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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...
28 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...
28 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...
28 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...
28 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...
28 May 2013
Issues In Education
The UNESCO goals for EFA were set in Dakar, Senegal in 2000 when 164 countries met.They made collective agreements to work to achieve these goals over the next 15 years. Issues has considered EFA and the GMR previously (Mmegi, 21 September 2009), but...
28 May 2013
The Winners Code
There are two important aspects about an agenda that we will examine. The first thing is that everyone has an agenda. It can be a formal agenda such as the written down list of issues to be discussed in a meeting but it can also be a list of issues...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 28 May 2013
Ndlovu still in the dark on Chiefs' future
The Zimbabwean sealed a successful campaign with the Kgatleng giants by winning be MOBILE Premier League title for the second successive time a fortnight ago with three games to go. Despite leading Chiefs to back to back be MOBILE League titles, the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Mogorosi loving life in Bloem
The Botswana international arrived at Bloemfontein Celtic at the start of the season and hit the ground running by helping the team win the Telkom Knockout in December.Juluka reflects: "It is never easy for a foreign player to establish yourself in...
28 May 2013
Lack of confidence hurting Police VI men
This was Ngwanaotsile's assessment following his outfit's 1-3 defeat with the Diphatsa men's Volleyball Club on Saturday morning at the BDF Area S courts in Francistown during the ongoing Mascom Men's Volleyball League 2013. Prior to the ongoing...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Prisons XI bite the dust
The three sides will be campaigning in the Debswana First Division next season after failing to prove their mettle in the Premier League. BR Highlanders were the first to drop to the lower division before Fighters joined them last week. After...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
Back stage
The Night of the Sunflowers (2006) a.k.a La noche de los girasoles is showing today only, at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. This is not a film for the squeamish. It is a thriller that begins and ends with a...
28 May 2013
Laff-A-Lot grand finale
The show will feature, well known local comedians; Bafana 'Ribcracker' Letsatsi and Modiri 'Mod' Keseabetse. Also performing at the grand finale will be 1st runner-up from the 2012 President Day competitions, Shingah 'Stokie' Sendimbah, 2nd runner-up...
STAFF WRITER 28 May 2013
Kgotla forms church, undecided about music career
Speaking to Showbiz, the artist who dropped a bombshell last year by announcing that he is quitting secular music for good, asserted he left God's Way Ministries early this year to start his own ministry."I was ordained as a minister towards the end...
GASEBAWE SERETSE
Correspondent 28 May 2013
O'Neal, Motamma are Botswana's BBA house reps
And how prophetic it has turned out to be as social networks have been abuzz for the past two weeks with O'Neal Madumo's name pitted as the Botswana representative. Well known through his weekday radio show Zibanani Live that has seen him...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
Equatorial Guinea votes in 'sham' polls
The Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), headed by Africa's longest serving leader, is expected to clinch an overwhelming victory. The small central west African nation, the continent's third-largest oil producer, has been under the...
28 May 2013
Mandela too soft on whites - Mugabe
In a cosy lunch setting with his wife and children, the 89-year-old speaks on a wide range of issues from his controversial hold on power, to his relationships with former British premiers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. The two-and-a-half hour...
28 May 2013
Paedophile priests cover-up was to protect church- Cardinal Pell
Pell, speaking at an inquiry by Victoria's parliament into child sex abuse in the state, denied being personally involved in the cover-up of paedophile priests, but said it was clear it happened."The primary motivation would have been to respect the...
28 May 2013
Ban 'deeply concerned' by Hezbollah role in Syria war
In a statement released hours after two rockets hit the Hezbollah stronghold of southern Beirut, Ban called on all nations and groups to "cease supporting the violence inside Syria," said his spokesman Martin Nesirky.The UN secretary general is...
28 May 2013
Africa gives AU many grey hairs on its 50th
Long-running unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo dominated the start of the two-day AU meeting as leaders from the Great Lakes region met for the first time since signing an agreement in February aimed at restoring peace in the region. "A...
28 May 2013
Kenyan police kill Muslim cleric with ties to Somali militants
Police said Khalid Ahmed, a Somali with a Kenyan passport, had been a close friend of Aboud Rogo, a slain Muslim cleric whom the Kenyan government and the United States accused of helping Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in Somalia.Senior police...
28 May 2013
Egypt's court says police, army should vote
For decades, a long-running legal tradition in Egypt's army and police barred soldiers, conscripts and members of the security from voting while in the service. The ban, which was written into law in 1976, was widely seen as a move designed to keep...
28 May 2013
Phikwe Co-op clears P4 million debt
The chairperson of the board of the co-operative society Tebogo Venson told members during their annual general meeting over the weekend that they have almost cleared all their debts. He explained that the co-operative society suffered poor control...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 28 May 2013
ICTs vital for human capital development - Molefhi
Speaking at the International Telecommunications (ITU) workshop yesterday, Molefhi said Africa's inadequate ICT infrastructure contributes to limited prospects for the continent's integration as many African countries are at the lower rank of the ICT...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Air Namiabia terminates Gaborone route
Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, Air Namibia general manager for commercial services Xavier Masule said the decision would allow them to go back to the drawing board and re-strategise before re-entering the market at a later stage.He explained...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 28 May 2013
MDC unveils transformation agenda
Addressing a mammoth rally in the high density suburb on May 19, Tsvangirai told supporters that the time has come for Zimbabweans 'to live decently in their country after almost 30 years of abject poverty and ridicule' under ZANU-PF misrule."After...
JOSH PETERS
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Capital flight cripples Africa
The 2013 Africa Progress Report says African policy makers have critical choices to make: they can either invest their natural resource revenue in people to generate jobs and opportunities for millions in present and future generations. Or they can...
