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Book review
Lyrics Alley is Leila Aboulela's fourth book. Her first novel is the much-acclaimed Translator (1999) that was written in Arabic and translated by E Ad'lan. This was followed by Coloured Lights (2001) and Minaret (2005). She was born in Cairo,...
Sheridan Griswold 24 August 2012
Back stage
"The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) a.k.a Spider-Man 4 is now at the New Capitol Cinemas. The first Spiderman film goes back to the 1960s. There have been dozens both one word and hyphenated movies of this superhero who tried to take centre stage...
Sasa Majuma 24 August 2012
Developing heritage sites for tourism
In today's edition, I wish to offer insight into modern challenges affecting heritage development in Botswana. In most of the papers I have written on heritage site development, I have conscientiously argued that even though cultural tourism...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Culture Spears hint at collaboration with Anju
When an upcoming musician combines with an established counterpart, the former seeks to ride on the latter's crest of fame and obviously gain popularity to be among the top artists. But, when two music grandmasters in a similar genre like the...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
A beautiful scenery created by crafts
The National Basket and Crafts Exhibition that started last month has been a real eye-catcher. From carefully crafted animal skin mats to the neatly assembled baskets on the floor, the gallery looks lively with original African crafts. The artists...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Consumer watchdog
(The health of our families, friends, colleagues and neighbours is under threat. Not from disease and illness but, ironically, from people claiming to be able to cure us of disease and illness. You will have seen the advertisements in certain local...
24 August 2012
Malesu urges textile firms to exploit AGOA provision
FRANCISTOWN: The Minister of Trade and Industry Dorcus Makgato-Malesu has urged local textile companies to take advantage of the recent extension of provisions of the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). Currently one local company, Caparrel...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Uproar as NDB unveils retrenchment plans
National Development Bank workers allege they received a nasty shock last Friday when what the institution had termed a "closed day for training purposes", turned out to be an afternoon for each staff member to receive a letter regarding their future...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Between a rock and a hard place
On Monday, August 27, 2012, shareholders of Canadian firm, CIC Energy will gather on the third floor of an office building in the picturesque Mauritian financial hub of Port Louis. But the men and women walking into the Jamalacs Building will not be...
24 August 2012
Barclays will not rebrand to Absa
Barclays PLC, which has a 67 percent controlling stake in Barclays Bank Botswana (BBB) on Tuesday announced that it is in talks about combining its African operations with that of the Absa Group, in which it holds 55 percent. The move is aimed at...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
BCL Mine diversifies to iron ore
The company's executive committee led by the general manager, Daniel Mahupela visited a site near Palla Road last week for which BCL has been granted two prospecting licences. BCL Mine public relations and marketing manager James Molosankwe told...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Republican congressman Todd Akin rebukes party bosses
Congressman Todd Akin said it was not right for the party establishment to over-ride Missouri voters who had picked him to run for the Senate. In a new fundraising appeal, Akin claims "the liberal elite" are trying to take down a "pro-life...
24 August 2012
Force inevitable if Mali talks fail: Nigerian president
The regional bloc "ECOWAS will definitely intervene militarily (but) first and foremost we are negotiating", said Jonathan, who was on a 24-hour visit to Senegal, after talks with President Macky Sall. He said regional leaders were focusing on...
24 August 2012
Royal Platinum Bafokeng miners back at work
"We congratulate the workers for refusing to be misled by people with political ambitions and for returning to work," regional National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) secretary, Sydwell Dokolwana said in a statement. "We appeal to all our members in...
24 August 2012
Nigeria forms panel to tackle northern crisis
The statement announcing the new committee did not mention Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group blamed for more than 1,400 deaths across northern and central Nigeria since 2010. The mandate of the the 35-member Northern States Governors' Committee...
24 August 2012
Ethiopians mourn amid political handover preparations
The death of Zenawi, who ruled the Horn of Africa nation with an iron fist for 21 years, dominated discussions in the city and in the news. Zenawi died earlier this week following a long illness. The 57-year-old had not been seen in public since the...
24 August 2012
Kenya to hold peace meeting after 52 killed in massacre
"We want to bring together these warring communities," said regional deputy police chief, Joseph Kitur, after the attack late on Tuesday between the Pokomo and Orma peoples in the rural Tana River district.The dead included at least 31 women and 11...
