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Reikeletseng keen on taking Bots Games to Ftown
The biennial games are billed for December. A delegation that will spend a week in the city will also assess the facilities that are expected to host the games. The Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) chairperson Solly Reikeletseng, who proposed...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Double Action target Zim players
Rude Neshamba and Talent Mazetese, a striker and midfielder respectively currently playing for Zimbabwe's Inline Soccer Academy, have been on Double Action's radar for some time. The team's director Senki Sesinyi wrote to Inline Academy stating that...
BILLY MAGEDI
Correspondent 11 January 2013
BFA reveals Under-17 programme
The programme is included in the association's calendar of events for this year. Botswana has been slotted in Group A alongside hosts Morocco, Tunisia and Gabon in the tournament scheduled to start on April 13. The team will not have a...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Orapa United expect good run to continue
The Ostriches, as they are affectionally known, are three points ahead of second placed FC Satmos. Orapa United spokesperson, Badisa Laolang told Mmegi Sport this week that the future of the team seems bright and they started training on Monday. He...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 11 January 2013
New Year, old Zebras faces
Tshosane has his trusted lieutenants and so do most coaches. It is a dead certairnity that Patrick Motsepe, Mompati Thuma and Lemponye Tshireletso would make Tshosane's list. After the 7-1 aggregate reversal against the Malians in an AFCON...
11 January 2013
Trouble at TAFIC over unpaid salaries
FRANCISTOWN: It's back to the drawing board for TAFIC who experience recurring cash problems. It is common for unrest and trouble at TAFIC to start with players not receiving their salaries; and so it was last December when players went to the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Prisons XI set modest target
Team manager Kgosietsile Loeto told Mmegi Sport that though the team has dropped many valuable points since the beginning of the season, their chances of surviving the chop are still good. However, Loeto has conceded that it would be unrealistic for...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
BNSC suspends Chankuluba again
Lands and Facilities manager Golesedi Chankuluba returned to work on Wednesday this week from leave only to be slapped with a letter of suspension pending a disciplinary hearing set for January 21. Mmegi Sport is reliably informed that the BNSC has...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
League re-start delayed
A later date may be approved by the board of governors when they meet tomorrow ( January 12). The league was scheduled to resume this weekend, but had to be moved to allow the national team to play their friendly match against Angola in Johannesburg,...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 11 January 2013
BFA makes u-turn on CEO?
Former Kent County Football Association (KCFA) boss, Keith Masters' appointment as Botswana Football Association (BFA) chief executive officer hangs in the balance after the association conducted fresh interviews for the job. The new man is expected...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 11 January 2013
Amos dismisses ill-discipline reports
Olympics silver medalist Nijel Amos has refuted reports that he has gone off the rail due to alcohol problems. The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) this week told journalists that the 19-year old is ill-disciplined. Amos said he did not know...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Violence playing a role in shorter US life expectancy
The findings, released Wednesday by two leading US health research institutions, took on urgency because the report comes less than a month after the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The...
11 January 2013
Police search for kidnappers who slit nanny's throat
"The father received an sms late yesterday [Wednesday] saying that they [the kidnappers] were demanding R100,000 for the baby," Lt-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said. "There has still been no progress, and nothing new has happened since," he said on...
11 January 2013
Postponement of Chavez's inauguration sparks controversy
Venezuela's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's decision to delay Chavez's inauguration scheduled for yesterday, saying the swearing-in was not vital due to his status as a sitting president who was re-elected. Chavez is too ill to be...
11 January 2013
Delhi gang rape suspects 'tortured to force confession'
Amid heavy security, five suspects appeared in court in the Indian capital for a second time on Thursday, before the case was adjourned until Monday. No decision was taken on moving the case to a fast-track trial. The court ruled on Thursday that the...
11 January 2013
UK university suspends Uganda degrees in gay law row
The University of Buckingham says it has been "increasingly concerned" about a proposed anti-gay bill in Uganda and its "constraints on freedom of speech". As such the university says it will no longer validate courses at Victoria University in...
11 January 2013
Deadly 'revenge' raid in Kenya's Tana River Delta region
More people were injured in the attack by suspected ethnic Ormas on a Pokomo village in the Tana River delta region. Survivors were being treated for gunshot wounds, machete cuts and burns, said Red Cross officials. The attack on Kibusu village came...
