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BAA sends strong marathon team to Maseru
The team comprising 10 male and 10 female athletes will feature in the juniors and seniors' competitions. Among the members are hot property in the long races Mosa Badubi and the White sisters Kenewang and Khumo.Badubi, who is a student at Bobonong...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Bears travel to Jwaneng for double-header
Wells, who fluffed a chance to leapfrog log leaders BDF IX, will be hoping for a win to maintain pressure on the army side. Wells lost 6-1 to Vikings before beating Wells 6-1 last Saturday to remain level with BDF IX. The soldiers seemingly have...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Re ba bona ha to launch in Maun
The programme may be launched before the middle of the year should the proposal be given the thumbs up by the Botswana Basketball Association (BBA).Basketball is a height based sports and with Maun and surrounding areas blessed with children with...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
First cut
The restructuring or downsizing at the Botswana National Sports Council's (BNSC) secretariat has peeved a number of affiliates. The affiliates apparently believe that service delivery will go down. But I wonder if it is the affiliates' duty to...
Dennis Keagile 01 March 2013
Masters prepared to ruffle feathers
He says the first fish restaurant he went to in Botswana had no fish. Keith Masters likes his fish, in fact he actually loves king klip. But on the day he went to the fish restaurant, it was not available, but it had to be there. When he arrived at...
01 March 2013
GNT in hot soup
The former premiership side were expected to play against Two-Two-Five FC at Senete village, but failed to honour the fixture due to bereavement.Sources said the league committee had initially accepted GNT's justification for their failure to honour...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Token sponsorships out - BoBA chief
Moroka told boxing affiliates over the past weekend that companies should start treating sports with the respect it deserves and stop giving small donations and expect them to be accepted as sponsorships. "I am sorry, but I think we passed that stage...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Maswena returns to Notwane - again
Maswena has been on Rollers' radar for sometime now and looked set to join them this around. However, reports are that nothing came out of the talks between the two clubs and the player has since been forced to return to Notwane. The reports were...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Gunners, Motlakase to continue abandoned tie
Premier League CEO, Bennett Mamelodi confirmed to Mmegi Sport yesterday that the match, which was stopped after only 30 minutes due to a power blackout at the Selebi-Phikwe town council stadium, has been rescheduled to March 9 at the same venue. He...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Chiefs stretch lead
The victory ended Chiefs' miserable week where they lost 3-1 to Mogoditshane Fighters in the Mascom Top 8 quarterfinals. They have now opened a six-point lead between them and their closest title rivals, Gaborone United (GU). They have collected 42...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Suspended Mmui to wait a little longer
The DC reportedly has a backlog of cases and is yet to schedule the Mmui hearing. Mmui was suspended together with his fellow committee members - vice chairman Sonny Phiri and former treasurer William Maboane - for alleged abuse of...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Conservative US Supreme Court justices cast doubt on voting rights act
The act was passed in 1965 after a century of attempts by formerly slave-holding Southern states to block blacks from voting. During a tense oral argument, which went beyond the scheduled one hour, the nine justices considered the claim made by...
01 March 2013
South Africa shock as 'police dragging' video man dies
Video footage taken by a bystander of the incident, near Johannesburg, has been shown in the local media.A spokesman for the Police Investigative Directorate said he was "shocked" by the footage. Rights groups often accuse South African police of...
01 March 2013
Syria conflict: John Kerry increases US aid to rebels
Kerry said the US would provide direct support to rebel forces in the form of medical and food supplies. He also promised an additional $60m (£40m) in aid to the opposition to help it deliver basic governance and other services in...
01 March 2013
Ban calls for action on backers of DR Congo rebels
Ban made the call in a report in which he called for international support for an "intervention brigade" for eastern DR Congo, where UN peacekeepers have struggled against armed groups such as M23.The UN leader did not name countries aiding the...
01 March 2013
Witness cries at Marikana hearings
Lawyers rushed towards Mzoxolo Magidiwana and comforted. The three-member commission's chairman, retired judge Ian Farlam, ordered a break. Farlam said the break would help Magidiwana, 24, to compose himself. The videos captured on August 16 were...
