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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
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...
19 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 19 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...
19 June 2013
Tshosane lauds BFA
The national team coach has, in the past, chided the association for poor preparations. However, after seeing his side improve performance on the field, Tshosane gave credit to men and women at Lekidi Centre."The boys are happy. We should give BFA...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
TAFIC battle to sell 75% shares
The move came after there were no takers of the 75 percent shares with the remaining third held by Humphrey Nawa and Master Mbulawa who have been running the club. The sub-committee should be in place before the start of the next season as resolved...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Serowe Brigade shines at zonal competitions
The Serowe side came first in men's football and volleyball with Madiba Senior Secondary School winning in women's football.Nswazwi women scooped volleyball title while Tswapong Bokone were victorious in netball.Serowe clinched majority of indoor...
JAMES KGOSI
Correspondent 19 June 2013
BMC fight turns ugly
The fired are head coach Daniel 'Chico' Nare, vice chairman Tiro Kganela, kit manager Donald Mopako and public relations officer Nelson Radijeng.The announcement was made through a press release signed by secretary general Modiri Garenamotse....
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Zebras bounce back as Ethiopia admits guilt
The BBC quoted Ethiopia Football Federation president, Sahilu Gebremariam admitting that his country used Minyahil Teshome Beyene when he was supposed to be serving suspension against Botswana on June 8."We are not going to appeal, it's a management...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Talented DJ Oats' musical odyssey thus far
The 26-year-old from Matsiloje told Showbiz in an interview that he has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry thus far."When I entered the industry back in 2007, I didn't know some of the tricks of the industry and therefore I failed...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Schools mark second annual drama, poetry show
The competition was established in 2011 and is held once a year to identify and develop poetry, drama and traditional dance talent.It is also aimed at raising money for charity for underprivileged scholars not on the Botswana government poverty...
ITUMELENG TSHENYEGO
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Oxford English-Setswana Dictionary a part of National Heritage
In an interview with Showbiz, Otlogetswe, its chief editor, said that the dictionary, which had been in the making for around three years, would be available in Botswana in two months' time.He said that the dictionary is in its final stages as they...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Time up for Botswana BBA - The Chase pair?
However, O'Neal and Motamma did not fall into the hot seat by getting the most nominations from their fellow housemates.O'Neal did not get even a single nomination, while Motamma got a few nominations, but as if it were by design, both were put up...
STAFF WRITERS 19 June 2013
Alan Kay distinguishes himself from the rest
This is probably because there are very few locals who can play the traditional instrument with galumph.Well, Alan Kay's new gospel album, Saved By The Grace, offers that difference.One aspect that will probably set the recently released piece apart...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Libya acquits two Gaddafi aides in Lockerbie case
But the two remain, however, in detention in connection with a separate case involving their role in repressing the 2011 rebellion against the slain dictator's regime, a prosecution official said."On behalf of all people, the court decides to acquit...
19 June 2013
Armed groups in Mali, Syria use children in conflict
In Mali, the armed groups known as MUJAO, MNLA and Ansar Dine were denounced for recruiting and using children and subjecting others to rape and other forms of sexual violence.In Syria, the Syrian Free Armed enlisted children in the conflict while...
19 June 2013
Tsvangirai backs calls for Zimbabwe polls to be delayed to October 31
"We have to hold elections by October 31," Tsvangirai's spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka told AFP.The constitutional court last month ruled fresh polls have to be held by July 31, a date which Mugabe has backed, but Tsvangirai wants electoral reforms...
19 June 2013
Malema accused of committing 'political suicide'
"Being disgruntled about individuals in the ANC cannot lead to the formation of a political party." This week, Malema announced that he would establish a new political platform-the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).Beeld newspaper reported that Malema...
19 June 2013
Nigeria attack on school, military kills 11
Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist extremist group Boko Haram on May 15 and access to the...
19 June 2013
DA suspends councillor over 'very offensive and racist' email
A Democratic Alliance councillor in the Eastern Cape has been suspended for circulating a racist email, the New Age reported on Monday.Stanford Slabbert had reportedly sent an email saying President Jacob Zuma had more wives than brain cells....
