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IPID to investigate Marikana police attack
Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said on Sunday that Marikana police were called to a murder scene at Nkaneng, North West on Saturday evening. "According to the members there were a lot of people gathered there and some started shooting at police and police...
14 May 2013
Tourism sector upbeat on 2013 prospects
On sidelines of the ongoing Tourism Indaba 2013 in Durban, local tourism actors have said the year has kicked off brightly with increases in occupancies and business activity.Major research institutions have reported that while short-term global...
MBONGENI MNGUNI
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Integrate Africa for 'bigger cake to share' - Mo Ibrahim
Speaking at a business seminar in Gaborone yesterday, philanthropist and international business leader, Mohammed 'Mo' Ibrahim said if regional economic integration is not implemented with promptness, small market sizes and unnecessary tariff and...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
The Village Church
The resolutions you have taken over the past two years as well as the posture that their implementation took allow me to be proud to address you as President of this movement as well as Secretary General of the people's project, the Umbrella for...
GOMOLEMO MOTSWALEDI 14 May 2013
As I se it
I could have gone back to live in South Africa in 1994 when the country killed its crazy apartheid policy and legislated for freedom and democracy. I went to do Standard V in South Africa at a young age of 13, continued my education...
Michael Dingake 14 May 2013
Selefu 14 May 2013
14 May 2013
Horrors of healthcare in Botswana
Headlines like 'Ministry of Health pays patient P1 million for negligence,' 'Patient sues MoH for millions for negligence,' and so on are common in the local media. In many of these incidents, an expectant mother would have informed nurses on duty...
14 May 2013
SA, Zambia mend fences after Scott's 'bluster'
The tiff was triggered by the unprovoked and unflattering remarks of the Zambian Vice President Guy Scott about South Africa. He was reported in the May 1 edition of the UK Guardian as saying that he hated South Africa; it was "backward and has been...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Botswana's artistic talent begs to be nurtured
A side from its diverse languages, among them being Sebirwa and Setswapong, Botswana needs to have its wealth wisely distributed in a diversified portfolio, which includes investment in its languages and its arts. Yet, some of Botswana's...
14 May 2013
Brouhaha at Mmadinare bogosi meeting
As soon as Kgamane had made his speech, members of the group took turns slamming the decision to make Kebuileng Mphoeng the successor to retiring Kgosi Phokontsi Seeletso. The first speaker said there was a tendency of the tribal leadership at the...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Another BOFEPUSU judgement today
In August 2011, the Director of Public Service Management (DPSM) wrote to the five unions informing them that she was terminating organisational rights which the applicants, as recognised unions, had hitherto enjoyed.The then DPSM director Festinah...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Setlaampoloka murder trial set to start
The case has been the subject of much speculation because it has yet to be prosecuted two years after it was committed to the High Court. The defendants in the case are Ranto Mmeleki, Tebogo Khutsafalo, Kabo Moffat Ramohibidu, Michael Ramhitshwana,...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Mowana Mine employee charged with murder
Tirelo Olefile (25) is alleged to have killed Zaphania Nkomo, a Zimbabwean, on Saturday at Botshabelo in Dukwi.The prosecutor, Inspector Oteng Selalame, told Magistrate Dumisani Bagopi that investigations into the matter were still underway.Selalame...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 14 May 2013
It's Aluta Continua for land petitioners
Writing on their Facebook page yesterday, Moalosi says the past few months have been challenging because his pressure group did not receive a response from any of several doors it had thus far knocked on."We waited for quite a considerable time while...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
UB seeks out-of-court settlement with employees
The parties appeared briefly before Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo yesterday morning, but the case was adjourned to allow Doreen Khama, who represents the employees, to make her clients familiar with the settlement offer. The UB, through its...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Sweet sound of global philanthropy
Is a vast moral formatting process developing across the world, behind the unending emotional blackmail concerning our indifference to the misfortunes of others? Since solidarity is presented as a matter of ethics, any criticism is suspect. Yet...
BERNARD HOURS 14 May 2013
Obama, Syria and the Arrogance of Imperialism
According to the Washington Post, Obama and his advisors have been "edging" toward this decision for months. Their rationale for jumping in now is because they believe it will give Washington more control over which rebel factions actually end...
