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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...
04 July 2012
Exercises of the Prerogative of Mercy (Part 1)
I have chosen to write on the subject of the exercise by any President of the Republic of Botswana of his/her powers under the Prerogative of Mercy, in terms of Section 53 of the Constitution of the Republic of Botswana, which issue has been...
04 July 2012
Seretse Khama: Reconstructing the life of a legend
He said, 'Oh ha ne modimo o ka ne o boditse gore ke tsee mang, re ka bo re rile "nnyaa e seng yoo, tsaa mongwe wa bo-magaolwane ba gagwe ba'. (Oh! If God had asked whom he should take, we would have told him to take one of his acolytes)," says...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Issues In Education
Therefore, every educator is guided by professional ethics on the provision of education. Every educator is a visionary and should be concerned about how their work in the present will impact significantly on the recipients' lives at present and in...
DORCAS MOLEFE
OWEN PANSIRI
SHELDON WEEKS 04 July 2012
A BDP in the interregnum
In its original definition, it was a period between one monarchy and the rise of another. 'Inter' being Latin for 'between' and 'regnum' the same language for 'reign'. With the departure and return of those who formed the Botswana Movement for...
Lawrence Ookeditse
Correspondent 04 July 2012
Hunda's future uncertain at Notwane
Hunda told journalists after the match that he is still unsure whether he will still be the Notwane coach next season at the lower division. He said they are yet to sit down with the team management. His contract was up to the end of this season with...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Molapi eyes Top Eight glory
Speaking after the 1-1 aggregate draw with Chiefs which saw ECCO proceed on the away goals rule, Molapi said the team has put in hard work ever since he took charge, midway through the season and they deserve to be in the cup final. "It was our aim...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Selolwane released as interest swells on Nato
Selolwane has been linked with newcomers, Pretoria University, after limited game time at United last season. The player, arguably the country's best export has experienced mixed fortunes in the last year, seeing the Zebras to their first ever AFCON...
STAFF WRITER 04 July 2012
'Retired' Zebras' stars make U-turn
Six players - Diphetogo 'Dipsy' Selolwane, Modiri Marumo, Pontsho Moloi, Patrick Motsepe, Ndiyapo Letsholathebe and Tshepo Motlhabankwe had previously informed the coach they were withdrawing from international football.However, all the players, save...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 July 2012
BNOC fails to reach Olympics target
During a media briefing held in Gaborone yesterday, the BNOC attempted to defend its failure to achieve the target. The local Olympics body had set July 1 as the cut-off date for athletes to have qualified for the global sports showpiece. Only five,...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
The fascination that is weaving
How the weavers use strings to produce shapes and pictures of different colours is quite amazing. What many do not understand is the amount of time it takes to complete a medium size rug, or how creative that person must be to produce an...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Back stage
"Days of Heaven" (1978) showed yesterday only at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. It has the grand sweep of humanity and nature, capturing images of man and his universe in ways that aren't normally...
Sasa Majuma 04 July 2012
Manto 7 harbors political ambitions?
It is not yet clear which party he would be representing, but reports are that the likable musician, who rose to fame with the hit Zvaka Pressa in 2005, is aiming for a parliamentary seat in one of the constituencies in the Ngamiland region. After...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Berman to release second album
Speaking to Showbiz, Berman said that the album is already out but, is not yet available to a larger audience. He says that he has been selling the album on a trial basis after his various performances, and has managed to sell around 300...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
DA challenges Sisulu on jet
"Sisulu should produce documentary evidence that the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, approved the deviation from normal competitive bidding processes," DA MP David Maynier said.Sisulu on Monday said she was "absolutely convinced" that the...
04 July 2012
Abused husbands protest in Hillbrow
"We have a database of men who have been abused from all social classes, including pastors, men from informal settlements and medium-to-low density suburbs," Moshate Men's Right Organisation spokesman CEO Nashilo Mnisi told The New Age.The men...
04 July 2012
Burma releases 20 political prisoners in amnesty
An official newspaper said the decision had been made to promote stability and national reconciliation.Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for all dissidents to be freed. She said 330 political prisoners remained in jail. Other estimates...
