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First cut
The sporting fraternity was this week taken by surprise at the mouth watering incentives chain store supermarket, Choppies intends to give to the Olympic bound athletes should they do exceptionally well at the July-August event.Quite a number of...
Dennis Keagile 29 June 2012
Off the ball
Name: Thabo LetshwitiPlace Of Birth: MoshupaDate Of Birth: 25 January 1998Sport: karateNational Team Caps: 2 Mmegi Sport: What is your favourite place outside the field of play? Letshwiti: Home (Broadhurst)Mmegi Sport: What is your favourite holiday...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Vultures' Swazi tie elevated to test status
The match had initially been scheduled as a preparatory match for the upcoming CAR 6 Nations tournament, to be staged in Gaborone from July 22nd - 29th, but the Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) has raised it to test status for the 2015 Rugby World Cup...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Maiketso to step down as BFA match commissioner
Maiketso said because of his mayoral duties, he has to step down as match commissioner for Premier League games and dedicate himself to acting out his duties as mayor."It is not yet official that I will be leaving because I have not yet told my...
KUSHATHA TABENGWA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Nata hosts tourney to celebrate Thuma's exploits
Tournament organiser, Seloma Tiro, said eight villages including Gweta, Zoroga, Mosetse, Sowa, Dukwi, Manxotae, Sepako and Tsokotshwa will battle it out for honours tomorrow. The teams will start off with a penalty knockout to determine the two...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Nlu, Murwirwa return as ECCO, Chiefs clash again
The two sides meet tomorrow for the third time in three weeks at the Molepolole Sports Complex, in what promises to be an interesting fixture if their past encounters are anything to go by. Both Nlu and Murwirwa missed ECCO's 3-2 loss to Chiefs in...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
We will be back - relegated GNT
A GNT coach, Edward Leposo made the remarks after his charges were condemned to the First Division following a 2-0 drubbing at the hands of Notwane in Francistown on Sunday."We have acquired enough experience in the Premier League. More than half my...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Double victory for Branch
Shortly after winning the Toyota Kalahari 1000 kilometre Desert Race last week, Branch and his protg Dartagnan Lobjoit set off for Harare where they took part in the newly introduced regional challenge.The inaugural southern challenge consisted of...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Kalavango target strong first round finish
Kalavango is placed fifth with two games before the break, while other teams are left with one fixture.The side stands a good chance of finishing second in the rare scenario that defending champions, Mafolofolo, slip up.Kalavango have collected 20...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Mwaanga soldiers on despite roller-coaster career
Born to a Motswana mother and a Zambian father, Mwaanga is now a naturalised citizen. He came to Botswana from Zambia in the 1990s, to play for Francistown side, TASC. He started coaching in the North after hanging up his boots.The highlight of...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Defining moment for Notwane, Santos
Santos is playing BDF XI on the same day at Molepolole Sports Complex and a victory for the Gabane side would see Notwane drop to the lower division. Both Notwane and Santos are eyeing the remaining spot with FC Satmos and Great North Tigers (GNT)...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Foreign weapons 'fuelling South Sudan conflict'
It says scores have been killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas by both a rebel group and the South Sudanese army.The group says a "ready flow of weapons" includes Sudanese weapons, Chinese landmines and Ukrainian tanks.There...
29 June 2012
Gbagbo ally Ble Goude 'fears for his life'
Ble Goude went on the run after the capture in April 2011 of ex-President, Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to accept electoral defeat and now faces war crimes charges at The Hague.Ivory Coast then issued an arrest warrant for the pro-Gbagbo...
29 June 2012
Malema regrets supporting Zuma: report
"My only regret was to campaign for Zuma, and I apologise dearly," Malema told The Star newspaper. He also rejected Zuma's idea of a "second transition", which several media reported had also been rejected by the African National Congress policy...
29 June 2012
Diamonds were easy but coal will be very hard work!
In a generation when the history of Botswana is written by those who are now children they will look back at the legacy of Botswana's 'diamond age' as the sweetest and easiest time in the nation's history. What will follow will never be quite as easy...
29 June 2012
Nitty Gritty
Dear Reader, with whom I am most comfortable and very much at ease. Last time we communicated I was interviewing a certain gentleman who preferred to be called the Foreman of Foreskins because of his involvement in the peddling of...
