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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...
26 March 2013
I fear only Allah-Musharraf
Musharraf hopes to regain influence so that his party can win seats in the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 11. He will face fierce competition, including from the man he ousted in a military takeover."People said I would not come. Where are...
26 March 2013
South Korea, US sign military plan against North 'provocations'
The plan provides for a joint response between both countries in the event of an incursion or a limited attack from the North, officials say. Help from the US- which has 28,000 troops in South Korea- during minor skirmishes was previously optional....
26 March 2013
Syria rebel commander wounded
Asaad once led the armed rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, but his position was gradually superseded.In December, more than 260 leaders of the main FSA units from across Syria agreed at a meeting in Antalya to a unified command structure....
26 March 2013
US to hand over Bagram prison to Afghanistan
A transfer ceremony is set to take place at Bagram prison, now officially known as the Parwan detention centre. It had been delayed while the two sides finalised a deal over the fate of prisoners considered dangerous.Bagram jail has been at the...
26 March 2013
Marikana contradictions haunt Phiyega
Yesterday, advocate Mbuyiseli Madlanga of the evidence leading team said there was a contradiction between Phiyega's statement issued on August 17 and the opening statement submitted to the commission by the South African Police Service."Why would...
26 March 2013
Central African Republic coup leaders 'must remain calm'
French President Francois Hollande, who has sent hundreds of troops to Bangui, said the rebel fighters must respect the people.Hollande confirmed that President Francois Bozize had fled CAR. He is believed to be in DR Congo. The rebels had demanded...
26 March 2013
PPADB boss calls for qualified procurement staff
Speaking at the PPADB media brief at Gaborone Sun recently, John said that procurement job is not a minor task as it needs people who have been trained and have a good background in the job. She said that this will not only benefit the institution...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Botswana renews NDP 10 operational plan with UN
The revised programme, as an action plan of the United Nations Development Assistance Programme (UNDAF) for 2010-2016, represents the shared conviction of the partners on how the UN can best support Botswana to achieve its aspirations and realise NDP...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Construction audits start to bear fruit - Swartz
Presenting the ministry's budget proposals to Parliament recently, the minister said in the past, he has highlighted many of the challenges besieging the construction sector that are now in the public domain due to extensive media...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 26 March 2013
India, China eager for Botswana coal
Yesterday, Botswana Chamber of Mines CEO, Charles Siwawa said stakeholders from the two Asian giants recently made enquiries about assisting Botswana to develop its export quality thermal coal resources. "Two weeks ago, I was in India where I gave a...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 26 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 26 March 2013
The cracks in the BRICS
That is hardly surprising, given that these countries have very different political systems, economies, and national goals, and are located in very different parts of the world. Yet the five emerging economies pride themselves on forming the...
BRAHMA CHELLANEY* 26 March 2013
As I see it
I read a book, 'The Servants of Power' by James Cochrane. The book outlines the historic relations of Christian churches with the white state in the Union of South Africa, later the apartheid Republic of South Africa. Various denominations are...
Michael Dingake 26 March 2013
Zebras: Where is the gumption?
The Zebras, who were the darling of Batswana not long ago, have gone for more than 15 months without winning a match in any official competition. On a crucial outing in Addis Ababa over the weekend, the Zebras run of poor results continued when they...
26 March 2013
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26 March 2013
Everything you wanted to know about Iran's air force
It is estimated to have between 200 and 300 Scud-B and Scud-C missiles, which Iran has renamed the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2. It also owns hundreds of Zelzal rockets and Fateh-110 semi-guided rockets.These systems allow Iran to threaten targets...
MICHAEL ELLEMAN 26 March 2013
Dr Livingstone: missionary, explorer and medical pioneer
In Victorian Britain, parts of Africa were nicknamed the "white man's grave" because so many missionaries died of malaria and other diseases.But when Livingstone led his expeditions, they had a far lower death rate. The difference was that he worked...
PAUL HASTIE 26 March 2013
Africa faces extreme weather patterns
SIYAVONGA, ZAMBIA: Thirty-five year old Greble Mavombo is a small scale crop producer who has observed varying trends in rainfall patterns over the years. Based in Sitinkwi Village in the Lisutu area, Mavombo says the changes leave her in the lurch...
26 March 2013
Attorney lectures magistrates on duty
Jeremiah recently appeared before Justice Zibani Makhwade for Modisaotsile Kethabile to challenge the trial, conviction and sentence of a magistrates court in Serowe last year. Kethabile was convicted on a charge of rape and sentenced to 10 years...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Fifty-year old charged with murder
Keremang Nshakiwa, a foreman at Njadingwe Farm, is alleged to have murdered one Gaotlhobogwe Kabelo at the farm in Ditladi Village on November 12 in 2012.State prosecutor Paul Chaluza told Magistrate Mpho Molema that they were still waiting for the...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 26 March 2013
St Johns to open multi-million Pula building
The Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Edwin Batshu, has been invited as the guest speaker. The theme of the event is: "Transforming the church mandate towards social development".According to a press release from church, in 1986 St Johns broke...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 26 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 26 March 2013
Banda commends men for empowering women
"There are already two female heads of state, and the head of the African Union Commission is a woman. In some parts of this world, women are not allowed anywhere near positions of power," she said.Liberia's Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson is Africa's first...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Judge releases prosecutor from jail
The matter came before Makhwade as an urgent application, a day after the prosecutor had spent the night in jail. The judge said he was not aware of any provision of the law and none had been pointed out to him to ascertain that a court can act in...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Drastic changes expected at BTU meet
This will begin at its next elective congress that is billed for Adansonia Hotel from April 17 to 20."After benchmarking with other trade unions around the country and in neighbouring countries, we saw it fit to overhaul the union structure,"...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Magang expresses concern over poor quality graduates
He told the just ended Tertiary Education Council (TEC) fair in Gaborone that there are public concerns about the quality and relevance of the local tertiary education. He said critics assert that the graduates are poorly trained and some...
