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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,...
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
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 11 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...
11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 April 2013
Rollers, Chiefs to play English side
They will be in the country for two weeks and will compete in a three-team tournament that also includes local giants, Township Rollers and Mochudi Centre Chiefs. According to international media reports, City owner, Steve Lansdown is the driving...
11 April 2013
Botswana in limbo as ICC scraps Division 7,8
This means it will be tougher for Botswana as they will have to compete at regional level to win promotion to Division 6. Teams that finish third downward in the ongoing tournament will revert to regional divisions where Botswana will be with either...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Barclays to sponsor Kabelano Cup for P1m
Barclays Bank Botswana are the new sponsors of the one-day tournament which aimed at raising funds for charity.At the announcement event graced by several dignitaries among them Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture, Shaw Kgathi, it was revealed that...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Parachute Association of Botswana launched in Gaborone
This brings the total number of sport codes in the country to 34. The association has been in existence for five years and will affiliate with the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) once due processes have been completed. PAB was launched in...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Debswana unveils P6m Div One sponsorship
He was speaking in Gaborone on Tuesday as the mining giants unveiled a three-year P6 million partnership with the South and North leagues receiving P3 million each. The sponsorship is effective from the start of 2012/2013 leagues. Each team will be...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Under-17 team await delivery of kit
It has been over a week since the team left for Morocco for the 10th CAF under-17 Championship, but they still await the arrival of the playing kits a day before the tournament starts. The team is scheduled to start the championship against Tunisia...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Radijo comes home to roost
Having lived in South Africa since 2007, Radijo as Madiale is popularly known in the showbiz industry said the time has come for him to settle down at home and develop his career. Radijo has been in the country since late March this year and he...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Black Motion and Uhuru return to Botswana
On May 3rd, the Game City Roof Terrace will host what the organisers are calling a Drum Session, headlining Black Motion and Uhuru. One of the event's organisers, Leatile Makgale, told Showbiz that they decided to bring these two musicians...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Most conflict-zone sex crimes are against children
The report, entitled 'Crimes Against Children', cited data and testimonies from countries including Colombia, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.The charity warned that programmes to help children who are victims of sexual crimes in war...
11 April 2013
Tell the truth about Hani: Nzimande
"We don't want this to happen again," Nzimande said at the wreath-laying ceremony for Hani at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park in Elspark, east of Johannesburg.Hani, who was SA Communist Party general secretary and chief of staff of the African...
11 April 2013
CAR is very volatile
Margaret Vogt painted a grim picture of the country following the overthrow of the government on March 24 by rebel fighters from the Seleka alliance, saying leaders who are supposed to run a transitional government can't return to their homes because...
11 April 2013
Motshekga refuses to bow down to Sadtu
The union wants Motshekga and her director-general, Bobby Soobrayan, to be fired.It accuses them of plunging the education system into chaos. It also alleges that they have not honoured a 2011 agreement that would have given exam markers a 6.8...
11 April 2013
Libyan parliament criminalises torture and kidnapping
Since the end of the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's new rulers have struggled to control a myriad of former rebel groups who refuse to lay down their arms and often take the law into their own hands and detain people. Last week...
11 April 2013
Kenyatta's big dreams
The large crowd erupted in cheers and waved Kenyan flags as Kenyatta, 51, and his deputy William Ruto, 46, took their oaths of office and were handed the ceremonial instruments of power.Chief Justice Willy Mutunga signed them both into office,...
11 April 2013
Concerns over African force in Mali grow as France withdraws
Paris, which sent 4, 000 troops to Mali in January to block a feared advance on the capital Bamako by Islamist fighters, said on Tuesday it had pulled out its first batch of soldiers preparing to hand over to an African force of 6, 300 in the coming...
11 April 2013
Vehicle population swells by 43,000
A stats brief released this week indicates that Toyota retained its dominance in the local vehicle market with its models accounting for about half of all new registrations made in the second half of 2012. According to the data, the Department of...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Minister allays fears of cartels in fuel industry
Speaking in Parliament this week, he said that the local petroleum business is fully liberalised and dominated by private sector players through Multinational Oil Companies (MOC) in terms of infrastructural ownership and product sales. "The MOCs are...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Why all Afrikaners should go to Europe
It's absolutely fine for a young student to walk home at 1am every day and never once be concerned about becoming a fourth-page story in the local newspaper about yet another rape or murder. If students get bored with fully equipped lecture halls and...
MARK JOHN BURKE 11 April 2013
MoE warns Limko students
The full media statement, which was released yesterday, follows:"The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has noted with great concern the current disturbances at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology caused by a section of the student...
