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SANTIAGO: Is inflation targeting - the rule that most of the world's major central banks (though not the United States Federal Reserve) use to set interest rates - in its death throes? Many analysts seem to think so. Mark Carney, currently...
Andres Velasco 17 January 2013
Villagers sum burial society's wisdom
Villagers here have reflected this supportive spirit and have come together to run a burial society, which has been in existence since 2001. On Saturday, scores of villagers, including those from neighbouring settlements like Makobo, Borolong and...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
As i see it
For many years after its formation, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC/ANC) was known as the Peoples' Parliament. Black people were not represented in the all-white Union of South Africa parliament. For this reason, the ANC was the...
Michael Dingake 17 January 2013
The winners code
The scientists tell us that the earth rotates around the sun; and it is this rotation that gives us seasons. We can do nothing, absolutely nothing to control the rotation of the earth around the sun. We can also do absolutely nothing about the...
George Chingarande 17 January 2013
F/town My Star auditions attract more aspirants
Prior to the Francistown auditions, the Botswana Television aired talent show scouted for the next Sharon in Lobatse, Maun and Palapye as the search for the ultimate winner of the P100,000 prize-money continues.Since last year, the prize money has...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Juju Boy's Masikeng gains momentum - at last!
In an interview with Showbiz in Gaborone yesterday, Juju Boy - real name Kgotla Ntsima - said that he was not surprised that his single was only making waves now. " New releases usually take sometime before they peak because it takes a while for them...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Botswana ranked highly in economic freedom
Botswana scored 70.6 percent in the index, making its economy the 30th freest in the world. Mauritius is pegged at 76.9 percent.The Index of Economic Freedom measures economic freedom of 185 countries based on trade freedom, business freedom,...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Price increases slowed in 2012 - SB
According to figures released by the Statistics Botswana yesterday, average inflation for last year eased to 7.5 percent from 8.5 percent, 6.9 percent, 8.2 percent, and 12,6 percent in the previous four years respectively.Among the chief drivers of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
If whiteness can't be unlearned then black oppression is permanent
Shandu argues that because Schutte's letter is addressed to white people, it ought to be dismantled and dissected primarily by the white community who it seeks to engage in dialogue.This argument by Shandu is correct in that it is expressive of Black...
17 January 2013
Mmualebe
Go na le seane sa Setswana se se reng, 'Thota e se nang khudutlou bolobeto ba e ipha naga.' Seane se se raya gore, fa batho ba se na yo o ba eteletseng pele, yo o ba laolang, ba itirela fela jaaka ba rata, ba itaole. Fa go se na mogolo gaufi, bana mo...
Sebofo Motshwane 17 January 2013
Our heritage
Over the years I have seen the Phane harvesters camped in the bush, seen them selling by the roadside and even seen them cooking the things. I have been quietly enjoying the seemingly empty bush only to discover, very suddenly, that it wasn't empty...
Sandy Grant 17 January 2013
GU, Chiefs set to clash in inaugural Super Cup
The Super Cup, a competition in the mould of England's season opener, the Charity Shield, will become an annual feature contested by the winners of the Premier League and the premier knockout competition, which was the Coca-Cola Cup.However, the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
TAFIC eye Bolelang
Malepa was recently released by Mamoja Diski after the two parties failed to agree on his new contract terms. In fact some influential TAFIC supporters as well as some executive committee members have reportedly been approached to persuade the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Ethiopians promised $100,000 to win AFCON
Ethiopian Football Federation president Sahilu Gebremariam said Wednesday the players would get $111, 000 each to win the Cup and $55, 000 to make the final in South Africa. Sahilu said coach Sewnet Bishaw and his assistant coach would be...
17 January 2013
Djokovic through in straight sets
The Serb showed no mercy to his young American opponent with a ruthless display on Rod Laver Arena to extend his run of successive wins to 16. Harrison was brushed aside 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 in just 90 minutes as the world No1 marched on to a third-round...
