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Wonder, Comets brace for final act
Log leaders Wondre Sporting are away to Killer Giants in Ramotswa, while second placed Comets host Young Strikers.Both teams are left with two tricky games that could easily cost them automatic qualification. The police outfit, Sporting, are well...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 03 May 2013
Francistown to host BOMaid bowling championships
The championships, sponsored to the tune of P20, 000 by the medical aid society, will be held from tomorrow and continue for the whole week in Francistown.The championship, pioneered by Jacqui and Derek Rhodes in 1976, is the most prestigious annual...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 03 May 2013
Send players for tourneys, BTTA urged
The two, who recently came from the Africa Youth Championships in Tunisia, said they noted with disappointment that their Botswana counterparts were absent at the tournament last month. Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) has always failed to...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 03 May 2013
Chiefs back on top
The victory ended Magosi's winless streak that had gone for close to two months. They now look set to retain the league title after their closest title rivals, Nico United slipped again.Jerome Ramatlhakwana, Pontsho Moloi and Elvis Meleka's goals...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
BWF president off to Moscow for FILA meeting
Sharp told Mmegi Sport this week that the meeting has been organized by FILA to discuss the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop wrestling from its schedule for the 2020 games.Sharp explained that the move by the IOC...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 03 May 2013
League title beckons for Ngele, Dambe
The two could emulate another export, Joel Mogorosi who won silverware in his first season at the South African league. Mogorosi lifted the MTN Top 8 title with Celtic early this season. He did not only provide assists, but scored crucial goals when...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
Tshosane overlooks Mmipi
Mmipi has been in scintillating form for his side but finds himself not among the 26 players called up for camp. Mmipi has not only been providing assists, but also scored brilliant goals especially in the second round of the league. His...
STAFF WRITER 03 May 2013
BFA signs Supersport 'cash-less' deal
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has accepted pay-per-view channel, Supersport's deal that effectively confirms the South African company, as the new be MOBILE Premier League broadcaster. However, the arrangement will not bring immediate...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
Government to provide incentives for producing electric cars: Davies
"South Africa must not be left behind in greening initiatives and technology," Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies told reporters in Johannesburg.He was speaking at the announcement of what had been dubbed the Electronic Vehicle Industry Road...
03 May 2013
BBC broadcaster admits 14 indecent assaults
Prosecutors said Thursday that the 83-year-old sports broadcaster has pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults.BBC said Hall will "no longer be contracted by the BBC."He admitted guilt in court in mid-April but the information could not be made public...
03 May 2013
Companies need social media policies: law firm
"In order to strike the appropriate balance between the conflicting rights of an employer and its employees, HR [human resource] practitioners should collaborate with management in outlining a social media strategy and policy for the business,"...
03 May 2013
Bangladesh factory used by US firms
The State Department also called on the impoverished country to improve its security measures and labour conditions. "We understand that businesses operating in this building appear to have links to numerous companies in the US and Europe, and so...
03 May 2013
UN sounds alarm over record Arctic ice melt
In a report on the situation in 2012, the World Meterological Organisation said that during the August to September melting season, the Arctic's sea ice cover was just 3.4 million square kilometres.That was a full 18 percent less than the previous...
03 May 2013
Nigeria pledges justice as pressure over killings grows
Scores of houses were destroyed in the fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad raided by troops from Nigeria, Niger and Chad searching for Islamist militants, and there were 22 fresh graves, a Reuters reporter who visited said. Residents said...
03 May 2013
Security chiefs warn Tsvangirai
The state-owned Herald newspaper reported that the country's police chief had warned critics that they risked being arrested if they continued demanding reforms in the security forces and "peddling lies" on the role of the armed forces ahead of...
03 May 2013
Security chiefs warn Tsvangirai
The state-owned Herald newspaper reported that the country's police chief had warned critics that they risked being arrested if they continued demanding reforms in the security forces and "peddling lies" on the role of the armed forces ahead of...
03 May 2013
Zuma heads to meeting about CAR
"The president will undertake a working visit to the Republic of Congo to attend the contact group meeting on the Central African Republic (CAR), scheduled for May 3," said Clayson Monyela, spokesman for the international relations department, in a...
