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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...
04 July 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,...
04 July 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...
04 July 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* 04 July 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...
04 July 2013
These presidential decrees are misguided
The Briton may have become an 'enemy' to the powers that be because of his success in handling Basarwa relocation cases against the state. Reports say he was served with papers from immigration officials declaring him a prohibited alien as he was...
04 July 2013
Our heritge
All of us will have our stories to tell about this particular cut which lasted for 10 hours in Gaborone and its environs, and was probably also experienced by much of the rest of the country. Having spent the whole day in Gaborone - being in an...
SANDY GRANT 04 July 2013
sports chat
Finest momentIt made cruel reading for the Ethiopians, but it was indeed sweet music for Zebras fans when their rivals lost three points after fielding an ineligible player. FIFA, as expected, announced on Monday that Ethiopia have been docked three...
Mqondisi
Dube 04 July 2013
Young golfers shine at Sowa tourney
The tournament featured 63 amateur golfers from across the country. And the young golfers have proved their mettle. Leroy Pearmain (17) and his counterpart David Masole (22), were crowned first and second overall winners respectively. Pearmain...
SHINGIRAI MADONDO
Correspondent 04 July 2013
BBA names Namibia-bound bowlers
BBA spokesperson John Gaborutwe told Mmegi Sport that the tournament, to be played from September 8-14, will pit six African countries against each other in four categories namely singles, pairs, triples and fours.He explained that the African...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Amos eyes gold in Russia after niggling injury
The games, also known as the Universiade, kick off on Saturday and run through to July 17.Amos has missed a number of competitions in recent months owing to a quad injury. Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) vice president Glody Dube said Amos has...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Sembowa's pullout a headache for Tshosane
The Gaborone United marksman is out of the team due to family commitments and together with goalkeeper Mompoloki Sephekolo, Galabgwe Moyana and Ntesang Simanyana, who cited various reasons, will all miss out on the regional tournament.Sembowa's...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
Cliff-hanger close for GBIMC
Prior to Kabamba singing the track, the organisers of the event shot a video for the GBIMC anthem. X-Calibre, who also sang their popular track Ja Monate, then performed the anthem with A2J. The leading local Hip-Hop gospel outfits...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Gospel lovers to taste Sound of Life
Moyo sets his new offing in motion on Saturday night at Trinity Hall, Gaborone Main Mall. The 14-track album is already on the sale and a DVD will be shot on Saturday. "I just gave it to the album looking at the content; it's more on the...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Show passion for your country in Miss Vision 2016
"We have decide to make it a pageant with a difference. It is about the celebration of the national vision. We want to select a woman with brains, one that will show the passion for the country and dreams for its success; we do not necessarily...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
Crazy but lovely experience, says BBA evictee
She termed the Big Brother Africa (BBA) house a crazy place but at the same time with a lovely experience.Speaking at a recent press briefing, Motamma, who describes herself, as calm and not easily intimidated, said that it was not easy to have the...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
Noah, Gaone and Tebogo set for My Star finale
The trio, who on Friday beat Kagiso and Hailey to make it to the finale, each will be hoping to be crowned this year's winner come this Friday. It has been a long journey for the contestants, especially the top five, and a bitter one for those who...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Batswana designers to attend Berlin Fashion Week
They have been invited along side other 11 fashion multipliers, specialised journalists and bloggers across Africa.The purpose of the visit is to introduce African designers to the German fashion industry and to promote fashion from Africa and the...
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
Obama 'afraid of informed, angry public'
I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.Last Thursday, President Barack Obama declared he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being...
04 July 2013
Stem cell patients stop HIV drugs, no virus detected
The Harvard University researchers stressed it was too early to say the men have been cured, but said it was an encouraging sign that the virus hasn't rebounded in their blood months after drug treatment ended.The researchers, Timothy Henrich and...
04 July 2013
Iraq attacks death toll rises to 57
A series of bombings and shootings on Monday and Tuesday have left more than 100 people killed and upwards of 280 wounded, the latest in spiralling violence that has sparked fears of renewed all-out sectarian war.It has coupled with a protracted...
04 July 2013
Mursi, Egypt army pledge lives in 'Final Hours' showdown
The military chiefs, wanting to restore order in a country racked by protests over Mursi's Islamist policies, issued a call to battle in a statement headlined "The Final Hours". They said they were willing to shed blood against "terrorists and fools"...
04 July 2013
Mandela vs Mandela
Makaziwe Mandela took on her headstrong nephew by filing a complaint at an Eastern Cape police station of illegal tampering with graves.Makaziwe and 16 other relatives, including Mandela's wife, Graa Machel, are fighting Mandla at the Mthatha High...
04 July 2013
Legal Guard powers BIHL Sure to success
"Legal Guard forms a cornerstone of Sure. It has been strong in the market and last year we had more than doubled customers," said Haenen, "Sure believes there is always space in a market for a company that strives to do things better. We are always...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Business confidence remains subdued
Published on Friday, the biannual Business Expectations Survey (BES) reports on current confidence levels among local businesses as well as their expectations of movements in key economic indicators.Respondents to the latest BES carried over their...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
talking blues
The next five months are going to be the toughest in Botswana's post-2008 era. Water rationing is upon us, a creepy signal that we are in a crisis. We don't have water and this has serious implications. First, we are going to have a serious shortage...
04 July 2013
Selefu 04 July 2013
04 July 2013
Kazungula Bridge will be a game-changer
The importance of the bridge to the two countries and the SADC region cannot be gainsaid. When complete, the bridge will ensure that for the first time, the SADC region is connected by road. The Chobe River forms the only boundary between Botswana...
