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Why Pope Francis may be a Catholic nightmare
There are two ways to look at the election of Pope Francis. He takes the name of the famous saint, whose life was defined by a vision in which he was commanded by a crucifix to "rebuild my Church, which is in ruins." That name, combined with rumors...
19 March 2013
Glody Dube appointed BAA vice president
The position fell vacant after the resignation of Justice Dipeba. Dube has been a BAA additional member and coordinator of the southern region. BAA spokesperson, Ipolokeng Ramatshaba said that following the appointment, the region has been informed...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 19 March 2013
Gunners' re-schedule special general meeting
It failed to take place last weekend because of lack of quorum. Gunners' spokesperson, Abdul Kgengwenyane told Mmegi Sport yesterday that the two that will be discussed at the meeting cannot wait for the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) in...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Mazembe's deadly concoction floors Chiefs
As proceedings drew to a furious close at the UB Stadium, Mazembe fans broke into a French song with words, which sounded like an ominous warning to opponents, Mochudi Centre Chiefs. It sounded like 'where are you going' and indeed Chiefs know the...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Gabonamong doubtful for Ethiopia tie
Gabonamong sat out when SuperSport United played a goalless draw against Angola's Pedro De Luanda after sustaining the injury last Wednesday against Vasco Da Gama in a Nebank Cup game. The midfielder has been playing well lately and has led the club...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 19 March 2013
Uhuru Kenyatta to challenge ICC case
He denies accusations of instigating violence after the disputed 2007 poll. The hearing comes a week after charges against his co-accused, Francis Muthaura, were dramatically dropped. His lawyers will argue charges against Kenyatta are now...
19 March 2013
Somalia's capital Mogadishu hit by deadly car bomb
A BBC reporter in the city says a loud explosion was heard near the National Theatre.Security has improved in Mogadishu over the past year following the withdrawal of the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group. A new Somali government was formed last year...
19 March 2013
US 'deeply concerned' over Central Africa violence
"The United States is deeply concerned about the continued deterioration in the security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR)," the US State Department said in a statement."We call on President (Francois) Bozize and the leadership of the...
19 March 2013
India-Italy marines row: 'No legal immunity' for envoy Daniele Mancini
India's Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said the court had "lost trust" in Italy's ambassador Daniele Mancini.The court reiterated last week's order for him not to leave the country. The marines were allowed to go home to vote in last month's polls on...
19 March 2013
French military fatalities up to five in Mali
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday the 24-year-old soldier was killed and three of his comrades were wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb blast in the Ifoghas mountains, without saying when it happened. Meanwhile,...
19 March 2013
Tsvangirai aides arrested
A preliminary count of about 500,000 votes showed that more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans endorsed the draft constitution, according to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party.The proposed text would introduce presidential term limits, beef up...
19 March 2013
Hundreds flee heavy clashes in South Sudan refugee camp
Several Sudanese rebel forces from the civil war regions of South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur have been reported to have used South Sudan's volatile border regions as rear guard bases.They are accused of mingling amongst the more than 185,000...
19 March 2013
BTO Invest P30m in four ventures
Responding to The Monitor questionaire the BTO says so far they are involved in the development of four projects in Kasane, Lepokole(Bobirwa), Goo Moremi(Tswapong), and in Tsabong(Kgalagadi) with a total investment of approximately P...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Electricity tariffs go up
A statement from the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources released over the weekend says the increment has been effected in a way that will reduce its impact on low-usage households and small-scale businesses. Besides, the hike is meant...
STAFF WRITER 19 March 2013
BPC considers leasing Morupule A
Available documents show that the other option the BPC has pitched to interested parties is the funding of the refurbishment by government with an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor spearheading the works. Estimates provided...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Barclays launches new insurance product
Briefing the media last week, product manager, Modise Semanthane, said Lefika is tailor made to suit customer needs. "Our customers were complaining that the current products are not serving their needs, so we came up with this product after the...
KEIKANTSE LESENEMELA
Correspondent 19 March 2013
Women encouraged to use female condoms
Speaking at a Kgotla meeting hosted by BNYCvolunteers and peer educators during the Month of Youth Against AIDS campaign (MYAA) at Tsolamosese on Friday, Tamora said that women also have to take the responsibility of protecting themselves to avoid...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
Correspondent 19 March 2013
As i see it
According to a survey conducted not so long ago, President Khama is the most popular leader in Botswana. It’s a puzzle why this is so because a different survey conducted by another research group found that Batswana are the most...