STAFF WRITER 26 March 2013
Govt raises awareness for increased water cooperation
Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Minister Kitso Mokaila revealed this in his guest speech during the World Water Day commemorations held on Friday morning at Letlhakane village in the Boteti Sub-District under the theme: 'Water cooperation,...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Six times murderer pins hope on last chance
Six times murder accused Modise Tlhokamolelo will face his last judicial hurdle in a bid to avoid the hangman's noose. The death row inmate's appeal has on several occasions been postponed but will finally be heard in next month's session of the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Botswana suspends dealings with North Korea
"The testing of nuclear weapons by North Korea does not only contravene international norms and practices, but also undermines all efforts aimed at promoting international peace and security, particularly on the Korean peninsula," he said. He stated...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 26 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 26 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 26 March 2013
Shadow Cabinet - is it necessary or useless?
My argument is that this is the closest that opposition in this country can come to demonstrating their readiness to govern. We do not want a scenario similar to the one in 1979 when Robert Mugabe, then a fresh faced and young Prime Minister told...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 26 March 2013
Nick Branson bows out of the Africa Liberal Network top post
Ammie, a South Africa national, takes over from Nick Branson who bows out on March 31st 2013.Following his graduation from Center for International Studies and Democracy, Nick Branson has delivered projects for the Westminster Foundation for...
26 March 2013
The judges' dilemma: bias
What has come to the fore in the past week and this week is also that judges are constantly in the spotlight and some judges are beginning to be labelled for perceived bias. Is it possible though in the human sciences that there be no bias and could...
LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE 26 March 2013
2011 strike has direct influence on teacher-students relationships
More so if those who do so amongst workers are teachers and those on their side are their students. I do not insinuate here that a lot of teachers have fallen into that trap but the mere fact that the number of teachers who have been alleged to be...
26 March 2013
ETCETERA II
How strange to repeat in Lobatse last week our experience during the Xmas/New Year holiday when we tried to get a peep at the government's new Letsibogo Dam. We were then told by the gate attendant that we would need an entrance permit which could...
Sandy Grant 26 March 2013
Kingdom 0 metre
One of the beautiful texts in the Bible seems to state the obvious. But the obvious is not always obvious as it is often oblivious to some. The same book from which the text I am referring to states: "What has been is what will be, and what has been...
Dumi Mmualefe 26 March 2013
Issues in education
Growing up in the digital age has its pros and cons. While acknowledging that the pros outnumber the cons, this article reflects on the challenges learners face in the form of digital distractions, delays and digressions, as well as the fallacy of...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weks 26 March 2013
The winners code
Four men were put in four different rooms and each was given a one liter bottle filled with water. The first one was asked to lift the bottle high above his head for a minute. After the minute the doctors went in and examined, and discovered that he...
George Chingarande 26 March 2013
Icons of Botswana
CAR Motsepe was a man of honour and integrity. He knew it would be dangerous to publicly speak out against the Bantu Education Act but his principles would not allow him to remain silent. In his role as the first president of the Transvaal United...
Kibo Ngowi
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Zebras have mountain to climb in World Cup qualifiers
In the process, Ethiopia, surprise finalists at the 2013 AFCON finals in South Africa, tightened their grip at the top, maintaining a two-point advantage over South Africa's Bafana Bafana.The South Africans had briefly assumed authority at the top...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
BONA concedes Constituency League defeat
BONA president, Tebogo Lebotse told delegates at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Palapye on Saturday that the "Constituency League is a bigger animal than netball and we should just find ways of tapping into it". She added that instead of crying...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
ECCO appoint task team to secure sponsor
The decision was influenced by the club's die-hard supporters during a closed door meeting with the executive at Phatsimo Primary School over the weekend.The decision to appoint the task force comes after last week's announcement by the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Netball affiliates divided over missing audits
This emerged at the BONA Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday when president Tebogo Lebotse informed the meeting that the finances are yet to be audited. This is because the financial documents that were lost have not been recovered. The...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
Premier League matches return on SuperSport
The good news was confirmed by BPL chief executive officer (CEO), Bennett Mamelodi yesterday who stressed that negotiations for a deal were ongoing. "That SuperSport is interested in our league is not in doubt," Mamelodi told Mmegi sport yesterday....
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
My Star gunning for Top 20
The pressure is mounting for both the judges and the contestants for the show to reach Top 20 where the real job begins and dreams are shattered.For some contestants, having not been in the bottom since the beginning of the show, had a bitter pill to...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Passion Play: Well grounded in Rasesa
The experience was uncomfortable (literally), unsettling, and at the same time deeply satisfying from both a theatrical and a spiritual point of view. The privileged few (for logistical reasons) who were able to experience it felt physically and...
PROF JOHN MCALLISTER
Correspondent 26 March 2013
Back stage
Circumstance (2011) aka En Secret is showing today 2013 only, by the Gaborone Film Society as part of the DITSHWANELO Human Rights Film Festival at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. It is an award winning film about Iran and urban, educated...
Sasa Majuma 26 March 2013
Tsiki, Ntsjamme the future stars of Kwaito music
Both believe in the old style of kwaito made popular by the 90s stars like Trompies and Arthur Mafokate and determined to hold on this brand which has seen a decline since the mergence of another brand popularly called kwaito-kwasa. Tsiki is...
CHIPPA LIGODIMO
Staff Writer 26 March 2013
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