Barolong Seboni 29 June 2012
Book review
William Boyd (2012) "Waiting for Sunrise". London, Bloomsbury, 357 pages, Paperback, P199. ISBN 978-1-4088-1744-2. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Waiting for Sunrise is William Boyd's 10th novel and 17th book. He...
Sheridan Griswold 29 June 2012
Back Stage
"LoL" (2012) is now at playing at New Capitol Cinemas. It is an American version of a French film, Laughing Out Loud (2008), starring Sophie Marceau as the daughter Anne, and Francoise Fabrane as Anne's mother; it is yet to be distributed or shown...
Sasa Majuma 29 June 2012
Digging up our past cultures: Lake Ngami
The two seasons we had earlier spent at the famous sites of Toteng, had given us the earliest bones of domestic cattle and sheep in Southern Africa. And there was the earliest pottery in Botswana known as Bambata, which was used by some Late...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Upmarket guesthouse targets corporate clientele
Aptly called Comfort Palace, by Friday the establishment will be in its fourth week. Situated in the upmarket suburb of Selepa, just east of the city centre, Comfort Palace is under the proprietorship of 41-year-old Anicia Mbanga.Her husband Esau, is...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Consumer watchdog
"Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria?" That's the name of a fascinating piece of research (see the link on our blog) undertaken by, of all people, a researcher working for Microsoft. The researcher, Cormac Herley, makes this...
29 June 2012
Piggery abattoir, processing plant needed - LEA
Speaking Wednesday in Gaborone at the Botswana Pork Chain Analysis study release, Mbaiwa said the pork industry is vulnerable to economic instability due to its dependence on the tourism sector.He noted that it is also riddled with high feed costs...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Huge iron ore deposits discovered in Shakawe
Botswana's economic diversification strategy to reduce dependence on diamond income and diversify the mining sector got a major boost this week with news of the first significant find of iron ore deposits in the Ngamiland.While Botswana has been...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 29 June 2012
PSP urges private sector to exploit DTC relocation
The permanent secretary to the president, Eric Molale told private business owners at the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) AGM yesterday that government wants to ensure that the relocation of DTC generates business...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
BoB eyes further cuts to excess liquidity
Excess liquidity in the banking sector is associated with inflationary pressures due to the resultant inclination amongst banks to relax lending conditions, and tends to lower interest rates for depositors and generally discourage savings.Excess...
STAFF WRITER 29 June 2012
Botswana braces for another SACU tussle
Earlier this year, SACU tendered for the development of an industrial policy framework, designed to ensure that the value generated in the union translates to a balanced industrial development of the five members. Ministers from Botswana, South...
STAFF WRITER 29 June 2012
BPC seals deal for 180MW power station
The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and local energy firm, Karoo Sustainable Energy (KSE) have sealed a multi-million Pula deal that will see the construction of a 180-megawatt power station fuelled by coal bed methane next year.The deal, which...
STAFF WRITER 29 June 2012
Bigfish swims against the tide to conquer all
The name 'Bigfish' was coined when a Zambian friend described him as the big fish who always swims against the tide. The name Bigfish stuck with him, and he continues to overcome the challenging tides of life he may be faced with.Spending half a...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Women display art skills
The exhibition also reveals how the Leteisi(German print) continues to captivate both designers and consumers despite the on-going arrival of other fashion trends.Leteisi has been of one of the most appreciated materials by locals, especially during...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Digging tswana roots
Most people think of 'gods' as the stuff of legend and myth, entities that never existed in history. Indeed, in Tswana and other Bantu cultures, they are now nebulous, ill-defined 'ancestral spirits' who we are supposed to look up to in times of...
I.M Leteane 29 June 2012
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29 June 2012
Malesu and the SACU catastrophe
Existing imbalances are mammoth, but it is encouraging to note that so is the determination of trade and industry minister, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, to make the case for Botswana which, alongside Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia, has provided a massive...
29 June 2012
MISA meets President Joyce Banda
The Media Institute of Southern Africa met Malawian president Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, Malawi's second largest city on June 25. The meeting was also attended by the Media Council of Malawi and selected media managers in the...
