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Easy group for Bots in squash World Champs
The prestigious tournament, which serves as the world team championship for squash players, kicks off in Mulhouse, France, on Sunday. Botswana Squash Racket Association (BSRA) president, Tiego Rabasha is happy with the Group E seeding and believes...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 07 June 2013
Queens swoop up Ngwako ahead of netball season
Ngwako is one of the experienced four players added to the Queens' squad ahead of the 2013/14 netball season that kicks off next weekend.The Prisons trio of Goitsemodimo Jikinya, Natasha Maribe and Goisegotlhale Onotsile will also turn out for the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 07 June 2013
BDF VI poised to end first round top
The SSKB based side is expected to walk in the park against Tanian tomorrow in their last game as the league reaches the halfway mark. The defending champions have thus far collected 33 points after winning all their 11 matches. After a brave...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
First cut
As the curtain finally comes down on the 2012/13 premier league soccer season all that one can say is: Thanks God the stress is over. This has without doubt been one of the most stressful seasons for everyone, including the support structures of the...
Dennis Keagile 07 June 2013
ECCO mull offloading midfielders
The senior club officials, among them coach Atshele Molapi, his two assistants Blessing Moyo and Tshokolo Nkola as well as welfare manager Alfred Monyamane and manager Moffat Dick, were expected to meet last Tuesday to decide the players who should...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Tshosane, Ramatlhakwana find joy in North Africa
Stanley Tshosane is undoubtedly battle hardened having endured a barrage of criticism. He might not have nine lives like a cat, but Tshosane has survived even after the ink had long dried on his football obituary.Now Tshosane finds himself with an...
07 June 2013
Big night beckons for Amos
He has been nominated in the male junior category against Khaya Groth of karate and swimming's Andrian Todd. He also stands to win the biggest gong on the night - the Sportsperson of the Year award. World 400 metre champion, Amantle Montsho has...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
A forgettable season with flashes of brilliance
Best SigningWithout doubt, Ofentse Mmipi has been a revelation this season despite only arriving at BDF XI at the beginning of the season. The likes of Maano Ditshupo (Township Rollers), Desire Bafana (Extension Gunners) and Oteng Moalosi (Notwane)...
07 June 2013
Mascom keen on extending contract- BFA
Mascom entered into a two-year deal with BFA last year with an option to renew for another year, but are yet to exercise the option as the deal came to an end this year. Speaking at the awards ceremony of the Mascom Top 8 Cup at the GICC on Wednesday...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Zebras out to redeem national pride
Then in need to overcome a 3-0 deficit from the first leg match of the 2013 AFCON qualifiers, they were up for a rude awakening as Mali humiliated them 4-1 in their own backyard. The result thus denied the Zebras their second AFCON...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Breakaway group killed to foil Sudan pact- monitors
The May 12 "assassination" of Mohammed Bashar and others who broke away from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) "is not only an act of vengeance but a calculated and deliberate move to dissuade others who may be willing to join the peace...
07 June 2013
Mpofu questions police 'lawlessness' at Marikana inquiry
Dali Mpofu, for the miners arrested and wounded during last year's unrest at Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana, said he heard the report on radio in the morning. He raised the issue as he cross-examined national police commissioner Riah...
07 June 2013
Madagascar postpones elections due to funding problems
"A decree has been adopted for a postponement to August 23," Communications Minister Harry Laurent Rahajason told AFP after the cabinet decided on the date, which needs final approval from the election commission and United Nations. An election court...
07 June 2013
Zambian gay rights case goes to high court
Magistrate Lameck Ngambi granted the defence's application for a hearing in the upper court, where a ruling in the activist's favour could see the case thrown out. Kasonkomona, 38, was arrested and charged with soliciting for "immoral purposes" after...
07 June 2013
Obama invitation a cheap stunt - ANC
The invitation by the DA-led Western Cape for Obama to accept the freedom the city of Cape Town, and address parliament during his three-day visit at the end of the month has stirred controversy.The ANC has opposed the invitation and accused the DA...
07 June 2013
Malema 'okay' with monkey picture in Free State school
"They can do that with me, displaying me next to the monkeys, it's OK," Malema told the Sowetan."Nothing shocks me. Our people are subjected to harsh realities of racism everyday. As for me, once you display a racist attitude, I don't waste time, I...
