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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...
02 May 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,...
02 May 2013
The winners code
In May 1978 a middle-aged man in his late 30s watched the prize presentation ceremony for a Women's Tennis tournament. The winner of that tournament was 23-year-old Romanian Virginia Ruzici and the television commentator was Bud Collins. During the...
Gerge Chingarande 02 May 2013
As I see it
Despite having been victimised by white racists in history, I have never hated whites or turned racist in reverse.I religiously believe in the equality of all human beings regardless of their pigmentation. I am an African and proud that the human...
Michael Dingake 02 May 2013
The bus rank fiasco
The invitation served to establish if the former miners qualify for the South Africa Mine Workers Provident Fund. This is a form of monetary compensation for the workers. The invitation also called on the children or relatives of former...
02 May 2013
BISA turns to the north for boxing talent
Lechedzani Master Luza, the BISA national boxing coordinator, said the northern region has been neglected for a long time despite having many potential boxers with the right attributes.Speaking to Mmegi Sport after conducting a coaching clinic at...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Pellegrini'agent holds talks with Man City
Begiristain had lunch with Jesœs Mart’nez in Madrid on Monday, but it is understood that, as the agent also represents numerous players, the meeting may have been of a more general nature. Mancini's future at City is the balance, with...
02 May 2013
BFA confirms Pharaohs friendly
The Zebras visit the Pharaohs in Cairo on June 4, three days before they host Ethiopia at the New Lobatse Stadium.They play Ethiopia on June 8 before hosting Cape Verde the following weekend, with both games set to be played at the New Lobatse...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Orapa United march on
Little known Tumelo Mazebedi, who is enjoying a fine form, scored a brace on Sunday afternoon to hand Orapa their 14th win of the season in a 5-3 victory over struggling Sua Flamingoes at Itekeng stadium.This is after Nchime 'Mainstay' Modise had led...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Lesole preaches the Gospel
Lesole told Showbiz in Gaborone yesterday that he is overwhelmed by the positive response his album has received.He said what sets it apart from the rest that he has released is that it is one project closer to his heart."I worked on it by myself and...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Finale's Phenomenon on the cards
The young rapper already has an introductory mixtape titled I Am Finale selling in the market.The Tutume-bred musician already boasts of being the only local musician to have done a video with a Czech artist.He did a video for the song We Made It...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Ramonyaku headed for Malaysia again
He continues to enjoy the international limelight and will be participating in the same event next month .Sekgee led Ditshimega to exhibit Tswana traditional music and dance skills at the 2008 Borneo Cultural festival in East Malaysia. The festival...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Dutch enthrone '21st-century king'
Willem-Alexander, 46, will be the first Dutch king since 1890 and the first of a new wave of relatively youthful European monarchs, with future kings and queens, including Britain's Prince Charles, attending. Amsterdam's population is set to double...
02 May 2013
Court rejects $8 million thief's multiple personality claim
Lawyers for Wendy Hope Jobson, 50, argued that she suffered from dissociative identity disorder and had at least 10 personalities, including one named Reggie who was the real culprit. Justice Phillip Priest noted that the fraud encompassed more than...
02 May 2013
California woman convicted of cutting off husband's penis
Catherine Kieu, 50, was found guilty in an Orange County courtroom of torture and aggravated mayhem in the July 11, 2011, incident. She faces up to life in prison without parole when she is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28. Kieu drugged her...
02 May 2013
Ghanaians ban 'spirit child' killing
"Spirit children" were thought to have been a sign of impending misfortune and given a poisonous drink to kill them.One campaigner told the BBC that improved healthcare and education meant such beliefs were becoming less common. Activist Raymond...
02 May 2013
Mali court drops case against editor Boukary Daou
Le Republicain editor Boukary Daou was arrested in March and held in custody for nearly a month before getting bail.His paper had published a letter that criticised the salary of the leader of a coup that ousted Mali's government, and said soldiers...
02 May 2013
Modimolle accused threatened
"If we weren't threatened we wouldn't have done it," Andries Sithole said."[Kotze's] body was like a giant... He was aggressive." He said Kotze pointed a revolver at him and his co-accused before Bonnette arrived at his house.Dressed in a blue...
02 May 2013
ANC defends Mandela filmed visit
They were the first pictures of the former South African president since he left hospital on April 6 after more than a week of treatment for pneumonia. Looking dazed, he is seen surrounded by ANC leaders and well-wishers.An ANC spokesman said the...
