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Are old age homes the solution?
It is easy to welcome this motion and sing the praises of Mmolotsi, who is on the way to building unassailable credentials as a progressive MP. However, on closer examination, we might find that the alacrity and dexterity with which we ululate...
26 April 2013
Zezuru chief bemoans cultural erosion
MANDUNYANE: The headman of Maseka Ward, commonly known as Ko-Zezuru in Mmandunyane village, Samuel Mooketsi, has expressed concern that their children are shunning their culture and adopting other lifestyles. The Bazezuru tribe is renowned for their...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Ngele will be key against Chiefs - Johnson
Ngele, a Botswana international who was acquired by Dikwena from Township Rollers, has been one of the revelations of the 2012/13 season. The 22-year-old who made his debut for the club during the 3-1 win over Moroka Swallows has scored...
26 April 2013
Dortmund hope to keep Lewandowski
The seats here are yellow and plastic, lifted from the stadium and built into a small "stand". On the wall is a screen where a video plays on a loop. It's not all black and white, in fact most of it is black and yellow, but it needs updating now. "It...
26 April 2013
Double blow for Vultures
The Eastern Free State friendly, which was set for this weekend, would have marked the Vultures first preparatory match ahead of the Africa Division One B qualifiers for 2015 World Cup. The qualifiers are scheduled for the weekend of June 9 to 15 in...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Mogoditshane JSS to host chess finals
The tournament is invitational and open to the 120 players - 60 boys and 40 girls - who qualified during the seniors' qualifiers. In addition, 20 juniors selected during the juniors' finals will participate. The championships are used to shortlist...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 26 April 2013
The league title up for grabs. Anyone?
Nico United (Position 1)The Selebi-Phikwe side came through as a surprise package to challenge Chiefs at the top midway through the season. They are currently at the summit, a point ahead of Chiefs who have two games in hand. They have, however,...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Kutlwano's chance to topple BDF VI
BDF VI will be inactive as second placed Kutlwano takes on Prisons and Mafolofolo in Lobatse. If Kutlwano wins the weekend games, they will jump to top spot with 22 points. Their coach, Isaac Samuel, is confident that they will win the weekend...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Still no Adong show for TAFIC this season
Adong Adong arrived at the club in February amid much fanfare, but he is yet to debut for the club because he has not been registered with the Botswana Football Association (BFA) yet. Midfielders, Nigerian Innocent Levinus and Ivorian Abu Outtara,...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Chiefs, Rollers face uphill battle
Chiefs lock horns with BDF XI tomorrow, while Rollers take on city rivals, Gaborone United (GU) on Sunday. Both matches will be played at Molepolole Sports Complex because the UB Stadium is not available. Rollers and Chiefs have an uphill task of...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO(br)Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Is this freedom?
They were visiting the rural Eastern Cape to see for themselves the dire conditions in which thousands of children are being taught. Anglican Archbishop Thabo Mokgoba led the group which also comprised writer and human rights activist Elinor Sisulu,...
26 April 2013
At least 200 killed in Bangladesh building collapse
The death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster reached 200 on Thursday after rescue workers pulled out scores more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building. "The death toll is now 200," A.B.M Masud Hossain, deputy...
26 April 2013
Mugabe's power wanes as splits in ruling Zanu-PF widen
In office since independence in 1980, Mugabe, now 89 years old, will ask Zimbabweans to re-elect him president at elections slated for later this year.He will face a battle on multiple fronts. He must defeat long-time political rival Morgan...
26 April 2013
George W. Bush remains comfortable with invading Iraq
Bush told ABC News in an interview marking the opening of his presidential library on Thursday that it was up to history to judge the invasion of Iraq in 2003, prompted by fears of weapons of mass destruction that were never found. "I am comfortable...
26 April 2013
BOOK REVIEW
Chinua Achebe (1988) <br>Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987. Gaborone, Heinemann, 130 pages, ISBN 0-435-91001-9. Chinua Achebe (2009) The Education of a British Protected Child. Johannesburg, Penguin South Africa, 172...
Sheridon Griswold 26 April 2013
Back Stage
It premiered in South Africa last month. It won the Audience Choice Award in Arizona at the Sedona Film Festival and at the Jozi Film Festival. It should win many more. It is one of the better low budget films - it only cost one million...