01 March 2013
UN monitors fault Zimbabwe on right as vote looms
The trio of monitors, who oversee countries' respect for freedom of assembly and expression and the treatment of human rights campaigners, said in a statement that they wanted to raise the alarm amid increasing reports of intimidation and harassment,...
01 March 2013
Zambia calls for calm, postpones by-election amid bloodshed
"Due to unprecedented levels of intolerance by political parties and violence" the vote in the southern town has been postponed from Thursday to March 14, said Zambia's electoral commission chief Irene Mambilima. The current political environment in...
01 March 2013
Japan's Abe raises ghost of glories past
According to the LA Times, what came out sounded more like a Terminator/MacArthur mashup: "I am back, and so shall Japan be." Foreign Policy's The Cable blog presented a different, more flattering, but somewhat incorrect version: "I am back!" Abe...
PETER LEE 01 March 2013
What would Biko do?
In Melville, the empty storefronts and forlorn "To Let" signs say more about the state of the economy than the gloomy economic outlook numbers currently in circulation. At the cusp of the changing fortunes of the South African economy, Melville is...
01 March 2013
Beyonce and Kim Kardashian to Africa's rescue
Africa is rising, we hear again and again amid reports of growing GDP and a burgeoning middle class. But don't worry if all those numbers and statistics and economic mumbo-jumbo tires your little brain, numbed and flaccid after years of dumbed-down...
01 March 2013
How Journalists approach stories and reinforce stereotypes
Having worked as a journalist for 33 years and having taught journalism and analysed the processes and performance of journalism for the last five, it is very revealing watching and analysing the development of major stories. There have been...
01 March 2013
Book review
Sandy Grant (2012) Botswana and its National Heritage. Cambridgeshire, Melrose Books, 116 pages, Foreword by Dr Margaret Nasha, with glossary and index and 59 black and white photos. Softcover, P200. ISBN 978-1-907732-83-6. Available at...
Sheridan Griswold 01 March 2013
Back stage
Argo is a human heist flick; a film within a film; a rescue of the hostages drama; and an escape from Iran caper.It is also a thank you note to Canada for all that they did to help save the lives of seven Americans (including one CIA operative) who...
Sasa Majuma 01 March 2013
Wilson Ngoni - son of the brush
When someone tells you something like, "I feel I have superhuman authority over it, I control it" then you better be advised that either they are a maniac or disillusioned somehow. As clear as I can tell Ngoni is neither maniac nor...
01 March 2013
Artists unite to annex 'virgin territory'
Budding arts trio, gifted in different types of art, plot to take over Maun with their creations later in the year. The young talented minds consider the town a somewhat virgin territory in as far as taking an assortment of sketches for tourists....
THATO KALA
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Capital markets are key to advancement - Seretse
The minister was officiating at the maiden Loans and Bonds for Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday. The event was themed Financing Strategies of Governments to Support Continued Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth and...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Consumer watchdog
For a country that aspires to express "Botho" in its everyday dealings, it's remarkable how much disrespect there is out there. So much so that I think it might be one of our national disorders. Alongside our addiction to meetings, "stakeholder...
01 March 2013
BoFiNet assures lower internet prices
BoFiNet, which houses Botswana Telecommunications Corporation's (BTC) backbone infrastructure under the privatisation process, was established to address wholesale customers' dissatisfaction with current fibre network wholesale offerings and...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 01 March 2013
A P21 billion "free lunch"
On February 8, 2011, a day after the presentation of the 2011/12 national budget, prominent economist, Keith Jefferis, made a prophetic statement which was recently fulfilled by events in the local economy."There's no immediate concern, although...
01 March 2013
Coal exports revenue to top P19bn - BIDPA
According to a coal export study carried out by the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), the coal export market can employ up to 6 000 people and provide about a quarter of the revenue currently generated from diamond sales by...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
BoB hawk-eyed as businesses migrate to CBD
The BoB's concerns come as more evidence emerge of oversupply in Gaborone's office space, with a recent property index indicating low capital growth and rental yield in this sector, compared to retail and residential.While relevant data is...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Project syndicate
NEW HAVEN: Apparently, policymakers at the Federal Reserve are having second thoughts about the wisdom of open-ended quantitative easing (QE). They should. Not only has this untested policy experiment failed to deliver an acceptable economic...