07 June 2013
Should Australia's manufacturing future be nuclear?
However, while the mining and education sectors have apparently hit their peaks and manufacturing continues its decline (as seen by the planned withdrawal of Ford in 2016), there seems to be no replacement underway.There is another possibility -...
07 June 2013
The banality of 'don't be evil'
This idiom reflects the ever-closer union between the State Department and Silicon Valley, as personified by Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, and Cohen, a former adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton who is now director of Google...
JULIAN ASSANGE 07 June 2013
Is Kenya being shaped into Africa's flagship tax haven?
If anyone ever doubted the sheer scale of corporate greed, they had the unedifying spectacle of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, to enlighten them last week. In already infamous evidence to a Senate Committee, he demonstrated there is no limit on what...
07 June 2013
Confused but more scared
It all started in the 1999 General Election when Festus Mogae was running for presidency. I was only eight-years-old then and did not really understand why my mother was making such a big deal about the upcoming elections. This was however up until...
GAONE ABOTSENG 07 June 2013
Nitty Gritty
Ausi Maggie uses it often. She says; "I refuse to be called a divorcee as if I am the one who was divorced and sat there passively feeling sorry for myself and my kids. You all know the truth, I am the one who took that useless bugger of a deadwood...
Barolong Seboni 07 June 2013
Beefing Botswana livestock industry with science - The dairy industry
Like the American, Batswana believe in big things (the big vans, big SUV and the bigger cows). However, when it comes to which cow is sustainable for rearing in Botswana, big is not the answer. Science of animal nutrition will tell you that when...
07 June 2013
Book review
Michael Stanley (2013) Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery. London, Harper Paperbacks Original, 477 pages, P144. ISBN 978-0-06222-152-0. Available at Exclusive Books when they reopen, Riverwalk. Reviewed by Sheridan Griswold Deadly...
Sheridan Griswold 07 June 2013
Back stage
You can look forward to F&F7, as it is promised you will only have to wait one year for the seventh version of this popular "auto erotica". F&F6 is sequel number six, not six actors (there are actually at least eight who have star billing)...
Sasa Majuma 07 June 2013
Pamela Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Nkosi: Contrasts that complement
In a peculiar way artists Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi complement each other. Not only in their work, as can be seen in the first intallment of their "collaborative-solo" exhibition series, but in a more glaringly obvious...
07 June 2013
President's Day art competition opens
Submitted pieces have revealed especially that many bidding artists have a gone an extra mile this time in improvising different materials to create objects that will blow an art admirer's mind.One of the pieces displayed on the walls of the art...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Why Thabiso chose fabric design
Majority of us on a daily basis wear clothes with shapes and designs that give them that unique attraction. The shape printed on one's attire often symbolises their attachment to the art displayed yet for others it would be the colours that would...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Consumer watchdog
We all want to save money but the bad news is that saving money is a bit like losing weight. There are NO miracle products or solutions. The ONLY way to lose weight is to consume less energy than you use. Consume more a you use and your prehistoric...
07 June 2013
Construction regulator on the cards
Addressing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology Kagiso Mokotedi said government is putting in place a registration board coupled with an industry regulator to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 07 June 2013
Credit referencing system to benefit real estate industry
The development will help deal with challenges agencies and property managers face in pre-assessing risks potential tenants bear. The partnership between the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Africa and the Real Estate Institute Botswana (REIB) could...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Turnstar Holdings CEO resigns
"I cannot say anything further but you can call Turnstar office. They will give you more detailed information as far as my resignation goes," Motlhabane told Mmegi.Acting CEO Gulaam Abdoola confirmed Motlhabane's resignation but would not comment...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 07 June 2013
Govt admits bungling in SSKIA tender
Speaking before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week, Kagiso Mokotedi said that because of desperation to finish expansion of the airport before the June 2012 FIFA World Cup hosted by South Africa, there were anomalies in the way the tender...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Digging tswana roots
This recalls the conversion of Saul, a zealous Roman-Jew from Tarsus in Asia Minor, who began as a persecutor of Christians only to become a champion of their cause. The conversion apparently occurred when he was on the road to Damascus in Syria...