04 July 2012
Angola approves nine out of 27 parties for elections
"The Constitutional Court found in favour of nine political bodies, of which five political parties and four coalitions," the Court said in a statement.The body, which has to okay parties ahead of the polls, considered applications of 27 political...
04 July 2012
Syria-Turkey tension: Assad 'regrets' F-4 jet's downing
In an interview with Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper, he argues that the plane was flying in an area previously used by Israel's air force.The plane went down in the Mediterranean last month and the two pilots have not been found.The incident has...
04 July 2012
Zimbabwe gives banks ultimatum
A notice in the government gazette, dating from Friday but made public yesterday, gave one year as a "maximum period a business may continue to operate before it attains the minimum indigenisation and empowerment quota."Zimbabwe enacted in 2007 a law...
04 July 2012
BURS guarded on extension as deadline elapses
Yesterday, the tax agency was non-committal on whether the June 30 deadline would be further extended, leaving those yet to register in limbo. The BURS had originally given every worker earning P3,000 per month and above until May 31 to register for...
STAFF WRITER 04 July 2012
Economic growth slows as mining slumps again
Figures released by Statistics Botswana (SB) this week show that mining, which accounts for over a third of the national output, fell by 7.8 percent in the first quarter of this year, although the decrease was an improvement from a 16.1 percent slide...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
As I see it
According to reports GW Bush former president of the US will be visiting Botswana this week. Since the announcement of the visit I have been on tenterhooks reading the newspapers and watching Btv to get a hint of what would happen to the...
Michael Dingake 04 July 2012
Mmualebe
Gompieno re tlaa lebelela manatetshapuo a lefoko 'go ja' le dirisiwang mo go one. E re ka manatetshapuo a mantsi, ga re ke re bue ka one otlhe, re tlaa tlopola fela fale le fale.Pele ga re fetela pele, a re lebelele lone lefoko 'go ja.' Ka gale fa re...
Sebofo Motshwane 04 July 2012
Selefu 04 July 2012
04 July 2012
Directives are unpopular
While it may be true that directives are not entirely new as a means of governance in Botswana, it is a fact that in the past, they were used sparingly. We can be sure that the reason directives were not commonplace in the past was that they...
04 July 2012
Project syndicate
MEXICO CITY: Prior to Mexico's just-concluded presidential election, public disaffection with the state of affairs in the country was palpable. Mexicans from all walks of life seemed concerned about spiraling violence, anemic economic growth, and the...
04 July 2012
Paraplegic stabbed four times
Eye-witness accounts say his unknown assailant fled the scene, leaving the man lying on the ground bleeding. A friend of the victim is said to have rushed him to hospital."I heard people screaming outside the bar and when I went out, I found the man...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Our heritage
Also pre-determined has been my choice of photo - having had the pleasure of meeting Matlho Tamocha of the National Library for the first time.But the focus of the holiday is obviously on Seretse himself with a now routine summary of his...
Sandy Grant 04 July 2012
Resist govt takeover - Mayor
The taking over by government of certain services from councils by means of directives is becoming a sore point by the day."We are challenged, ladies and gentlemen, by the continuous directives we receive from central government," the Mayor of...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
MoESD and teacher unions discuss rates
After long negotiations last year, Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU), Botswana Teachers union (BTU), Botswana Primary Teachers' Association (BOPRITA) and the education permanent secretary, Grace Muzila, agreed on an invigilation fee...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Gunmen rob private school of P50,000
The four men are said to have entered the school on Tuesday morning under the pretext of inquiring about school fees, claiming they wished to enroll their children in the school. According to an eyewitness, the men seemed to have knowledge about the...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Mayor applauds Dingake
Mayor of Gaborone City Council, Haskins Nkaigwa has applauded Justice Key Dingake's recent judgement of the High Court, in the matter between government and workers unions. Dingake had recently set aside the decision of the then director of the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Motswaledi calls for clean opposition campaigns
Speaking over the weekend at the launch of the Botswana People's Party (BPP) candidate for the council by-election, Thabani Peter, he said the internal sparring makes it easy for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to cruise to victory...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
Ntuane's defection gives Nasha a headache
She has revealed that after reading Ntuane's letter of resignation, she had to "consult intensely, and consult legal brains" on the future of the house, but still has no answers."I have therefore called a meeting for all opposition Members of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
GCC collects P16m in rates arreas
In just three weeks, the Gaborone City Council has collected nearly P16 million in arrears totalling P40 million.Addressing full council yesterday, the Mayor of Gaborone, Haskins Nkaigwa, said the figure was made up of P11 million collected over the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 04 July 2012
BNYC chair appointed himself director
Addressing BNYC delegates from the council's 33 districts in Gaborone last week Saturday, Mokwena said that on April 2, 2012, the committee he chairs - the BNYC executive committee, suspended Executive Director Benjamin Raletsatsi pending a...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 04 July 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...