11 January 2013
Africa and the Succession trap
Even in states like Angola where incumbents remained in power, the question of leadership succession was rarely far from the agenda. In 2013 we can expect the topic also to be hot in Madagascar, Kenya and Zimbabwe, all scheduled to hold Presidential...
TIM KELSALL 11 January 2013
Africa's image and reality - wealth and poverty sit side-by-side
The growth figures show that Africa is apparently doing well economically and many of the conflicts, which were always local, often quite small but created terrible suffering, have come to an end. Medication for AIDS and other diseases has become...
RICHARD DOWDEN 11 January 2013
Kerry, Hagel, and the end of American military adventurism?
The reality was that he was undone as much by the divisiveness of the Vietnam years as by any of the marked and material flaws in his character. Distrust of the Washington establishment and of the ugly, costly war into which it had mismanaged America...
DAVID ROTHKOPF 11 January 2013
Remembering Rampholo Augustine Molefhe
I can still hear his husky baritone voice ringing in my ears as he broke into a laconic laugh and looked away.That was vintage Rampholo. Folksy, funny and witty. Self-effacing, intense and detached. Impersonal, frank and forthright. His remark about...
TITUS MBUYA 11 January 2013
"Never again" in Kenya?
The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who declared himself the winner, and the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, who dismissed the vote as rigged. The ensuing ethnic clashes claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people,...
*JULIET TOROME 11 January 2013
SPEDU embarks on infrastructure development
Kedisitse told Mmegi this week that the infrastructural developments expected to take off in the region are varied. They include the construction of the Platjan Bridge, the tourism project at Letsibogo Dam, the refurbishment of Selebi-Phikwe...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 11 January 2013
Book review
J. R. R. Tolkien (2012) The Hobbit: There and Back Again, London, HarperCollins Publishers, 389 pages including two maps and eight illustrations by the author, no index. Softcover, P127. ISBN 978-0-00-7487-289-8. [Both Lord of the Rings and The...
Sheridan Griswold 11 January 2013
Back stage
It features the return of the dwarf King Thorin son of Thrain, and his efforts to begin the quest to regain his stolen treasures and lost Kingdom of Erebor from the fierce dragon Smaug. It opens in the Shire, a place well known to many for more than...
Sasa Majuma 11 January 2013
Affleck, Spielberg, Bigelow among Directors Guild film nominees
Affleck 40, landed his first Directors Guild film award nomination for Iran hostage thriller Argo, alongside fellow US directors Bigelow and Spielberg, Taiwanese director Lee and British filmmaker Hooper. Bigelow received a nod for her Osama bin...
11 January 2013
A legend has left us
The song goes, "Ha modimo o ka nthusa bogolo ka e bona ka matho, ha modimo oka nthusa bogolo ka mmona ka matlho." The sweet melody created by the guitar playing in the background guitar makes want to dance, yet the desire to hear where the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Consumerwatchdod
Occasionally technology can be really useful. Yes, I know it can be fun, it can be entertaining and it can even be slightly sexy but it can be useful as well. A few weeks ago, a friend's son had been shopping and he forgot the family Apple iPad in...
11 January 2013
Competition Commission grows teeth
In a statement released this week, the Competition Authority (CA) said that the rules set out the procedures to be followed in the adjudication process and will assist those who come before the Commission. The commission is a tribunal,...
STAFF WRITER 11 January 2013
Botswana among top 25 tourist destinations for 2013
Fodor's, a US firm with roots dating back to 1936, is the world's largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information and enjoys an influential role in tourists' decisions on their destinations. Fodor's placed Botswana within its...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Retailers hopeful of good sales in 2013
A brief survey by the Mmegi Business showed that the year 2012 was generally perceived to be a bad one by many supermarket retailers in terms of sales mainly due to the ever-rising inflation coupled with the lack of salary increase to both the civil...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Chinese up stakes in Boseto Mine bid
This week CFC accused Discovery Metals management of over stating copper resource grades and reserves at its flagship Boseto Mine as well as failure to provide vital operating costs information to shareholders. According to a statement released on...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 11 January 2013
Businesses predict 4.9% growth for 2013
The projected growth for 2013 is higher than the 4.1 percent forecast by the International Monetary Fund and significantly above the 3.5 percent government has forecast for 2012. The private sector projections emerged from a September 2012 Bank of...