19 June 2013
SA caught in spy net
The uproar centres on reports in United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian that Britain used "ground-breaking intelligence capabilities" to monitor communications between South African officials at two meetings, in April and September of 2009, at the...
19 June 2013
IMF re-engages zimbabwe
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde approved a staff-monitored programme to oversee implementation of economic policies as a first step towards eligibility for external borrowing.The programme, covering April-December 2013, is an informal...
19 June 2013
Inflation drops closer to BoB target
According to figures released by Statistics Botswana (SB) this week, the May 2013 annual inflation figures fell by 1.1 percentage points to 6.1 percent inching closer to the Bank of Botswana 3-6 percent inflation objective.This means general prices...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Tlou Energy races to pioneer Botswana gas
The company, which is focused on a 7,000 square metre area in central Botswana, recently became the first gas developer in the country to declare an independently certified resource, at 2.3 trillion cubic feet of Coal Bed Methane (CBM). CBM is one of...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Mmualebe
Fa re le kwa diphitlhong, go a tle go nne le batho ba ba buang ka botshelo jwa moswi, ba lekodisa ba ba leng foo, ka fa ba ba tshedileng ka teng le yo o ba tlogetseng.Fa go le phuthego, go nne le yo o tlang ka molaetsa mongwe o e leng one a o alelang...
SEBOFO MOTSHWANE 19 June 2013
Govt should avoid unnecessary wars
This time around, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has unilaterally taken a decision to stop overtime allowance pay to teachers without consulting them. The Permanent Secretary in the MoESD, Grace Muzila recently told the...
19 June 2013
Our hearitage
He is recorded in Hansard as having stated that he had first arrived in this country in 1926 when he would have been 32 years old but there appears to be no certain information as to his place of birth or indeed about his earlier years. But...
SANDY GRANT 19 June 2013
FSS aims high academically
Terry Rankhudu, who doubles as chairman of Northern Art Teachers Association (NATA) said this week that the school aims to be in the top 10 performers in the country.He was speaking after the NATA annual regional art exhibition where his school...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 19 June 2013
NEDC approves 13 youth fund projects
He encouraged more youth to apply for the P4 million allocated to NEDC under the YDF. "This application form has no opening and closing dates and therefore the youth are encouraged to utilise the programme. Councillors should also intervene to assist...
BARATI MATHAMBO
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Systematic land registration starts in Hukuntsi Sub Land Board
Maotoanong Sebina was addressing the teams that have been pulled from the different Land Boards across the country to assist Kgalagadi Land Board in surveying and mapping all plots in Tshane, Hukuntsi, Lokgwabe and Lehututu from June to July 2013.He...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI 19 June 2013
No unions for security forces
Addressing the media yesterday, Batshu said given the environment in which soldiers, prison and police officers work the government cannot allow them to form unions. "It is not our intention in this country to allow these services to unionise because...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
More bad news on the water-front
Botswana acquires 7.3 million cubic litres from the dam annually but only when it is above the 27 percent mark.Below the mark and Botswana gets only half the supplies and this might happen soon, Selemogwe said.He stated that the water situation has...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Kumakwane hosts last Desert Race
Kumakwane has acted as the race headquarters for the past three years. "Plans to move the race to other areas have commenced and will be made known to the media in due course," Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) chief executive officer, Myra...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Suspect wants to be tested for HIV
In addition, Onneile Ntwayapelo advised the accused, Kgosietsile Pilato, 28, to open a case of assault against the warders.Pilato, who walks with difficulties, told the court that his right ear does not hear properly because of the torture meted on...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 19 June 2013
Ranyane residents win big
Yesterday, the two sides reached an agreement that allows the residents to stay put and requires government to pay the costs of the High Court case filed to block the decision.Only 12 residents of Ranyane challenged the decision to relocate them to...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 19 June 2013
Are non-Afrikans inherently bad?
In it she raised debate around the apparent Ubuntu in African people, and how the white man has 'made of us animals with their capitalism and individualistic ideologies'.She argued that Africans have been taken for granted and advantage of as a...
GARETH SETATI 19 June 2013
Selefu 19 June 2013
19 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...
20 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 20 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...
20 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...
20 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...
20 June 2013
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