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Davis Cup team excelled, says coach
The team that comprised Phenyo Matong, Aobakwe Letang, Shingirai Mozondiwa and Innocent Tidimane won two of their four games. Botswana was in Group D with powerhouses Egypt, Nigeria and Zambia. Despite finishing 10th coach Peter Mphele believes the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
BDF IX seek Scramblers revenge
On a dramatic final day of the season last year, the army side was thumped back to back by their Francistown rivals, Scramblers.The soldiers were given a 10-1 drubbing in the group stages before being edged 3-2 in the final. And after a magnificent...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 May 2013
First cut
Long before he announced his retirement from playing football, David Beckham has already been celebrated as a football and legend. Outside sports like basketball, golf, cricket and American football, he is probably the richest footballer on the...
Dennis Keagile 24 May 2013
Squash juniors off to Easterns Open
The team heads off to Kempton Park this morning to participate in the annual regional tournament. National team coaches Moses Tshiamonyana and Titus Mlalazi have selected the cream of junior squash in the country. The coaches have added a few...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 May 2013
Netball team revs up continental showpiece preps
The team has been doing weekend camps, and is set to group for an uninterrupted training camp next week.They group in Gaborone from June 1 to break for the following weekend before returning to camp until they travel for the continental...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 May 2013
Football feast as play-offs get under way
Two top-placed teams after the second round of the play-offs that end on Sunday will qualify for the first division north. Mahalapye Hotspurs currently leads the other six teams at the play-offs with 13 points from six games. In fact Mahalapye, who...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
FRAFA officials back in office
Charles Chilisa the chairperson for all the 16 footballing regions in the country is said to have been instrumental in making sure that the five men who resigned reverse their decision. The five members who resigned last Thursday after reported...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Mafolofolo and Kalavango women to face-off at SSKB
While Mafolofolo will be looking to extend its lead at the summit of the league log, Kalavango will hope to stop Mafolofolo's unbeaten run. Mafolofolo lead the log with 18 points, just two points ahead of Kalavango. The women in black and gold have...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Nico United defender injured in car accident
The player told Mmegi Sport from his hospital bed that he sustained injuries to the chest when he lost control of the Toyota Hilux vehicle he was driving and it overturned. He is expected to be transferred to Gaborone Private Hospital for further...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 May 2013
Hapless Fighters relegated
Fighters needed a win against Notwane to keep their slim chance of survival but they could only settle for a 2-2 draw. Fighters are left with only match and can only reach 28 points if they win. Fighters have been in a bitter fight with the likes of...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Oteng favoured for another award
Oteng is nominated alongside teammate Mooketsi Lekgetho of UB boxing club and Tirafalo Seoko of BMC. A big plus for Oteng is that he emerged the only boxer to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic games surpassing any other local boxer's performance at...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Japan's wartime brothels were wrong - veteran
Seven decades later, the 91-year-old retired Christian pastor says it's his mission to speak out about the injustice of the war and the sufferings of women, mostly Asian and many Korean, forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels. "I feel...
24 May 2013
Charge the Guptas
The manipulation was intended to justify the wedding jet being given permission to land at Waterkloof Air Force Base, in Pretoria. This was the finding of an investigation by a committee of directors-general of state departments. The...
24 May 2013
African Union celebrates 50th year
Now leaders want to map out the next 50 years of political and economic integration.Konjit Sinegiorgis was a young diplomat tasked with distributing documents to the assembled heads of state when the founding congress of the Organization of African...
24 May 2013
Zambia sodomy trial delayed
Philip Mubiana, a 21-year-old barber, and James Mwape, a 20-year-old bricklayer, have pleaded not guilty to having "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" in case that has become the latest battleground for gay rights activists. Before a...
24 May 2013
Eritrea demanding ransoms from expats in Canada
Public broadcaster CBC quoted an Eritrean, who asked not to be named, as saying: "You have to go to the consulate and they arrange how you have to pay the money. They want two per cent (of my income)." "My family (in Eritrea) would get in trouble if...
