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Book review
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid by Frank B. Wilderson, 111 is a 500 paged dome published by South End Press in 2008. It is a book full of angst and disappointment at the final resolution of the South African problem. It is a timely...
Keineetse Keineetse 28 June 2012
Libya revokes Muammar Gaddafi praise law
Law 37 was originally passed in May by the National Transitional Council's Legal Committee.Libya's Human Rights Council and civil society groups appealed against the law, which was also condemned by international human rights watchdogs. Under the...
28 June 2012
Bogadi to be standardised?
The Chief asserts this is because parents overcharge for bogadi and put forward all kinds of arguments to scale up the woman's value as if they are commercial commodities. A motion has been raised by the House of Chiefs that bogadi should be...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 28 June 2012
Unmasking Selefu the cartoonist
He was a shadowy figure who would drift in and out of the newsroom, sit down at a desk far form everyone, draft something on a pad, drop it off at the Editor's office, grab his briefcase and leave. No word. No introductions. Quiet. Methodical....
28 June 2012
Defiling the body of Christ
We hear that among other crimes that led to his deportation, Prophet Francis Sakufiwa warmed up women in his church and derived pleasure from waking up at sunrise next to them, nude and naked. It must be this harem of Jezebels who got tired of empty...
28 June 2012
Inside a commercial squatter camp
He has been occupying Letsweletse Mmope's land illegally since 1991. When he occupied the land, it was the state's. A year later, it became freehold land under Mmope's ownership. The 29 hectare land is sandwiched between the Gaborone Dam and the old...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 28 June 2012
Botswana's economic zones and the 'Miracle of Shenzhen'
If you ever visit what was once the British colony of Hong Kong and cross the 'border' you will enter the mega-city of Shenzhen with a population of 14 million people which started life not so long ago as a small fishing village. In 1980 when Chinese...
28 June 2012
Icons of Botswana
Cuthbert Moshe Tebogo Lekaukau is best known for being the founding Chairman and Chief Executive of the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) but this man's illustrious public service career has extended far beyond telecommunications, through...
Kibo Ngowi 28 June 2012
Zuma and the Second Transition
It was a jovial president who addressed party loyalists in Sophiatown (previously Triomf) in the west of Johannesburg late last week. He had come to Sophiatown to salute former ANC president Alfred Bitini Xuma, and was on the verge of jetting...
28 June 2012
I do not miss my father
As we all know, it takes two to have a child. But again not all of us have ever had somebody to address as 'father'. There are so many stories that are given to children who want answers about their fathers, at least from what we normally hear. It...
28 June 2012
Project syndicate
MILAN: Over the years, advanced and developing countries have experimented, sometimes deliberately and frequently inadvertently, with a variety of approaches to growth. Unfortunately, many of these strategies have turned out to have built-in...
Michael Spence 28 June 2012
Project syndicate
MILAN: I have just had the privilege of speaking at the main annual conference of Germany's Economic Council, the economic and business arm of the Christian Democratic Union, the current governing party. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister...
Michael Spence 28 June 2012
The EPA, the WTO and Botswana's beef industry
The last few years have, to say the very least, not been kind to the cattle industry. In the past this has been put down to Acts of God ie: droughts and disease that have disrupted supply but what has harmed the industry has just as much to do with...
28 June 2012
Poverty eradication is bigger than Khama
I often wonder what future generations will say about us; what will they say about the opportunities that we had to advance Botswana beyond the envy of any other nation in the world. I for one would like to be on the right side of history. I...
BAROLONG MOUWANE 28 June 2012
Negative impact of privatising water services
Since the 1970s multinationals interested in the water market have capitalised on the looming 'water crisis' and lobbied steadily to get the privatisation of water and sanitation accepted as the only solution for the management of this increasingly...
GAONTEBALE MOKGOSI 28 June 2012
Tracing Lucky Dube's Zim roots
He lived large, even, and carved a larger-than-life celebrity figure out of his music, but Lucky Dube's parentage largely remained a closely-guarded secret. While his parentage might have influenced his thinking and lyrics, Dube never made a public...
28 June 2012
Unmasking Selefu the cartoonist (Part II)
Setshwaelo and Makgekgenene formed the core team that was then the Department of Information. Young, vibrant and full of ideas, they set about utilising and developing the young talent at their disposal. Seisa who joined as a reporter soon shone as...
