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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,...
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
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,...
10 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 10 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,...
10 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 10 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 10 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...
10 April 2013
Botswana faces elimination after collapse
The home side has now lost two games on the trot after defeat to Vanuatu on Sunday. Their only win came against Ghana on the opening day of the tournament. Botswana began brightly, reducing Nigeria to 67- 4 in the 20th over, but a 98 run sixth...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
First Division sponsorship launched
First Division South secretary, Sidney Magagane welcomed the sponsorship saying the league has been suffering for a long time. The last time the league had a sponsor was eight years ago when Med Rescue Botswana was the partner. Magagane said they...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
TAFIC coach goes months without pay
According to a reliable source at the club, Changwe is reportedly owed P18, 000 being the salary for the past three months. "Changwe is very committed to football and loves the club. "He could have quit had it not been for his love for the game. The...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
Party over for Top 8 finalists
The clubs, Township Rollers, Gaborone United (GU), Mochudi Centre Chiefs and BDF XI, have therefore been informed of a proposal to amend one of the articles of the knockout competition's rules and regulations. The initial agreement was that each...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
Local artists to promote Freshpak products
Companies like Captive Eye Pictures have decided to take part in promoting and supporting local talent because they believe Botswana has a lot of talent to be unearthed and exposed. CEP founder, Percy Mothibi, says after being awarded the...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 10 April 2013
2013 Bessie Head Literature Awards extends deadline
This year's prize money stands at P10, 000 for winners in three categories, namely novel (40, 000 words and above), short story and children's story (up to 10, 000 words or 10 pages). The Awards sponsored annually by the Bessie Head ...
10 April 2013
Music sellers urge local artists to up their game
Cosmos Sibanda of MminaThoko Music Shop in Gaborone's Main Mall tells Showbiz that although Batswana aren't very accustomed to buying music; if one delivers what they want, they will definitely buy it. Sibanda's observation is that in the years that...
OAGENG BATENEGI
Correspondent 10 April 2013
Madonna 'very annoyed' at having to queue at Malawian airport after VIP status stripped
The singer and her spokesperson were reportedly "very annoyed" at the change in protocol which - although unconfirmed by President Banda - was apparently prompted by a war of words between the Material Girl and the Malawian authorities. Celebrities...
10 April 2013
DJ Benny-T determined to rule the decks
His career started five years ago when he was still in high school and Benny-T, and he has every reason to be proud of himself since he has developed his skills to include producing. Benny- T is also a music producer who specializes in...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 10 April 2013
There is ability in disability
To some, such a song might have only sounded like an expression of a personal experience by the talented vocalist.True to the Banyana Ba Serowe singer's words, another visually impaired graduate of the music school is poised to make it to the top of...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
Six British police injured at street party celebrating Thatcher's death
The incident in Bristol, southwest England, happened at one of a number of impromptu events across the country held by critics of the so-called "Iron Lady". Police said about 200 revellers in Bristol refused police requests to disperse. "Bottles...
10 April 2013
Aid group pleads with UN to do more for Syria's children
The UN Security Council has been deadlocked since the start of the start of the conflict, with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's close ally Russia with the aid of China using its veto power to block any condemnations or attempts to sanction Assad's...
10 April 2013
All SA soldiers deployed to CAR withdrawn
"All the SANDF personnel who were still in the CAR have been withdrawn and are back home safe and are receiving all the professional support they require," Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga said in a statement. "Regarding the allegations by foreign...
10 April 2013
Things looking up for Africa
Last month's generally peaceful Kenyan presidential election - and the Supreme Court process that confirmed Uhuru Kenyatta's narrow win - confounded pundits' predictions that East Africa's biggest economy would tumble back into the inter-tribal...
10 April 2013
Zambian gay rights activist arrested for advocating gay marriage
Paul Kasonkomona was picked up on Sunday night as he stepped out of MUVI TV studios, where he openly advocated for gay rights. He was on Monday charged with "inciting the public to take part in indecent activities," police chief Solomon Jere told...
10 April 2013
Obama takes first step to providing military aid to Somalia
Obama signed a determination stating that having the legal capacity to offer defence equipment to Somalia was in the national interest of the United States and could promote peace and stability in East Africa. The move allows the US Secretary of...
10 April 2013
Celebrations for new Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta
Regional leaders and foreign diplomats were expected to arrive from 8:00 am GMT at Kenya's national football stadium, with musicians, dancers and a military parade entertaining an estimated 60, 000 people. But long before dawn buses arrived from...