02 May 2013
First quarter diamond exports near P6bn
Bank of Botswana figures released yesterday indicate that exports attributable to the country's two producers of rough diamonds, Debswana and Lucara Diamonds, ranged from P2.6 billion in January to P1.5 billion in March.Operations at the country's...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Palapye Chief appeals for water project benefits
He said that in the past, major projects in Palapye left the community in despair. He cited the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Morupule B power project and the controversy-riddled glass manufacturing project. "Let this...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Borolong teachers boycott lessons
The school does not have enough classrooms to accommodate all learners.In response to the boycott, Senior Assistant Council Secretary of Tonota Sub-District Council Terrence Ntalabgwe urged parents to transfer their children to Chadibe Primary...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Symbolic Khama avoids shooting rhino
MAUN: President Ian Khama turned down an invitation to fire a tranquilising bullet on a female young rhino in the Okavango Delta last week saying this may set a wrong precedent to the conservation of the endangered rhinos. Apparently knowing that...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 02 May 2013
Life without the Chinese
Tapologo Mokene: Lo bua nnoto lona ba ko kgalang machaena. O bzi wakgala,mare o kgala o tobetsa fone ya bone,o kaname mo beteng ya bone,o chubile tv le phillibao ya bone. Diaparo tsa gago d mo wardrope ya bone,gongwe le seaparo seo ke sa bone. Ako le...
02 May 2013
BDC constructs classroom for disabled
But this came to an end on Saturday when the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) gave the school a new state-of-the-art special education classroom worth P1.57 million.The single classroom block was specifically designed to accommodate the needs...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Privatisation shock at BCA
BCA has a refectory at its Lobatse site and two at the Gaborone campus.Speaking on condition of anonymity, the employees said that they were briefed about the privatisation exercise about four years ago, but since then, the school authorities never...
STAFF WRITER 02 May 2013
Tsogwane tackles minister on disappearances
"We want the minister to tell us what the causes of these disappearances are," Tsogwane said. "Is it human trafficking or ritual killings?"He was responding to a presentation in Parliament by Defence Minister Ramadeluka Seretse on the Governance,...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
School dropouts on the increase
Generally across all standards more males, dropped out of school than females. In 2012, 65.1 percent of the total primary school dropouts were males. The report titled, 'Primary Education Statistics 2012' observed that over the past...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
TAWU wins
The Trainers and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) scored big against government after the Industrial Court directed that the union should be consulted on Levels of Operations (LoO).No order as to costs was made. Justice Virgil Vergeer ruled that the...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
May Day blues
Confusion reigned supreme yesterday on whether or not labour unions had secured a permit from the police to gather at Gaborone Secondary School grounds resulting in an unprecedented low turnout of workers for the commemoration of International Labour...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Govt prioritises on potable water
Kitso Mokaila, the Minister for Minerals Energy and Water Resources said during the plan period, dams and treatment plants were built in Dikgatlhong and Thune while the construction of the second North-South Carrier Water scheme that has cost...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
'No monopoly, no BMC'
Johannes Van Der Merwe, who, early this week, appeared before the Parliamentary Special Select Committee investigating the beef industry, said the BMC in its current state of operations would not be able to compete with private entities. Van...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 02 May 2013
Our heritage
But how do I answer that question? Is it perhaps because I have been perusing Veryan Edwards remarkable new book, Art Botswana: Thapong 1989-2011 with several hundred artists explaining, often with great difficulty, that, for them, art is something...
sandy grant 02 May 2013
Mmua-lebe
Go utlwala fa e rile mo malatsing mangwe a a fetileng, ga tshwarwa moletlo wa diaogane tsa dikgolegelo kwa Mahalapye. Ga go utlwale sentle gore dialogane tse di ne di aloga mo dithutong dife, kgotsa tsa eng, fa e se fela gore di ne di fetsa dithuto...
Sebofo Motshwane 02 May 2013
SELEFU 02 MAY 2013
02 May 2013
Tafa bars 884 from Serowe North re-run
Though the list of those civil servants is not attached to the letter, it states that: "We have also found strong evidence of a large number of civil servants totalling 884 who appear on the Voters' Rolls for Serowe North. This is a disturbing...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg,2013/october/01,2013-10-01 16:31:00, 02 May 2013
'We play you pay'
A total of eight social clubs in Metsimotlhabe took part in Raletobana’s tournament that was concluded last Sunday. But the prize giving ceremony, as explained by the MP’s brother and tournament organiser, Elias Raletobane, will only be...
