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Extreme capitalism of the Muslim Brothers
The Muslim Brothers' economic credo of free enterprise unhampered by state interference is more closely consonant with neoliberal doctrine than was the form of capitalism dominant under Mubarak. This holds in particular for the version of that credo...
18 June 2013
From G8 to G20 to G-Zero
As G8 leaders prepare to gather in Northern Ireland on June 17 and 18, we are reminded of days when American, western European and Japanese officials could credibly claim to set an international agenda. Then came the financial meltdown of 2008, a...
18 June 2013
Snowden: One American who isn't for sale
So it's true, as filmmaker Michael Moore once warned us, the Carlyle Group is Big Brother. That's the $176 billion private equity firm that once employed former President George H W Bush, his Secretary of State James A Baker III and a host of...
18 June 2013
How not to write about Africa
A decade after his last African travelogue, Dark Star Safari, which took him from Cairo to Cape Town, Paul Theroux picks up where he left off. He starts at the southern tip, intending to journey up 'the left-hand side of Africa' until he finds...
18 June 2013
Banda could have interfered with witnesses - minister
Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu said the former president was not allowed to fly to Johannesburg because there was a travel ban on him and moreover the Attorney-General had not been furnished with copies of the court order from the Lusaka High...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Mandela in hospital: Let the media do their job
Let me first sum up what I believe to be the case against media coverage. First, it's just somehow wrong to sit outside a hospital waiting for someone to die; it's inhuman and damages Madiba's dignity. Secondly, journalists are only doing this...
18 June 2013
BDF's radio trench
In 2007, BDF HQ was in the process of finalising the processes of setting up an institutional radio station at their barracks. The now retired Colonel Mogorosi Baatweng, who was at the time in charge of the army's PR office, was spearheading...
18 June 2013
The Okavango's world-famous aquatic taximan
The inside of an average Gaborone taxi is both a mobile armoury teeming with an assortment of deadly weapons of bodily destruction and a perpetually active war zone.This description should make it easy to imagine how homicidal drivers of such taxis...
18 June 2013
New BDP factional wars on the horizon?
In Tonota South, Tonota Central ward councillor, Botho Ntirang got a rude awakening last week when the party secretariat unceremoniously albeit unsuccessfully attempted to cancel a rally that he had organised at Manyanda Shopping Complex. The rally...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
The Winners Code
One of the most powerful phenomena in human behaviour is the human being's tendency to move and gravitate towards the norm. By definition the norm is the designated standard of average performance of people of a given age or background. Left to his...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 18 June 2013
Where Is Our Botho?
Yet when someone looks at the kind of cruelty demonstrated by various organs of state which are supposed to be the driving force for the Vision, it defies thought that we will ever achieve anything in that respect.This week this publication was...
18 June 2013
Angola walks out over poor boxing decisions
The Angolans were enraged following a controversial decision to award Namibian boxer Ruben Shilongo victory in the heavyweight division bout against their pugilist Tumba Silva. The judges' decision to declare Shilongo the winner came as a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Doping tests conducted during Phikwe Marathon
Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) official, Bobby Gaseitsiwe, told Mmegi Sport that anti-doping tests are done on all athletes who participate in international competitions and it is not confined to athletics.He explained that the process is...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Ethiopia verdict keeps Zebras interested
If three points are deducted, it will revive the Zebras' interest in the race to qualify for Brazil 2014.However, Ethiopia, even without the three points, will still be in the driving seat. Zebras will be awarded three points on a 3-0 scoreline....
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
Premier League office summons Moyana
The national team winger, Moyana, penned three deals within a week and a fierce wrangle between local giants Township Rollers and Mochudi Centre Chiefs is ensuing.Rollers tied the talented player to a two-year-deal, with Chiefs also 'extending' his...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Back stage
Wuthering Heights (2011) is showing today only at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. Wuthering Heights is also the novel by Emily Bront‘ (1818-1848), published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis...
Sasa Majuma 18 June 2013
Angola suffers double 'tragedy' in BBA - The Chase
Angolan housemates on Sunday became the latest to be evicted from The Chase, making history as the first housemates from one country to be ejected at the same time.The two Angolans, Biguessas and Neyll, did not get enough votes from Africa to keep...
