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Squash president bullish about future
Mmegi: What is your background as a sport leader?Tiego Kesebonye Rabashwa: Well, I started off with Tlokweng United Football Club as an administrator. I was a bit hesitant when they approached me because I had never played the sport. I think that is...
17 May 2013
Miners taunted police at Marikana after massacre, commission hears
It watched a video made two days after police shot dead 34 strikers, showing Brigadier Adriaan Calitz briefing scores of policemen in Marikana, North West. Calitz, who heads the North West operational response service, tells them about protesters'...
17 May 2013
Uganda plot blackout
Sensitivities have been heightened by recent allegations that President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power.Speculation is growing that Museveni, in office since 1986, is lining up his son, Kainerugaba Muhoozi, to succeed him - a move that...
17 May 2013
Repeal all laws against sex work: Commission for Gender Equality
"Decriminalisation means: repeal all laws against sex work," CGE commissioner Janine Hicks said at the launch of the institution's position on the matter."We believe it is the only viable approach to promoting and protecting the dignity and rights of...
17 May 2013
China police ask woman to axe White House petition
Then, Chinese police asked her to remove it.Last week's run-in with internal security agents turned into an unexpected lesson for the woman. "I didn't think (the petition) was a big deal and didn't foresee the ensuing events," said the woman, who...
17 May 2013
Military moves in to crush Boko Haram insurgents
Nigerian troops were deployed in large numbers as part of a plan to rout an insurgency by Boko Haram, which has seized control of most parts of the region."The operations, which will involve massive deployment of men and resources, are aimed at...
17 May 2013
UN calls for sanctions on Central African Republic rights abusers
Margaret Vogt also told the council that a neutral security force should be deployed to "contain the current state of anarchy" in the mineral-rich state, where the Seleka rebels seized power on March 24, toppling President Francois Bozize. "The...
17 May 2013
Lonmin miners return to work after strike
Preliminary figures for the morning shift are 86 percent," said company spokeswoman Sue Vey. She said discussions were continuing about the issues which formed the basis of the workers' demands. "The company believes that returning to work and...
17 May 2013
The logic of democracy
From a political point of view people still believe in nostalgic and dangerous ideas like "objectivity" "reality", "truth" and "values" as a precondition for democracy. But believers in absolutes forget a crucial lesson borne out of the historic...
17 May 2013
Africa's oil and gas outlook 2013
Africa' share of global oil and gas production has stood at 10% and 6% respectively over the past 24 months.Ecobank Research estimates that the total production of crude oil in Africa in 2013 is likely to be around 8.9 million barrels per day. Of...
17 May 2013
Spiking Stars face Diphatsa hurdle
Spiking Stars are the dark horses but look set to give the big boys stiff competition this season. The Ramotswa based outfit occupies second spot with 20 points just two adrift of Kutlwano. The side has lost only twice in eight matches. While...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Book review
Hilary Mantel is now a double Man Booker Prize winner and when the third volume of her trilogy on Thomas Moore in Europe in the early 1500s is out next year, The Mirror and the Light, she may become the only writer to garner three Bookers.The first...
Sheridan Griswold 17 May 2013
Back stage
Anna Karenina (2012) has been and gone and can now be accessed on DVDs.<br>It is Leo Tolstoy's second major novel and remains his most famous. Beginning in 1911 it was made into a movie and since then five-dozen films and TV dramas have been...
