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The joy of txt
Here's a question: what's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very low-tech and doesn't need a smartphone or even an internet connection. And this year marks its 20th birthday, which means that in internet time it's 140 years old....
16 May 2012
The last months of Osama bin Laden
An absurdly high number of American political leaders, generals, security officials and former CIA and FBI agents have given interviews claiming a central role in the hunt for the leader of al-Qa'ida. Many attribute their inability to find and...
* PATRICK COCKBURN 16 May 2012
May Day and pro-labour Umbrella policies-Part 2
In 2006 the International Food Policy Research Institute's Global Hunger Index concluded that Botswana has a serious hunger crisis which has worsened over a period of ten years when the country experienced economic growth. These social ills are...
* COMRADE MOORE 16 May 2012
BNF: The re-emergence
A couple of months ago, I wrote on the beginning of a battle for the soul of the Botswana National Front (BNF). The battle had started with the Kanjabanga-Ntime nexus and was to be reignited by the Isaac Mabiletsa lobby. When Duma Boko's...
16 May 2012
Irenias Mothopheng: A civic leader of note
Irenias Mothopheng, a visually-impaired Gaborone councillor, sees no obstacles in coping with his demanding civic duties. Some 30 years ago, he was the town clerk for the then Gaborone Town Council. Last year he made a comeback to the Civic Centre...
16 May 2012
Harvesting the sun, revolutionising farm life
The relationship between man and the sun is one of life and death. Man looks up to the sun as a life-giving force. Our semi-desert country, Botswana, which is popular for its Kalahari Desert, has a land area of 585,371 square kilometres. The desert,...
16 May 2012
Understanding Phenyo Butale
Mmegi: Who is Phenyo Butale?Phenyo Butale is a journalist who hails from Moroka village in the North East District, with a passion for the media and for a true vibrant and thriving democracy whose debates are illuminated with information from a free...
16 May 2012
Our heritage
The development process is, of course, all ups and downs. Here today. Gone tomorrow. That said, the engineers of so much of the country's development in the immediate post independence years, the largely unpaid and unqualified volunteers, were...
Sandy Grant 16 May 2012
Deportations: The elephant loses its stature across the river
The most recent deportation order against Prophet Francis Sakufiwa of New Seasons Ministries has sparked off debate as captured in last Friday's edition of Mmegi where Lawrence Ookeditse analyses the powers of the President to declare a foreigner a...
16 May 2012
The winners code
According to him, a man and his son were taking their donkey to the market to sell it. As they were walking behind it they met a countryman who ridiculed them thus: "You fools, what is the use of a Donkey? Is it not for riding upon?" Stung by the...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 16 May 2012
Icons of Botswana
Discussions aimed at establishing a model for a united opposition to stand against the Botswana Democratic Party in the next elections have dominated newspaper headlines for months. While the names of party leaders Duma Boko, Gomolemo Motswaledi and...
Kibo Ngowi
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Masire - A true African
Then, I was part of a group of young South African students on transit through the then so-called Bechuanaland Protectorate, intended to travel by road via the then South and North Rhodesia, to Tanganyika, from there to fly to England to study...
* THABO MBEKI 16 May 2012
As I see it
When I grew up two or more generations back, crime was virtually unknown in our land. Yes, we had our share of psychopaths, sadists and witches represented by women bashers and ritual murderers; we had no pickpockets, there were no pockets to...
Michael Dingake 16 May 2012
Zebras to play Lesotho
Zebras travel to Central African Republic for the 2014 World Cup qualifier on June 2 before meeting South Africa's Bafana Bafana in Gaborone seven days later in the same competition. "We have been training hard ever since we got into camp last...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO &
THATO KALA
Staff Writer &
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Botswana has good facilities - ANOCA chief
Afonso was here in company of technical director Robert Mutsauki to determine if Botswana is ready to host the 2nd Africa Youth Games in 2014. The ANOCA vice president said compared to other countries that have hosted the event before, Botswana has...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 16 May 2012
BFA still to cut UCCSA CD to raise funds
The UCCSA handed the Di Ile Dipitse CD master copy to the local soccer governing body on February 12 together with a P50, 000 donation. BFA vice president, Boyce Sebetela says the association was focusing on more "pressing issues" adding that their...
SYLVIA DISELE
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Moremogolo Extension Theatre beats 36 others
This competition that was attended by energetic youth was themed "artistic excellence: a strategy for poverty eradication." Each play had to have a message that portrays the importance of the arts. All the groups that performed applauded the...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Makgabaneng not on Btv yet
Makgabaneng is a radio drama aimed at fighting HIV and AIDS and it is popular among Batswana across generations. Producers of the popular radio drama, which is being adopted for television, say auditions for the television drama that recently...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
Former BBA representative Miss P positive about Botswana contestants
The popular 24-hour show started a week ago and Botswana presented two bombshells - Edith (30) and Eve (25), who are sisters. Although Miss P admits that it is still early days to make any predictions, she is convinced that the duo's good looks...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Mobile digital technique to foil piracy
The new application makes it impossible for one to transfer a song to another device via bluetooth since the songs are within the application. The application is built as a Native Application and is installed on the phone, hence it cannot be...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Francois Hollande sworn in as French president
Hollande will later name his prime minister and fly to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. He will try to "find a compromise" over the German-led focus on austerity as the way out of the economic crisis. On Monday, the value of...