03 May 2013
Syria's hijacked struggle
No unified, patriotic Syrian opposition has existed since extremists hijacked the peaceful protests in 2011.Indeed, some opposition tactics are as brutal as those of the Syrian regime. The United Nations estimates that security forces have suffered...
*RIBAL AL-ASSAD 03 May 2013
The Selala team manifesto: Re-invigorating and re-defining the BNFYL
The days of Cde Modubule, Cde Shawn Nthaile, Marshal Masilo and other young turks like Cde Tshiamo Rantao, Cde James Mathokgwane, Cde Noah Salakae, Cde Nelson Ramaotwana and Cde Motsamai Motsamai. These are the Cdes who loved and carried the...
03 May 2013
Despair Down Under
This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked for me Robben Island in South Africa.Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different, indeed what makes Australia different, is a silence and denial on...
JOHN PILGER 03 May 2013
Nitty gritty
Hee! Dilo tsa ga chicken! Even a dog would not want to be caught barking at them for fear of being thought an accessory to the fact.Hakere you remember gore last time he was all excited about his latest scam of setting up a franchise chain of the...
Barolong Seboni 03 May 2013
BOCONGO on the land question: No quick fix
We must from the onset make it clear that we are not against the system per se. We do, however harbour views that if done in isolation and without comprehensive dialogue it might break the seams of our peace and tolerance as contained in our...
03 May 2013
May Day flop
The confusion that passes for explanation of why, at least in Gaborone, this year's commemoration of May Day was virtually a flop points to an unacceptable acquiescence by organised labour in the face of the growth of right-wing forces on Government...
03 May 2013
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03 May 2013
Book review
William Boyd, who is known best for his novels set in Africa, has a passion for short story writing. He also has written scripts for 17 films and directed one, Trench. He is a most versatile writer, our good man from Africa. The Dream Lover: Short...
Sheridan Griswold 03 May 2013
Back stage
Oblivion (2013) is the latest vehicle for Tom Cruise. Science Fiction stories and films revolving around the end of the world at some time in the future seem to be a thebe a dozen (according to Wikipedia there have been at least 181 such films in...
Sasa Majuma 03 May 2013
A welcome addition to local music literature
Number of pages: 81Author: Tomeletso SereetsiPublisher: In The LoopYear of publication: 2013Reviewer: Dr Mothusi Phuthego I have always been very passionate about music and I joined my first band at primary school. However my choice careers...
03 May 2013
Tattoo artist Lubbe proves there is gain in pain
Although clad in leggings and a sleeveless top the tattoos are visible on the arms, legs and the back of the head.Upon meeting her, you don't have to wonder much about what she does for a living. With a zodiac sign of Leo, the 23-year-old Samara...
MPHO TLALE
Staff writer 03 May 2013
Cultural music has always been Kgaila's passion
Like many of his peers, life in the 1960s was so laid back, the most common economic activity was farming. Very few young people got a chance to attend school either because their families did not believe it was important to do so or because there...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
A lethal cocktail for Africa
Where NGOs have become a substitute for governments for so long, it's almost impossible to lay the foundations of a functioning state. The overwhelming majority of non-governmental organisations do more harm than good to livelihoods and...
03 May 2013
The latest in the battle of pickup trucking
But when you really think about it, you quickly realise that it is actually quite ingenious of them to make such a move.This is because the resort is placed well out of the city's constraints and therefore any mistake that an over enthusiastic tester...
03 May 2013
Mabua blamed over Daisy Loo aquittals
In his judgement, Justice Singh Walia says that the evidence that Mabua at the trial court was "devoid of truth."Resultantly, the judge expressed perplexity that then Regional Magistrate, Barnabas Nyamadzabo, found her to be a credible...
BASHI LETSIDIDI 03 May 2013
Can small stock production eradicate poverty?
Poverty eradication is currently a major policy of government. The subject has become emotive, some questioning the relevance of poverty eradication versus poverty reduction. I will not go into that one, however I am of the opinion that whatever the...
03 May 2013
Why African coffee isn't worth a bean!
