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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...
25 January 2013
Duma Boko, the charlatan at large
Before he calls himself a Leninist, let us call off the brewing bluff. The analogy of "compact group" from UDC vis a vis the Bolsheviks is sacrilegious. "Compact group," when the UDC's BMD elements swear on liberal ideology and its BNF...
MIKE DINGAKE 25 January 2013
Mergers and acquisitions in the mining industry: What they mean for Botswana's development
Several years ago, a young South African trained Motswana mining official complained bitterly to me about the incomprehensible accents of those Australian mining company representatives presenting at an international mining conference in Gaborone. I...
25 January 2013
Our Heritage
An increasing number of Batswana we were told at the Zanzibar Oasis are now booking in there. But is the place increasingly popular as a 'get away from it all' retreat or because it has unusual access to the Limpopo? There may not be a straight...
Sandy Grant 25 January 2013
How to deal with dominant relatives
Gomolemo Seema: I simply ignore them! After all, its less stress n work for me! (sic) Gift Given Nelson: Tell them that the family does not centre around them. Kgaka Obakeng Osele Hans: Sometimes we have to know that God is the Creater of...
25 January 2013
Good turnout expected at Wharic cycling event
The race is divided into two categories - the 54 kilometres and 108 kilometres. The main sponsor for the event is Wharic Construction, which has forked out P30, 000. The race starts from Boatle, through Mankgodi, Mokolodi and back to Boatle. ...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Abandoned Wells, Police tie to be replayed
Botswana Softball Association (BSA) have rescheduled the match, but Wells will now make the long trip to Gaborone.The match will be played at the UB Diamond. BSA competitions organiser, Renny Molete confirmed that according to the rules, the game...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 25 January 2013
New Sowa golf boss wants to catch them young
Mmegi: What are you impressions about the state of golf in the country? Simon Ramphethu: There are four lenses you can use to evaluate the state of golf in Botswana, the first being the, golfing infrastructure and management, the second being the...
25 January 2013
Inter-club tourney kick starts boxing calendar
The inter-club tournament will officially kick start the Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) 2013 calendar. The tournament marks the beginning of the 17 events in the inter-club series that are qualifiers for the Keone Mooka Mageu national...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Rollers chase TAFIC's Moswate
TAFIC coach Dominic Changwe also confirmed the development in an interview with Mmegi Sport this week. Moswate, who has a long-term contract with Machimenyenga, has been a vital link in Changwe's line-up this season, where he has produced some neat...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Rising tennis star qualifies for Africa Junior Championship
Tidimane told Mmegi Sport during his visit to his home town, Selebi-Phikwe this week that he managed to qualify for the tournament after playing well during a Zonal tournament played early this month in Namibia. He said that in December he...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Nyathi appointed Flamingoes coach
Flamingoes had no substantive coach since 2011 and one of their senior players was serving as a player/coach in the last season. Nyathi, who once served as the Motlakase Power Dynamos head coach, has signed a three-year deal with the soda ash...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Amos to receive IAAF world record award
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) spokesperson, Ipolokeng Ramatshaba confirmed the development to Mmegi Sport saying they have received the teenager's award from IAAF and will be presented to him by the Minister of, Youth, Sport and Culture Shaw...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Kobedi bemoans U-17 preparation delays
The Diamond Zebras were scheduled to start their weekend camps on January 11, but are yet to group for training.Going into the last weekend of the month, their first weekend camp was yet to be confirmed yesterday morning.Botswana are in Group A...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 25 January 2013
National Stadium costs extra P8 million
Additionally, the ministry fired some employees over the blunder, which has kept the 23,000-seater closed for nearly five years. Permanent secretary (PS) Dikagiso Mokotedi said this during a media briefing at the stadium in Gaborone yesterday. The...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
French 'rotten egg' stench invades England
Headaches, sore throats and nausea were nevertheless among the complaints listed in calls made overnight to emergency lines in Paris by more than 10,000 people worried by the stink that had invaded their streets and homes.One Paris suburban resident,...
25 January 2013
Pentagon to end ban on women in front-line combat
The move could open hundreds of thousands of frontline positions and elite commando jobs to women. It overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to small ground-combat units. But the military would have until 2016 to argue for any...
