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Martnez heads to Miami for talks on Liverpool manager's job
The Wigan manager is on a shortlist of candidates to replace Kenny Dalglish and, following informal talks with Liverpool officials last weekend, will meet the club's principal owner, John W Henry, and the chairman, Tom Werner, in the United States on...
25 May 2012
Kapeko stokes flames ahead of Diphatsa clash
Kutlwano and Diphatsa clash in the Mascom Volleyball League and the game has got the potential of exploding into a thrilling encounter, as both sides are determined to maintain their respective positions at the apex of the log table. Kapeko,...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Zambia testsnew stadium ahead of Ghana match
Thousands of football fans packed the 40,000-seater stadium in Ndola on Saturday to watch a double-header featuring Copperbelt based teams - Zesco United, Nchanga Rangers, Nkana Red Devils and Power Dynamos, as part of the MTN-sponsored...
HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
First cut
Since its return from the AFCON finals from Gabon in February, the senior national soccer team, the Zebras' camp has endured torrid times and so has the Botswana Football Association (BFA). First it was the contract negotiations for coach, Stanley...
Dennis Keagile 25 May 2012
Retaining women and girls in sports proves a challenge
Monyeki said even women who take part in sports struggle to maintain the expected beauty ideals and end up not unleashing their full sporting potential. Monyeki said this at the Women and Sports Botswana (WASBO) panel discussion, which was held on...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Cricket squad to play GCC XI in T20 friendly
The cricket squad is preparing for the World Cup qualifiers to be played in South Africa. Coach, Arjun Menon said the national squad has not been finalised hence the side to face GCC XI is known as the BCA XI. He further said that since it is a...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
BNOC gets P6m boost for Olympics
BNOC had initially received P3, 9 million for the qualifying stages and the P6 million is for preparing the athletes for the games. BNOC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tuelo Serufho announced the cash boost at a media briefing on the London 2012...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Key positions remain vacant at BNSC
This follows the exodus of key staff in the recent past including the chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoeng. The positions of CEO, finance manager, marketing and communications manager, sports development manager are vacant, with only acting...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Systems within touching distance
Leading the First Division South league log, Systems now need to draw away to Killer Giants in Ramotswa tomorrow to confirm their promotion. However, should they lose 4-0 and Prisons win 2-0, Systems would have to wait for the promotion play-offs to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Molapi plays Cinderella with ECCO
Early this year Molapi was appointed caretaker coach, replacing sacked Zambian mentor Christopher Tembo after the club experienced a slump in form. Since then Molapi has revived the club's fortunes. Following his recent exploits, it is reported...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Iraq only option for Zebras - Sethibe
The Zebras failed to secure any friendly match with other African teams before the start of their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and settled to play former Asian champions Iraq, as it was the only available option. Botswana Football...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
2011/2012 Premier League season review
PLAYER OF THE SEASONElvis MelekaMeleka has been the pillar of strength for Chiefs in mid-field in his first season in the country. The Zimbabwean is one of the few defensive mid-fielders who can defend and distribute passes equally well. He also...
25 May 2012
Crunch time as Premier League holds assembly
Botswana Premier League (BPL) prosecutor, Tshiamo Rantao has completed investigations into circumstances that led to the cancellation of two Premier League matches early this month. Rantao submitted the report to the BPL office on Wednesday and is...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Somali leaders set transition deadline
The historic deal came after three days of heated discussion in Ethiopia, attended by the six signatories. But hardline al-Shabab Islamists, who control much of central Somalia, were not party to the agreement. Donors had threatened to withdraw...
25 May 2012
WHO expected to launch 'emergency plan' to eradicate polio
The WHO wants to boost programmes in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only countries where the disease is still endemic. It says tackling polio is "at a tipping point between success and failure". India, once regarded as one of the most...
25 May 2012
War crimes suspects use blackmail, says new ICC chief
Suspects threaten to continue killing people unless arrest warrants are dropped, Fatou Bensouda told the BBC. She said world leaders should resist pressure from people such as Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda. The ICC accuses him of recruiting child...
25 May 2012
Confusion as Zuma artwork case is halted
The ANC's advocate, Gcina Malindi burst into tears after one of the judges asked him about the significance of the interdict now that the painting - depicting President Zuma with his genitals exposed - was defaced. He replied that many things had...