17 January 2013
BPL meets SuperSport over TV deal
Late last year, SuperSport hinted on dummy-running some of the be MOBILE Premier League second round matches before making a long-term commitment. In a positive development, BPL chief executive officer (CEO) Bennett Mamelodi and SuperSport's head of...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Mass retrenchments loom at BNSC
The BNSC is in the middle of a financial squeeze and is battling to reduce a P11.3 million annual wage bill. The retrenchments are part of cost cutting measures as the sports body tightens its purse strings. Eight employees left in December...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Peugeot RCZ for Miss Botswana 2013
Sweet Baint's David Abram said he was unable to reveal what other prizes will be won by the most beautiful women in the land, saying that an announcement will be made at a later stage. Furthermore, he said the scouting process will begin in...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Nnunu savouring Swedish quartet
The visiting artists will be part of a workshop that will be held at Botswanacraft early next week and a show alongside local Jazz stars Nnunu, Shanti-Lo and Lister Boleseng. Nnunu believes the opportunity will position her well towards achieving...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Meet Pukka - Botswana's next promising male fashion designer
The Lobatse-born designer says his designs are inspired by themes that echo the spirit of Africa. Entaile always wows audiences with his collection and he attributes his success to his upbringing. "My parents taught me to always give a hundred and...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 17 January 2013
C'ru's new single to set tongues wagging
The new single, which has a gospel flavour and is titled Thupa Tse Molelo, is expected to be released on February 1st, which is also the musician's birthday. He said: "That will also be the day the single will be launched," according to the man who...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
No more Boosta Bash for Dr Vom
Controversy surrounding the 2012/2013 Boosta Bash is reported to be as a result of some 4,000 counterfeit tickets that were fraudulently sold by unknown culprits. The organiser, Seabelo Modibe, is quoted saying this cost organisers...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Aussie firm gains stake in Xade copper project
The Xade Project covers a poorly explored gabbro intrusion (the Xade Complex) in central Botswana with excellent potential to host deposits of copper-nickel sulphides. In a statement, the company said the project is close to excellent...
STAFF WRITER 17 January 2013
Mohohlo due for key US summit
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Visa Inc, the April 17 summit is the latest in a string of plaudits for Mohohlo, who has gained international renown in a global financial sector short of women. The governor, who has been at the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Education crisis: Urgent measures needed
Gabriel Ishaan Mogome: The government, the teachers and most of all the parents should all learn a lesson from the just released results, they should all work together so that the education in our country could improve because definetly there is no...
17 January 2013
2012 was top 10 warmest on record
Both teams said that temperatures would have been higher if it hadn't been for the La Nina weather pattern that brought cooling to some regions. They were equally certain carbon dioxide had been the principal driver of the rise over the past 50...
17 January 2013
Generic HIV drugs 'cheaper but less effective'
Soon-to-be available generic medicines could save the US health care system nearly $1 billion a year, they say in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. But trial data suggests generic drugs might be slightly less effective. And they require...
17 January 2013
Project Syndicate
Technological innovations are not only reducing the number of routine jobs, but also causing changes in global supply chains and networks that result in the relocation of routine jobs - and, increasingly, non-routine jobs at multiple skill levels -...
MICHAEL SPENCE 17 January 2013
DPP needs to get its act together
The Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) therefore becomes a vital cog in the delivery of justice in this country, hence the objective of granting prosecution all independence from other arms of government. This country's judicial system...
EDITOR 17 January 2013
Selefu 17 January 2013
17 January 2013
Musanani Burial Society members swearit is the panacea for dignified burial
In Ghana they make flamboyant designs of coffins. The hearses could be models of aeroplanes, houses, ships, vehicles or anything that the deceased was known to love or have, especially in abundance. In Botswana, some funerals assume acarnival...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Could Phikwe register decreased HIV/AIDS prevalence?
SELEBI-PHIKWE: The ongoing Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BIAS IV) that began yesterday is expected to indicate changes in the incidence and prevalence rate in the Bobirwa and Selebi-Phikwe districts. The two districts registered high incidence and...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Relatives bay for herd boy's life
Boitumelo Dibaga, 36, allegedly killed his girlfriend, Oduetse Gakelekhute on January 13, 2013 in the fields on the outskirts of Zoroga village in the central district. The state prosecutor Leselo Toboka told court that he feared for the life of the...
Lebogang Mosikare
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Motswana, Zimbabwean in court for robbery, rape
According to the particulars of the offence, on January 13th, 2013 at Area W location, Thapelo Sechele (20) of Kgaphamadi location in Francistown and Vusimuzi Nkomo (20) from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, acting together allegedly robbed a Zimbabwean woman of...