Love is the pure, ennobling union of souls 17 May 2013
Anna Fiki: A true warrior fighting for life and love
This is the powerful voice behind the soulful track Mpolelle re babedi, which has been a constant feature on many local radio stations for so many years and still continues to rear forward in various music programmes. Anna Fiki, as she is...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff WRiter 17 May 2013
African banks need to work harder - report
The independent 2013 report, which is yet to be released, uses the Customer Satisfaction Index comprising convenience, customer care, transactions, methods and systems, as well as pricing and product services as key factors to measure customer...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
BCL Mine celebrates 4m fatality-free shifts
BCL Mine public relations and marketing manager James Molosankwe told Mmegi Business that the company has achieved a record four million fatality free shifts in all its operations. He explained that the record, which was realised from July 7, 2010 to...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 17 May 2013
MVA Fund operating income drops
According to the fund's audited results for the full year ended December 2012, offshore investments gains declined significantly last year to P28.5 million from P98.8 million.Besides the fuel levy, the MVA Fund is heavily invested locally and...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
BDC reaches for African footprint
The BDC, one of the few profit-making parastatals, participated in the recently ended Tourism Indaba held in Durban where it held several meetings with potential investment targets. Several senior officials, including acting managing director James...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
SA shortfalls worsen local power crisis
On Wednesday, BPC officials and other energy sources told BusinessWeek that the load shedding programme, initiated in February, had deepened, widened and become more erratic due to unstable supplies from Eskom in South Africa. Current local demand...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Noose tightens around homosexuals
But the same cannot be said of gays in many African countries like Zambia, for instance, where the noose is tightening around homosexuals. In the face of perceived pressure from the European Union (EU) to be tolerant of same sex marriages or...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Tsvangirai - Small man in a big chair
This was precisely because opposition politics was merely about how much Tsvangirai would try to fight down the Western-hated Robert Mugabe -- and never about the MDC leader's leadership character, or lack of it.The ponderous portrayal of Tsvangirai...
* REASON WAFAWAROVA 17 May 2013
Anti-doping campaign gathers momentum
Doping tests have been carried out all over the world from many years back, but Botswana, like other Third World countries has been left behind due to lack of technology. Even though Botswana does not yet have a legislative framework to deal...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Beyond upbeat about global tourism award
Dignitaries, tourism operators and world travel media practitioners had the opportunity to see the award during it's unveiling at &Beyond's donation of six rhinos to the Botswana government in the Okavango Delta recently. Amongst the...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
The challenges and opportunities of economic diversification
Wisdom can be attained when minds interact as often as possible. In addition to the two cents worth of contribution that I made to the debate, the forum allowed me to use other people's minds as a catalyst to my own growth and understanding,...
BAROLONG MOUWANE 17 May 2013
Bikes with aeroplane engines!
When it comes to being free spirited, no one comes close to doing it better than bikers. They are a fearless lot who seem to live by a simple mantra of living now and dying later. A bike on its own is a curious thing, even the most underpowered...
17 May 2013
Beefing up Botswana livestock industry with science
What we need to do is to test its eating quality and promote it in steak houses in the same way that the Scottish are doing with Aberdeen Angus. Livestock expert *Prof OARABILE R. MADIBELA argues that we need to brand and promote Tswana cattle in the...
17 May 2013
Booster: a photographer, a businessman
The man of many names: Booster Galesekegwe - Bucho Lesire, Buzzy T, Mr Botswana or Mzwinila. He had a grand entry at Mmegi. He was just one of the guys - young and outgoing. One of the traits that would define his short life manifested itself in his...
MODIRWA KEKWALETSWE 17 May 2013
Award winning photographer publishes book on Maun
Images from book are currently on exhibit at the Nhabe Museum. The exhibition, which started May 7 and ends June 4, 2013, features the photographer alongside painter Roger Brown and porter Ompatile Sebuelo. The trio's exhibition will then move to...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
MSD urges punishment against anti-ARV rhetoric
Sebape told Mmegi this week that some people who claim to cure HIV/AIDS have made people quit using ARVs.He said a patients' health then deteriorates and they die. He stated that finding a cure for HIV/AIDS is not expected anytime soon because...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Irate Tonota residents walk out on Molebatsi
Kgotla was left in chaos as the residents caused a hullabaloo that completely drowned out Molebatsi's voice as he tried to address them. This week, the ministry addressed Kgotla meetings in various areas in Zone 6 affected by the Foot and Mouth...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Botswana HIV/AIDS response commended
Dr Mafeni said this at the handing over ceremony of a mini-bus worth P339,650 to House of Hope Day Care Centre on Wednesday. Merck Sharpe and Dohme (MSD) donated the mini-bus. The House of Hope Day Care Centre was built with the support of ACHAP. The...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Mayor denies council fist fights