Michael Dingake 19 March 2013
Good news from the OP
With long years in the civil service behind him, and yet still fairly young, we regard the appointment of Ramakgathi as a step in the right direction. We welcome it because for some time now, the Office of the President has been functioning as...
19 March 2013
Selefu 19 March 2013
19 March 2013
Back stage
Here is a light, entertaining film, set in Beirut, Lebanon, the creative work of co-writer, director and leading actor,Nadine Labaki. It is a bit of candy, as caramel is a toffee, or a mixture made from carefully heating sugar and butter together. It...
Sasa Majuma 19 March 2013
I taught Shakespeare in Botswana
After university I became a social worker and then a saleswoman. I seemed to have broken the pattern, but all the time a classroom was waiting for me.I became a teacher under bizarre circumstances, but in retrospect it was one of my better career...
HILARY MANTEL* 19 March 2013
US-based studio boss set to visit local artists
He told Showbiz in an interview that although the envisaged visit is private, he has decided to take the opportunity to meet a number of musicians signed to him so they could chart a way forward. “The most important thing at the moment is to...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 19 March 2013
BOMU accused of witch-hunting
Phemelo ‘Fresh’ Lesokwane, who was recently suspended for eight years from BOMU for allegedly lobbying members to disrupt the smooth running of the organisation and creating unauthorised communications withBOMU internal structures, has...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
TB remains a burden
The disease kills about two billion people every year, most of them in poor or developing countries.Speaking during a press conference yesterday, El Halabi said Botswana’s estimated rate of new episodes of TB, or incidence in 2011 was as high...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Media participation crucial
Speaking at a Tuberculosis (TB) press conference at Vresta Lodge in Gaborone yesterday, the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Shenaaz El Halabi, said that at the current rate of progress, it is clear that many of the countries...
MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Family fights son-in-law over plot
Gogosha Nathaniel, aged 83, told the court that before his daughter, Nametsego Gogosha got married he had put his son, Gaolomeletse Gogosha's plot under her name because he was still too young to be allocated the property. However, Mopati Onamile...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
A whopping 2,056 civil servants are broke
Masisi concurred that the new system would make government accounting less cumbersome and efficiently recover money from travelling officers. When presenting his motion to Parliament, Goya said government pays imprest to officers whose duties require...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
TOSC 36 participants graduate
They all received certificates after successfully completing the course. According to Major M.T.A. Calnan, from the Canadian Directorate of Military Training and Cooperation, the tactical operations staff course (TOSC) was created in 2005 in response...
STAFF WRITER 19 March 2013
Govt to spend P5.1bn on tertiary education in 2016
The Tertiary Education Council (TEC) projects that candidates will increase from 42,309 in 2012 to 53,819 in 2016.New tertiary entrants will increase from 12,693 in 2012 to 16,146 in 2016. This was revealed at the ongoing TEC Conference, which began...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Venson-Moitoi to continue cracking the whip
Addressing a PTA meeting at St Joseph's College recently, Venson-Moitoi said the teachers were taking out their frustration on students. "Bangwe ba sa ntse ba hupetse mme ba ntshetsa botlhoko mo baneng," she emphasised and vowed that she would not...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 19 March 2013
Batshu evades deportation question
"We have not been able to find records showing the number of people who were declared prohibited immigrants for the period September 1966 to March 1980," Batshu said yesterday. "I wish to point out that a majority of the people above were declared...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 19 March 2013
Botswana - predator or prey?
The world is generally very unkind to small states, particularly so to small islands and even more so to landlocked small countries like Botswana. There are literally scores of such small states in the world and the evidence appears...
ROMAN GRYNBERG* 19 March 2013
Of Bakgatla, kgotla and song
It is 8 o'clock in the morning at the Bakgatla main Kgotla in Mochudi. Then arrive the suspended deputy chief Bana Sekai, suspended chief representative, Segale Linchwe, and Kgosi Kgafela's youngest brother Mmusi.Usually when Kgafela is around, he...