24 May 2013
Mugabe signs new Zimbabwe constitution into law
The longtime ruler inked the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum."This day is an historic day, it's about the future," Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga said at the signing ceremony, held in a marquee...
24 May 2013
Europe's hollow efforts to save a lost generation
Stylia Kampani did everything right, and she still doesn't know what the future holds for her. The 23-year-old studied international relations in her native Greece and spent a year at the University of Bremen in northern Germany. She completed an...
24 May 2013
Judiciary should serve ordinary people
It is not only now that this attempt is made to deceive the poor working class into believing that despite the contradictory class interests in our society the state represents every citizen on equal basis. History has it that in ancient Athens, of...
KODUTHEBE OTTO MOTLOGELWA 24 May 2013
African Unity: A dream deferred?
To this end, it is imperative that we heed the counsel of former South African President Thabo Mbeki that in the context of the 50th anniversary of the OAU 'We must answer some questions honestly: What progress have we made towards the achievement of...
*SOLOMON AYELE DERSSO 24 May 2013
Nitty gritty
It may probably be the same all over the world, but since we have not had the opportunity to travel all over the world to make such observation, we shall merely restrict ourselves to Botswana. Besides, such a universal generalisation would be highly...
Barolong Seboni 24 May 2013
SADC states launch common payments platform
Experts, including central bank executives, who met in Gaborone this week stressed that the new platform would spur economic activity in member states by boosting trade and regional financial integration.Under the system, different banks in SADC will...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Book review
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life is a 'warts and all' memoir told in 33 chapters, each spiced at the end with quotations from letters to Eve Brown-Waite's...
Sheridan Griswold 24 May 2013
Back stage
Writer and director Judd Apatow seems to want to cut a niche in the field of middle age, family-crisis drama. He constantly pushes the edges of foul language, gutter and toilet humour, doctor's office jokes and now includes a passion for...
Sasa Majuma 24 May 2013
Pampiri taking street art to grander pinnacles
Twenty-one-year-old Michelle Pampiri is out to clear the confusion that runs deeper than those who spray and those who remove the paint. She is well aware that the toilets of almost every senior secondary school in the city have graffiti inscribed...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 24 May 2013
Nothing will keep Motlogelwa and art apart
The young man has been doing art for as long as he can remember. Like many young Batswana artists he learnt the fine points of the trade at school and although at that stage he never thought it would be his bread and butter it later turned out...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Consumer watchdog
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.""Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to...
24 May 2013
BIDPA casts doubts on new textile bailout
The troubled sector has pinned its hopes for survival on the five-year bailout and is awaiting Cabinet consideration of the request. Trade and Industry Minister Dorcas Makgato-Malesu recently revealed that while Cabinet rejected the initial request...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Fresh twist in battle for Boseto Mine
The decision is a fresh twist to the long running battle for the mining company, whose key asset is its wholly owned Boseto Copper project, located near Maun. In a statement released to the BSE and the Australian Stock Exchange, where the...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Eskom rules out longer BPC deal
Since January, Botswana has been receiving 100 MW on a firm basis from Eskom and another 200 MW classified as non-firm, meaning it is provided depending on South Africa's own needs. The 200MW deal expires in July, while the 100MW will end in...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Botswana ups drive to shed 'tax haven' label
Last week, Botswana signed Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs) with Guernsey in London.Arrangements are being made to sign a similar agreement with The Isle of Man soon. This follows February's agreements with six other European countries,...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
MOH defends its employees
However, now and then, some statements made in the media have the potential to mislead and reverse our noble national health agenda initiatives, therefore endangering public health. One such article is the recent Mmegi editorial of May 14 2013 on...
24 May 2013
Professional osmosis: making use of professional associations
That I did. I took the audience through a range of brand management ideas, much of it drawn from Tom Peters's 1997 article which directly addressed the subject of personal brand management for the first time. The concept was initially implied by...