25 January 2013
Female smoking death risk 'has soared'
Changing habits such as starting earlier and smoking more cigarettes have been blamed on dramatically increased risks of lung cancer. The trends, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, show death rates in women have caught up with men. The...
25 January 2013
North Korea 'plans third nuclear test'
In a statement carried by KCNA news agency, the top military body said the "high-level nuclear test" and more long-range rocket launches were aimed at its "arch-enemy", the United States(US). The statement gave no time-frame for the test. North Korea...
25 January 2013
Algeria hostage crisis: Japan confirms two more deaths
One Japanese national is still missing. Japan is the foreign country to have suffered the heaviest confirmed loss of life during the Islamist militant attack on a Saharan gas plant. So far 69 people, including 39 foreigners, are thought to have died....
25 January 2013
Mali conflict: Troops accused of 'summary executions'
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said some people were killed simply because they did not have identity documents. A Malian army officer was quoted as denying the allegations. Meanwhile, the UN says 7,100 civilians have fled to...
25 January 2013
Zimbabwe's future looks bleak as hope fades
HARARE: It is now four years since the signing of the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe. The agreement, which was signed on 15 September 2008, brought together the three major political parties in the country to form a unity government with...
25 January 2013
South Africa's power elite [Part 1]
If you want to know who South Africa's power elite are, you should have been at the ANC gala fund-raising dinner held in Durban on January 11, 2013, to celebrate the ruling party's 101st anniversary. Predictably, ANC benefactor and local mining...
25 January 2013
Book review
Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel Mudwoman is a chilling thriller. From a rejected child abandoned in the mud, rescued and given a new life by a dedicated Quaker couple, Meredith "MR" went on to become the first female president of a prestigious...
Sheridan Griswold 25 January 2013
Back stage
Yann Martel, a Canadian born in Spain, won the Booker Prize in 2002 for his novel Life of Pi (2001) that sold seven million copies. It has taken this adult fairytale over a decade to get to the screen. Perhaps this happened because it seemed...
Sasa Majuma 25 January 2013
When art transcends sketching
Without a doubt, art is an inborn ability for her, but for years she tucked it away and almost forgot she ever held a pencil in her life. By her own admission, when she studied to be a librarian, she never thought one day she would be back doing...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Are platforms producing the desired results?
Growth is an aspect of life that every individual has to experience at some stage in life. As former United States (US) president John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) once put it, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth". Although he...
25 January 2013
Pheto's credo to give but simply the best
When one sees Pheto on TV, it's easy to admire his charisma, talent and charm as he oozes self-confidence but little do they know that this 20-something-year-old suffered a great deal when he lost his mother at a tender age in 2002, this did not...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 25 January 2013
consumer watchdog
Last week I wrote about how you and I must do everything we can to protect our identity. I didn't mean in some philosophical, existential way, I mean purely practically. I meant our banking and online identities. Your bank cards are extremely...
25 January 2013
Mine wrangle knocks down DML share price
Chinese firm, Cathay Fortune Corporation (CFC) launched a P6.5 billion takeover bid of Discovery Metals late last year, which turned hostile when the Boseto Mine promoters spurned the 'low' offer. Since then, Discovery's share price traded up to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
LEA seeks P245m for leather park
Briefing the media recently, LEA chief executive officer, Tebogo Matome said they hope to develop the park in 24 months. He stated that they are relying on government to provide the funds for the park that will have a Common Effluent Treatment Plant...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Property market in flux as businesses migrate to CBD
The pattern, noted by executives at property titan, PrimeTime, is also manifesting itself in "the looming massive oversupply" of office space in Gaborone. PrimeTime chairperson Petronella Matumo and MD Sandy Kelly said several new buildings were...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
LEA's cash flow in the red
The authority submitted a total budget estimate of about P164.3 million for the financial year 2011/2012 to the Ministry of Trade and Industry but received only P121.9 million. Presenting the results for the year ended 31 March 2012, LEA CEO Tebogo...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 25 January 2013
LegalWise hits our shores
Mmegi: In simple terms, what is legal expenses insurance? JL: Legal expenses insurance, also known as legal protection insurance, offers support for members by providing legal advice and covering legal fees, regardless of whether the insured is the...