19 March 2013
Botswana is Toyota country
Anyone who claims to have never listened to RB1 either by choice or default is, well, very untruthful to put it mildly. It has been said before and I will say it again - Botswana is Toyota country. Of the next 10 vehicles that will pass by any...
DESMOND LESETEDI
Correspondent 19 March 2013
The developmental state and the BDP's staying power
In a book chapter published this month titled "Monopoly Politikos: An Account of a De Facto One-Party State and Lack of Regime Change in Botswana," University of Botswana political science lecturer, Dithapelo Keorapetse, sheds light on the factors...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 19 March 2013
The Winners Code
The police and the prosecutor assessed the evidence they had against the two and came to the conclusion that they did not possess enough evidence to secure conviction on the main charge which carried a lengthy sentence, but they also had a watertight...
GEORGE CHINGARENGA 19 March 2013
MOLELEKI MOKAMA: AN INTELLECTUAL EXTRA-ORDINAIRE
Mokama was born in 1933 in Maunatlala to the late Mokama Moleleki and Dikeledi Moleleki. He did his primary schooling in Maunatlala and Madinare and being blessed with a keen intellect, he went on to complete his secondary education at Moeng College...
Kgomotso Molelekeng
Correspondent 19 March 2013
As i see it
According to a survey conducted not so long ago, President Khama is the most popular leader in Botswana. It’s a puzzle why this is so because a different survey conducted by another research group found that Batswana are the most...
Michael Dingake 20 March 2013
Watson keen to return to the fold
Watson, the vice-captain, was one of four players dropped from the third Test after they failed to respond to a request for feedback from the team management. His decision to fly home to Sydney to be with his pregnant wife raised questions about his...
20 March 2013
Shillinde ineligible to play for Botswana
Zebras' coach Stanley Tshosane was running the rule over the 21-year-old player after he was recommended by FIFA-licensed agent Comfort 'Big Fish' Ramatebele. Tshosane, however, confirmed the passport issue had ruled the player out. "We were not...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 20 March 2013
BMC, ECCO to lose company sponsorship
Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) have announced that they will gradually pull out of the sponsorship they had with two Premier League clubs, BMC and ECCO City Greens as part of rationalising and realigning the new BMC as a company. The company's...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 March 2013
Rollers, GU to clash in Mascom Top 8 - again
The two giants were drawn together again yesterday in one of the most anticipated football events this season in Gaborone. The two traditional rivals clashed in the same stage of the competition last season with Rollers progressing to the finals via...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 March 2013
Passion Play billed for Rasesa
Brincat is again taking theatre to the outdoors with his new vision for a locally inspired, Passion Play, billed for March 23, 24, 30 and 31 at Rasesa. "Last year's Passion Play was an enormous success. We were so inspired by the response, we have...
STAFF WRITER 20 March 2013
Jazz artist Trinity doing well in Canada
Speaking to Showbiz in an interview, the artist said he has had the opportunity to perform at big events in the country."Some of the major performances that I have staged ever since I came here include performing alongside multi-nominated jazz singer...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 20 March 2013
Music compiler explains issues of artists, songs and politics
Drew Ciadhall Letsebe is a music compiler at Yarona FM; the first ever for that job around the local radio industry.He explains his job as being in charge of everyday play list of he shows. He examines music brought to their youthful radio station...
OAGENG BATENEGI
Correspondent 20 March 2013
Azonto fever grips Wizards
Over the last two years, the much-loved dance craze has dominated Ghanaian dance floors and further made waves across West Africa and beyond. Azonto went viral in 2011 and became the West African country's first pop culture phenomenon to have gained...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 20 March 2013
Blasts at Nigeria bus park kill at least 20
The Sabon Gari area of the city where the explosions occurred was cordoned off by soldiers after bloodied bystanders fled the scene in panic, according to residents.Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, has been repeatedly targeted...
20 March 2013
Stop the rot now - Judge
''Many people think that [the] government is corrupt. But the fact of the matter is that corruption is a two-way process,'' the retired Constitutional Court judge said at a public lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban on...
20 March 2013
Malema misses SARS R16m debt deadline
Malema filed a notice of intention to oppose the application at the Pretoria High Court on February 18 and had until Monday last week to file his answering affidavit.According to a court document dated March 14, Malema "failed to file an answering...
20 March 2013
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