at the Gabon and Equatorial-Guinea AFCO tournament and had to endure more than three months of pain. He was finally operated on April 28 after more than three months of waiting. Nare...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Chess duo off to Madagascar
"The Zonal championships serve as qualifiers for the Africa Individual Championships as well as 2013 World Championships," according to a BCF statement. Both players are also part of the national team that will present Botswana in the 2012 Olympiad...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
BFA, All Kasi clash over replica jersey funds
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) and All Kasi have clashed over funds raised through the sell of replica Zebras' jerseys amounting to P700, 000. While the BFA wants the funds to be used to finance its budget deficit, All Kasi has declared...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Orange announces P16.6m soccer sponsorship
Besides the significant increase in the cash prize, Orange have announced that the new sponsorship will see them remain the lead sponsors, but would cede 50 percent of the marketing and branding rights around the team to other non- telecommunication...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO 10 May 2012
A Screaming Man: A film that reflects a man's sorrow and pain
This film, which was shown at MaP's AV centre on Tuesday, left many people heavy hearted as they had mixed interpretations. It is a 92 minutes movie directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun. It is set in Chad during the country's civil war. At the time, the...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 10 May 2012
NKRM T-shirt makers set to celebrate Mother's Day in a unique way
A mother is perceived as a brave, strong and most loving person in the world. Mother's Day has been celebrated for many years worldwide, as a special day set aside to appreciate mothers' unconditional love and to celebrate the role they play in...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Charma Gal balances demanding career with being mother and wife
Charm Gal, as Lesolebe-Mogwe is affectionately known in the entertainment circles, can be described as undoubtedly one of the few female artists whose music journey successfully rose to stardom without any hints of gullies and deluges. Along the...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Syria braces to announce election results as UN warns of civil war
Syria's mainstream media said the judicial committees entrusted with supervising the electoral process were counting ballots on Tuesday, a day after Syrians cast their ballots and choose among the more than 7,000 candidates vying for the 250-seat...
10 May 2012
'One in six cancers worldwide are caused by infection'
These four - human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses - account for 1.9 million cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.Most cases are in the developing world. The team from the International Agency for...
10 May 2012
Terminator's mutineers wreak new havoc
A gunfight involving Congolese army deserters, led by ex-general Bosco Ntaganda, and DRC soldiers ripped through the DRC town of Kimbumba on Tuesday night."We started fighting around midnight," a Congolese army captain said. "General Bosco Ntaganda...
10 May 2012
NSO urges local govts to woo investors
Malikongwa highlighted that procedures for setting up businesses in various councils across the country are very complex. This, he noted, is among the major reasons investors at times shy away from trading in the country. Malikongwa lamented that...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Botswana opens skies for more African airlines
This brings such agreements to nine as Botswana seeks to fully liberalise her airways in a bid to improve transport infrastructure and sharpen her competitive edge in tourism. The Ministry of Transport and Communications says in a statement...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Are we not missing the boat?
It boggles the mind how an event that would surely signal many firsts for Botswana - including featuring a Motswana fighter - can be treated with such levity. This world title fight would offer a rare opportunity to unfurl the banner of Botswana on...
EDITOR 10 May 2012
Cervical cancer: We can, must and should do more
These so-called diseases of "lifestyle", diseases of the "affluent" that keep going forgotten, underfunded, never quite making it onto the global agendas, threaten to stall the progress in development we've worked so hard to make and are likely to...
10 May 2012
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10 May 2012
'I won because of the spirit of Dr Koma'
Delegates to the BNF special congress took time out last Saturday to remember their party's former leader by laying a wreath on his tomb in Mahalapye. Mooketsi, who is also the chairman of the BNF Youth League, was among them. In his inaugural...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Makhura lauds his 'united team'
Makhura said his fellow councillors did not allow their political differences to divert their attention from what the electorate expected of them. KDC had delivered development projects and services equitably among various villages and wards, "thus...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Defilement cases overwhelm Tutume police
Defilement cases in the village are said to be high, with children as young as nine to 15 years of age being sexually abused. Jorowe said that he is confused by this trend, as he is yet to understand what satisfaction some men derive from sleeping...