25 May 2012
Amnesty says actions did not match words in 2011
The United Kingdom based human rights group says vocal support for protest movements shown by many global and regional powers has not translated into action. Egypt was one example cited by Amnesty secretary-general, Salil Shetty. "The language of...
25 May 2012
Australia celebrates African achievement and potential
These important anniversaries have triggered renewed debate about reversing the trend of Afro-pessimism. I remember seeing the famous cover of the Economist a decade ago, labelling Africa as 'The Hopeless Continent'. Fast forward to December 2011,...
* ANN HARRAP 25 May 2012
South Africa and Nigeria, Best of 'Frenemies'
Our diplomats shake hands and smile for the cameras, our governments say all the right things, and neither country acknowledges what they think is really at stake: Africa's future and the chance to dominate it. Deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe met...
SIMON ALLISON 25 May 2012
Addressing monopoly power in the Botswana retail sector
In Botswana, the fact that a large portion of the modern retail sector is now dominated by a small number of firms, which control franchises or are strategic partners of retail transnationals is an issue of great concern to many Batswana (see Mmegi...
25 May 2012
Umbrella convenors speak
Sometime in February 2003, on a warm Saturday morning people gathered to mourn the passing of a friend's son in Phakalane. Amongst the invited guests were Lebang Mpotokwane, Motlhabane Maphanyane and Sam Mpuchane - all retired senior civil servants...
25 May 2012
Has the first phase of BNF extinction begun?
You see species have been subjected to all sorts of studies and lots of efforts made to explain the existence and extinction of some. The extinction of species as part of the process of natural selection may be as a result of failure to adapt to the...
25 May 2012
Nitty gritty
We continue with the exclusive interview that I had with the reverend, pastor-bishop-prophet-apostle of a particular ministry who has been in the news lately. As I reported in our last installment, I have the privilege of interviewing him just as he...
Barolong Seboni 25 May 2012
Book review
It's time to bring whale song back into the human world again. The long epic rhymes of humpbacks. The tap-tap-tapping of sperm whale click trains. The cacaphonous free jazz of belugas and the kinship whistles of orcas. The thousand mile thrums and...
Sheridan Griswold 25 May 2012
Back stage
It is one of the funnier films to come out of Great Britain so far this year. If you like a mix of dry Scottish humour mixed up with abrasive British comedy, complimented by English passion and leavened by Arab sanity, then this will be the film for...
Sasa Majuma 25 May 2012
Museums in a changing world: New challenges and new inspirations
The Botswana National Museum (BNM) is organising a seminar aimed at increasing public awareness on its relevance, achievements, challenges and inspirations in our changing society. This seminar shall be held on May 30 at 0900 hrs in the...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
I've come a long way, says young rapper Que Rap
Que Rap attended Kindergerten and primary school in Entumbane's Mthombowesizwe Primary School. He did his secondary at Sobukhazi Secondary from 1995 to 1998. He then attended Hilltop College for his A level in 1999 and dropped out in 2000 due to lack...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Tracing the origins of Barolong boo Ratshidi
Many, both at the main kgotla and those that heard or read of the event in the media had hoped to hear more on the origins of Barolong boo Tshidi and perhaps even when and how they settled in Goodhope in the first place and who led the tribe to the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Local banking to ride out Euro crisis - IMF
In its sub-Saharan outlook released recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) noted that Botswana is among four African states, including South Africa, Zambia and Mauritius where British institutions held more than 30 percent of deposits. For...
STAFF WRITER 25 May 2012
Cresta plots to muscle out competition
In recent years, new entrants in the vibrant hospitality sector have threatened to dislodge the group's eight hotels from their traditional dominance. Cresta's four Gaborone and Francistown-based operations in particular have felt the heat from both...