04 July 2013
Detained in school hostels
The name Mantshwabisi has become synonymous with fun lovers - particularly motoring sport fanatics. Just two weeks ago Mantshwabisi was on everyone's lips throughout the country, as the popular 1,000km Toyota Desert Race was held for the last time in...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
eBotswana plans to air SABC soapies
eBotswana, managing director, Dave Coles told Mmegi that airing popular SABC soapies such as Generations, Muvhango and Zone 14 on eBotswana is part of the plan to attract and retain viewership when they go national. He promised that the station will...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 04 July 2013
BOFEPUSU de-registration case today
The case comes before Justice Michael Leburu today. The registrar struck BOFEPUSU off the roll saying that it was registered by mistake or misrepresentation. The development came after it was discovered that BOFEPUSU flouted the law because it was...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
UB hosts 3rd African Conference on Basic Education
Chairperson of the organising committee and a lecturer in educational management in the Faculty of Education at UB Dr Philip Bulawa said that this year's conference will address issues relating to basic education, particularly academic performance at...
JOSEPH MORUPISI
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Man dies in car mishap
The accident happened on a badly damaged section of the road that is under repair by China State Construction and Engineering Company/Excavator Hire Joint Venture, who are building the Dikgathong Dam pipeline. Mbaiwa said they suspect the deceased...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 04 July 2013
Crashed plane lost communication with control tower - CAAB
Modipe Nkwe, the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) spokesman said that the aircraft controller was communicating with the pilot when suddenly he lost contact before the crash about seven kilometres from the Francistown Airport. He said that...
PATRICIA EDWIN/PINI BOTHOKO
Staff Writer/Correspondent 04 July 2013
At the site of the plane crash
We made our way to the scene in a Fire Department van. The 'road' was carved out on the day of the accident as the scene was a good distance away from the main road.At the outset of our short trip to the site where the plane nosedived, chief aircraft...
04 July 2013
BTU elects new executive committee
At what was supposed to be their third elective congress in the northern city, members protested against the use of a new constitution that had posts they felt were unfamiliar with, leading to the postponement of the elections. Addressing the media...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
StanChart washes its hands off BTU dispute
Makala said that he slapped Solomon with a P200,000 invoice for compensation. But Solomon disputed the claim saying it was huge.Makala says he was shocked to learn that Solomon and some members of the BTU leadership had established a company to...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 04 July 2013
Is this Rudd's 'New Labour' party?
Rudd's latest proposal is to change how the Australian Labour Party elects its parliamentary leader. In an act of political retribution, Rudd is moving swiftly to consolidate his place as leader and take full advantage of the rapid upswing in...
*ROB MANWARING 04 July 2013
Democracy and capital punishment - What is the real cost? [Part 2]
The debate over capital punishment has stretched from the beginning of time, when Cain killed his brother Abel and was reprimanded by God Himself. Undoubtedly capital punishment has been the subject of vociferous debate in the international arena and...
* DR MORGEN CHAWAWA 04 July 2013
Nitty gritty
The noise that is coming from the back rooms of the shebeen Nitty Gritty is so loud that I would not be surprised if the whole neighbourhood went up in arms and complained to the city council. The proprietor would be fined for noise pollution...
04 July 2013
Digging tswana roots
What is the difference between a dream and a vision? Although, by way of disambiguation, we can take "dreams" to be life-like scenes played out in person's mind while sleeping, and "visions" to be portentous scenes that play out in a person's mind...
L.M Leteane 04 July 2013
Selefu 12 July 2013
04 July 2013
Our education system needs a meaningful overhaul for the better
It is generally accepted that education is one of the few ways in which the social-economic conditions of a people can be improved. As most Batswana can attest, the investment government has put into the education and health infrastructure in our...
04 July 2013
Facelift for Livingstone, Vic Falls ahead of UN tourism indaba
Livingstone and the town of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe are co-hosting what is regarded as a watershed tourism "indaba" for the tourism industry in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.Construction and refurbishment of...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 04 July 2013
The simple economics of Nelson Mandela's body
Almost 20 years since he led South Africa away from a bloody precipice of civil war that was widely viewed as necessary to free the country from apartheid, Nelson Mandela, without doubt Africa's greatest leader thus far, lies in effect one switch...
04 July 2013
Monopoly politikos: An account of a de facto one party state
Botswana is exceptional as the only Sub-Saharan African country to have maintained an uninterrupted record of liberal democracy and political stability as well as economic prosperity since independence in 1966. First democratic elections were held in...
04 July 2013
Machel and Mandela - the brothers- in-arms who never met
On a hillside in South Africa's Lebombo Mountains, not far from the border with Mozambique, stands a memorial to Samora Machel - the leader of Frelimo and first President of independent Mozambique - and the 34 others who died with him on the evening...
*PAUL FAUVET AND SARAH LEFANU 04 July 2013
'Making sense of troubled times in SA'
The almost irreversible fragmentation of the ANC, Africa's oldest liberation movement, has begun. It does appear the ANC does not have the quality leadership at the head of the party, neither does it appear open enough to bring in fresh leadership...
04 July 2013
Mmegi's own Mpho lapped it up at the Durban July
The saying is short, simple and sweet. It states that, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. This simply translates to state that it is polite and possibly also advantageous to abide by the customs of a society when one is a visitor. The only let down...
04 July 2013
Beware Elmon Tafa, armchair mischief maker!
I didn't read the two previous installments of, "The Role of Trade Unions in Politics" series by Comrade Moore alias Dr Elmond Tafa basically because I presumed that I know enough about 'the role of trade union...' sans Moore's or anybody's...
04 July 2013
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