PINI BOTLHOKO
Correspondent 10 May 2012
GTC students end class boycott
The students, nearly 700, complained that the management does not take their welfare seriously and does not consult whenever decisions concerning them are taken. A second year Travel and Tourism student, who did not want to be named, said they...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Man charged for failure to comply with vet regulations
Steplestov is employed by Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC) as an Operations Manager. The incident happened at a Foot and Mouth Disease checkpoint situated near Donga location along the Francistown-Matsiloje road. The incident was confirmed by the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
SPTC delegation visits Swedish city
The delegation left last weekend and is expected home next week. Speaking to Mmegi in an interview before their departure, the Mayor of Selebi-Phikwe, Godfrey Mbaiwa, explained that the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy,...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Councils have failed SHHA - PS
SHHA was established with the aim of providing affordable housing for low-income groups. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands and Housing, Tsaone Thebe, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in Gaborone yesterday that the decision to...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Masisi sustains broken leg in car accident
The MP's wife is said to have been the one driving the south-bound white single cab hilux VVTI model when the accident occurred in Nakalaphala, 20 kilometers south of Serule at 8am. The deputy station commander of Serule Police Station, Assistant...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 10 May 2012
F/town has 434 mothers on ARVs
This came to light in a briefing of councillors by the Principal Planner in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, Bashemi Phillime, here this week. The figures were compiled between January and March this year after being collected from...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Ipelegeng contradicts policy - Report
The draft report was presented at a consultative workshop in Gaborone yesterday, by the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), the consultants in charge of the report. According to the report, the Ipelegeng programme, whose main...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 May 2012
Essential services workers finally go to court
The case was held at a Magistrate Court to accommodate the multitudes of members of the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) who filled two courtrooms. Advocate Martin Brassey, representing the unions told the court that they seek...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 10 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...
10 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...
10 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 10 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 10 May 2012
Bishop Dudu "raises baby from the dead"
She was diagnosed with fibroids and tumor of the womb and the doctors put her on medical treatment. Last night we offered her prophetic prayer on the emergency section of the church and prophetically told her she was pregnant, she refused and said it...
10 May 2012
Four SA border jumpers nabbed
The four, a 26-year-old man and three women aged between 18 and 20, were arrested by the Ramatlabama police and detained at the police station.Ramatlabama Police Station Commander, Tshegofatso Mokumako, said in an interview that the culprits were...
Nicholas Mokwena
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Icons of Botswana
To become a person of stature and attract admiration takes a lot of hard work and diligence. No one knows this better than Constance Mompei who has progressed from being a personal secretary to advisor on parliamentary affairs in the Office of the...
Tshepiso Moseki
Correspondent 10 May 2012
The winners code
There once was a house by the roadside. Many people would go up and down the road as they went about their lives' work and would notice the house, but not pay much attention to it. This house had broken windows. Many people neither knew the owner of...
George Chingarande 10 May 2012
Business women urged to take risks
Speaking at Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) Women's Power Breakfast Seminar recently, MG Properties managing director Mpho Moremong told participants that in situations whereby people "don't believe you, especially...
Keikantse Lesemela
Correspondent 10 May 2012
Rebels burn World Heritage site- Timbuktu tomb
The attacks on Friday were blamed on Ansar Dine, a militant group that seeks to impose strict Sharia law.The ancient city in Mali was captured by at least two separatist Tuareg rebel groups - one of which is Ansar Dine - in an anti-government...
10 May 2012
Can Hollande save Europe?
One of only a handful of Socialist leaders at the European Union table, the freshly-elected French president said his victory marked "a new departure for Europe and hope for the world" because it showed "austerity can no longer be the only option."As...
10 May 2012
Local rugby faces league sponsorship challenge
The league has been running without a sponsor for a couple of years now. BRU president, Bob Lekan said that they are actively involved in the sport for the love of the game, despite the fact that there aren't enough resources to fully develop the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 11 May 2012
The Vultures set to face Matebeleland in a friendly clash
Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) Development Officer, Zilwele Khumalo this week told Mmegi Sport that the game will be played on June 6. He noted that this game is part of the preparations for the upcoming six nations tournament. Meanwhile, Botswana...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 11 May 2012
Young Armstrong wins US motocross event
Lobelo Racing Club Francistown (LRCF) rider, Brady Armstrong, walked into the Francistown home he shares with his parents on Tuesday this week, hoisting his first motocross trophy that he won whilst racing off the African continent. The 10-year-old...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 May 2012
Olympics body holds retreat as London deadline is extended
While many athletes worldwide are putting final touches to their preparations for the global sports extravaganza, local athletes are racing against time to qualify for the event. Thus far, only five athletes are certain of participation at the games....
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 11 May 2012
Five countries arrive for COSSASA GAMES
Athletes from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia join hosts, Botswana for the two-day competition in which over 270 athletes will be participating. The event is meant for primary school pupils and has been divided into two categories,...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 11 May 2012
BFA statement on payment of donated funds
At lunchtime today (May 10, 2012), a representation of the National Executive Committee of the Botswana Football Association (BFA) led by the BFA President met with eleven (11) of the players that formed the Senior National Team (the Zebras) that...
11 May 2012
Prisons XI confident of Premier League return
Prisons XI officials have vowed that they will make it this time round. The warders were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2006/07 season and they have been struggling to regain promotion since then. However, the warders...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 11 May 2012
Mathe, Masumbika vie for top karate post
A tough contest is expected judging by the two's vast experience in karate. Against Masumbika, Mathe comes against a candidate with a sound technical and administrative background. While his focus most of the time has been on technical matters, those...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 11 May 2012
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