STAFF WRITER 18 June 2013
Ozi F Teddy back with a bang
Now the young lad is back with a bang with tracks from his mixtape titled Road To Live being on heavy rotation on local radio stations.The 22-year-old Hip Hop artist, whose real name is Ted Phaphane, told Showbiz that the mixtape is a promotional...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Ditsebe's November luggage stuck in Philippines
The event took place on November 24, and because the reigning Miss Earth Botswana was given extra gifts, her luggage exceeded the baggage limit for the airline she used. That meant she had to leave some of her bags behind. "My tenure as Miss Earth...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Snowden poses stress test for Hong Kong's ties with China
In retreating to Hong Kong and vowing to fight any extradition attempt, the former CIA analyst is testing its civil liberties and will set a landmark on whether the city can govern itself without interference from Beijing, experts say."I'd be...
18 June 2013
G8 faces uncertain recoveries, turbulent markets
That's the global economy that will confront the heads of the Group of Eight leading economies as they gather Monday and Tuesday for their annual summit in Northern Ireland.British Prime Minister David Cameron will serve as summit host for US...
18 June 2013
SA has changed for better- Zuma
We thank the youth for their sterling contribution to both freedom and the reconstruction of their country," he said at a Youth Day celebration in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, according to a copy of his speech.Zuma said the government had prioritised...
18 June 2013
Mugabe says rivals scared of 'sure' defeat
His rivals said reforms to restrictive media and security laws were essential for any fair election to be held and that it was Mugabe's party that was not ready to go the polls.Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader at 89, last week used a presidential...
18 June 2013
Pan Africanist Youth Congress leader labels Mandela a sell-out
"He betrayed us by rubber-stamping the 1913 Land Act through the adoption of [the] Freedom Charter," Tladi was quoted by The Citizen newspaper as saying yesterday."The problem with the Freedom Charter is that it made African people to be...
18 June 2013
Botswana can lose Indian coal market to Australia-Expert
Landlocked Botswana has an estimated 212 billion tonnes of coal, but none has so far been commercially exported outside the continent due to the absence of cost effective export routes to ports. Presenting at the Botswana Resource Sector...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 18 June 2013
World Bank marginally downgrades Botswana forecast
The World Bank's latest forecast is higher than the 4.1 percent projected by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April but lower than the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning's 5.9 percent. It is also higher than both the Bank of...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
Interrogate the international ratings
As the revolutionary youth wing, we want to make it categorically clear that the 2012 African Leadership Index's finding is not only a pathetic shame to those who compiled the report, but also an insult to the workers and the poor peasants who are...
18 June 2013
The challenges of being young
Much has been written about the Soweto Uprising or June 16. This day, now a public holiday - Youth Day, in South Africa is commemorated across Africa as a day signifying the role of youth in politics, in particular their role in overthrowing...
18 June 2013
As I see it
Botswana party politics is relatively new; we therefore expect the quality of party members as well as their parties to be rock bottom on the scale of institutional political development. Party members grow into their parties from a cultural and...
Michael Dingake 18 June 2013
Selefu 18 June 2013
18 June 2013
Exploitation has a new name
The ministry is the latest to hop on to this exploitative bandwagon.While we are not opposed to volunteerism, we are concerned at the way government has taken to it in recent times. Amid the recruitment freeze at government enclave, so-called...
18 June 2013
Very little in Mugabe's visit
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe jetted into Botswana yesterday to confer his condolences to the family of former President Sir Ketumile Masire, whose wife, Lady Olebile Masire passed away last month.The department of public relations, research and...