28 June 2012
Towards solar - an alternative future
The proposed Solar Mini Grid power station project will be the first of its kind in Botswana and will use both biogas (boloko) and solar energy to provide electricity to 67 far=flung villages that are off-grid. It is scheduled to start construction...
28 June 2012
Botswana - energy sector overview
The mining sector accounts for about 50 percent of the demand, the commercial sector about 20 percent, and the residential sector about 25 percent. Between 2004 and 2007, rural access to electricity doubled to 44 percent, though short of the 60...
28 June 2012
The impact of mobile technology
"I think cellphones are what Africa has been waiting for," he said. "Botswana was at a standstill for 40 years. There was not much development while cattle were dying due to drought and disease. Cellphones have actually lifted us 40 years from the...
MPHO MOOKA 28 June 2012
The truth about Rwanda
It began ten days ago, with a single BBC story on a leaked United Nations report that was said to prove Rwanda's involvement, but did nothing of the sort (as the source of the leak admitted within days). As if on cue, this was followed by Human...
* Louise Mushikiwabo 28 June 2012
ETCETERA II
There is no such thing as a coincidence, claims Dallas Nash, whose feisty column in the Guardian I much enjoy. How can I agree? Consider. I had just about to come to the end of Hilary Martel's remarkable best -selling book, Dig Up the Bodies...
Sandy Grant 28 June 2012
Kingdom-0-Metre
I have asked in the past asked whether politics is a dirty game or politicians give politics a bad name. The unending drama within the opposition politics continues. Our media is awash with the return of Honourable Botsalo Ntuane. Not...
Dumi Mmualefe 28 June 2012
Issues in education
Every era is placed between its past and future history. The present is judged according to the past and practices of countries elsewhere in the world. Many times, the average person, even the teacher, sees the good old ways and not so good present....
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 28 June 2012
The winners code
Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom...
George Chingarande 28 June 2012
Icons of Botswana
In last week's edition, we explored the impressive public service career of Moses Lekaukau and his founding role in the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) . This week, we delve into his upbringing and family life. Born on 4th March 1944 in...
Kibo Ngowi 28 June 2012
Spousal rape - the debate reborn
Just when the issue looked to have been put to rest -Dr Onnalena Selolwane, a female senior sociology lecturer at the University of Botswana (UB), recently revived the issue. The UB academic said that a married man has the right to sex with his...
Thato Kala
Correspondent 28 June 2012
Why BMD should join BNF
It is not doomsday. Not yet. The centre has not collapsed but one just gets the feeling that the centre is being stretched to its limits, at this rate it just might give in and let things fall apart. The Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) is in a...
28 June 2012
As I see it
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery". We translate Charles Dickens sterling prose to our own pula lingua franca for ease of communication by saying: A Motswana who earns P20 per month and spends...
Michael Dingake 28 June 2012
Morupule B environmental disaster
All is not well at the biggest engineering project this country has ever embarked on, sources say. The China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC), the contractor in the P11 billion Morupule B project, is said to be at odds with the client...
Tshireletso Motlogelwa
Staff Writer 28 June 2012
Malema stirs the pot in Zim
"I don't think President Zuma is a neutral facilitator in the Zimbabwe problems. "He has very strong views about President Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. All you see is very pretentious, not helpful at all," Malema was quoted as saying by the weekly...
28 June 2012
Project Syndicate
At the first two rounds of new talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany), in Istanbul in April and Baghdad in May, both sides still at least stumbled along the edge of the precipice....
Gareth Evans 28 June 2012
Project Syndicate
The alternative - to reject the European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish authorities - would have signaled distrust of Sweden's legal system, which would have been unfair. Whatever one's sentiments about Assange and the claims that he has made in...
Marten Schultz 28 June 2012
Mmualebe
Motshameko o o setse o itsege thata ka leina la Mantshwabisi. Leina le le biditswe jaana ka e rile dingwaga tsele fa lobelo lo lo simologa, lwa bo lo tshwarelwa kwa lefelong le le bidiwang Mantshwabisi mo kgaolong ya Kweneng Bophirima. Go...
