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Averting a new NATO - Russian arms race
Threats from Moscow should come as no surprise. In recent years they have included: the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad; Russia's actions during and after the 2008 Georgia-Russia war; and the pre-emptive use of...
05 June 2012
Political education is key
Please allow me to make a few points about the way politics is conducted in Botswana. Many people involved in politics in Botswana are impatient. They are too busy to read between the lines. They do not take political education of the nation...
05 June 2012
The pitfalls of populism
However Ian Khama is not the first president to reject laws of protocol. His father, the first president Sir Seretse Khama was a very accessible man. Douglas Tsiako a veteran journalist who was on the team that covered the president says...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Botswana road network - facts
It is bordered in the south by South Africa, in the west by Namibia, in the north by Zambia and in the north east by Zimbabwe and in the east by South Africa. This puts Botswana in the centre of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region....
05 June 2012
How foreigners are buying land like magwinya
Mmegi: What are your credentials?Manatsha: My PhD dissertation focused on the land question in postcolonial Botswana with special reference to the North East District. I obtained my MA and PhD from Hiroshima University, Japan in 2008 and 2011...
05 June 2012
The road that never was
It was January last year when heavy machinery rolled onto site to expand the Gaborone-Boatle Road to widen the shoulders and redo the surface. Many breathed a sigh of relief that Botswana’s most neglected road that has claimed many lives was...
05 June 2012
The winners code
There is a bed time prayer that is often taught to young children. The little prayer concludes with the words, "Lord don't let me die before I wake up." The prayer betrays two latent human desires. The first is the desire for longevity. We all want...
George Chingarande 05 June 2012
Icons of Botswana
He needs no introduction, almost a legend in his own right but he quickly admits that he worked hard to succeed in life, Ben Makobole has lived his life to the fullest, overcoming obstacles and is indeed living testimony that nothing in life is...
Kgomotso Molelekeng
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Defeat leaves Zebras with mountain to climb
Coach, Stanley Tshosane and his charges know that victory over South Africa's Bafana Bafana this Saturday is no longer an option if they are to fix the early damage. The Zebras will draw solace in that Bafana Bafana's languid form continued with a...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
Palapye table tennis open attracts top players
The tournament saw the country's top ranked players from both the men and women's section, take part. There were also three international players from Zambia including Friday Ngandu who was dominant during his stay in Botswana. BTTA public relations...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Satmos bow out despite late surge
The loss means with only two games in hand, Satmos can only reach 25 points, which is not enough to guarantee survival. Three teams that finish in the last three positions are automatically relegated to the First Division. Miscellaneous, in position...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
SA stars to grace Selolwane's benefit match
Selolwane officially announced his retirement from the national team after the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals played in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in January and February. The list includes eight of his current Supersport United team...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
All Kasi knocked out on technicality
All Kasi convincingly beat both Umbro and Puma in the race to become Zebras' technical sponsor, but a partnership proposal to the Botswana Football Association (BFA) cost the local company the deal. According to tender documents, All Kasi scored 19...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
Dr Mickey: the rising House-Kwasa artist on the block
The artist is entering the music industry with great zest and promises that his new album entitled " Sa Baloi" will be a hit. In an interview, Dr Mickey said that he wants to give Batswana quality music, as that will also sell him as an artist. "My...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Back stage
Rome Open City (1945) a.k.a Roma, Cittˆ Aperta is showing today at the Gaborone Film Society at 7:00 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Cittˆ Aperta was made in 1945 and released in February 1946. It was...