Perhaps the one thing that stands out the most in the international coffee trade is not its obvious injustices of African, Asian and Latin American coffee growers which get some 7% of the value of roasted coffee sold in super-markets. The...
03 May 2013
Why May Day matters to Botswana
May Day, international workers day, started as a global general strike commemorating five anarchist labour organisers executed in 1887 in the USA. Mounting the scaffold, August Spies declared:'If you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the...
03 May 2013
Disunited federations stumbling block to workers agenda
It will remain a pipe dream for as long as BFTU and BOFEPUSU do not bury the hatchet and begin to work towards the realisation of the emancipation of the workers from the harsh fiscal policies :The country's two Workers Federations commemorated this...
SHEPHERD MOTELEBANE 03 May 2013
The rise of the Trade Union Bureaucracy - Labour's enemy within
One of the distinguishing factors in the contemporary development of organised labour has been the rise of a social layer within the ranks of the trade union movement with a contradictory socio-economic status, ideology and agenda.It has been termed...
03 May 2013
Kgalagadi Land Board employee commits suicide
The man, who was an employee of the Kgalagadi Land Board, was found by a passerby on Monday morning who then reported the matter to the police. Assistant Superintendent Kabelano Tebogo confirmed to Mmegi that a case of suicide is being investigated...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 03 May 2013
Minister hails F/town-Kazungula rail link
Zambian Transport Ministry officials see it as the cue for Zambia to also build a line on its side of the border to connect Livingstone to Kazungula - a 67km stretch - and link up with the Botswana rail system. There is not only a sense of urgency...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 03 May 2013
May day not taken seriously-Unionist
In Mochudi, a handful of workers gathered at Linchwe II Secondary School to commemorate the date, whereupon the councillor for Bogare Joseph Setoutwe complained that workers are no longer taking this day seriously. "This is an opportunity for you to...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 03 May 2013
BOFEPUSU tells BCP, BMD:
FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Federation of Public Sectors Union (BOFEPUSU) is not affiliated to any political body but has the right to encourage its members to subscribe to ideologies of a party that has the interest of the union at heart. The union...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
REWA Botswana wins Pan-African education award
The organisation, which works with children from different backgrounds providing them with quality, exciting and innovative education won a prize of $1,000 in the fifth edition of the awards run by UK charity, Teach A Man To Fish. The aim of the...
STAFF WRITER 03 May 2013
Vulnerable households face food crisis
A report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that from late 2013 until 2014, the Botswana food situation will remain precarious because of poor cereal production. The situation is compounded by the recent increase in cereal and bread...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
UDC, BCP in blame game over Saleshando accusation
A furious Moeti Mohwasa, the UDC spokesperson told this publication yesterday in a telephone interview.The BCP leader came out with guns blazing when addressing a press briefing last week, accusing some of the members of the UDC of spreading damaging...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
Consumer Watchdog
I think everyone knows by now what I think about store credit. It's abusive, often based on deception and is a staggeringly expensive way to buy things. It's also incredibly risky, mainly because stores neglect to explain to customers how their...
03 May 2013
SPEDU awaits appointment of permanent board
SPEDU marketing and communications manager, Kenneth Boikhutshwane has explained it is normal that when a government organisation goes private, it is run by an interim board for sometime. He said that it takes time for a permanent board to be...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 03 May 2013
African Energy targets 300mw tender
Within a fortnight, government is expected to float a Request for Pre-Qualification for energy firms interested in developing the 300mw power station. The tender for the greenfield power station follows the one for a 300mw brownfield government...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
BDC asses bids to revamp Toro Lodge
"At the moment we are evaluating tender applications from various consultants who have expressed interest in advising us on the model of operation we should use at the lodge," BDC spokesman, Gomolemo Zimona has told Mmegi Business. "We expect to...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
BoB moves to reignite flagging economy
The rate has remained constant since a reduction in December 2010. "The current state of the economy, where output growth is below potential and characterised by high unemployment could be reignited by a measured non-inflationary stimulus," the bank...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
Textile sector teeters on the brink
The situation has been made worse by the lack of a bailout from government. The Ministry of Trade and Industry is expected to resubmit a bailout proposal of P500 million over five years to cabinet after the initial effort was rejected last year. At...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 03 May 2013
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