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Why does music education matter?
As a visiting professor at the University of Botswana, I have had the privilege of meeting many academics and students who have enriched my understanding of Botswana. I have learned, as I did when I taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam,...
09 April 2013
Ranchers speak out on proposed BMC Act
While we agree with the removal of the beef export monopoly, such a step should be preceded and underpinned by an informed comprehensive industry and sector review dealing with the policy and long term strategy framework for the livestock industry in...
09 April 2013
The solitude and sorrow of suicide
Not a single person in the world is exempt from experiencing problems because life has ups and downs that cannot be avoided. What one experiences as a major challenge in their life is something the next person might consider a walk in the park...
09 April 2013
Corruption and how to deal with it
Outside of Botswana, one of the most common questions asked of anyone who works on economic issues is how does one explain that Botswana is an almost unique and shining example of a country in Africa where one can see that the nation's wealth, and it...
09 April 2013
All that 'sweet poison'
Is sugar perhaps a "sweet old friend" that is secretly plotting your demise? In a shocking revelation, researchers at the University of California have found that sugar contributes to 35 million deaths a year worldwide! Science has now shown us,...
09 April 2013
Indigenous Knowledge Systems project still underway
The study, which commenced on February 2011 under the consultancy of University of Botswana's Centre for Scientific Research Indigenous Knowledge & Innovation, is meant to enable policy and legislative framework for preserving indigenous...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Financial wellness
Mary says to her daughter, "sorry sweetie, I can't buy you that toy now - we've got no money left 'till payday".Sarah, her 4-year-old daughter replies, "just go to the ATM machine, Mum! The machine always gives you money - you just have to put your...
Lechedzani Pitso 09 April 2013
Readers' reaction to BNF loss
If you are going to be using political strategies (food donations) alleged to have been used by the BDP as a tactic, other than offering sound alternatives to uplift their lives its regretable. I don't think the same strategies can be used in Kanye,...
09 April 2013
Phikwe bags AON bowls championship
The club first won the tournament in 2011, then 2012 and they managed to defend it again this year. Another record holder is Oabona Motladiile who became the only man to have won three of the four editions of the annual event. Motladiile won the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Notwane make steady progress
For sometime, Notwane have been sitting in one of the bottom three positions on the log following a series of losses. Things seem to be changing for the better after two consecutive victories. Notwane have now moved to position 12 with 22 points. The...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
ECCO coach Molapi bemoans injuries
Molapi made the remarks after watching his side overcome Miscellaneous 1-0 in a tight league encounter played on Saturday at the Francistown Stadium.ECCO has been hit by a spate of injuries to key players this season. Over the weekend the club again...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Nico flunk straightforward test
On a weekend in which Nico United were asked to provide answers to their critics who doubted their pedigree, the team wilted under pressure against a timid Township Rollers side. United had found themselves at the summit of the log, alongside...
09 April 2013
Chiefs' exit marks another barren year in CAF competitions
After showing resistance, which was eventually broken in the first leg played at UB Stadium, Chiefs were hapless away from home on Sunday.Chiefs' defence was in tatters trying to stop Zambian midfielder, Rainford Kalaba as well Mazembe captain,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Siphokazi to give first Botswana performance at Botswana Craft
Siphokazi, who is well known for her track Amacala, will be performing in Botswana for the first time.Siphokazi is known for her soulful sounds, isiXhosa lyrics and an afro-chic sense of style. She has established herself as a force to be reckoned...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Back stage
'Sixto' Jesœs Diaz Rodr’guez recorded two disks in the early 1970s. The albums are called Cold Fact (1970) and Coming from Reality (1971). Perhaps you have heard them, maybe not played and sung by Rodr’guez, but by others....