Sasa Majuma 05 June 2012
Sid's negative comments help musician grow
Take D Nice (Dintle Bogatsu), for instance. In 2010 Sid blatantly told her that she would never be a star. Today the "heavy queen" is on the verge of releasing he debut album and her single 'Bua Sematla' is already doing well two weeks after its...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
Chub Heightz makes Necessary Noise
Chub completed recording at Mark Men Records in Gaborone on Friday and plans to market the album before releasing it on the market. The album will mainly be sold off the Mark Men website - www.markmengroup.com. He explained the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Boitshoko releases debut album
Boitshoko announced her entrance onto the local gospel scene with a rich single that had popular Setswana hymns Sefapanong Ke A Boga, Joko Ya Hao, Semphethe Wena Yo Rategang and Mookamedi. The motivated singer has followed it up with a full 10-track...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 05 June 2012
PPADB raise procurement thresholds
According to a statement from the PPADB, the new thresholds took effect at the beginning of May. The financial threshold for requests for quotations has been raised to P150,000, from the previous threshold of below P100,000, while micro procurements...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
China delegation explores business opportunities
At a luncheon for the delegation, the president of the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM), Alex Monchusi briefed the delegates about Botswana's favourable business environment; the relatively low corporate tax of 15...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Textile investor abandons P30m expansion plans
In an interview with Mmegi Business last week, managing director Mukesh Josh said the firm, which currently employs 460 people, has been heavily affected by shortage of skills, and can no longer meet the demand for its products, especially from South...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
As I see it
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, things fall apart; the falcon cannot hear the falconer...."I do not know what inspired poet laureate William Butler Yeats to portray such a scenario of an irredeemably crumbling project! He could have...
Michael Dingake 05 June 2012
Heads must roll at BFA
The sting of the humiliation lies in the fact that Botswana is the first country to lose to CAR in a World Cup qualifier, a minnows' victory that points to a swift degeneration for a Zebras side that made history a few months ago by brushing aside...
05 June 2012
Selefu 05 June 2012
05 June 2012
Project syndicate
SANTIAGO: Policymakers in Europe seem to be surprised at the ongoing bank run in Greece (and the nascent run in Spain). They should not be. Anyone familiar with emerging-market meltdowns knows that a financial crisis nearly always follows a fiscal...
Andres Velasco 05 June 2012
Mutually assured cyberdestruction?
Over the past decade, on a far smaller scale, the country's military and intelligence leadership have gone through a parallel debate about how to use the Predator drone. Because it is precisely targeted, often on an individual, it is used almost...
DAVID E. SANGER 05 June 2012
Troika resolution: A double-edged sword
Political analyst Alexander Rusero said Mugabe had nothing to lose because he will retain his position in the period leading to elections, but Zanu PF officials who were looking for a post- Mugabe era would be devastated by the Sadc...
EVERSON MUSHAVA 05 June 2012
Mugabe faces end of political career
Sources said Zanu PF plans to hold a crisis meeting this week or next week, following the SADC Troika on Defence, Politics and Security meeting which shot down the party's demands to have elections held this year with or without a new...
PATRICE MAKOVA & NQABA MATSHAZI 05 June 2012
Dow mobilises lawyers against anti-gay laws
The section that Dow seeks lawyers to challenge is Section 164 of the Penal Code that criminalises same sex relationships. In 2005 gays attempted to register their association, the Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), with the...
KEOBONYE MAJATSIE
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Gabane Post Office robbed
It is alleged that the suspects used guns to frighten the employees of the post office in an attempt to get the cash. One suspect assaulted one of the employees in the process. The employee was rushed to hospital and treated for minor injuries and...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Khama frees Kalafatis killers
They were set free after serving only a few months of their 11 years jail time sentence. The three were jointly charged alongside their fellow Botswana Defence Force (BDF) member, Dzikamani Mothobi, who has long been acquitted of the murder of John...
EPHRAIM KEORENG & TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writers 05 June 2012
Botswana co-hosts biggest science project in the world
When completed in 2024, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), as the project is dubbed, will be made up of 3,000 dishes, each 15 metres wide, together with many more antennas, that will stretch over 3,000 km. In southern Africa, the central location will...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 June 2012
35-year-old man knocked down by car
The victim is alleged to have been walking to a nearby bus stop after knocking-off from Mokolodi Nature Reserve, when a driver who was traveling from Ramotswa to Gaborone knocked him down. The man who reportedly lives in Kgale View was taken to the...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 05 June 2012
Ex-employees accuse Debswana of unfair dismissal
The company terminated the contracts of the men, who were stationed in Orapa, late March this year. Speaking to Mmegi on condition of anonymity - because of their illnesses, doctors recommended that they be redeployed to work that is physically...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 05 June 2012
DIS declines to investigate BDC
According to sources close to the BDC scandal, the Chinese involved in the project were not cooperative to investigators regarding the origin of some payments but when investigators approached DIS the explanation was that it did not have the capacity...
