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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 21 March 2013
Mmualebe
Go itaya ka gale go raya go betsa mo e leng gore ga se selo se se monate, ga re se rate, e bile le molao go na le fa o sa se letleleleng teng. Go na le melato mengwe e e reng fa motho a e dirile a bo a ka atlholelwa thupa, ke gore go itewa, mme fela...
Sebofo Motshwane 21 March 2013
Our heritage
But in those days, everyone thought water. They had no choice in the matter. When something is scarce, it is valued and safeguarded. When the government ensures that it emerges plentifully from a kitchen tap, we become complacent and leave it to do...
Sandy Grant 21 March 2013
Can the Zebras stir back to life?
A win is a must for Stanley Tshosane's side if they still fancy their chances of qualifying for the World Cup, which will be for the very first time.On the other hand, if they lose, they might as well forget about Brazil. Zebras are currently lying...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Nico chairperson fired
One of the main reasons that are said to have broken the camel's back is that Raditshego failed to negotiate appearance fee for Nico players during the Mascom Top 8 second leg and that he failed to bring the fixture to Selebi-Phikwe.Speaking to Mmegi...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Amos sets new 400m record
Amos' silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics came from his favoured 800 metres, but he has lately been running in the 400 metre races. Efforts to get Amos, who has relocated to South Africa, were futile, but the runner wrote on his Facebook page:...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Stars coach clears air on Tsotso's injury
The Rustenburg outfit had released the former Santos and Township Rollers attacker for Sunday's crunch World Cup qualifier against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa before recalling him for a medical exam on Monday. Ngele went back to his base on Monday, but...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 March 2013
"Brother Sthini" takes Kalanga music to another level
Tlhaloganyo says the hit song, recorded at Grammar records in Zimbabwe, called Khirisimosi is sang in his mother-tongue Kalanga which always excites him. The track which is rhythmical and is easy to relate to since its lyrics are about the...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 21 March 2013
'Fashion means everything to me' - young designer Khupe
He states that his life revolves around fashion, which is why he has to make a statement whenever he can.In an interview with Showbiz, Khupe states that he fell in love with fashion from a younger age. He mentions that he drew inspiration from...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Motamma Sesinyi - epitome of beauty with brains
The 27-year-old beauty who describes herself as both beautiful and intelligent is pursuing a Master in Science (MSc) at Botswana College of Agriculture. She says she was raised by strict and highly disciplined parents who believed in the...
EUNICE MASIE
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Khuli Chana comes back to Bots
This is not his first visit to Botswana where he sometimes comes just to relax and mingle with friends.He can be spotted mostly at Riverwalk when he is here on leisure, but he was last seen in Botswana attending to business at the Phakalane Golf...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Botswana celebrates theatre
The organisers of the theatre activities confirmed the development in different interviews saying programmes include discussion on the state of theatre in the country, theatre performance, play-reading, music, and dance and poetry performances.Edward...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 21 March 2013
French Mali hostage 'killed by al-Qaeda'
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) told ANI that it killed Philippe Verdon on 10 March, in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali. Verdon and another Frenchman were seized in the northern town of Hombori.France sent troops to Mali in...
21 March 2013
New evidence puts Phiyega on the ropes
In a statement given to the commission yesterday, Mafikeng police dog unit member Hendrich Myburgh, who had been assigned to search for weapons and make arrests as the striking miners dispersed after the massacre, said an unidentified National...
21 March 2013
Chavez successor leads opponent in Venezuela vote
The private Venezuelan pollster Hinterlaces said 53 percent of Venezuelans would vote for Maduro - Chavez's vice president and hand-picked successor - while 35 percent would vote for Capriles.That's an even bigger lead for Maduro than in the last...
21 March 2013
Uhuru's lawyer calls for a stop
Kenyatta, whose election earlier this month is being challenged by his rival, faces charges at the ICC over bloodshed in the aftermath of Kenya's 2007 election.On Monday, his lawyers said these were clearly now based on hearsay after a key witness in...
21 March 2013
Madagascar's hungry eat grasshoppers after deadly cyclone
Once speared, she places them carefully in a small round straw basket and within a few minutes, she has collected dozens of insects.This is Borikely's only meal of the day, revealing the extent of the food crisis that has gripped the Indian Ocean...
21 March 2013
Labour officials finally intervene in Galane Gold retrenchment
Nearly two weeks ago, the labour officials distanced themselves from the dispute saying that it is an issue between the employer and the employee. This was after mine employees, through the BWMU Galane Gold branch wrote a letter to the Department of...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Govt audits Palapye glass project
Rakhudu said that the exercise will look into the current value of land, buildings, equipment, payments made to date including outstanding payments.He asserted that this will assist the ministry to make informed decisions regarding the completion of...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 21 March 2013
The inspired generation (II)
About people who only wanted progress to happen to them but not the rest of the country; people who were stealing away from the future of this country. And I gave him a detailed account of my personal experience with these bad people. I...
21 March 2013
Selefu 21 March 2013
21 March 2013
Govt penalises Sinohydro over SSKIA delays
The Minister of Infrastructure Science and Technology, Johnnie Swartz told Parliament recently that the government has called-up a retention bond for SSKIA worth P21.6 million and a performance bond valued at P43.32 million against the company. The...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Time ripe to combat drought
Driving across some parts of the country, particularly the southern part, one is greeted by withered crops in our fields. You are forced to digest the bitter fact that the majority, if not all of these fields that have become literally...