RON JACOBS 14 May 2013
Revamping Nigeria-SA relations key to continental progress
The pattern of interaction has oscillated from President Nelson Mandela's principled stance against General Sani Abacha's dictatorship in the late 1990s, to close and effective engagement between presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo during...
*DR OLADIRAN BELLO & AFREDO TJIURIMO HENGARI 14 May 2013
Our Catch 22
At the meeting of the Coal and Energy Meeting in Gaborone two weeks ago, Peet Meyer, a reputed and generally highly regarded geologist, made a presentation which rocked those present and subsequently had reverberations throughout the mining industry...
ROMAN GRYNBERG 14 May 2013
Bears make dramatic comeback to claim second spot
Bears, Dinare and BDF IX finished tied on points in the Southern region league and had to fight for second, third and fourth positions. Bears won their two games, starting off with a narrow 5-4 win over BDF before the memorable victory over Dinare....
Thato Kala
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Tafic climb to safety
FRANCISTOWN: TAFIC may finally breathe a sigh of relief after collecting maximum points through a 1-0 win over Extension Gunners that saw them move away from the relegation zone with three matches to play before the end of the season. Witness...
CHAKAI
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Issues in education
Previous Issues looked at suicide and murder in secondary schools.The age group in secondary schools is typically teenagers and post-adolescents. Some of the reasons for this happening are: a) Students are not being taught the reverence and dignity...
Dorcas Molefe
Owen Pansiri
Sheldon Weeks 14 May 2013
The winners code
Today, not tomorrow.Life is not accountable to us for meaning; we are accountable to life!Don't put success and happiness on layaway. Do it now! Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or...
George Chingarande 14 May 2013
Socialism is dead, capitalism is dying
Botswana is actually hanging on to the tail of a dying cow. We have desperately adopted Western hardcore capitalism and matching lifestyle and totally forgotten that we were once believers in a 'soft' traditional capitalism with a human...
14 May 2013
African govts must improve governance - Report
CAPE TOWN: Africa is standing on the edge of enormous opportunity, this year's Africa Progress Report finds, and African policymakers have critical choices to make. They can either invest their natural resource revenue in people to generate jobs and...
14 May 2013
Chiefs edge closer to title
Their closet title rivals, Nico United dropped points once again when they drew 1-1 against Prisons XI on Saturday.Chiefs have now opened a three-point lead at the top with five matches remaining. They now need to collect seven points from the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Wonder will be tough nuts to crack - Mogwadi
The Wonder boys gained automatic promotion on Saturday after winning their last match of the season in the lower division against Masitaoka.Many teams have struggled to compete in their first seasons in the Premier League after promotion, but Mogwadi...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Back stage
Almost Adult (2006) aka A Peine Adulte is showing today only, at the Gaborone Film Society at 7:00 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. This is an unusual and compelling film that feels like a documentary but is really a drama based on real...
Sasa Majuma 14 May 2013
Moroka returns from Zim's HIFA 'a lot wiser'
Moroka was invited to HIFA 2013 Arts and Culture practitioners' meeting at which artists from Zimbabwe and other countries discussed ways to promote and sell the creative industry in Africa."I have learnt a lot from that meeting.We...
NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Czech rapper collaborates with Bots star
The two have a video together, which is on You Tube, and has appeared in a Czech TV station. In a Skype session with Showbiz, Sker said he was hopeful his relationship with the Botswana budding musician would see them collaborate on more projects."We...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Sharif stages comeback in Pakistan polls
The polls were a landmark, marking the first time one elected government will replace another. But the vote failed to realise the hopes of many that dynastic politics would end after years of misrule and corruption.The wealthy steel magnate from the...
14 May 2013
SA bonds under pressure on back of mining strike fears
The rand has been on the back foot against the dollar and bonds also weakened, and the weakening comes on worries that job cuts in the mining sector could spark a repeat of last year's violent strikes which dented investor sentiment.The yield on the...
14 May 2013
Gupta debate about DA's 'obsessive vendetta' against Zuma
The upcoming parliamentary debate will be about the Gupta family's use of the Waterkloof Air Force Base at the end of April to bring guests to a family wedding."The Democratic Alliance wanted to use the topic as a smokescreen to pursue its obsessive...
14 May 2013
The neoliberal plague: AIDS and capitalism
After all, it's 2012, we were supposed to have this epidemic licked by now. Why, despite billions of dollars' worth of interventions and three decades of high-profile messaging, does AIDS remain such a pressing problem?This is particularly puzzling...
