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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...
30 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 30 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...
30 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...
30 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...
30 January 2013
David Cameron's euro-nemesis
He demonstrated no enthusiasm for the European Union, but he appeared clearly less exercised by its supposed iniquities than many Tories are. This view of Cameron's position is now difficult to sustain. His long-gestating speech on Europe, although...
30 January 2013
The return of the trading city
But the meeting was not hosted by the World Bank or the World Trade Organisation in Washington, DC. It was held in Portland, Oregon, where Mayor Sam Adams and Greater Portland, Inc. (a public-private partnership dedicated to driving regional economic...
*Alan Berube 30 January 2013
Inside the ANC's war with FNB
The Sunday Times can reveal that on Monday morning, just after the ANC Youth League issued a statement accusing FNB of "treason", Nxasana sent an SMS to Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga.The minister had been called "brainless" by a...
30 January 2013
Business as usual at the AU (and it's a good thing too)
It came as a relief to observers - and even more so, no doubt, to the politicians and their advisors unused to charting a course through such choppy continental waters - that this African Union summit was a return to the gentle, consensual,...
30 January 2013
BCL hands over P1 million office block to Nico
BCL has a sponsorship agreement with Nico United in respect of be Be Mobile Premier League. It assists the team to cover kits, transport and accommodation expenses among others.According to the mine's Public Relations and Marketing Manager James...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff writer 30 January 2013
Lekgari gets Zebra call-up
The left fullback, who plies his trade at Black Africa FC in the Namibian Premier League, has been named in the 30-man provisional squad to face the Warriors at Rufaro Stadium in Harare. However, he did not report to camp with the rest of the team on...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Fresh twist to League saga
This came to light after the dissolution of the entire Botswana Premier League (BPL) executive committee over allegations of abuse of office. Township Rollers chairman, Spencer Mmui, and Extension Gunners boss William Maboane are alleged to have been...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 January 2013
Oathotse wins chess season opener
The opener held at Mogodistahne senior over the weekend kick started the chess calendar on a high note with an increase of 68 percent in attendance from last year's.Fide Master Ignatius Njobvu finished with six points after losing to IM Oatlhotse....
STAFF WRITER 30 January 2013
My Star Top 37 selected
The producer of the show, Keabetswe 'Master Dee' Sesinyi told Showbiz yesterday that the hopefuls will grace the local silver screen on March 3, 2013.However, the actual recording of the show will be on March 1st.Almost 200 people made the...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 30 January 2013
Ntsoro: the multi-faceted entertainer
An hour spent with Joel Rebaone Keitumele, well-known as 'Ntsoro' reveals that he is a laid back 30-something-year-old who enjoys spending time with his family and ministering the Word of God.His claim to fame dates back in 2000 when he released a...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 30 January 2013
Swedish musos workshop local talent
For a bass and drum groove, it oozes vigour and soul. The music reminds one of RB1's Sunday jazz show. The music is relaxing.Hansen-Larson announces that they have just performed Dexterity, a tune written by renowned American jazz saxophonist...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Ramonyaku releases debut album
The sleeve design tells a story with a picture of 'Rraarona Ramonyaku' riding a horse by an image of Old Palapye Church.The CD cover also carries images of the Serowe main kgotla. Ramonyaku explained in an interview with Showbiz that the sleeve...
STAFF WRITER 30 January 2013
Mexico missing band: Bodies found in Nuevo Leon well
Police said one of the band members managed to escape from the kidnappers. He led officers to the well, where they found the bodies. Some of them were wearing the band's distinctive T-shirts.Forensic experts said there might be more bodies in the...
30 January 2013
Cop's Marikana footage could have implications for commission
The video was released by Channel 4 News on Sunday and shows how police kept their guns on two men while they crawled through a field. The video shows an officer from the tactical response team calling for restraint when a miner is on the move. "The...
30 January 2013
DR Congo peace deal eludes AU summit
United Nations(UN) secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon had urged leaders from Africa's Great Lakes region to sign an agreement to end recurrent unrest in the east of the DRC, where M23 rebels control swathes of mineral-rich territory.But a signing...
30 January 2013
Competition Authority
It is not a myth anymore: Batswana have a competition policy and a competition law that is being implemented.Batswana now know that there is a Competition Authority (the investigator/prosecutor) and a Competition Commission (the adjudicator). The...
30 January 2013
Pula reaches three-year high against Rand
The latest figures continues a trend that has dominated since the New Year in which the Pula has appreciated by three percent compared to a depreciation of 1.5 percent in December 2012. Last year, the Pula gained 0.4 percent in value against the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Debswana production falls 12 percent
Debswana is a 50-50 joint partnership between the Botswana government and De Beers, with the latter now 85 percent owned by global mining house, Anglo American. While Debswana lost output in the third quarter due to a slope failure at Jwaneng, the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Proposed Bill seeks to streamline Bogosi hierarchy
Presented to the House by Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) Botlogile Tshireletso, the bill seeks to, among other things, make a definite distinction between the lower customary court and the higher customary...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
AfriForum prevents delivery of helicopters to Zim
The interim order shall stand pending finalisation of the main application by February 19th, 2013. AfriForum had issued an urgent application to the court earlier in the day after news of the donation to the Zimbabwean government broke. A week...