Sasa Majuma 09 April 2013
Kennedy Thal to perform in Cape Town
Two months ago, Thal relocated to Cape Town and he has already partnered with an artist promotion company there that is organising his debut gig at the Illusions Cocktail bar in Observatory. It is here that music lovers in Cape Town will have...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Vee finally paid his circumcision dues
In October last year, Vee learnt with shock that the PPADB had disapproved the payment of P292,000 to him for the seven-day work."So I did all that work for nothing," the pint sized star said at the time. However, Vee is now happy that the issue has...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
I learnt respect in Botswana - Jill Scott
She was addressing journalists at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) press conference on Sunday.She says Americans still find it funny when she greets people or receives items with one hand on the elbow; "I learnt that in...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Eastern Cape told to resign
"On Friday, party president [Jacob Zuma] and his top six visited Mbizana local municipality, which has been having challenges since mid 2012," ANC Eastern Cape spokesman Mlibo Qoboshiyane said. He said they directed that the mayor, speaker, and...
09 April 2013
Former British Margaret Thatcher dies
The former Conservative Party leader, Britain's first and only female prime minister from 1979 to 1990, previously suffered a series of minor strokes, and was told by doctors to quit public speaking in 2002. With dementia taking hold, the woman known...
09 April 2013
NATO strike kills 11 children in Afghanistan: officials
The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday. An Afghan official involved in the operation who did not want to be named said air support was called...
09 April 2013
Sudan officers get jail terms for alleged coup attempt
In November, Sudan arrested its former spy chief Salah Gosh and other senior military and security officials after foiling what the government says was a coup plot. In the first verdict since the arrests, a military court in the capital Khartoum...
09 April 2013
Banking authorities warn consumers of identity theft
"The latest scam targets home computer users and is masqueraded as legitimate telephonic calls from reputable computer software stores," the South African Banking Risk information Centre (Sabric) said yesterday. The "stores" advised victims their...
09 April 2013
Jansen slates 'I wish Madiba would die' report
"I truly wish Madiba would live forever. I also wish some journalists would have more ethics before completely distorting a message," he tweeted yesterday morning. I user on social media website Twitter sent Jansen a tweet, saying: "I'm...
09 April 2013
Nearly 9, 000 Syrian troops killed in war: human rights group
The Syria-based Violations Documentation Centre has been keeping track of the dead, wounded and missing since the start the uprising against Assad's rule. It said on Monday 8, 785 Syrian troops have died in the fighting. The rare report on the...
09 April 2013
SANDF says it's not scared to go to war
"We are not scared to go to war," SANDF spokesman Xolani Mabanga told SAfm."If they [M23] declare war against the SA National Defence Force personnel, we are ready to tackle them. We, as the SANDF, will never be deterred by any circumstances to...
09 April 2013
Donors meet to woo support for Darfur recovery
"Peace time has begun in Darfur. A peace that will be protected by development, not by force," said Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani, opening the two-day meeting attended by some 400 delegates.The conference, which drew...
09 April 2013
Guebuza threatens to fight back
Renamo - which denies being behind the attacks on Saturday that reportedly killed three people - in return called on its members to retaliate against any operation targeting it by government forces. The incident has aggravated the hostilities...
09 April 2013
Pula hits record low against Dollar
Figures released by the Bank of Botswana (BoB) yesterday show that the Pula has lost 12 percent of its value against the Dollar between March last year and this year. By the end of yesterday's trade, buyers of the Dollar had to part with as much as...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Shumba Coal debuts on BSE
The junior miner holds rights to the 247 square kilometre Sechaba Project near Palapye, which is estimated to contain one billion tonnes of good quality export thermal coal. Shumba Coal is also planning further billion-tonne coal acquisitions...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Why do property rights matter?
It's been a pleasure to meet with Claire, Zach and Ben Freeth, who have worked tirelessly on behalf of The Mike Campbell Foundation, and thank you to the Royal Geographic Society for hosting the event. I'm an economist from North Carolina, in the...
*CRAIG J RICHARDSON 09 April 2013
As I see it
On the one hand, it created political tension as two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union sabre-rattled and polarised the world with their two diametrically opposed ideologies of capitalism and communism. On the other, the competition...
