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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...
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
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 20 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 20 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...
20 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...
20 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...
20 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 20 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 20 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...
20 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 20 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 20 June 2013
Local rider gets new wheels
Lekone will start his race today with new wheels after the ministry and Botswana-Post joined hands to buy him a new 700cc bike. The quad bikes and two wheelers start their race this morning and finish tomorrow while the vehicles start on...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
FIFA Goal III project for F/town
The FIFA Goal Project is a worldwide development programme to bring parity through the provision of specific needs of national associations in the area of tailor-made development and assistance programmes.FIFA's continuous assistance to associations...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 20 June 2013
FRAFA chief spit fire against detractors
This was said FRAFA chairperson, Jonas Ikgopoleng who reiterated that there were some individuals who were fighting tooth and nail to see the downfall of the FRAFA committee."Let me take this opportunity to warn these individuals to desist from their...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
BMC resolves impasse
The B.M.C Football Club (FC) executive committee and company management have finally smoked a peace pipe paving way for a smooth transition that has recently come under threat. The two parties convened in a meeting on Tuesday where they reached an...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
South Africa has no case against Ethiopia
South African media was abuzz with reports that Minhyahil Teshome Beyene who played while suspended for the Zebras game, should have also sat out their weekend clash against Ethiopia. South Africa argues Beyene had not served his suspension and...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Kgokgonono now Monna Wa Lekgotla
This time the Kanye-born maestro has joined his homeboys Malebogo Simamma, Tumelo Keakitse to produce a Dikhwaere album. Their band is called Banna Ba Lekgotla.With his authoritative bass, which easily changes into an inviting tenor, the muscular...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
TLes to croon as youth cross-connect
Lesole, along with Hip-Hop disc jockey (DJ) Riley Serojane and AFC will entertain young people as they encamp at OBC from July 11 to 13. American author and actress Jada L Corfield will also share from some of her works at the winter...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Samantha hopes to scale mountains as a singer
Highly gifted 24-year-old Samantha Bwalya Mogwe started singing in her church youth group where many saw talent in her and encouraged her to enter various competitions so she could actualize her musical talent. She tells Showbiz that she joined the...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Grugamba releases second album
The six-track album was recorded at Star Records in Francistown and Grugamba told Showbiz that his first album was gospel.The 25-year-old, who hails from Zwenshambe, mentioned that the album title was his way of showing how grateful he was to...
BONTE SEEPI
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Sasa Klaas: Fierce behind the mic
In an interview with Showbiz, Klaas revealed that it has taken her some years to get where she in now. She said that as a female rapper she has had to overcome being undermined by both male rappers and the general public who usually pass...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Mali signs ceasefire with Tuaregs
The agreement, reached after 10 days of tense negotiations, will enable Malian troops to enter the Tuareg-held city of Kidal to secure the polls scheduled to take place on July 28.The two sides agreed to halt hostilities and for Tuareg rebels, who...
20 June 2013
Fears of violence grow as Egypt's June 30 protest nears
Opponents of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi are convinced that this is the best and perhaps the last opportunity to drive him from power. They say they have tapped into widespread public discontent over shortages, broken infrastructure, high...
20 June 2013
Low quality standards limit market access - BOBS
Speaking at the second DeBeers Vendors Day, Keeper Morgan, Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) acting managing director said less than 100 companies in Botswana are certified to these standards. He said non-compliance to such standards limits...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Interest rates plunge to record low
In its third sitting of the year on Tuesday, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to cut the benchmark bank rate by 50 basis points to 8.5 percent saying the current state of the economy, which is characterised by output growing below...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
The desert race as a mirror of history
The offices of Botswana Tourism have been inundated with requests for race maps, which apparently have been published late this year. The race is undoubtedly the biggest annual outdoor activity in Botswana.The number of local participants has...
RICHARD MOLEOFE 20 June 2013
Have fun responsibly
Over the years, the race has helped to put Botswana on the global map as one of the biggest sports spectacles in the region. Not only does it attract motorsport lovers, but fun and entertainment enthusiasts are also in the mix. Botswana Tourism,...
20 June 2013
Selefu 20 June 2013
20 June 2013
ANC suspends North West mayor
"By virtue of his suspension, the respondent [Thale] will no longer be able to represent the applicant [provincial working committee] as the mayor and councillor of the Ramotshere Moiloa local municipality and must accordingly vacate his position,"...