24 May 2013
Digging tswana roots
For what purpose was mankind created? Leaving atheists aside for the moment, most outlooks that believe in a God (or at least a Primordial Intelligence of sorts) tend to believe that we were created to give Him true love and admiration; that is, the...
L.M. Leteane 24 May 2013
Remember the poor of Kgalagadi
While Botswana authorities are reported to be doing something to stop the crime, one aspect of the situation is conspicuous by the way it is ignored in seeking a solution to the problem. The Kgalagadi South area is one of the poorest in the country...
24 May 2013
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Sata's visit on Litunga spells trouble for Barotse separatists
The crisis deepened on April 14 when Sata flew into Mongu, the provincial capital, and proceeded to the palace to pay a courtesy call on the traditional ruler, the Litunga. But it was not all courtesy. There was a strong element of triumph for the...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 24 May 2013
Obama coming to Africa - a trip alive with possibilities
The visit is one that has long been anticipated by Africans, but has it come too late to generate the kind of enormous buzz that might have happened had this trip happened several years earlier? J BROOKS SPECTOR looks at the possibilities. While...
24 May 2013
Guptagate comes to Parliament
What do you get when you bring together a group of heated-up opposition MPs clearly exhilarated by the prospect of putting the boot into the governing party, and a defensive African National Congress (ANC) caught on the back-foot? Well, for one...
24 May 2013
Youth in politics
FRANCISTOWN: More and more young people are showing interest in partisan politics. With the next general elections just 16 months away, indications are that political parties here have been receiving applications from their young members expressing...
24 May 2013
How unhappy are we?
An American, a one time ambassador to Botswana who was also a much liked man and a great socialite in Gaborone of his day, was quoted in Wikipedia reports as having said, at the end of his tenure in Botswana, that the people here were far...
24 May 2013
Stop the internecine bickering
It is a cool afternoon at Goora-Montshiwa Freedom Squire in Kanye and the skies are blue. The stage is set for the launch of Botswana's fastest growing political party, the BCP. It is not only about the party here, but in the centre of all these...
24 May 2013
The guitarist in Cabinet
To many people he is a popular politician - a Cabinet minister and a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) MP for Gaborone North who won a constituency regarded as a Botswana National Front (BNF) stronghold. Of recent, he has graced the national stage for...
24 May 2013
WUC to install prepaid water metres in homes
WUC's spokesperson Erastus Mathumo said the move is aimed at curbing water wastage, adding that prepaid meters are already used in standpipes in villages around Botswana. Speaking during a Kgotla meeting in Kagiso Township on Tuesday, Mathumo...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Council overspends by P6.6million
He added that council was expected to generate P16 million from its own revenue sources like rates and service levies, but only P11 million was collected.He noted that property owners still owe a total of P5 million for the rates and service...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Police launch massive hunt for four escapees
Station Commander, Superintendent Onneetse Dumelang, confirmed the escape, which occurred when the police vehicle carrying them approached Motopi village. Dumelang said there were 10 accused persons from Maun Prison who appeared for mention in...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Farmer defends De Graaff
Marumo told the BMC Parliamentary Select Committee during a kgotla meeting on Wednesday that De Graaff is being used as a scapegoat. He said the man is just a politician in office to implement government policies.He argued that while it is common...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 24 May 2013
SADC: Rhodes versus Nkrumah?
In 1991, members of the African Union (AU) agreed to what is known as the Treaty of Abuja which created the framework for the realisation of the economic half of Kwame Nkrumah's dream of a united Africa. This treaty was agreed in a period of great...
24 May 2013
Violent students drive teachers from classrooms
Addressing members of the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) in Serowe, she said most schools do not ensure the safety of teachers. She stated that over the years, government has not created a safe environment for teachers. ...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 24 May 2013
Cllrs attack WUC for shoddy service
In a full council meeting yesterday,, councillors said since WUC took over from the Department of Water Affairs, water services have become poor.Councillor Tabengwa Tabengwa of Ikageleng complained that after WUC took over, water bills are delayed...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 24 May 2013
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