STAFF WRITER 25 May 2012
BoB extends Basel 11 deadline to 2014
According to sources in the banking industry, the deadline, which was initially set for January 2012, has been extended to December 2013. This means that commercial banks will start to implement the more prudent capital reserve and risk management...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
New Indian bank licensed
The central bank has licensed a new commercial bank, the State Bank of India (SBI). SBI will become the tenth bank to run commercial banking activities in the country, Mmegi can reveal. Although no confirmation could be obtained from the public...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 25 May 2012
Kang-Hukuntsi road halts as Sinohydro demands payment
In an interview, Kang-Hukuntsi road project manager Yan Xing Hua said that they have been forced to stop all surface works on the rehabilitation of the road with only 40 km left before completion as they have run of out money to buy bitumen and...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 25 May 2012
Radical change cannot occur without disobedience
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the...
TONNEY RAMMIDI* 25 May 2012
Digging tswana roots
In a recent article in this column, I explained that the story, in its biblical format, is only symbolic and allegorical, a major abbreviation of the Sumerian-Babylonian original. In the Atra-Hasis and other such original texts, Enlil became fearful...
L.M.Leteane 25 May 2012
Let us not be caught napping again
This prediction can be interpreted in many ways but those who know say the signs are there. We have no permanent rivers - except the tail-end of the Okavango; we are a desert country and our already high water evaporation rates are galloping faster...
25 May 2012
Selefu 25 May 2012
25 May 2012
Man to pay P25,000 for adultery
Scotch will pay retired soldier Aaron Hlabano (42), who found him sleeping with his wife in their matrimonial bed.Before passing judgement, Senior Magistrate Thebeetsile Mulalu said on the date, Hlabano arrived from his cattle post at Semotswane ward...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Why civil war still rages in Sudan
Sudan, Africa's largest country (north and south combined) shelters a diverse religious and ethnic population, which during the vigorous spread of Islam in North Africa became divided along clear geographical, ethnic and religious lines; of the...
GAONTEBALE MOKGOSI 25 May 2012
More fraud charges against ex-soldier
Already, the 41-year-old Isaac Monyadiwa is facing nine counts of receiving by false pretences at the Kanye Magistrate Court. In the latest case, he is said to have obtained four head of cattle worth P14,832 through fraud at Khakhea village. It is...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Seretse to investigate police promotions
A man said to be a former police officer alleged recently at a kgotla meeting in Mochudi that a certain tribe unfairly occupies all senior positions in the BPS. The man claimed that officers have resigned from the service in large numbers, especially...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Prosecutor fails to produce medical report in rape case
State prosecutor Mackray Nkele said they could not trace the medical doctor who compiled the report as he is said to have gone to South Africa for studies. He however argued that failure to produce the medical report does not compromise the state's...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Tutume police perturbed by spike in suicides
FRANCISTOWN: Police in Tutume are alarmed by an increase in suicides in their policing precinct. In an interview with Mmegi this week, the Commander of Tutume Police Station, Superintendent Vusimusi Jorowe said four suicides and two attempted...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Kgatleng Council chair in tribalistic war
The two ethnic groups are viewed as minorities when compared against Bakgatla, a tribe which both Mooketsi and Mabiletsa belong. In retaliation, Mabiletsa has called on the chairman, who is also the Botswana National Front Youth League (BNFYL)...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
AG dragged into Phikwe election dispute
Councillors were at loggerheads for the better half of Wednesday morning with those who queried irregularities remaining adamant that casting a vote by the newly elected mayor Godfrey Mbaiwa to break the tie between contestants for deputy mayor was...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
BOSETU won't replace Malinga yet - Rari
"Under our constitution, the president is the one who has the powers to decide who should replace Malinga," secretary general Tobokani Rari said in an interview. "But he is yet to do that because we as the executive committee are yet to meet to...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 25 May 2012
Liberia seeks help of Botswana vets
The country is left with only four veterinarians and a reduced number of domestic and wild animals following its decades of civil war. The Liberian Agriculture Minister, Dr Florence Chenoweth told the Botswana Assistant Minister of Agriculture,...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
My grandfather formed the ANC - Kgafela
MOCHUDI: Bakgatla paramount chief Kgafela Kgafela II has confirmed that his father, the late Kgosi Linchwe II, held weapons for the African National Congress (ANC) when it was fighting to topple the apartheid regime. He and his right hand man,...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 25 May 2012
Unsettling Sese: A study in eviction dynamics
"These children were born in Senthumole. They were raised there. They have never known a decent settlement all their lives. And from the look of things, it appears we will always be moving around like animals. This government does not care about us,"...
25 May 2012
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