The mayor told a kgotla meeting in Botshabelo recently that councillors, with their different personalities and perspectives, are bound to disagree on some issues. "Our disagreement is not a sin. It would be very abnormal for us to always agree on...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Vultures' preparations in shambles
With the qualifiers just three weeks away, Vultures' coach Ivor Greaves only had eight players at training on Monday and is yet to play a practice match.Greaves had initially selected 45 players would be trimmed for June 9-15 tournament in...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Strike looms at BCL Mine
He said that meanwhile, the miners have decided to boycott BCL celebrations of four million fatality-free shifts to be held next Tuesday because of lack of progress in salary negotiations. Malele has accused BCL Mine of bad faith in the negotiations...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Judge overturns Land Tribunal ruling
A Land Tribunal sitting on March 30, 2012 had ruled that Kebailele was not entitled to a hearing regarding her contention about a piece of land in Serowe. Kefalotse and Ogakolotse have interest in the same land.Kebailele was appealing the decision by...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Saleshando says BCP can go it alone
"As the BCP we can stand on our own. BCP can bring change," he asserted.Saleshando who is also Gaborone Central MP, said he has never contested elections when he is not confident of a win. Dismissing the opposition umbrella, he argued that...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Govt not ready for unified schools
President Ian Khama last month told residents at a kgotla meeting in Thamaga that government will convert several junior secondary schools in several villages into unified schools.This week MoESD spokesperson Silas Sehularo told Mmegi that the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
Moroka calls for negotiations
Delivering his judgement that saw government lose its battle against the five affiliates of Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU), Moroka said it was high time government and trade unions fully appreciated their collective duty to...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
The trouble with banks
Bank Gaborone and First National Bank are tied at the top of the rankings for the most customer-focused banks in Botswana, the 2013 KPMG Africa-wide Banking Industry Customer Satisfaction Survey has shown. The two banks scored 73.3%, followed by...
Lawrence Seretse
Correspondent 17 May 2013
HIV/AIDS risk infection high amongst tertiary students
The Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors and Perception (KABP) survey findings were presented at the teAIDS programme launch, which was set up by the Tertiary Education Council and the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) to promote healthy living...
17 May 2013
Picking banks
Anthony Kibadu (MD - AJK & Associates)For 13 years I have used Standard Chartered Bank and I'm am now attached to it. When I first joined it, it was a worldwide leader. Since I am a foreigner, there was also that aspect of accessibility. Back...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
African banks need to work harder - report
The independent 2013 report, which is yet to be released, uses the Customer Satisfaction Index comprising convenience, customer care, transactions, methods and systems, as well as pricing and product services as key factors to measure customer...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
Nitty gritty
On everyone's lips at the Nitty Gritty now are cold cans of various and sundry alcoholic beverages that fall under the generic rubric of beer.Dear readers, you can therefore imagine how tricky it must be for the oblicaris oris muscles of the human...
Barolong Seboni 17 May 2013
I leave chess a better product - Sitale
As BCF affiliates converge on Mokala Lodge in Jwaneng tomorrow for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and executive elections, Sitale will not seek re-election. The 32-year-old former Letlhakane Senior Secondary School player believes he has played his...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 17 May 2013
How to end the forever war
First and most important, the overriding goal should be to end this Forever War, not engage in a perpetual "global war on terror," without geographic or temporal limits. Second, this is not a conflict without end, and there is a strategy to end it,...
HAROLD HONGJU KOH 17 May 2013
Internship programme is outdated and flawed
According to a press release from the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs dated May 10, 2013, all interns who have been in the programme will continue to earn an allowance of P1, 800 while P200 will be saved and paid up upon completion of service....
*DITHAPELO KEORAPETSE 17 May 2013
Digging tswana roots
Our entire ancient history, even our pre-history, can be summarised in just a few words. The long and the short of it all is that it has been largely shaped by mysterious, extremely ancient, long-lived, pale-skinned, flesh-and-blood entities we once...
L.M.Leteane 17 May 2013
Hooray, but it is not yet Uhuru!
It was the day when the High Court judge Lot Moroka nullified the decision of Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) director Festinah Bakwena to terminate organisational rights that unions had enjoyed until August 2011 when her...
17 May 2013
Selefu 17 May 2013
17 May 2013
DC delay frustrates Rollers
Manager Gaone Kerileng said that the issue was brought before the DC in March but there is still no feedback yet.The DC verdict will determine the league champions after Rollers were accused of using a defaulter. Rollers plan to write the Status...
SYLVIAH DISELE
Correspondent 17 May 2013
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