10 April 2013
North Korea: Foreigners should evacuate South Korea
This comes amid growing concern that the North may be about to launch a missile test. Pyongyang has been making bellicose threats against South Korea, Japan and US bases in the region. Japan has deployed defensive anti-missile batteries at three...
10 April 2013
Levelling The Playing Field With Competititon Authority
At one time or another, every company must turn others down when they propose a business relationship, or must break off one relationship to pursue another. This ascertains that business strategies are very dynamic and enterprises rely...
10 April 2013
Revenue sharing tops SACU summit agenda
Technocrats are hopeful that by December this year, they will have covered considerable ground on the burning issue. Since 2010, SACU members have been renegotiating a 2002 revenue sharing agreement after member states threw out a new draft formulae...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
Barclays shifts towards secured lending
Executives at the country's second biggest bank announced the policy shift when presenting the company's full year 2012 results showing an eight percent increase in impairment charges to P125.7 million. During the same period, the Bank upped its...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 10 April 2013
There is honour in SA's Bangui loss
One does not have to delve back far to find that optimistically embarked upon campaigns often deliver endings that the warmongering politicians and generals did not expect. Think of the best militaries in the world, such as the United States,...
WILLIAM SAUNDERSON-MEYER 10 April 2013
Our Heritage
Readers get bored and begin to think that they can easily anticipate what will come next. I don't much care for those straight boxes and would, this week, have preferred to shift from water to some other topic but as so often, life may have other...
Sandy Grant 10 April 2013
Mmualebe
Go utlwala gore fa e sale go tswa ka ngwaga wa 2010 go tla go tsena ngwaga ono, go tlhokafetse batho ba le lesome le bone mo motseng o. Bangwe ba batho ba go bolelwa fa ba ne ba bolailwe ke ba bangwe, fa bangwe bone ba ne ba ipolaile. E ntse e le go...
SEBOFO MOTSHWANE 10 April 2013
The capital stink will do us ill
On a good day, all these factors can be found in one place, filling the air with a foul vapour that assaults the nostrils of the lucky wayfarer passing by. The unbearable pollution goes back some time now, maybe three or so years, but city...
EDITOR 10 April 2013
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10 April 2013
WS brings children closer to nature
Despite the beginning of the tourism peak season, Wilderness Safaris closed the doors of its Khwai Discoverer Bush Camp to host 12 students from Seronga, Beetsha, Gunotsoga, Eretsha and Gudigwa. The children between the ages of 10-17 were flown to...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 10 April 2013
Gerald Estate police appeal to public to identify corpse
"We do not know where this man might originate from. When we found him, he did not have anything that can help us identify him. We tried to search him but he was not in possession of anything even an Identity Card or cell phone," he said. Ditshweu...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 10 April 2013
Kgosi Maruje III 'lectures' Matenge
Matenge was installed as Headman of Records (kgosana) in a high-key event attended by several dignitaries, among them politicians and government officials, here last Saturday. Kgosi Maruje III Masunga, who was the guest speaker, addressed himself to...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
Irked construction workers advised to open criminal case
The three workers, among them Gopolang Mmereki who works for Mogomotsi Enterprises, were seeking payment from Botswana Construction and Workers Union (BCWU) and a certain Maggie Tlharape who was their representative at the union. Magistrate Masawi...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 10 April 2013
Parliament launches Botswana Speaks website
The pilot project will be launched at a Public Lecture on Botswana Speaks at the University of Botswana (UB) Library Auditorium. The pilot phase of the project will run from today until December. It will be piloted in the four...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
'BMC was sabotaged by its board'
Raborokgwe singled out Rowland Munga, Dudley Barnes and Flackie van der Merwe as the most troublesome directors. He was CEO from 2003 to 2010. Raborokgwe said one director, Dudley Barnes, had once told him that he wanted the BMC to collapse so that...
STAFF WRITER 10 April 2013
Yellow Monster stalks Mogoditshane again
The Ministry of Lands has set in motion plans for a land audit in the area that will take four months after which, action will be taken against any irregular allocations or use Because of squatting, the area witnessed demolitions in 2001, 2005 and...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 April 2013
BDP activists invade Parley
Ngaka over the weekend won the Letlhakeng West by-election after beating Botswana National Front (BNF) candidate, Filbert Nagafela. The BDP vanquished the BNF by 3,437 votes to 3,097. Out of the 6,656 votes, 122 were spoilt. At Parliament, the BDP...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 10 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,...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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,...
11 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 11 April 2013
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