25 January 2013
BPC seals fresh power deal with SA
On Wednesday, Eskom spokesperson Hilary Joffe told BusinessWeek the 100 megawatts (MW) was on a firm basis, while another 200 MW would be made available on a non-firm basis between January 1, 2013 and July 31, 2013."Eskom supplies on a non-firm...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Where next? US-Africa relations under a Second Term
If there was one place outside Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago more excited by his November re-election, it was Kogelo. Since Obama's first election, this small market town in western Kenya - the birthplace of the US president's father - has seen...
25 January 2013
Is Al-Qaeda about to bring terrorism to Europe's backyard in North Africa?
The drama of the hostage crisis has shot the hitherto unknown group 'Signatories in Blood' and its leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, variably referred to as an Islamist with ties to bin Ladin and/or a senior al-Qaeda leader, to notoriety overnight and has...
CHRISTINA HELLMICH 25 January 2013
Nitty gritty
Last year has gone and with the going of last year come the coming of this year. In case it has somehow slipped tripped your mind, this here year is called 2013. Like every other new year that came before this, one we promise all sorts of new things...
Barolong Seboni 25 January 2013
Project Syndicate
That is a hugely ambitious - but entirely achievable - goal. It is also essential to realising the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), because, without access to energy, it will be almost impossible to reduce poverty and hunger, or...
Brian Dames 25 January 2013
Digging tswana roots
No, not the sound of his pleading for more Western aid or demanding reparations for past injustices; not the sound of children crying with hunger or screaming at the sound of machine gun fire; not the strident voice of leaders desperately and...
L.M leteane 25 January 2013
The real story in the chicken matter
On Satar Dada and the chicken fiasco, I rue a chance missed at tackling the real story, which in my view would be on the effects of an investor having interests in different industries that could in the end prevent oversight of what they do. This is...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 25 January 2013
The BMD on track to lay the foundations for change (Part 1)
They were able to fashion themselves as champions of democratic practice, unity of cause and tolerance of political dissent. This was the ruling party that cultivated an image as the prefect of pragmatic and prudent economic management,...
NDABA GAOLATHE 25 January 2013
Away with summary deportations
Wildlife is therefore such a treasure that it can be argued that any threat to it is a threat to our national security. It is thus perfectly legitimate for all our law enforcement structures to be involved in ramping up the country's anti-poaching...
25 January 2013
The motoring horizon of 2013
Various manufacturers from around the globe come here to showcase some of their latest offerings. It is much like a fashion show. It is where you can find all your dream cars housed in one spot for a period of two weeks. Jim Seavitt, chairman of the...
DESMOND LESETEDI
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Council daycare centres to open soon
The Chairman of the council's Education Committee, Evelyn Kgodungwe, says the tendering process is ongoing and that the adjudication committee is expected to announce the winner at the next Health and Education Committee meeting. She told Mmegi in...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Rains rescue farmers from ravenous worm
Speaking to Mmegi yesterday, MoA spokesman Geoffrey Pheko said the there was a considerable decline in the worm's numbers that could be attributed to the heavy rains of recent weeks across the country. Pheko said the rains prevented pest control...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 25 January 2013
Would Botswana's real GDP please stand up?
'The most immediate effect is that part of the SACU revenue sharing formula ,i.e., the excise component, which is based on Botswana's GDP as a share of total SACU GDP, and we will get less revenue next year.' Most economists and statisticians prefer...
25 January 2013
BIUST honours Guidance teachers
Four national awards namely: Guidance and Counselling Project of the Year Award, Outstanding Guidance and Counsellor Award, Emerging Professional Guidance and Counsellor Award and Distinguished Service in Guidance and Counselling Award will be given....
STAFF WRITER 25 January 2013
Mothudi wants a united opposition
The former member of the BCP central committee and president of the party's women's wing told Mmegi yesterday: "I searched and have now surely found a political home where I will make a difference. "I can go to any party at the moment as long as it...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 25 January 2013
Mooketsi slams BDP over exams
Mooketsi said the results have caused irrecoverable spiritual, intellectual, psychological and academic damage. "With our education system in crisis, our children's future and the future of this country are doomed with ghastly repercussions to...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 25 January 2013
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