21 March 2013
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21 March 2013
Social Workers and Chaplains crucial in schools
The analysis was conducted by the Botswana Confederation Of Non-Government Organisation (BOCONGO) last Wednesday in Selebi Phikwe.BOCONGO organized the meeting to appreciate to what extent the national budget addresses the needs of the marginalized...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
World TB Day commemoration goes to Maun
This year's commemoration marks the end of a two-year campaign dubbed "Stop TB in my lifetime." "With this campaign, partners call for zero TB deaths and a statement that the world's failure to stop deaths from TB is indignation," the statement says....
21 March 2013
Journey of Hope uses scooters to spread message on cancer awareness
The organisation's event coordinator Andrea Kampmann said that when they realised that they would need to use unique tactics to grab Batswana's attention, they decided to tour the country on the snazzy pink scooters. She further said their initiative...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Govt promises Kgalagadi South residents developments
He further told residents that the whole process where he informed residents about the curriculum and infrastructure design of the school will commence later this year. Khama was responding to Kgosi Seetelo II Toto who in his welcome remarks...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Over P3m unused in MoE account
When answering a question from Kanye North Member of Parliament Kentse Rammidi, the minister said she was not aware that teachers in junior secondary schools are forced to reduce the number of projects students undertake. "What I am aware of is that...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE 21 March 2013
Workers lose another battle with govt
Delivering a 100-page judgment, Court of Appeal Judge President Ian Kirby said the process adopted by the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), and the dismissals in all circumstances had been fair and in compliance with rules of natural...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Police arrest four armed robbery suspects
The suspects entered the company premises armed with handguns and demanded money from two security guards and two employees of the company who were on duty.They took the said property and fled in a Toyota Run-X towards Gaborone after locking...
STAFF WRITER 21 March 2013
Man remanded over murder of lover's daughter
Mokganedi Pontsho (35) is jointly charged with his girlfriend Kgomotso Mondela (35) for allgedly killing 8-year old Tumelo Mondela between October 14, 2012 and December 1, 2012 at Senganeng cattle post. The state alleges that after the murder, the...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 21 March 2013
Workers disrupt court
In a show of defiance yesterday, some union members staged a walkout of the courtroom while the president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ian Kirby, was delivering judgment.This was a judgment in which the government has appealed Justice Dr Key...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Board contributed to BMC collapse
The former acting chief executive officer (CEO) who was also the general manager (Marketing) Sonny Molapisi told the committee that the parastatal had proposed to lease the Sir Seretse Khama ostrich abattoir for the local market.Molapisi said the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 21 March 2013
Masisi brothers clash
There was drama in Parliament yesterday when Francistown West MP Tshelang Masisi played a starring role in helping legislators to force his brother, the Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Mokgweetsi Masisi to eat humble pie....
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 21 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* 21 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...
21 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 21 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 21 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 21 March 2013
Vultures to play Eastern Free State
Vultures' coach Ivor Greeves said the preparations were on course and confirmed the April 27 fixture.The team started preparing two weeks ago and only trains once a week on Wednesdays. Greeves has 45 players in camp and said he will trim the squad as...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 22 March 2013
The African chief converted to Christianity
According to the title of one biography, David Livingstone was "Africa's Greatest Missionary".This is an interesting claim about the Lanarkshire-born man, considering that estimates of the number of people he converted in the course of his 30-year...
22 March 2013
What Machiavelli can teach us today
Modernity, at least in the West, is the journey away from religious virtue toward secular self-interest. Religious virtue is fine for one's family and the world of private morality. But the state -- that defining political structure of modern times...
ROBERT KAPLAN 22 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 22 March 2013
Tribal land administration: Some critical lessons (Part 1)
The way in which it is administered is a profound expression of national values" (Republic of Botswana 1983:3). If this statement was followed to the letter, Batswana would be a very happy society. But it is not. So Batswana are a very unhappy...
DR BOGA THURA MANATSHA 22 March 2013
Banda stripped of immunity to face probe
LUSAKA: Former Zambian president Rupiah Banda has started appearing before government's Joint Investigating Wing after his immunity from prosecution was removed by Parliament last Friday.Banda thus becomes the second former Zambian head of state to...
22 March 2013
A woman was regarded 'incomplete' without brewing skills
For one to be considered a woman in the old days, she also had to have the know-how to brew bojalwa jwa Setswana (traditional beer). Only a few women from that generation with the proper skill to brew can now be found - and Polena Tshukudu is one of...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 22 March 2013
Galane Gold announces rise in mineral resources
The announcement through a technical report shows that the total measured and indicated mineral resource is 508,400 ounces of gold. This is the first mineral resource update for the Mupane Property since the completion of the company's technical...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 22 March 2013
Why Botswana's global competitiveness is declining
Giving welcome remarks at the 2013 Biennial Service Quality Convention hosted by Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) yesterday, Macholo stated that for sometime now Botswana's rankings on the WEF Global Competitiveness Reports have been...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 22 March 2013
Book review
Moteane Melamu (2010) Baptism of Fire and Other Stories. Gaborone, Pentagon Publishers, 187 pages, P179. ISBN 978-1-99912-083-4-3. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Moteane Melamu is a man of many careers. When people search for...
Sheridan Griswold 22 March 2013
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