JASON HICKEL 14 May 2013
Crossroads
This morning I scurried across radio stations checking up on the latest on the budget speech. Lucky I'd say now, got to stumble upon Kealeboga Dihutso at Duma fm. On the other side was MELS President Themba Joina. I have interviewed him before and I...
14 May 2013
Mmualebe
E rile mo tshiping e e fetileng ra tshwara kgang e e neng e bua ka lenatetshapuo la go ga dinawa. Re ne ra re, lenatetshapuo le, le tota e leng seane, le tswa mo go reng , ka Setswana, dinawa fa di setse di budule di tshwanetse go rojwa, ga go...
Sebofo Motshwane 14 May 2013
BNOC receives London 2012 petal
The petal arrives just few weeks after the BNOC had received another symbolic artefact, a replica of the London 2012 Olympic Games torch.The petals add to a significant number of artefacts to the BNOC museum material. In addition to the two, BNOC is...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Kgatleng refs end boycott
Lower Division leagues in the Kgatleng region will resume this weekend following a fruitful meeting held on Tuesday by both the regional referees and the Kgatleng Regional Football Association committee. The meeting followed a boycott by regional...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
F/town Bowls Club wins tourney
The tournament is first of the five-game series for 2013. Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, John Gaborutwe told Mmegi Sport that each tournament won under auspices of BBA collects points towards the Haskins Trophy that is awarded...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Egypt keen to play against Zebras
Egypt, through an agent, has proposed February 19 in Cairo, while Sudan is also confirmed to be interested in playing Botswana. The fading African heavyweights, Egypt, are pulling out all stops to give the Pharaohs a good preparation ahead of their...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 May 2013
JIC, Hyman add lustre to CIA's fete
The church's choir, with a number of singers from JIC, has made an important part of the church's revelries this week.CIA started on February 12 last year and is in a celebratory mood this week.Hyman, based in South Carolina, United States has also...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 May 2013
A remarkable and brilliant media high-flier
This gorgeous lady is at the peak of her success and what makes her 'magic' entrancing is her enviable poise and natural grace. Even the greatest critics cannot help but admit that this is undoubtedly what she was born to do. In an industry that's...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 14 May 2013
Mabisi: The pulpit poetess
She pours it out in rhythmical lines to her beloved king, shaping the river into her words. For up and coming poetess, Bakang Mabisi, poesy is not just a leisure pursuit, but has turned into her tool to make a difference in her peers' lives and...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 14 May 2013
All Kasi puts accent on denim range
The brand has recently clinched a two-year deal with football team Extension Gunners to provide them with their kit. The brand has also stepped up their game and launched a denim range.In an interview with Showbiz, marketing director Mokaedi Maplanka...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
Coronavirus: the virus can spread between people
Cases of the infection come from contact with animals, however, if the virus can spread between people it poses a much more serious threat. One person in the UK is thought to have caught the infection from a relative. However, officials say the...
14 May 2013
Zim orders miners to set up refinery
Producers will probably struggle to meet the new goal because refineries are costly and can take several years to build, especially as Zimbabwe has a severe skills shortage.Mines Minister, Obert Mpofu told reporters yesterday that Zimbabwe wanted to...
14 May 2013
Papua New Guinea cops save women from witch burning
Sorcery cases have been a priority for authorities after the horrific case of a 20-year-old woman who last week was stripped naked, doused with petrol and set alight before a crowd, Highlands divisional police commander Teddy Tei told The National...
14 May 2013
Egypt women protest sex assault at site of attacks
Beating drums and blowing whistles, the women defied advice by some lawmakers that suggested their presence in Tahrir Square, the focal point of protests, was the reason for the mob attacks. "A woman in the square is a revolution, but your words...
14 May 2013
Govt pushes for P4bn EDD procurement target
On Tuesday, Trade and Industry Minister Dorcas Makgato-Malesu told journalists that of the P2.26 billion in procurement between April and December 2012, 54 percent or P1.2 billion was attributable to local manufacturers and service...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
CA backtracks on CEDA shares deal
Through a venture capital fund, CEDA holds shares in the two companies. An earlier attempt to divest and sell the stakes back to the two firms had been blocked by the CA. In a determination last December, the CA said it had blocked the transaction...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 14 May 2013
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