STAFF WRITER 05 June 2012
BFTU in cahoots with govt - BOFEPUSU
Just before leaving for the conference, BOFEPUSU revealed that it would report the government to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for violation of workers rights. BOFEPUSU says in a press statement that it condemns "leadership that...
STAFF WRITER 05 June 2012
Car bomb in Baghdad kills at least 18
The attack on a Shi'ite-linked office comes at a sensitive time, with the country's fractious Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs wrangling over a crisis that threatens to unravel their delicate power-sharing agreement. Yesterday's bomb...
05 June 2012
EU to press Putin on Syria at summit
EU member states want Russia to put pressure on its ally to withdraw heavy weapons from cities and comply fully with United Nations(UN) envoy, Kofi Annan's peace plan. Russia and China are also resisting united States(US) and European calls to...
05 June 2012
Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons
The court heard the men wanted to kill a large number of people in revenge for the paper's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before...
05 June 2012
Buddhist vigilantes kill 9 Muslims in Myanmar bus attack
"The bus was besieged near Taunggoke town in the western state of Rakhine on Sunday evening by a group who blamed some of its passengers for the murder of a Buddhist woman a week ago," said residents and politicians. One of those killed was...
05 June 2012
Egypt crisis: Shafiq condemns presidential rival Mursi
"Shafiq, who was speaking as protests continued in Cairo over the outcome of Mubarak's trial," said the Muslim Brotherhood aimed to create a "sectarian" state. About 1,000 anti-Mubarak activists remain in Cairo's Tahrir Square, angry that he and his...
05 June 2012
Deadly blast hits Nigeria church
They say the man drove a car full with explosives towards the church. About 30 people were wounded in the blast.No group has claimed the bombing, but it comes amid a wave of violence by the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The group has carried out...
05 June 2012
Colombians march in honour of Bogota rape victim
Rosa Elvira Cely, a single mother who worked selling sweets in the streets of Bogota, was attacked on May 23. She died four days later of her injuries. Her story has led to an outcry in Colombia, where more than 51,000 women were victims of violence...
05 June 2012
Rwanda military aiding DRC mutiny, report says
The rights group says former rebels have described how Rwanda provided the rebellion with hundreds of recruits and also with weapons and ammunition. "Rwanda also offered shelter to renegade leader Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal...
05 June 2012
Averting a new NATO - Russian arms race
Threats from Moscow should come as no surprise. In recent years they have included: the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad; Russia's actions during and after the 2008 Georgia-Russia war; and the pre-emptive use of...
06 June 2012
Political education is key
Please allow me to make a few points about the way politics is conducted in Botswana. Many people involved in politics in Botswana are impatient. They are too busy to read between the lines. They do not take political education of the nation...
06 June 2012
The pitfalls of populism
However Ian Khama is not the first president to reject laws of protocol. His father, the first president Sir Seretse Khama was a very accessible man. Douglas Tsiako a veteran journalist who was on the team that covered the president says...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 06 June 2012
Botswana road network - facts
It is bordered in the south by South Africa, in the west by Namibia, in the north by Zambia and in the north east by Zimbabwe and in the east by South Africa. This puts Botswana in the centre of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region....
06 June 2012
How foreigners are buying land like magwinya
Mmegi: What are your credentials?Manatsha: My PhD dissertation focused on the land question in postcolonial Botswana with special reference to the North East District. I obtained my MA and PhD from Hiroshima University, Japan in 2008 and 2011...
06 June 2012
The road that never was
It was January last year when heavy machinery rolled onto site to expand the Gaborone-Boatle Road to widen the shoulders and redo the surface. Many breathed a sigh of relief that Botswana’s most neglected road that has claimed many lives was...
06 June 2012
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