29 June 2012
Transnational organised crime a problem
However, the commission also noted with satisfaction that the common border remained peaceful and stable during the period under review. Nonetheless, the commission resolved that the Defence and Security institutions of the two countries should...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Towards a thirstier future
Shortage of water in Botswana is not a new phenomenon. By the look of things, the situation is set to get gloomier.Botswana's water resources are getting more and more strained as rainfall continues to decline. Early this month, the Water Utilities...
29 June 2012
10-year jail sentence for drunken murderer
Justice Zibani Makhwade noted this when he convicted and sentenced 47-year-old Garekgone Ramoroko of Dikaleng cattle post to 10 years imprisonment, for the murder of his common law wife, Gotshabamang Sekopa, whom she stabbed and killed in 2009...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
No sustainability plan for youth empowerment
Speaking during a three-day full council meeting in the village recently, the councillors said the new youth empowerment programme, which targets secondary school leavers and unemployed university graduates comes off poorly, in comparison with Tirelo...
SARAH MBAEVA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
BMD youth league donate to Lephoi Centre
The BMDYL donated two Samsung washing machines worth P3,660, cash amounting to P580, food and second-hand clothes to the Monarch-based centre for visually impaired children. BMDYL president, Phenyo Segokgo, told the gathering at the hand over...
BONTE SEEPI
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Makgophe tipped to replace Tsimako
All indications are that Deputy Commissioner Operations Keabetswe Makgophe will be the next Commissioner of Police.But authorities have been tight-lipped regarding Makgophe, confirming only the Director of Traffic at Botswana Police Service (BPS),...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Botswana's productivity decline disturbing - Batshu
Speaking during the ministry's consultative forum here yesterday, Batshu said Botswana was battling to improve its rankings in global competitiveness.For the last three years, Botswana has experienced a back-to-back nosedive in its global...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Accused confessed to stealing beast - witnesses
The witnesses were giving evidence in a case in which Itani Mbunya is alleged to have stolen and slaughtered a cow that belonged to Gadzani Mbasopi in July 2008 at Marobela Village. One of the witnesses, 69-year-old Joseph Magara said Mbunya came to...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Budding businesswoman praises poverty eradication programme
Unemployed and poor until recently, Mosetlha produces fruit juice from her house at Botshabelo and the business is already enjoying considerable support from local shops and individuals. "While riding in a commuter combi last year, I overheard some...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
The little known history of "Crime File"
At the start of the millennium, the program was synonymous with the deep voice of Senior Superintendent Dipheko Motube. It was at this time that I became a loyal listener of Crime File, the police crime-prevention show hosted on Radio Botswana I. The...
29 June 2012
Three Zimbabweans remanded in custody
According to the charge sheet, Toendepi Mazuru (41) who lives in Sedie in Maun, Tafadzwa Monongerwa (38) of Kabakae in Gantsi and Zvesinei Monongerwa (34) of Morama in Gantsi, on June 6, at Kabakae ward in Gantsi unlawfully had in their...
SARAH MBAEVA
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Blackouts to continue
They expect to fully rectify the problems and complete commissioning in the next eight weeks. "The commissioning of Units 1 and 2 is expected to be completed by the end of August 2012, barring the unforeseen. The construction of unit 3 and 4 is well...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
FMD control measures hit Maun again
Delivering a speech to the full council session on Tuesday, Molonda said the ban and other animal disease control measures, among them emergency vaccination, disease surveillance, bio-security and public education, were put in place by the Department...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Borolong-Chadibe 'war' rages on
Bangwato regent kgosi Sediegeng Kgamane's mediation efforts have came to nought.Last year Kgamane ruled at a meeting in Mpatane, also referred to as Shongochena, that the settlement would become a ward in Borolong after he learnt that Borolong...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 29 June 2012
BCP loses councillor to BNF
Letsebe defected from the BNF to join the BCP in April. He states in his resignation letter that he was not comfortable with the ideology and policies of the BCP. He said as a party that formed out of a BNF split, BCP has developed policies...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 29 June 2012
Cervical cancer education needed
The association shared with Mmegi that in their experience, testing for cervical cancer comes with a lot of fear and trauma and that there is need for professional counseling to alleviate the fear. Cervical cancer comes second to skin cancer among...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
Van Rensburg still promotes education with production
The octogenarian, set to go back to his native South Africa in a few weeks, would not divulge much about how education with production has not panned out exactly the way he wanted. Rensburg said he is glad that schools were set up in small villages...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 29 June 2012
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