BRIAN BENZA & MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writers 11 January 2013
Nitty Gritty
Men and women of conscienceAre a breed apart;Unlike politicians who utterOnly words that melt in the mouth,They express thoughts that comeFrom deep within the heart. People of conscienceAre very easy to spot.They are the ones with heads that...
Barolong Seboni 11 January 2013
Dingake is abusing his columnist role
For now we will not go into who is a charlatan, but will concentrate on the abuses of spaces afforded Michael Dingake by your paper. We understand there are more parts of his attacks coming. What has prompted this article is what he suspects were...
11 January 2013
They should name a street after me
There are many such streets named after other South African leaders, the same is also true of China where I saw a street named after Sun Tzu, the author of The Art Of War, a great book that has seen the rise and fall of many a nation and...
11 January 2013
Digging tswana roots
The 'return' of the ways of Mayan wisdom-god Thoth-Quetzalcoatl 13 baktuns (periods of 144, 000 days) after he started off the Mayan Calendar in 3113 BC. AD 2013 may yet symbolise a return to botho - a concept Thoth started off when he began Buddhism...
I.M Leteane 11 January 2013
JSC must reign in misconduct on the bench
This was after the annual general meeting of the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) where concern over continuing disparaging, condescending and generally disrespectful conduct of judges and magistrates towards legal practitioners with the judiciary was...
11 January 2013
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11 January 2013
Cosatu's year of introspection
If Cosatu lost at the ANC's elective conference in December, it was in failing to convince the ruling party to ditch the economic plan crafted under the guiding hands of Trevor Manuel and Cyril Ramaphosa for its own. As it is, the National...
11 January 2013
Shanghai - an awe-inspiring city of stunning contrasts
Quite a shame really, when one of the newly branded aircrafts, bearing "Our Pride, Your Destination" failed to fly due to "technical problems". But that did not cause any major problems for our trip as we were transferred to the 10am flight, which...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
"Woman of steel" finds her niche in welding
Like politics, the welding business is dominated by hard-knuckled men and in most cases women only appear on the scene with a tray of tea and its accompaniment for the sweating males' sustenance. However, just like Thatcher who took to the helm of...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 11 January 2013
A resurgence of the left?
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, prominent political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a startling conclusion. In an essay, and later a book titled 'History and the last man', Fukuyama pronounced the 'end of history'. 'The...
11 January 2013
Miracle money prophet irks Zim leaders
In December it was reported that the Spirit Embassy founder left parishioners dumbfounded when he raised approximately P2,4 million during a "miracle money" crusade. Reacting to the news, Zimbabwe's minister of Finance Tendai Biti dared the...
BILLY MAGEDI
Correspondent 11 January 2013
Multiple murderer's appeal hearing postponed
The convicted multiple murderer is the only person in the country to ever wipe out a whole family in a single day.On January 25, 2008, Tlhokamolelo visited his brother Landane Tlhokamolelo at Phaephae cattle post.Landane was staying with his...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
Trio in race for BPP presidency
BPP vice president Kumbulani William, secretary general Thabani Peter and former organising secretary Tongomani Dan are the likely contenders. The incumbent Motlatsi Molapise confirmed this week in an interview that he will...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
HIV and AIDS impact survey underway
In a statement, NACA stated that the fieldwork for the survey will entail three components being household questionnaire, individual behavioural questionnaire and HIV testing. According to NACA, the objectives of the survey are to 'obtain up to date...
STAFF WRITER 11 January 2013
0.DSTV was just accidental - Multichoice
"The DSTV signal was not hacked because Philibao decoders cannot decrypt the DSTV signal. In the recent, a test broadcast was accidentally run unencrypted hence the free-to-air (FTA) decoders were able to receive the test broadcast feed," he...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 11 January 2013
Religious war at MCE
Internal wars within the Religious Education Department at the Molepolole College of Education took another twist this week over some lecturers alleged incompetencies. Sources at the institution say 28 second year students; 22 who major in Religious...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 11 January 2013
The canary that lost its perch
It was on the 25th of May 2006 at laround l6h29hrs when I received a call from Lawrence saying he saw our advert of farms we are selling in the Hainaveld. I, Phillimon told Lawrence that it is true we got soke farms on the market, and if he want's to...
11 January 2013
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