24 August 2012
Giants could soon be gunning for Swansea's coach
Two five-nil thrashings; news signings a-plenty; a Goliath beats David doppleganger of the most dramatic game of last season; five new managers losing their first match (and Michael Laudrup, arguably the rawest, is not one of them). Enjoying it yet?...
24 August 2012
Volleyball league enters crucial stage
After last weekend's matches, Mafolofolo lead the women's league followed closely by Kutlwano and Kalavango in second and third places respectively. The three are separated by just two points. Mafolofolo were inactive over the weekend, but still...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Letter to Tebogo Sebego
You played like somebody whose public appearance was only going to be limited to court appearances where apparently you excel as a lawyer. Now you are the president of the national football association. Congratulations! In the piece that...
DEAR MARA 24 August 2012
First Cut
It was only last week that I implored the Botswana Football Association (BFA) national executive committee to exercise caution in its dealing with defaulting clubs with regard to the payment of affiliation fee. Now a week after the national executive...
Dennis Keagile 24 August 2012
Phikwe Challenge cup postponed
BCL Mine was to sponsor the tournament. BCL public relations and marketing manager, James Molosankwe told Mmegi Sport that the tournament has been postponed due to challenges beyond their control. He explained that one of the challenges is...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Double Action impress in Zim
The tournament has for the past two years been staged in Bulawayo, but was this year moved to Gweru as a way of taking women's football to the people. "We as the organisers have decided to rotate the tournament to other parts of the country. I...
KABELO SELELO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Zebras, Uganda friendly confirmed
The Zebras are currently in Potchefstroom High Performance Centre (HPC) in South Africa where they are fine-tuning their preparations for the upcoming 2013 AFCON qualifier first leg match against Mali on September 8. BFA marketing and communications...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Platinum Stars sign Gaborone youngster
The South African side spotted the youngster during GFA's recent tour of that country where they played Tuks, Verds and Supersport's Under-14 teams. GFA manager, Khumo Kenalemang said Bojosi stood out in defence during the friendly games, attracting...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Moyo joins Prisons, demands P100,000 from Gunners
Moyo, who joined the Premiership new boys on Wednesday, parted ways with Gunners at the end of April and has taken them to Labour over outstanding monies. The club struggled to consistently shell out his salaries and bonuses during his...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Tears of joy turn into dejection
While it was touching to see the mentor so emotional, it was equally interesting to note how passionate he was about his team and football . Fast forward to August 22, 2012. Kaleo enters the Mmegi boardroom at around 4:45 pm to honour an appointment...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Gaborone region divided over clubs' saga
The Gaborone region is reportedly divided over the issue of expelling clubs that have failed to pay affiliation fees before the cut-off date. Some members of the Gaborone region association have distanced themselves from a decision to reinstate six...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Project syndicate
Rapid advances in DNA-sequencing technology mean that affordable decoding of the human genome is not far away. In fact, human genomes could be sequenced for as little as $1,000 in the next few years. Unfortunately, the current biomedical research...
Lyon Gholson 24 August 2012
The paradox of Meles Zenawi
The death of Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, on August 20 raises immediate and grave concerns for security in an extremely complex, fragile and unpredictable part of the world. Ethiopia sits at the end of an arc of instability stretching...
24 August 2012
Marikana - the end of South Africa's post-apartheid settlement?
It also highlights the failure of post-apartheid South Africa to improve the lives of a majority of its citizens.The incident has opened up wounds and exposed the bitter ironies and contradictions of the country almost 20 years after the end of...
* RICHARD DOWDEN 24 August 2012
A shameful revelation of the African leadership deception
The death of the 34 Mineworkers and several others at the hands of the trigger happy South African riot Police gun fire at Marikana Platinum Mine has shocked all of us. It is all too sad that the Police Spokesperson has angrily described the...
24 August 2012
Marikana shootings exposed failure of key SA institutions
From the conflicting accounts emanating from different quarters it is difficult to reach a conclusive response. The events that culminated in the death of 34 protesting mineworkers on 16 August, when officers of the South African Police Service...