11 April 2013
Education: Rolling the dice of quality
In an American education course last autumn, students found that access to a public school in Chicago was equivalent to rolling a dice in a casino. Through a seemingly random process, at the high school level, one student might gain access to a...
11 April 2013
African Union, useful or useless?
The list includes Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast and now the Central African Republic (CAR). While Africans themselves and the international community may look to the African Union (AU) to facilitate peace and stability, the AU has struggled to...
LINDELWE DUBE 11 April 2013
Botswana Speaks: A quantum leap
Styled Botswana Speaks, the pilot project was to be launched alongside a public lecture at the University of Botswana's (UB) Library Auditorium explaining - and celebrating - this quantum leap. According to advance information on the project,...
11 April 2013
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11 April 2013
Lekganyane preaches against heretics
Botswana has the second largest ZCC following after South Africa where the citadel of the denomination is located at Moria or Zion City in the country's Limpopo Province. Millions of ZCC adherents, including thousands - mainly poor - from Botswana...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 11 April 2013
ICC on Letlhakeng West by-election
Ronald Promise: if only opposition cud tel the people wat they wil do for them thn focusing on counting the wrongs of BDP they cn topple it,if nt so BDP wil nv b moved.Prince L. Molatlhegi: "Experience is the best teacher" BDP has long been winning...
11 April 2013
Moretlwa: A natural resource to be treasured by all
According to Van Wyk B., Van Wyk P., Van Wyk B., (2008), it is a multi-stemmed shrub or a small tree up to 4metres tall usually with leafy branches from ground level.The plant has grey to greyish-green leaves, yellow flowers and reddish brown fruits...
MATTHEWS ALEMARUMO* 11 April 2013
Lack of land frustrates youth graduates
In December last year, 36 youth graduated in Dressmaking, Carpentry and Upholstery under the Economic Empowerment Programme of the Francistown City Council (FCC). They have, however, been relegated to kicking their heels in frustration because they...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Motswaledi attends Liberal International meeting
The meeting will be held from April 12th-14th, 2013 and Motswaled is attending on behalf of the BMD which is a member of Liberal International. The 190th Executive Committee (EC) meeting of Liberal International will be hosted by the Future Movement...
STAFF WRITER 11 April 2013
Shashemooke youth cautioned against stock-theft
During the interview with Mmegi, Kgosi Batsogile Adam said that the youth in his village have become very fond of stealing people's cattle and this is a cause of concern. "Cases of stock-theft have increased rapidly over the past years and each day...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Lawyer on his knees for 'broken' client
Shathiso Nlegwa of Ndawana and Company appeared with his client Malebogo Besi before Justice Phadi Solomon for sentencing for allegedly causing the death of her new born baby in 2008. In mitigation, Nlegwa said that his client has encountered too...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Sir Ketumile gives evidence
Masire is a cattle baron and a feedlotter. He is expected to explain whether the government owns BMC or not.A number of individuals have appeared before the Reatile Committee to give evidence about events at the BMC. One of them, another cattle...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Zim woman arrested for concealing birth
The suspect, Shylet Muzenda, 28, is alleged to have committed the offence on April 3, 2013 at Monarch location. The state alleges that Muzenda, who was reportedly four months pregnant at the time, induced birth and delivered the child before...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Fifty Basarwa squatters given plots in Serowe
Dikgang, however, said one major setback is that there are locals who approach Basarwa to buy their plots and tempt them with monetary offers. To alleviate this problem, Dikgang said they have devised an agreement with the land board to ensure that...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Ousted mayor Maiketso to be reinstated?
The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Francistown Central councillor, Maiketso was ousted from his position last September following a controversial motion of no confidence in him. Satellite North legislator James Kgalajwe of the Botswana Democratic...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
Judge rules against 'poverty-stricken' Briton
FRANCISTOWN: Justice Zibani Makhwade has ruled against a British man who had appealed his conviction of failing to comply with a child maintenance court order. Makhwade said the magistrate who convicted David Adamson was correct in his assertions...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
BMWU worried by TNMC closure reports
Reports were awash in the media last week that TNMC will soon be closing shop due to lack of profitability, putting more than 1,000 jobs at the mine at risk.Late last year, public rumours also emerged that the mine was considering closing its mine...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 11 April 2013
BOMU protests unconstitutional practices at COSBOTS AGM
Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) lodged a complaint yesterday with the Registrar of Societies regarding unconstitutional practices, which they say occurred at the just ended COSBOTS annual general meeting. BOMU president, Alfredo Mosimanegape...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 11 April 2013
Barcelona hail half-fit saviour Messi
Afterwards everyone agreed on one thing: the four-times Ballon d'Or winner had changed the game. Before he came on Barcelona had not managed a single shot on target. The talk had been of "Messidependencia". Here it was confirmed. Messi finished the...
12 April 2013
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