Sebofo Motshwane 28 June 2012
Our Heritage
Looking back over the years, it is difficult to think of any significant settlement which has not, at one time or another, made the latter claim. The usual explanation was that such places were being punished for their political preferences, in the...
Sandy Grant 28 June 2012
Rollers to start their development programmme
Mwaanga has told Mmegi Sport that to develop players, he needs structures, transport, equipment, an assistant coach, a first aid kit and an organiser.The man has written Rollers management outlining his requirements, and he will not get into the...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 28 June 2012
BBF camp underway
The camp runs from at 9:00 am to7:00 pm. The coordinator of the tournament, Tebogo Kubanje told Mmegi Sport that they were expecting two coaches to brace the camp yesterday.Top players are all in attendance; as are youth who are part of the national...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 28 June 2012
I have to finish what I started - Thipe
Former boxer, Gilbert Khunwane is challenging him for the post at BoBA's Annual General Assembly (AGA) scheduled for Gantsi on Saturday. The Glen Valley Boxing Club (GBVC) president, told Mmegi Sport in an interview yesterday that he believes there...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 28 June 2012
Rollers meet Chiefs in Coke semis
BDF XI will play against Gaborone United (GU) in the other semi-finals. It is the Rollers-Chiefs encounter that is likely to be the talk of town. The rivalry between the two giants, both on the field and in the boardroom, has heightened in the past...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 June 2012
Tshosane, Gabonamong in fruitful talks
Gabonamong excused himself from the Central African Republic (CAR) encounter owing to a family bereavement, but was inconspicuously absent for the game against Bafana Bafana earlier this month.The player was unable to communicate with the technical...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 28 June 2012
The many facets of Shanti-Lo and his music
From the company's Mogopong conference venue, came soothing music from one of Botswana's most recognisable vocalists. In rehearsal for the upcoming First National Bank's All That Jazz show, Tumediso "Shanti-Lo" Loeto worked his voice through the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 28 June 2012
Zen Promotions gives to the needy
At an event held in January, two local companies, Mahindra and Jinabhai & Associates pledged P10,000 each to Zen Promotions to support this cause. Hirshfeld said this paved the way to making a difference as their objectives are in line with one...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 June 2012
Burundi leader Nkurunziza defends Ruvakuki's jailing
Ruvakuki was convicted alongside 13 others for involvement in an act of terrorism. But his lawyers said he was put on trial because he interviewed a would-be rebel leader. Shock convictionThe BBC's Kevin Mwachiro in the capital, Bujumbara, says...
28 June 2012
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales banned by US court
The ban does not apply to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 II, the tablet's new edition.The trial for the case is scheduled to begin in California on July 30."Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the...
28 June 2012
Western envoys tour controversial Zim diamond fields
The visit, the first by foreign diplomats to the high-security diamond fields, saw ambassadors led by the European Union head of delegation to Zimbabwe, Aldo Dell'Ariccia, touring two mines, the Chinese-owned Anjin and Marange Resources where...
28 June 2012
WACS launch brings faster, cheaper internet to Botswana
According to the AFP, the $75 million fibre optic submarine West African Cable System (WACS), which went live in Namibia last month, delivers a speed of 5.12 terabits per second and stretches down the west coast of Africa from Britain to South...
STAFF WRITER 28 June 2012
Trade deficit narrows on lower imports
Botswana has experienced trade deficits, or higher values of imported goods than exported, since October 2008, following government's countercyclical policy. Under the policy, hailed by the IMF and the World Bank, government ramped up spending on...
STAFF WRITER 28 June 2012
Another suicide horrifies Tutume
The man who lived with his 51-year-old wife, was found hanging from a Mophane tree a stone's throw from his home on Tuesday. The Commander of Tutume Police Station Vusimusi Jorowe says the man did not leave a suicide note.The sexagenarian adds to the...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 28 June 2012
Stage set for inaugural Lilac Media Awards
A press release from the organisers says the selection of award recipients is based on a survey conducted regularly by Hotwire Public Relations Consultancy over the past three years. "The awards are the first of their kind in the country and will...
28 June 2012
Mantshwabisi stamps its authority on off-road races
This is not based on the fact that it was the 31st year that Toyota had sponsored the race, or that it is the sparkler in the peak of the South African Off-road Championships. When launching the event on the eve of the race, the Minister of the...
MPHO MOOKA 28 June 2012
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