16 May 2012
ICC issues warrants for Congo rebel leaders
The other warrant is for Sylvestre Mudacumura, another guerrilla leader. Both are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes including the murder and rape of civilians. Moreno-Ocamp said that both men were among "the most dangerous" operating...
16 May 2012
Ecowas threatens Mali coup leaders with new sanctions
Ecowas lifted sanctions in April after the coup leaders agreed to hand back power to a civilian government. But in a statement, the bloc said the junta was still interfering in the country's politics. Ecowas objects to its plans to replace interim...
16 May 2012
Air Botswana to increase Ftown-Joburg flights
The company's general manager Sakhile Reiling told Mmegi recently at Tati River Lodge where she officiated at the bi-annual meeting of the Botswana Chamber of Mines (BCM), that the airliner has since realised that the mines around Francistown...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
SA ups stakes in trade dominance battle
According to the South African media, state-owned Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) is currently conducting a feasibility study for a coal railroad linking South Africa and the Mmamabula coalfields. The study is expected to be completed by the end of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
Mmualebe
Ba ba betlang ba ne ba dira dilo tsa logong jaaka dintshwana (e seng maswana) dikgamelo, dikika, megotswana le tse dingwe tse dintsi. Ba ba segang bone ba ne ba dirisa matlalo a dibatana le a diphologolo go sega diphate, dikobo, ditlhako le...
SEBOFO MOTSHWANE 16 May 2012
Accountants' hypocrisy: Govt should lead by example
In passing the Act two years ago, legislators emphasised that it was critical to ensuring highest standards of professionalism in the field of accountancy. The legislators even hinted that the P500,000 fine and/or 10-year jail term for flouting...
EDITOR 16 May 2012
Our Heritage
Unfortunately, the notion of heritage is barely implanted or even recognised. Rather oddly perhaps, the recent notion of branding Botswana, however it is currently conceived, may help us to re-evaluate those old stations and the passenger trains...
SANDY GRANT 16 May 2012
SPTC workers spill the beans
Some of our colleagues have been promoted within a short space of time because they socialise with the right people," he alleged.The employee, who did not mince his words, claimed that there was an officer within the council who often reports for...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Fraud allegations in GCC elections
When the ballot papers were counted in the mayoral elections, it was realised that there were 36 ballot papers, despite the fact that there were 35 before they were handed to councillors for voting. The opposition collective had 19 votes against the...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
BCP nets F/town mayorship
Maiketso won the seat by 11 votes to eight of the Botswana Democratic Party's (BDP) James Kgalajwe. Outgoing mayor, Shadreck Nyeku of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), did not contest the elections. The BMD and the BCP dominate the council...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
UBLS graduates to convene in Gaborone
The alumni will host a gathering in Gaborone on Thursday, to among other plans on their agenda, form the local chapter, and contribute funds towards offering scholarships to deserving young people. The chairman of the UBLS Alumni Association and...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff writer 16 May 2012
'I stabbed my girlfriend by mistake'
"I went to Tonota College of Education to look for the contact details of my witnesses, but I did not find them because they did not complete their schooling there as they had failed and discontinued their studies, " he said. Rasegole said...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Shoshong police probe students
It is alleged that teachers found the four females and four males aged between 17 and 19, smoking the substance last Monday and reported the case to the police. The students allegedly spent a night in police custody on Monday and were released...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 16 May 2012
Safe male circumcision will help curb HIV/AIDS - direrctor
In an effort to curb the spread of HIV and contribute to the national target of zero new infections by 2016, the Ministry of Health has set a target of 80 percent or 480,000 of HIV negative men to be circumcised by 2016, the national Vision...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 16 May 2012
No stadia until 2013, as costs skyrocket
He revealed that part of the project was complete and handed over to the client, but the problematic part was the pitch, which needed to be redone. Mokotedi attributed the main problems to the Consultant, Tectura International, with which they have...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
Selefu 16 May 2012
16 May 2012
Kgafela begs state to withdraw cases
"Ms Mangori go and talk to the director of Public Prosecutions, Leonard Sechele, Attorney General Athalia Molokomme and the minister; tell them that I request that the cases against me be withdrawn," he cried. Appearing yesterday before Broadhurst...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
Public service employees display solidarity with fired workers
Scores of government workers lost their jobs on May 16, 2011, following the historic strike, when the civil service employees demanded a 16 percent salary hike. Moreover, the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) will hand over a...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 16 May 2012
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