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Drag racing fever reaches Lobatse
Organised by Spin City Botswana in partnership with Robot Auto, the race will put to test some of the country's fastest cars and motorcycles' power and acceleration over a 400 metre track to determine the ultimate champions. Speaking to Mmegi Sport...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
'Bowling struggles to attract talent'
"BBA is celebrating its 37th year of existence in Botswana. We are looking forward to making our game a household sport code by 2016 when we turn 40," said Robert adding that turning bowling into a popular sport in the country is a daunting task....
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 28 June 2013
Netball side receives rude awakening in Malawi
The two losses at the hands of Zambia and Zimbabwe saw them miss out on a spot in today's final.Next year's championships bear so much significance on the African calendar. The games will be used to rank the countries that will qualify for the 2015...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 28 June 2013
First cut
Last Sunday marked another new chapter in the history of Mochudi Centre Chiefs. It is a chapter that could significantly change not only the fortunes of the team, but also the culture of the team. By voting overwhelmingly to bring on Sayed Jamali as...
Dennis Keagile 28 June 2013
Motlakase drag Zim club to FIFA over player
Although Creven Banda never kicked a ball for the Palapye side, the club cla ms they bought him from Hwange in August 2011. The Palapye outfit recently took their charge to Zimbabwe's Premier Soccer League and FIFA's Compliant Section after spotting...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 28 June 2013
Moroko shines in Czech Republic
Athletes from 23 countries competed in the event. The 16-year-old shining performance did not come as a surprise considering his good performance in the recent past.Moroko ran an impressive time of 54.44secs, an improvement on the previous time of...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Miscellaneous moot privatisation
This is expected to happen tomorrow morning at Serowe Hotel during the club's elective Annual General Meeting (AGM). Miscellaneous vice chairperson Baratiwa Mathootle said election of the new committee is on the agenda, but it has proved not to be a...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 28 June 2013
TAFIC deny Changwe exit
Sources close to both the coach and the team informed Mmegi Sport that the long-suffering Changwe has written the letter to the club management demanding to be released from his contract. The sources, however, are adamant that the club's stance is a...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
BMC finally change ownership
Following weeks of uncertainty regarding the takeover of BMC, businessman, Daruosh Ghodrati, finally assumed ownership of the club, it was announced on Wednesday. Ghodrati owns 80 percent stake in the team while the supporters remain with 20...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Player transfers among traditional foes weaken rivalry?
South Africans on the other hand have their own derbies between Soweto giants where Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs expect nothing less than a win for their sides in that match. Botswana is no exception. While in the past, there used to a fierce...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Sekotswe denies chickening out
Professional boxer Leslie Sekotswe has dismissed reports that he has chickened out of the International Boxing Council (IBC) Inter Bantamweight title rematch bout against Namibia's Imanuel "Prince" Naindjala. Sekotswe said a jaw injury forced him out...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Obama says shouldn't have to talk to Xi, Putin about Snowden case
Speaking at a press conference in Senegal, where Obama started a three-country tour of Africa, the US president said normal legal channels should be sufficient to handle Washington's request that Snowden, who left Hong Kong for Russia, be returned."I...
28 June 2013
Foreign media 'vultures': Makaziwe Mandela
Makaziwe Mandela said the foreign media contingent camped outside the Pretoria hospital where Mandela was being treated failed to respect African custom and the family's feelings."There is an element of racism to their attitude," she said."It is...
28 June 2013
Nigeria slams UK cash visa bond plan as 'discriminatory'
Foreign minister Olugbenga Ashiru expressed Nigeria's displeasure at the plan when he met in his office the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, a foreign ministry statement said. The minister described the policy "as not only...
28 June 2013
Texas executes 500th convict since death penalty reinstatement
Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:37 pm (23:37) GMT in the "Walls Unit," a red brick prison in the small town of Huntsville, prison officials said. After 14 years on death row, time stopped for the former drug addict...
28 June 2013
Brazil protesters, police clash near match
Brazil's senate voted to increase penalties for those found guilty of corruption, responding to a key demand made by protesters across the country.Anti-government protesters in part angered by the billions spent in World Cup preparations picked up...