20 June 2013
Zim woman jailed for obtaining Omang
Thembinkosi Ncube was found guilty by Magistrate Dumisani Bagopi of applying for an Omang in 1999 in Francistown claiming to be a Motswana. Bagopi found that Ncube gave information she knew to be false. Before delivering judgement, the magistrate...
BONTE SEEPI
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Man escapes jail term in threat-to-kill case
Goitsemodimo Setume who is unemployed was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend, Keneilwe Gabareke and threatening to kill her at Monarch in January 2012. Setume is said to have beaten his girlfriend with fists and kicked her, injuring her...
BONTE SEEPI
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Former Brigade student faces infanticide charge
FRANCISTOWN: A forensic pathologist has testified that a baby whose mother claimed was born dead was suffocated to death with plastics. Doctor Kaelo Manzira Mabaka explained before Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo of the High Court that the baby was born...
ITUMELENG TSHENYEGO
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Another cllr opts out of civic politics
I want to focus on my personal businesses and I believe that should I contest the elections and win, it has the potential to disturb my businesses. I do not want to disclose the kind of venture I will be going into because the plan is still in its...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Unionists departure deals blow to retrenched workers' case
The bid by the retrenched miners to get redress at the court has suffered a body blow after their leaders resigned from the Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) Mupane branch. The workers planned to move to court after they failed to reach an agreement...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Accused called me from SA - Witness
Kudzani Kooweditse, 28, is one of the five witnesses who were not admitted from a list of 21 witnesses in a case where Khutsafalo Maswabi, 27, known as Tswaps, and two others believed to be South Africans, allegedly killed Oabile 'Two'...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
ILO includes Botswana in 'axis of evil'
Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) said on Tuesday evening that ILO has grouped Botswana with Iran, North Korea, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and others as the top violators workers' rights. According to BOFEPUSU, the recent ILO...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
BOFEPUSU declares war on politicians
They vowed that the organisation will never shy away from dabbling in politics and said they are on the offensive because politicians have declared war on workers. The organising secretary for Manual Workers Union, Johnson Motshwarakgole said...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Pay-slip in pocket, man commits suicide
The commander of Gaborone Central Police Station, Superintendent Modisaotsile Bonang said the 22-year old man was spotted by a police officer who was en-route to Old Naledi Police Station. The officer was about to take a taxi to work when she spotted...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
BDP man appointed to head Bargaining Council
The Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions (BOFEPUSU) claims that it has agreed to the appointment of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activist Modiri Mbaakanyi to the Public Sector Bargaining Council (PSBC) for the sake of progress. Mbaakanyi,...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Ex-mayor wants ouster case 'heard out of time'
The councillor was toppled as city mayor last September through a motion of no confidence but failed to challenge it in court within the required four months. Last Friday, he applied for leave to be allowed a late challenge through his lawyer Morgan...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 20 June 2013
Govt hatches plan to get rid of Sekai
Sekai who has dominated the headlines for the past four years will be 60 on July 17. As a civil servant, he should retire at 60, though he can continue in his post if the government hires him on contract. Sekai told Mmegi he is shocked to hear...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 20 June 2013
Bowls association to walk for cash
BBA spokesperson John Gaborutwe explained to Mmegi Sport that the initiative is meant not to only raise funds for the national team, but also to enable bowlers to celebrate their achievements. He said that proceeds from the Francistown event...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 21 June 2013
First cut
The Mochudi Centre Chiefs' Zimbabwean born player has been a model of consistency for the past two seasons and whenever he is out of sorts Chiefs tend to struggle. He is the player who gives the team its shape and as Chiefs go into a transition given...
DENNIS KEAGILE 21 June 2013
BAA gets tough with non-affiliate clubs
This, according to a BAA official, has been sparked by event organisers who deceive athletes by promising huge prize monies and later default. BAA vice president, Glody Dube fired a broadside at event organisers who take advantage of athletes."We had...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 June 2013
Peerless Moloi, Ethiopia's Beyene give Zebras the 'kiss of life'
National coach Stanley Tshosane has been skating on thin ice since the 2012 AFCON finals. But it is widely known that he would not have walked even if the 2014 World Cup campaign had ended in disaster. There is a huge payout package over his head and...
21 June 2013
Vultures' World Cup dream over
The Vultures lost the semi-final 41-12 to more experienced Tunisia before going down 43-5 to Senegal in the losers' final last Saturday. The results ended their dream to book a World Cup berth as well as gain promotion to Division 1A of the 2014...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 21 June 2013
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