GLYN HUNTER 30 January 2013
Teachers are not on strike
Teachers are neither on strike nor a go-slow. Some social commentators bandying around a suggestion that teachers have taken the strike to the classroom, an idea that the Minister of Education (and Skills Development) seems to be sold on. But the...
30 January 2013
How much money is enough?
In The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle sets out to discover the "good life" for human beings: the life of happiness or eudaimonia. "Eudaimonia" is perhaps best translated as flourishing or living and doing well. Most, if not all, people will agree that...
MARIO MEYER 30 January 2013
Mmualebe
E kile ya re letsatsi lengwe Mmualebe a ntse a tsamaya mo nageng, a utlwa a fenyeditswe ke lenyora mme a tsena ka lelwapa lengwe ke lele go kopa metsi. Fa a atamela fa patlelong, a utlwa go tsogile modumo ka kwa mahuri. Ka go utlwa e le...
Sebofo Motshwane 30 January 2013
Dirty fingers in the BFA kitty
The amount, we have learnt, ranges between P12,000 and P20,000, a huge amount of money for any individual to self-loan from any organisation, be it a football team, a department of state, a parastatal, a private company, a religious organisation or...
30 January 2013
Selefu 30 January 2013
30 January 2013
Jubilee clinic medics operate in the dark?
The facility's back-up power generator failed last Friday evening following severe power cuts that plunged many localities here into darkness. The power crisis at the hospital lasted for over four hours.When Mmegi visited the clinic on Friday...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Matsiloje chief dies in car crash
Moipolai, 71 was travelling to Matsiloje from Pretoria, South Africa where he had gone for a medical check-up with seven members of his immediate family when the accident occurred at around 1am. Moipolai's eldest son Sebego Moipolai who was behind...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
Woman escapes two-year jail term for concealing birth
Mosetsanagape Ntapile was sentenced to 24 months in prison, of which 15 months were suspended for three years provided she does not commit a similar offence.The charge sheet revealed that on or between August 24th and 26th, 2012 at or near Bontleng,...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 30 January 2013
MISA Botswana director gets South African job
He said MISA Botswana has achieved many milestones like making the need for the proposed Freedom of Information Act a public issue. He said MISA Botswana engaged stakeholders including government to buttress the importance of the legislation for good...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 30 January 2013
Lorry owners strike it lucky as GCC ropes in their services
Gaborone City Council will now engage local van and truck owners to collect residential waste following its failure to outsource waste collection services in the past two years. Speaking during a special full council meeting yesterday, Deputy...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 30 January 2013
The question of cattle and wildlife in Ngami
As farmers' livelihoods continue to deteriorate, wildlife numbers disturbingly decrease and environmental stress grows unabated, the time for a solution is now, or never.A decades old failure to formulate a solution that will harmonise the...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 30 January 2013
State reinstates rape charge against 'insane' man
The charge was withdrawn on Monday but reinstated the following day after the state submitted that due process was not followed when the charge was provisionally withdrawn.The 30-year-old man of Donga location in Francistown, who seemed confused...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 January 2013
Methodist prelate hosts fathers and sons
Speaking at a session held exclusively for fathers and sons here on Saturday, Bishop Themba Mntambo said fathers had a critical role to play in the healthy development of their sons."Listen to your sons when they talk," he said. "Look at them and...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 January 2013
BDP prepares for 50th anniversary in BOMASE
The regional secretary of the Bobirwa, Mmadinare and Selebi-Phikwe (BOMASE), Mmapula Mmidi-Phuduhudu, told Mmegi this week that three constituencies had already made their contributions to a special fund for the celebration. She disclosed that...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 30 January 2013
BOTA and TEC finalise organisation restructuring
The Attorney General is currently drafting Bills for the establishment of their successors, the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) and the Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA). The authorities at the two organisations said the Bills will be...
STAFF WRITER 30 January 2013
Raped and shamed
Maipelo* (Not her real name) woke up to strange faces of two men in the early hours of January 19, 2013 threatening to end her life if she did not give them money. She begged the two knife-wielding men, to take everything but spare her life. "It was...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 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...
31 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 31 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...
31 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...
31 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...
31 January 2013
David Cameron's euro-nemesis
He demonstrated no enthusiasm for the European Union, but he appeared clearly less exercised by its supposed iniquities than many Tories are. This view of Cameron's position is now difficult to sustain. His long-gestating speech on Europe, although...
31 January 2013
The return of the trading city
But the meeting was not hosted by the World Bank or the World Trade Organisation in Washington, DC. It was held in Portland, Oregon, where Mayor Sam Adams and Greater Portland, Inc. (a public-private partnership dedicated to driving regional economic...
*Alan Berube 31 January 2013
Inside the ANC's war with FNB
The Sunday Times can reveal that on Monday morning, just after the ANC Youth League issued a statement accusing FNB of "treason", Nxasana sent an SMS to Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga.The minister had been called "brainless" by a...
31 January 2013
Business as usual at the AU (and it's a good thing too)
It came as a relief to observers - and even more so, no doubt, to the politicians and their advisors unused to charting a course through such choppy continental waters - that this African Union summit was a return to the gentle, consensual,...
31 January 2013
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