28 June 2013
ANC squabbles will tear SA apart: Zuma
"The unity of the alliance is paramount and is in the best interest of South Africans. This is because the unity of the South African people depends on the unity of the ANC."He dismissed criticism that the ANC had abandoned the Freedom Charter."The...
28 June 2013
Micro lenders driving miner wage demands - Manuel
"In that small community... there were 13 micro lenders operating... many of the workers didn't see up to about 40 percent of their income... ," Manuel told a business and transparency conference in Johannesburg. "People had garnishments on their...
28 June 2013
Femen topless activists freed from Tunisia prison
The three activists left the women's prison in Manouba, northeast Tunisia, in a police van just before midnight (2300 GMT) taking them to an interior ministry office for the final formalities for their release, according to an AFP journalist at the...
28 June 2013
US prosecution of Snowden and Manning exceeds international norms
Is Edward Snowden, the national security consultant turned leaker, a heroic whistleblower or a traitor? The question has fueled a storm of punditry this month, even as America's other most famous deep throat source, Bradley Manning, is on trial for...
28 June 2013
Educating for global employability
Botswana's population of 1,8 000,000 is made up of relatively young people with approximately 57 percent being under 25 years and 20 percent in the 15 to 24 year age-range. According to the Botswana Guardian Online newspaper, November 16, 2012,...
28 June 2013
Book review
John van de Ruit (2012) Book review Sheridan GriswoldSpud: Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Rosebank, Penguin Books, 415 pages, P157. ISBN 978-0-14-353024-4. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk, when it reopens. The fourth and final volume,...
28 June 2013
Back stage
Monsters University (2013) a.k.a MU is now at the New Capitol Cinemas. It is the latest, the 14th animated feature from Pixar Animation Studios that was founded in 1986 by John Lasseter. Pixar is now a company owned by Walt Disney, and MU does not...
Sasa Majuma 28 June 2013
Kgwanyape, yesteryears' stars sink into oblivion
This once mighty musical giant has since sunk into oblivion and chances of its revival are next to nil despite the fact some of the original members are still alive and well.However, the group has such rich history and heritage that it is hard to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
The apple does not fall far from the tree
While they may not have much to show for it, sculptor Joseph Piet has at least two accolades to prove his brilliance."It's a family thing," says the Presidential Arts awards aspirant.His latest piece is a carving of two pot lids and burning wood coal...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 28 June 2013
SACU ministers tackle thorny issues
A SACU statement released on Wednesday indicates that the ministers will tackle touchy topics such as the revision of the revenue sharing formula, management of the Common Revenue Pool and trade talks with the European Union. "The Council of...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Consumer watchdog
You can never ask enough questions. You can certainly never ask enough questions when money is concerned.Let's take a real example. Let's imagine that the reader who contacted me on Facebook last week had asked a single question before signing the...
28 June 2013
National Petroleum Fund "running on empty"
Energy Affairs Department officials revealed that while the fund had "improved slightly" due to the easing of fuel prices in recent months, it was still below the state required to conduct its mandate. The latest revelations come as local fuel...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
BSE suspends trading of Blue shares
In a statement to the BSE, the company attributes the failure to publish financial results for the year ended February 28, 2013 within the time prescribed by the listing requirements to several factors.The company therefore asked the BSE and JSE to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 28 June 2013
Network glitches frustrate prepaid power consumers
A customer who resides in Tsolamosese told Mmegi Business, "Most of the times the vendors tell us there is no network and this will cause us to stay overnight, sometimes without electricity. BPC (Botswana Power Corporation) has a serious...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 28 June 2013
Asian giants dominate race for 300MW tender
Yesterday, a list of the bidders made available by the PPADB reveals that several multi-billion US dollar Asian groups with global reach are in the running to build Botswana's biggest Independent Power Producer (IPP) project.The list has two energy...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Diamonds power trade surplus to P583m
Statistics Botswana figures released on Wednesday pegged exports at P6.5 billion compared to imports of P5.9 million. The data also shows that an increase in diamond exports from about P5.3 billion in March to P5.6 billion in April, was largely...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Competition Authority probes MultiChoice
The investigation was launched following a complaint to the competition watchdog by a member of the public who argued that MultiChoice's conduct could be restrictive to consumer choices and therefore tantamount to a violation of a section of...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 28 June 2013
Nitty gritty
There is a crisis of panic proportions at the Nitty Gritty shebeen. This crisis cannot be contained, it would seem. As you may or may not know, my dear readers, in whom I have the utmost confidence, there are two types of crises; the woman-made and...