28 May 2013
As I see It
The heading of this article was the tailend of the previous article in the column. Readers of As I See It will remember the article posed the question,' 'Is Domkrag Panicking On The Eve of 2014 General Elections?' Though the signs of panic are...
Michael Dingake 28 May 2013
Limko is crying out for attention
A lot be has been going on at LUCT recently. Towards the end of February this year, LUCT students embarked on a class boycott and a peaceful demonstration to protest what they termed lack of consultation by university management. The students were...
28 May 2013
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28 May 2013
Drag race ends in death of youth
MOCHUDI: "Alcohol, car racing and spinning do not go together." These are the words of the uncle of a young man who ended up dead after he and his friends paid no heed when the elder warned them to stop playing with cars as if they were...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Airshow makes its mark
The Botswana International Air Show has certainly made its mark on the Botswana calendar of outdoor events.The crowd was fairly good for an event that made its debut only last year. It was held at the Matsieng International Airstrip that is owned by...
28 May 2013
Mo Ibrahim, AfDB to live-stream discussion on governance
The event, "The Critical Role of Leadership and Governance for Africa's Transformation," will be streamed live tomorrow, Wednesday. The panelists, including Dr Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, and Dr Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of...
28 May 2013
Gaborone's new CBD: A design or a management problem?
Laurel and Hardy came in handy when I started to write this piece about the seminar and my general feeling of distress after a few hours. I remembered some old movies and in one, Hardy finds Laurel dressed for a party but sitting on the home verandah...
28 May 2013
Orange gives Bana ba Letsatsi a boost
The centre provides several services to OVCs ranging from psychosocial support, daily meals, literacy classes, a pre-school programme and transportation of children to and from schools and homes.The Orange donation, which consisted of foodstuff,...
STAFF WRITER 28 May 2013
Central Region rewards achievers
At the ceremony, 937 recipients received awards. "They were recognised, acknowledged, appreciated and celebrated," said the ministry's regional director, Molebi Morolong.Held at the Tonota Bus Rank, hundreds of teachers, non-teaching staff, students...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Student aims for more glory
The 18-year-old former Sefhare Junior Secondary School student is the best overall junior certificate (JC) holder in the northern region with a merit grade comprising eight As and one B.She told Mmegi that she still wants to achieve more. Mokoto...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 28 May 2013
Broadhurst Adventists to build P13m community centre
The building will serve as a community succour centre for anyone in need of such attention in and around Gaborone.Nasha said the project comes at a time large numbers of youths in Botswana are going through social challenges."Due to desperation,...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
Hearing takes hardnosed view of PS
Chairman Nehemiah Modubule was particularly tough with Maphorisa: "What is said in this committee,What you say to this committee should be the truth and nothing else." Without any sign of mollycoddling, Modubule said he did not want to be hard on...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
DTEF to terminate sponsorships of employed beneficiaries
Speaking with Mmegi yesterday, the director of DTEF, Marcos Maedza, said the increasing practice is disturbing because it contributes to the high failure rates at local tertiary institutions. "This leads to students failing and dropping out of...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
BPP retains Molapise as president
Molapise was expected to retire at the one day elective conference over the weekend but was reportedly forced to renege on his decision by some party members who believe that the 68-year-old still has more to offer.Molapise contested the elections...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 28 May 2013
Fisher gets diplomatic post
A media note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation yesterday said General Fisher was replacing Clifford Maribe who has served in Nigeria since 2009. Before his appointment to Abuja, Fisher has been a senior lecturer at...
STAFF WRITER 28 May 2013
Africa orphaned, under guardianship at World Bank
In a recent article published in this forum Phyllis Muhammad wrote about "the twin evils that have bedeviled the World Bank's relationship with Africa as a continent and Africans as human beings." Her article opened a space for a new perspective and...
28 May 2013
Ethnic politics on the Zimbabwean campaign trail
Historians say today’s tribal politics date back to the 1960s and 70s when nationalists were agitating for independence from the then white minority regime. This is dismissed by those who insist that the liberation struggle was...
* MARKO PHIRI 28 May 2013
Think there's no alternative? Latin America has a few
Ever since the crash of 2008 exposed the rotten core of a failed economic model, we've been told there are no viable alternatives. As Europe sinks deeper into austerity, governing parties of whatever stripe are routinely rejected by disillusioned...
28 May 2013
A bitter struggle for control of the Catholic Church
Naked and goaded viciously by hornets and wasps, his blood sucked by loathsome worms. Such was the fate of a pope in Dante’s “Divine Comedy” who “by his cowardice made the great refusal.”Benedict XVI, in short, knew what...
28 May 2013
The Game of 'Glof'
When I arrived here in mid January 1979 (at mid-day), having flown from Johannesburg to here in an old DC-3 that made my jet-lag from Lufthansa to the then Jan Smuts a mere memory, I was met by a very friendly Anders Hallden from the Swedish Embassy....
28 May 2013
Implications of the Brussels diamond heist to Botswana
Except for the absence of flowing Martinis and trophy bimbos, it all seemed like a scene from a James Bond movie.On Tuesday, robbers dressed as police and armed with machineguns raided a Swiss bound aircraft at Brussels Airport and stole 120 parcels...
28 May 2013
Nigeria to the rescue!
Nigeria can take all of Botswana's cattle, the High Commissioner of Nigeria to Botswana, Charles Cocodia, said when he paid a courtesy call on Dikgang Publishing Company, the publishers of Mmegi and The Monitor newspapers, on Tuesday this...
28 May 2013
Ending the financial arms race
Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near-death experience for quite some time. As...
*KENNETH ROGOFF* 28 May 2013
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