26 April 2013
Miscellaneous' survival under threat
Scores of irate Miscellaneous' players, who talked to Mmegi Sport on condition of anonymity, said they are considering a massive industrial action over unpaid salaries over a period of four months. The players also said the period might...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Moeng a rare breed of an artist
Moeng is a keen Setinkane player who also prides himself in the fact that at a very early age he had already mastered quite a number of indigenous musical instruments like Marimba, the four-string guitar, indigenous handmade percussions...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Consumer watchdog
Consumers have a right to judge the people who sell us things only by their actions. We shouldn't judge them by their skin colour, their nationality, gender, age or sexual orientation, just by the way they behave. The good news is that people spread...
26 April 2013
Leshomo's Isabella artwork sets tongues wagging
And tongues are set wagging in Malaysia each time Bonolo Leshomo's piece is displayed, with some deeming it too "racist".Some feel there should be an African girl under the clay pot. But that does not bother the young artist who rates it her...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Botswana Railways' re-fleeting on track
Botswana Railways (BR) CEO, Dominic Ntwaagae said the on-going re-fleeting programme comes courtesy of the initial P300 million boost from government as part of the parastatal's 2006 turnaround strategy. The parastatal's shopping list includes 204...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
RPC Data to delist from BSE
The 24-year-old software development and consultancy firm first debuted on the local bourse on November 1, 1999 as one of the Botswana-based pioneers of the exchange.Its upcoming delisting will be the first voluntary departure from the BSE Domestic...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Local diamond aggregation breach P25b mark
Over $3 billion (P25 billion) worth of diamonds have been aggregated in Gaborone and distributed to three countries since the relocation of the exercise from London in August last year. The aggregation cycles, which involves blending of categories...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
UK giant offers to plug power gap
Globally, the British firm currently has a fleet with a capacity of about six gigawatts (GW) and has three power solutions, one of which could deliver 100 megawatts (MW) in Botswana within 90 days. Executives from the Glasgow, Scotland-headquartered...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Letshego eyes expansion in three more African countries
Presenting the financial results recently, chief financial officer, Colm Patterson said platforms outside Botswana remain a key focus. "Our focus is to get customers outside Botswana market. Right now, we are pursuing opportunities in Ghana, Nigeria...
KEIKANTSE LESMELA
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Govt savings inadequate for posterity
Government has invested less than one percent of the revenues generated from diamonds in the past 30 years in financial assets, an amount economic pundits believe is insufficient to meet fiscal commitments for present and coming generations, a report...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Power crisis takes dark turn
The station's Unit Three has been feeding 110mw into the national grid for five months, representing the country's sole local source of base-load power. The other sources are 160mw emergency diesel power plants located in Orapa and...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Nitty gritty
Akere you know the problem ya mathaka a? I mean Nikita and Chicken. They just will not admit that they are unemployed.Nikita says it's out of choice ka gore he doesn't want to be "exploited by the capitalist machine."When you dare to suggest that he...
Barolong Seboni 26 April 2013
The Poverty Creation Industry
Poverty is human-made. It is created - knowingly and with scientific efficiency - by a vastly sophisticated industry that includes private companies, think tanks, media outlets, government policies, and more. This 'Poverty Creation Industry'...
26 April 2013
Backyard gardening: Adding
But why has the project attracted such attention, especially that backyard gardening is not a new concept? In other countries such as Zimbabwe, it is normal to have a backyard garden even on no man's land between residential houses and roads. Even in...
26 April 2013
digging tswana roots
Most people do not like to be shown to be wrong in anything. Indeed, it is quite embarrassing - as if one had lacked sense, temporarily or otherwise, at the time one made the mistake. Only those with high emotional intelligence will grin and bear it,...
L.M.Leteane 26 April 2013
A clarion call to save Mmadikolo
UB was called Mmadikolo not in jest but as a serious reflection of the centrality of the institution to the transformation of our relatively nascent nation. The university was founded on the principle of self-reliance and the visionary forebears of...
26 April 2013
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26 April 2013
Marikana massacre: lessons for HR
It is usually said that "a man can be good. A man can lead an honourable life. A man could give to charity, but at the end of it all, the number of people attending his funeral is generally dependent upon the weather". The weather has changed now....