L.M.Leteane 07 June 2013
We're not for sale
MIH the biggest media company in this country holds various interests in other publications among them our sister publication The Monitor, other weeklies The Guardian and The Midweek Sun. The inner workings of our mother company remain the preserve...
07 June 2013
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07 June 2013
Transforming Zimbabwe's agrarian economy
Beyond the wholly inappropriate ad hominem attack on Hanlon (respectable newspapers should not publish such insults I believe - although they have printed a response), what is their actual argument? The views of a neoliberal economist and a one-time...
*IAN SCOONES 07 June 2013
The race for SA's big prize in 2014
The ANC leadership in Gauteng is on the back foot after being in the losing camp at the Mangaung conference but still believe they can increase their percentage of votes in the province. The DA wants to take control of Gauteng, its strongest...
07 June 2013
Infinite possibilities with Nissan
But then again, most people in Botswana have not had a chance to be up close and personal with the brand Infiniti. That is a crying shame because Infiniti is a world class brand that sees soaring successes elsewhere in the world. Here then is an...
DESMOND LESETEDI
Correspondant 07 June 2013
Bushfire Festival: Where Africa meets
All roads led to the Kingdom of Swaziland last weekend for the annual Bushfire Festival, which has put the monarchy on the map. After attending the fest for the first time last year (2012), there was no way I could miss the latest edition. The...
07 June 2013
Union fights bank CEO
In a petition dated May 9, 2012 presented to the NDB board chairperson, Lesego Seitei, the union expressed dissatisfaction with "the below expectation performance of the CEO". "Talented, very intelligent as she is, our observation is that for...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Tati Nickel will close and so will Debswana.... eventually!
The last few weeks have been traumatic and trying for the approximately 800 employees at one of the nation's largest private employers - the Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC). TNMC has two mines in close proximity, the Selkirk mine, which was...
07 June 2013
Police nab second Rakops fugitive
The two re-arrested escapees hail from Rakops while the ones still at large are from Boteti and Maun respectively.One is facing an armed robbery charge while his accomplice is wanted for shop breaking. After the escape, the police launched a massive...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 07 June 2013
Attorneys laud Kirby over marital rape ruling
BAD is a Facebook forum for lawyers in Botswana to debate, interrogate and discuss matters affecting the life of law and its institutions in Botswana and take necessary action. It has more than 200 active members. "I have always been aware of this...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
PAC grills PS on unspent millions
He told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the money was not used in the last financial year because of abnormalities. He was put to task to explain why the ministry has put measures in place to control expenditure in local authorities while it...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 07 June 2013
Health inspectors raid Choppies for expired yoghurts
A team of public health officers swung into action when a nauseous customer barged in their office showing them containers of expired yoghurts he drank and the receipts. The health officers went to the store and confiscated a number of yoghurts that...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 07 June 2013
BTU extra-ordinary congress billed for July 23
"The congress may be held in Mmadinare or Mogoditshane village. We will make an official announcement on the venue next week. This is meant to allow the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) the opportunity to get us a returning officer (in either...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
Khama's grand 2014 strategy
*Kgosi 'will resign' and join Cabinet <br>*Ndelu 'headed' for vice presidency Isaac Kgosi, the Director General of the Directorate of Intelligence and Services (DIS) is poised to resign this year in preparation for an appointment into cabinet...
07 June 2013
I am ready to declare my assets - Raletobana
"Some of us just survive with negative assets. The properties I have were obtained through loans, which I am still servicing. Until they are fully paid for, such cannot be said to be our properties as such," he said. He explained that the idea to...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 07 June 2013
Party positions bought in BDP?
Lately, it has been increasingly apparent that a lobby group dominated by young businessmen, otherwise known as tenderpreneurs, has taken the BDP by storm with its extravagant campaigns. It is alleged that party positions are being bought in the BDP....
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
It's all-Khama's people for the chairmanship
As the party heads to Maun, Khama has kept his cards very close to his chest so that he does not possibly divide party members. Not that he is pressed to announce his favourite candidate because all the three candidates for the chairmanship--Pelonomi...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 07 June 2013
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