STAFF WRITER 18 June 2013
Adequate supply of safe blood a challenge - Seakgosing
Speaking at the annual commemoration of World Blood Donor day, Seakgosing said the shortage of blood supply remains a challenge that needs to be addressed because inadequate supply of blood can lead to high mortality rates across the globe, with...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 18 June 2013
US chief complains of defecation in Okavango Delta
He said improving health and hygiene, as well as protecting the quality of the water are just a few of the measures his government is pushing to improve management of the Okavango Delta and the entire Okavango River Basin.Murphy was speaking during...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Strategy to preserve Okavango complete
Murphy who expressed pride over the support his government is extending to Botswana to secure a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation World Heritage Site designation for the Okavango Delta, was speaking at the handing over...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 18 June 2013
Miner dies in freak accident at TNMC
The death of the miner, believed to be 30-years old, is the third fatality recorded by TNMC since the mine opened more than a decade ago.Unconfirmed reports suggest that the operator is said to have earlier on reported, while working on levelling the...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
Witness says she was drunk
Doreen Nankonani, 24, was the first witness in a case in which Mompoloki Charles, 33, is said to have beaten his ex-girlfriend Joyce Gabanthate to death on June 26, 2010 in Palapye. She said: "Nna tota ke ne ke itshietse. (I was really drunk)...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
No arrests of escaped prisoners yet
Dennis Alec Moyo (36) from Bulawayo was serving 13 years for rape and robbery while Shadreck Noel Tsoko (30) from Masvingo, Zimbabwe was serving five years for warehouse break-in. The third escapee is Patrick Muchenje (28) from Marondela, Zimbabwe,...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
High Court hears Ranyane relocations
The case comes before Justice Moroka following an interim court order granted to the residents by the High Court to stop the Gantsi Land Board, Gantsi District Council and the Gantsi District Commissioner from relocating the residents.Despite the...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
Family 'on fire' calls for peace
After a busy weekend of prayers and sermons from various church denominations, Mmegi news team visited the homestead yesterday but some members of the family were reluctant to discuss details, as they are yet to meet on how to handle the mystery.But...
STAFF WRITER 18 June 2013
Youth urged to push for AYC ratification
Speaking at the official opening of the establishment of the Botswana Chapter of the African Youth and Adolescents Network (AfriYAN) yesterday, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative Aisha Camara-Drammeh said young people are...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 18 June 2013
How not to write about Africa
A decade after his last African travelogue, Dark Star Safari, which took him from Cairo to Cape Town, Paul Theroux picks up where he left off. He starts at the southern tip, intending to journey up 'the left-hand side of Africa' until he finds...
19 June 2013
Banda could have interfered with witnesses - minister
Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu said the former president was not allowed to fly to Johannesburg because there was a travel ban on him and moreover the Attorney-General had not been furnished with copies of the court order from the Lusaka High...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Mandela in hospital: Let the media do their job
Let me first sum up what I believe to be the case against media coverage. First, it's just somehow wrong to sit outside a hospital waiting for someone to die; it's inhuman and damages Madiba's dignity. Secondly, journalists are only doing this...
19 June 2013
BDF's radio trench
In 2007, BDF HQ was in the process of finalising the processes of setting up an institutional radio station at their barracks. The now retired Colonel Mogorosi Baatweng, who was at the time in charge of the army's PR office, was spearheading...
19 June 2013
The Okavango's world-famous aquatic taximan
The inside of an average Gaborone taxi is both a mobile armoury teeming with an assortment of deadly weapons of bodily destruction and a perpetually active war zone.This description should make it easy to imagine how homicidal drivers of such taxis...
19 June 2013
New BDP factional wars on the horizon?
In Tonota South, Tonota Central ward councillor, Botho Ntirang got a rude awakening last week when the party secretariat unceremoniously albeit unsuccessfully attempted to cancel a rally that he had organised at Manyanda Shopping Complex. The rally...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
The Winners Code
One of the most powerful phenomena in human behaviour is the human being's tendency to move and gravitate towards the norm. By definition the norm is the designated standard of average performance of people of a given age or background. Left to his...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 19 June 2013
Where Is Our Botho?
Yet when someone looks at the kind of cruelty demonstrated by various organs of state which are supposed to be the driving force for the Vision, it defies thought that we will ever achieve anything in that respect.This week this publication was...
19 June 2013
Interrogate the international ratings
As the revolutionary youth wing, we want to make it categorically clear that the 2012 African Leadership Index's finding is not only a pathetic shame to those who compiled the report, but also an insult to the workers and the poor peasants who are...
19 June 2013
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