Michael Dingake 09 April 2013
Letlhakeng West remains in the spotlight
Ngaka beat his opponent, Filbert Nagafela, by a margin of over 300, a considerable trouncing and an improvement on Motowane's 32. The BDP used it as a litmus test for its prospects in the next general elections in 2014, and threw everything it could...
09 April 2013
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09 April 2013
Letlhakeng West and the little matter of CKGR
Alighting from a public service vehicle at 1:20pm in Ditshegwane, all passengers have been listening to the Radio Botswana 1pm news bulletin and the headlines are on the local by-election. The sun was still hot but not as hot as it can get in this...
09 April 2013
Five strokes for man who insulted magistrate
Thulani Kgaboe (28) and another person not before court, appeared before Segabo for allegedly causing grievous harm to Thabane Gabowe on March 20th at Coloured location. When the prosecution succeeded in convincing the magistrate to remand him in...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Statistics Botswana fails to deliver census results
The organisation now says it may disseminate the results in the last quarter of this year. Statistics Botswana released preliminary results from the August 2011 census in three months (November 2011) and availed a report on Population of Towns and...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Engineering firm imparts skills to Botswana Interns
Already, three Batswana engineering graduates are undergoing internship at the company's Jwaneng operation in Botswana. Their success has culminated in the decision to transfer additional engineering interns, Innocent Seru (electrical) and Gomolemo...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Moatlhodi encourages Bazezuru to give birth in hospitals
He said this at a recent meeting held by the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu at the village. He said currently, there are cases of people who have a problem acquiring birth certificates for their children because it is not easy to...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Unions join forces against another
In a curious development, two teachers unions have become unlikely bedfellows with the government against the Trainers and Allied Workers Union (TAWU). TAWU issued a notice to sue last Thursday after government's approval of a new pay structure...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Councillors in fistfight
FRANCISTOWN: An argument regarding the results of the weekend by-election at far away Letlhakeng West led to a settlement by fisticuffs from which the loser's sympathiser emerged the winner at the old magistrates court buildings here...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Botswana turns to Zim for vocational reform
For quite some time now, the facilities have been white elephants as a number of programmes have been without lecturers or trainers. In total, 82 positions have been vacant in the areas of performing arts, jewellery design, multimedia design,...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
London conference discusses public broadcasting in Africa
The dominant characteristics of PSB are that it is owned, paid for and controlled by the public and that it provides programming that services the public interest. Participant said any definition of PSB must revolve around the idea of programming...
ABRAM MAGOWE
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Dehorned rhino carcass found
The Commander of Maun Police Station, Kenanao Badumetse, could not provide more details because investigations are still underway.It could thus not be established whether the rhino was one of the four donated by Khama Rhino Sanctuary to Moremi Game...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 09 April 2013
Khama's 20 minutes in Parliament
In a rare development, President Ian Khama attended Parliament to witness the swearing-in of the new Letlhakeng West Member of Parliament, Ngaka Ngaka, yesterday. True to one unaccustomed to the National Assembly, the self-styled democrat stayed no...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Police baton charge striking Limko students
The placard-toting students were on a class boycott and had assembled in front of the campus chanting to protest the university's suspension of the Student Representative Council (SRC). According to a nearby vendor, the students had converged at...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 09 April 2013
Why does music education matter?
As a visiting professor at the University of Botswana, I have had the privilege of meeting many academics and students who have enriched my understanding of Botswana. I have learned, as I did when I taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam,...
10 April 2013
Ranchers speak out on proposed BMC Act
While we agree with the removal of the beef export monopoly, such a step should be preceded and underpinned by an informed comprehensive industry and sector review dealing with the policy and long term strategy framework for the livestock industry in...
10 April 2013
The solitude and sorrow of suicide
Not a single person in the world is exempt from experiencing problems because life has ups and downs that cannot be avoided. What one experiences as a major challenge in their life is something the next person might consider a walk in the park...
10 April 2013
Corruption and how to deal with it
Outside of Botswana, one of the most common questions asked of anyone who works on economic issues is how does one explain that Botswana is an almost unique and shining example of a country in Africa where one can see that the nation's wealth, and it...
10 April 2013
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