Lebogang Mosikare
Correspondent 17 January 2013
Woman convicted for concealing birth
Mosetsanagape Ntapile, who was without legal representation, might be looking at a three-year term behind bars after pleading guilty to the offence. According to the charge sheet, on or between August 24th and 26th, 2012 at or near Bontleng, Ntapile...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 17 January 2013
DPSM to finally recognise BONU
The director of DPSM Carter Morupisi told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that, "We are still processing their application. "From the surface, it appears as if they qualify to be recognised as a union. They have enough numbers to gain...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
WUC tackles water shortages
According to corporation official Lucas Makepe this has prompted the corporation to source funding for portable mobile treatment and plans to fund it under emergency project is currently underway. "We stopped pumping water from that well point and...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Mukokomani wants reinstatement
About two years ago, Justice Tshepo Motswagole declared that Mukokomani was lawfully and procedurally removed from office on March 30, 2011. Mukokomani was removed from office following a vote of no confidence that was passed by the council through a...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Moswaane accused of dirty electioneering
This is despite the fact that the party has not yet authorized interested parties to start campaigns. The councillor has reportedly applied to Tsholetsa House to contest the Francistown West parliamentary seat against the incumbent, Tshelang Masisi....
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 17 January 2013
JCE: The messier side
In addition to being extremely poor, the results of the 2012 Junior Certificate Examinations extremely are riddled with errors, some of them improbable. An interview with a Gaborone parent, Tebogo Kedibonye, she revealed that her daughter, who went...
BABOKI KAYAWE and
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writers 17 January 2013
Chinese in court over elephant tusks
Lui Hongbo, an engineer at Jianshu Company, was arrested at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport on January 15th in possession of the tusks. Sub-inspector Galekhuti Mashumba of Sir Seretse Khama Police Station told the court that investigations...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Disclosing HIV status can address reckless behaviour-MoH
Should it happen that the new health bill is approved as it is, HIV persons will be expected by law to disclose their HIV status to those that they are likely to infect, being their sexual partners and caregivers. "It has become clear in the...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 17 January 2013
Nature may recharge your creativity: study
These were then split into eight groups, with four groups being assigned to take a creativity test on the last day of the hike, and four groups being assigned to take the test during the morning before it. The groups didn't mingle and using...
17 January 2013
Children 'may grow out of autism'
The findings of the National Institutes of Health study of 112 children appears to challenge the widely held belief that autism is a lifelong condition. While not conclusive, the study, in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, suggests some...
17 January 2013
Morsi's anti-Semitic slurs'deeply offensive', US says
US officials want the leader to clarify his "deeply offensive" comments, which they say run counter to Middle East peace efforts. Egypt receives around $1.5bn (£900m) in annual US military and economic aid. The financial support is linked to...
17 January 2013
Wave of attacks in Iraq result in 27 deaths
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed 27 people on Wednesday as hundreds attended the funeral of a Sunni MP who died in a suicide attack a day earlier, amid a political crisis engulfing Iraq. The latest violence, which struck mostly in...
17 January 2013
NGOs welcome ruling on consensual sex between teens
The judgment by the High Court in Pretoria was a victory, the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children, and Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Rapcan) said yesterday. "Children will no longer be unnecessarily exposed to the...
17 January 2013
Top Japan airlines ground Boeing 787s after emergency
All Nippon Airways (ANA) grounded its fleet of 17 Dreamliners when its flight NH 692 from Yamaguchi Ube was forced to land shortly after take-off. Japan Airlines followed suit, saying it would ground its fleet of seven 787s from January16 until...
17 January 2013
France to triple troops in Mali, regional deployment deal delayed
France, which has already deployed hundreds of troops to the West African country and carried out scores of bombing attacks since Friday in the rebelheld northern half of Mali, said it plans to increase the number of troops to 2,500. The commitment...
17 January 2013
Amplats workers down tools
"They didn't go underground," Evans Ramogka, an activist at an Amplats mine in Rustenburg, about 120 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, told Reuters. Local media reported that workers would be meeting later to plot wider strike action after...
17 January 2013
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