Stephen S. Roach 01 March 2013
Nitty gritty
Chicken is the centre of attraction at the moment. He has been accused of prostituting Tshini's price he-goat to the locals who want a drought-resistant breed. Now some she-goats are missing from the kraal and Chicken is the chief suspect. The...
Barolong Seboni 01 March 2013
The real story of Baperi of Tjilagwane
Barati told me that she is a resident of Magapatona Ward, which neighbours Selolwane (Tjilagwane) Ward, which I represent as Kgosi. Some of the statements she wrote are not only incorrect but could fuel tribal political conflict. For example, the...
01 March 2013
Kgalagadi land scandal
There are some omissions and errors of fact in these otherwise excellent articles. In 2011, while I was still Chairman of the Kgalagadi Land Board, I was informed by the then Minister of Lands and Housing, Nonofho Molefhe MP, that the report of...
01 March 2013
Digging tswana roots
Yes, I would have loved to join the fray. And yes, I cannot pretend to do full justice to this topic within the confines of a 1000-word column. But let me hasten to say that I side with Rampholo's view that truth is absolute, not relative. Of...
L.M.Leteane 01 March 2013
Africa-wide graft buster is welcome
We agree with Vice President Ponatshego Kedikilwe that the launch of the CAAC is a milestone for Botswana and the country's peers in the Commonwealth and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).The commitment to fight any form of corruption...
01 March 2013
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01 March 2013
Requiem to the genius - maetros of our time
I have been so obstinately associated with politics that I as well visit inadequate regard to the fact that music makes the better of me. Four of Botswana's human monuments have hitherto passed on recently and I thank those who aired their...
01 March 2013
Upgraded to crowdedness?
When I arrived in Botswana in January 1979, the first upgrading project for Old Naledi was well under way.Canadian CIDA funded the project consultants. In charge was a team headed by John van Nostrand from Canada. The project started around 1977/78...
01 March 2013
Zone Seven association mobilises farmers
The chairman of the association, Keitseng Morake says that the syndicates are meant to act as a neighbourhood watch to prevent stock-theft and to control spread of diseases. "For instance, we do not expect to see cattle from Serule in the Tuli Block...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Stolen vehicle found in Zimbabwe
Selebi-Phikwe CID boss, Assistant Superintendent, Marvel Langa told Mmegi that three suspects who were driving the vehicle were arrested in Zimbabwe after a tip-off. Two of the suspects are Zimbabweans while one is a Motswana. Langa said that the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Birds face Extinction
Speaking during a press conference yesterday, Dr. Senyatso said the 'unsettling statistic' is due to threats such as habitat loss or degradation, inconsiderate farming practices and poaching. He said even though most of these threats have not been...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Pharmacists shortage bites in Phikwe
By mid-day, patients at Tapologo Clinic told Mmegi they had been waiting to collect their medication since morning. Some of the patients had been transferred from South East Clinic where there is no pharmacist. The patients said they were not...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Holding MPs to account
Promises were made in 2009 when our present stock of Members of Parliament (MPs) asked people to put them in Parliament. Almost all of them based their appeals on bringing development to their respective areas. But another general election is...
01 March 2013
Judge upholds sentence in robbery Case
According to particulars of the matter, the convict Tsogang Outule and his friend Martin Mauwe boarded a taxi to Selepa on the night of the offence. When they reached Selepa, they attacked the driver of the taxi and took the money she made during the...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 01 March 2013
Police deny shooting Limkokwing students
Eyewitnesses say three students suffered severe injuries at the hands of police officers. "The police have not arrested any student and they just fired plastic shots in the air in order to disperse the crowd," he said, adding that the students were...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 01 March 2013
Cllrs protest stalled stadium construction
The civic leaders complained that Chinese companies continue to win lucrative tenders in spite of their failure to complete projects on schedule.They said it is time projects are awarded to other companies because Batswana do not even benefit from...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 01 March 2013
COSBOTS does not make choice of music for radio stations'
Mangole was honouring an invitation of the City Council of Francistown that was extended to COSBOTS during the last full council last year. Responding to a question from the Councillor for Monarch East, Raoboy Mpuang, on Wednesday, Mangole said the...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 01 March 2013
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