410,Monkagedi Gaothobogwe,phpAA57.tmp.jpg,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 09:59:50, 02 May 2013
Teenage pregnancy on the rise
UNFPA’s state of the world population report of 2013, has noted that in 2011, Botswana recorded a 39 primary school students dropped out due to pregnancy, while in the same year 453 dropped out of both junior and secondary schools. Last year...
574,Gothataone Moeng,,2013/october/08,2013-10-08 10:54:26, 02 May 2013
The colossal fake that postponed an election
Mmegi investigations have revealed how some people named in the petition were not even aware that there was a by-election. Asked if they had registered for elections in Francistown West, they responded by wanting to know where this publication had...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg,2013/october/01,2013-10-01 16:31:00, 02 May 2013
How a dead man petitioned Khama
But Ignatius Moswaane, the man who is at the centre of the Hollywood-style script as the preferred candidate for the BDP in the by-election, is denying any privy knowledge of how the dead man could have petitioned President Khama to use his...
402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 09:40:41, 02 May 2013
The less sense, the more sense
Before dead men could be called on to affix their signatures to the petition, certain things had to be in place. The law had to be in place, but not just the law or gaps in the law, but the lawyers with the smart brains to work out the...
02 May 2013
BDF VI, KUTLWANO RETAIN TITLES
The two have each won P100,000 for their achievements. BDF VI was crowned champions after beating fellow army side, Diphatsa 3-2 in a boring match on Saturday while Kutlwano beat BDF VI 3-0 in their last game and bagged the same number of points as...
399,Staff Writer,,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 09:33:14, 02 May 2013
Troopers storm into final
Troopers will have to wait for a midweek third series tie between last year's national champions, Spartans and Dolphins. Spartans narrowly won 57-49 on Saturday night in a rescheduled match that had been postponed the previous day because of poor...
439,Thato Kala,,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 14:27:40, 02 May 2013
Under-13 girls' cricket side competes in Namibia
Before leaving yesterday, the team's coach Solly Jawe told The Monitor Sport that the tourmanent is highly competitive and has attracted eight powerful sides from South Africa and Namibia. He stated that although Botswana has just introduced the...
440,Teichler Rankoa,,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 14:28:13, 02 May 2013
Tonota holds BB Highlanders
BR Highlanders, under the tutelage of a veteran coach, Paul 'Malome' Moyo, created a number of chances but were unable to find a way past a resolute Sepondo Se A Debula defence. Highlanders started the match positively with young left-winger...
444,Shingirai Madondo,,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 14:34:57, 02 May 2013
Rolling Boys Avoid Defeat
Rolling Boys have been on a losing steak but over the weekend they upped their game to avoid another defeat. From the first whistle, they staged a brave fight to deny the visitors victory that could have pushed them further down the log standings....
440,Teichler Rankoa,,2013/october/04,2013-10-04 14:28:13, 02 May 2013
Nico benefits from wasteful Gunners
Although Gunners won 2-1, Nico sailed through courtesy of away goals following their 1-0 victory in the first leg. The ailing Lobatse giants could have taken the lead as early as the 4th minute when Monageng Thaele whipped a beautiful cross...
413,Chippa Legodimo,phpD5D.tmp.jpg,2013/october/01,2013-10-01 10:02:00, 02 May 2013
Rollers advance to Mascom Top 8 semis
Rollers progressed through on away goals rule after the two teams were tied at 4-4 on aggregate. Rollers had won 3-2 in the first leg, scoring three crucial away goals. The match was expected to be a thriller and lived up to its expectations until...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg,2013/october/01,2013-10-01 10:00:00, 02 May 2013
Four days of Art at Junction mall
The event started on Thursday to Saturday and the public got an opportunity to witness both local and international talent and buy some of the gorgeous pieces displayed. Though most artists said that business was slow, they expressed their gratitude...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg,2013/october/22,2013-10-22 14:33:37, 02 May 2013
Phat boy challenge concludes
The event which is in its sixth year running is the brain child of former Yarona Fm Station Manager Dumi Lopang and is maimed to raise money for charity while at the same time encouraging a healthy living by exercising and maintaining a minimal...
601,Mpho Mokwape,php5B7D.tmp.jpg,2013/october/09,2013-10-09 10:20:58, 02 May 2013
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