Barolong Seboni 28 June 2013
Book review
On an almost weekly basis, the Gaborone International Convention Centre hosts high-profile international meetings and delegates from abroad who got their hands on Culture Smart!Botswana would not have been surprised to find that 'the general quality...
Bashi Letsididi 28 June 2013
Mandela's revolutionary spirit shall never die
'Mogolo a a tlogelwe a itheetse'. He has played his part in the epic tale that is our peoples' struggle for liberation. The transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa was a delicate affair that needed men and women of superior...
28 June 2013
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28 June 2013
The future in the present Marxism, unions, and class struggle
Karl Marx observed in 1865 that wage levels can only be "settled by the continuous struggle between capital and labour, the capitalist constantly tending to reduce wages to their physical minimum, and to extend the working day to its physical...
SHARON SMITH* 28 June 2013
No monthly allowances for VDCs - Gaborone
"Currently VDCs as well as WDCs are paid a monthly sitting allowance of P190 for VDC and WDC chairpersons while their respective members get P160 each," Gaborone said yesterday responding to a question during the ongoing Ntlo Ya Dikgosi sitting. He...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 28 June 2013
BDP vows to reclaim GCC mayoral chain
Briefing the media on the standoff at the city council, nominated councillor Rupert Hambira stressed yesterday that the BDP would not take part in any GCC deliberations until the mayor resigns.The ruling BDP wants the mayor, Haskins Nkaigwa, to step...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
AIDS spread among youth alarms coordinator
Mathumo said this at a Community Capacity Enhancement through community conversation on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) workshop held on Wednesday.Francistown District AIDS Coordination Office from Primary Health Care Services and a non-governmental...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 28 June 2013
Kgatleng RAD students join university
The total number of beneficiaries mobilised and assessed for various Poverty Eradication packages in the district has reached 237 of which 185 were registered for alternative packages and 52 for agricultural and wildlife packages. The council has...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 28 June 2013
The life and times of
When the people need to know Conspiracy theorists exist in every society. They are often hated with a passion by those in power because they regard them as rabble-rousers. The masses love them too with a passion for the very reason that their views...
28 June 2013
Sentech sets Philibao switch-off date
Dave Coles, eBotswana managing director, has informed Mmegi that Sentech has 90 days to re-encrypt its signal so that it does not get pirated or accessed through free-to-air Chinese decoders in Botswana. He said that Sentech has informed them that...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 28 June 2013
Court of Appeal hears Malan Case
Malan has appealed the decision of Justice Michael Leburu of the High Court who upheld a judgment by the president of the Land Tribunal, Phetsholo Nare, in the matter. Among other things, Leburu dismissed Malan's claims for properties in Bokaa based...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
Maripe not contesting Tati East anymore
Maripe has since changed his mind regarding his earlier plans to contest the Tati East constituency. Inside sources say his retreat is an expression of anger at the way he has been treated by the party leadership. "After making it clear that he...
EDWARD MPOLOKA 28 June 2013
Peleng: The township that forgot Mandela
At the front of the yard stands a half-destroyed red-brick structure matching a similar one behind the main house in the yard. A new addition around the compound is a silvery mesh-wire fence. The main house is unpainted and corrugated...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 28 June 2013
I am prepared
I am the First AccusedI hold a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit...
28 June 2013
Digging tswana roots
Tribes and nations often acquire cultural differences over time, even if they began as one people. Because a colonial border has divided some Batswana, there is now even "South African" Setswana and Botswana's Setswana.Recently, there was debate over...
L.M Leteane 28 June 2013
The role of trade unions in politics [Part 2]
Experience in other parts of the world bears testimony to the fact that trade union involvement in broader struggles has a salutary or beneficial effect on the working class than being stuck in the narrow, parochial and economistic groove.The...
28 June 2013
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