05 July 2012
Exercises of the Prerogative of Mercy (Part 1)
I have chosen to write on the subject of the exercise by any President of the Republic of Botswana of his/her powers under the Prerogative of Mercy, in terms of Section 53 of the Constitution of the Republic of Botswana, which issue has been...
05 July 2012
Seretse Khama: Reconstructing the life of a legend
He said, 'Oh ha ne modimo o ka ne o boditse gore ke tsee mang, re ka bo re rile "nnyaa e seng yoo, tsaa mongwe wa bo-magaolwane ba gagwe ba'. (Oh! If God had asked whom he should take, we would have told him to take one of his acolytes)," says...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
A BDP in the interregnum
In its original definition, it was a period between one monarchy and the rise of another. 'Inter' being Latin for 'between' and 'regnum' the same language for 'reign'. With the departure and return of those who formed the Botswana Movement for...
Lawrence Ookeditse
Correspondent 05 July 2012
Mmualebe
Gompieno re tlaa lebelela manatetshapuo a lefoko 'go ja' le dirisiwang mo go one. E re ka manatetshapuo a mantsi, ga re ke re bue ka one otlhe, re tlaa tlopola fela fale le fale.Pele ga re fetela pele, a re lebelele lone lefoko 'go ja.' Ka gale fa re...
Sebofo Motshwane 05 July 2012
Djokovic beats Mayer to reach last four
Djokovic will now meet Roger Federer for the first time at Wimbledon in what is sure to be an eagerly anticipated semi."He's been so dominant and consistent over the years, to meet him has to be the ultimate challenge on a grass court," Djokovic...
05 July 2012
Ndlovu defends team selection
Ndlovu said this in an interview with Mmegi Sport after their encounter with TAFIC. Against TAFIC, Ndlovu played youngsters who are not regulars such as, Kenamile Mani, who was used sparingly as a substitute this season and striker, Atang Klate...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
Rousing send-off planned for Olympics team
The Botswana National Olympics Committee (BNOC) has lined up activities meant to give the public an opportunity to interact with the team before their departure tomorrow and Monday. The team will meet the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Shaw...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
Tshosane in SA for AFCON draw
The draw is at 7:00 pm and will be broadcast live on Supersport 4. A strong pool of 30 teams, minus former champions, Egypt go into the draw at a place popular for hosting boxing bouts, the Emperors Palace near OR Tambo International Airport. Egypt,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
BNSC owes BFA P1.3 million
Botswana Football Association (BFA), President David Fani, has hit back at the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) following a decision to suspend the release of the association's 2012/2013 grant. Instead, it has emerged that the BNSC owes the...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
Book review
Title: Head On Fire: rants/notes/poems 2001-2011 by Lesego RampolokengDate of publication: 2012Publisher: Deep SouthPlace of publication: GrahamstownPages: 175 South Africa's Lesego Rampolokeng, who recently held audience spellbound in Gaborone's...
Keineetse Keineetse 05 July 2012
I will do anything for my dream! - PK Maada
Phakiso Makhiwa a.k.a. PK Maada, as eminently acknowledged in the music circles, said he has dreams so big he will do anything to achieve them. The self-acclaimed motswako Foromane rap star, who has at least five hit songs perched on the local radio...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 05 July 2012
Do local musicians lack creativity?
But, while it could be true that many people have sacrificed a lot of luxuries like music for basic necessities, it could be argued that many local artists seem to either lack creativity or have been derailed by the lure of a quick buck. The...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 05 July 2012
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