26 April 2013
5,000 women benefit from BUP partnership
In 2009, BUP set up a Women's Health Programme dubbed See-And-Treat Approach (pilot project) funded by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), aimed at preventing cervical cancer through screening and timely access to treatment....
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Carrying the ivory to the coast
For at least two generations, African leaders and policy makers have recoiled at a 300-year model of African natural resource development. Simply put, the model was based on Africans, originally as slaves and later as paid porters, carrying ivory to...
26 April 2013
Family battle for Kang bogosi
The tension has now erupted between the son of the late Kgosi Motaung Pego, Omponye Pego who believes his father was the only chief ordained and wore a leopard skin in the long line of the Kang chieftaincy. As a result, he believes he is...
SYLVIAH DISELE AND ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondents 26 April 2013
The wrong kind of Caucasian
In 1901, a 28-year-old American named Leon Czolgosz assassinated US President William McKinley. Czolgosz was born in America, but he was of Polish descent. After McKinley died, the American media blamed Polish immigrants. They were outsiders,...
26 April 2013
The Daisy Loo Six win appeal
Should the state wish to reverse this outcome, the matter would go to the Court of Appeal which has already ruled in a civil matter that Daisy Loo did nothing wrong. Justice Singh Walia said as much when he set the men free."I must find therefore, as...
BASHI LETSIDIDI 26 April 2013
Councillors halt council meeting
The councillors had convened the meeting to air their grievances about the ailing service delivery by city council officers. Councillors summoned FCC heads of department as well as the administration's head honcho, city clerk Charles Amos, to avail...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Botswana press free but "freedom after press" more crucial
The survey rates the level of political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries and 14 related and disputed territories during 2012. Based on these ratings, countries are divided into three categories: Free, Partly Free, and Not Free. A Free...
BASHI LETSIDIDI
Correspondent 26 April 2013
BNFYL takeover group releases line-up
Malatsi Mokhubami who is eyeing the publicity secretary slot told Mmegi that a change of guard in the leadership of the youth league is necessary. He said they want to campaign in peace with no nasty exchanges with their rivals. He said that...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Inside the UB crisis
At the heart of the problem is a tussle over the control of the University between the academics and the team of management executives. A study conducted by a de-facto committee of lecturers that covered issues ranging from the operations of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Youth Development Fund fears
In his recent report, Sebopeng noted that in its last meeting, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had expressed concern at the low rate of recoveries of loans by YDF. He said the PAC felt that the fund may not achieve the objective for which it was...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
HIV/AIDS, remains a developmental challenge - PHK
He said the National AIDS budget, which stands at approximately P1.1billion is not only reflective of Government's commitment to ending the epidemic, but also reflects how HIV and AIDS continues to be a developmental challenge in Botswana. He further...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 26 April 2013
Somolekae fumbles on civil servants' business dabbling
Somolekae contradicted the statements attributed to the President by the government mouthpiece The Daily News, in which he reportedly said talks are ongoing on a proposed policy that will allow civil servants to venture into business. "It is not...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
The way forward- lecturers' position
Governance and Pay StructureThe need to restructure the Administrative Structure of the University of Botswana cannot be over-emphasised because the bulk of the budget is spent on a bloated support structure instead of the core business. As a result,...
26 April 2013
TAWU fights govt on levels of operation
Through its attorney Reuben Lekorwe, TAWU wrote to the Attorney General yesterday about the intention to bring an urgent application against the government because it was never consulted on the issue. The union said the government's decision to...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
Family battle for Kang bogosi
The tension has now erupted between the son of the late Kgosi Motaung Pego, Omponye Pego who believes his father was the only chief ordained and wore a leopard skin in the long line of the Kang chieftaincy. As a result, he believes he is...
SYLVIAH DISELE AND ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondents 26 April 2013
Female saxophonist Akhu proves she is just as good
She is Akhutleleng Mogami and one of the two brave women in Botswana who are known to play the usually male-oriented saxophone. The other one is her fellow Metrophones band member Tracy Bortsie, who is only 24-years-old and 14 years younger. ...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 26 April 2013
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