* HAMADZIRIPI TAMUKAMOYO 24 August 2012
A dangerous future: the yellow monster's demolition of homes
The fact that the noise dies though should not make us as a nation make the mistake that the dawns are quiet and all is well for eternity. That genius of a thinker, Karl Marx, in the 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon' wrote that "History...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 24 August 2012
Nitty gritty
I am so grateful for these contacts of mine. They have served me so very well over the years as I have been able to get the most selective, most special and most sincere interview ever. This has all been because of my sources. I strongly...
Barolong Seboni 24 August 2012
IMF's advice contemptible
Observably, the said tendency has surpassed heroism and is now legendary! It is a fact of history that theirs is an advocacy for a rightist skewed economic system. By some proxy and unorthodox means, the IMF appears to be supportive of a...
24 August 2012
Digging tswana roots
This is the extraordinary fact my research has revealed. Another discovery was that 'myth', when correctly unscrambled, is in fact actual and proper history - and that there is independent African confirmation of this. With this understanding, many...
I.M Leteane 24 August 2012
Sacrificing state theatre shows disdain for the arts
Our government has a skewed view of the arts and the creative industries in general. Given that the arts are mostly the business of young people, and government is operated, at least at its highest levels, by people of a considerably earlier...
24 August 2012
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24 August 2012
Solar panel thefts on the rise in Kweneng
He said so far, two suspects have been arrested and the police are looking for the other two, who are on the run. "On the first of August, nine solar panels were stolen, on the 10th eight were stolen, while on the 15th seven were reported missing....
NICHOLAS MOKWENA
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Wildlife Act threatens lucrative eggshell industry
Speaking during the pricing and quality control workshop held at Maun Lodge, a representative of Souvenirs of Kalahari, Bulanda Thamae, from West Hanahai said a number of women who engage in beadwork are faced with the shortage of ostrich...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Phikwe faced with shortage of medication
In an interview with Mmegi this week, Selebi-Phikwe district health management team public relations officer, Onalethata Nkwe said shortage of medication is not only experienced in Selebi-Phikwe, stating that this challenge emanates from Central...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
SPTC to outsource local abattoir
The abattoir is allegedly facing serious shortage of manpower as 14 employees who were working there have since left the public service through the early exit policy at the end of May. As a result, compliance with the Livestock and Meat Industries...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
Behind schedule projects render Ftown a ghost town
FRANCISTOWN: A majority of the city's development projects are behind schedule, according to the Francistown City Council's Principal Economic Planner, Ethel Mosojane. Mosojane, who said their key result area in line with the Vision 2016...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Ftown's stagnant economy saddens civic leaders
In separate interviews with Mmegi, the mayors said Francistown has lost the lustre that used to attract people to it. Current mayor, Ephraim Maiketso noted how it does not show that Francistown is the country's second city or the northern...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Kgafela-Mokoka & Kojane resign from BNF
"Therefore, I couldn't wait to be paralyzed as an active person who loves politics," she said. But Mmegi can reveal that Kgafela-Mokoka has joined the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and will be welcomed into the party at a press conference to be held...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Beneficiation - the US, China and Europe
Clinton, without having to mention China by name played right into the stereotypical vision of other powers on the African continent and the wide-spread perception that their only interest in Africa is 'extractive', read exploitative. This is not...
*PROF ROMAN GRYNBERG 24 August 2012
Obama's worst year
Shortly after four o'clock on the afternoon of April 13, 2011, US treasury secretary Tim Geithner and a retinue of counsellors and aides entered a large conference room. In the room four people were seated at a table. Geithner and his entourage...
24 August 2012
Mantashe visits
Manstashe who is accompanied by former National Intelligence Chief Billy Masetla, President Jacob Zuma's international Relations Adviser, Lindiwe Zulu and Gauteng Economic Development Head Khulu Radebe's visit to Botswana are to build party relations...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 24 August 2012
Indian firm gets nod to buy Mmamabula
Jindal Steel and Energy has submitted a two Canadian Dollar per share (P15 per share) 100 percent bid for the Canadian company which has since 2006 suffered a string of setbacks in trying to spring the 1,200MW project to life. In a statement...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 August 2012
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