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Softball extravaganza slated for this weekend
Tournament starts on Saturday and the finals will be held on Monday. He explained that the intention is to have the tournament grow each year. Plans are afoot to invite teams from neighbouring countries next month.Kenosi said the extravaganza remains...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 12 July 2013
New Horizon get shot in the arm
The total value of the deal is in the region of P20, 000. Club secretary Marang Ramahobo said the sponsorship was a major boost to their development efforts. "Our aim is to have a team that can compete with South African and Egyptian youth clubs by...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 12 July 2013
BISA to finalise table tennis squad
About 240 players took part in the competition in both singles and team category. Competitors were divided into 16 teams in the girls and boys sections. BISA competitions director, Gomolemo Rankosha told Mmegi Sport that they were eying players that...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Police V gear up for Africa
And Police will follow in their footsteps this time around. The current log leaders, Police, have already confirmed their participation in the qualifying competition for November's Club Champions finals.Coach James Kalebwe said they had learnt a...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Masters welcomes clubs' privatisation
Already five clubs - Gaborone United (GU), Township Rollers, Mochudi Centre Chiefs, BMC and Notwane - have been privatised and many more are set to follow suit. Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, Masters said privatisation of clubs is a good...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Montsho aims to defend world title
She has won three of her opening races and came second on two occasions. Speaking to Mmegi Sport from Paris this week, she said she is very satisfied with her performance so far this season and wants to defend her title in Moscow. Montsho ran...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
'Dearth' forces BNSC chief to co-opt treasurer
Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Thato Kgosimore said, at the close of nominations, there had been no name submitted for the post of treasurer while the person submitted for additional member was disqualified. Boitshoko Tsiane is the current...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Supporters grumble over club takeovers
Already some sections of Township Rollers and BMC FC supporters have expressed alarm at the way their clubs have been transferred to new owners. The common complaint across the spectrum is that 'their' club is being taken away from them without their...
FREDERICK KEBADRETSE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
A partnership at sunset, an unresponsive coach plunge Zebras
After showing life in the dying stages of the World Cup qualifiers, the Zebras's gallop has spluttered to a halt.Their failure to smash and grab in seemingly easy conditions at the COSAFA Challenge Cup has brought back coach, Stanley Tshosane's...
12 July 2013
Transfer market activity gathers pace
Mochudi Centre Chiefs have reportedly agreed terms with long-serving Township Rollers' striker, Onalethata Tshekiso, after weeks of negotiations. Tshekiso's contract with Rollers ended recently and joins Chiefs on a free transfer. He is the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Zebras win but crash out
Both the Zebras and Dikwena finished level on five points but Lesotho progressed on a superior goal difference.Against Kenya, the Zebras continued their lacklustre display with the opponents enjoying better play.However, just like the Lesotho match,...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Hackers ask Feds to stay away from Def Con
"It would be best for everyone involved if the Feds call a 'time-out' and not attend Def Con this year," Def Con founder Jeff Moss said in an announcement posted Wednesday night on the convention's website.An irreverent crowd of more than 15, 000...
12 July 2013
Top UN job for SA's first female deputy president
Mlambo-Ngcuka, a longtime women's rights advocate, succeeds former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet as executive director of the organisation."Mlambo-Ngcuka brings to this position a wealth of experience in advocating for women's issues with a...
12 July 2013
Saudi princess charged with human trafficking
Meshael Alayban, 42, was charged after being arrested at her home in a gated community in Irvine, California. Prosecutors allege Alayban took the woman's passport and forced her to work as a domestic servant for 16 hours a day, seven days a week...
12 July 2013
UK's MI6 'spied on Mandela'
Denis Goldberg, the communist and ANC bomb-maker who was arrested in the raid on Liliesleaf Farm by the apartheid police on July 11 1963, said he believed a number of intelligence agencies, including the British and Americans, were watching the...
12 July 2013
Mpofu goes to court for Marikana funding
A large group of miners and their families were gathered in front of the High Court in Pretoria, where the application would be heard.They sang and danced in Paul Kruger Square. Some held up placards reading: "Don't let the police get away with...
12 July 2013
Egypt has less than two months of imported wheat left: ex-minister
Speaking to Reuters near midnight in a tent at a vigil where thousands of Mursi's supporters are protesting against the Islamist president's removal, former Minister of Supplies Bassem Ouda said the state had just 500,000 tonnes of imported wheat...
12 July 2013
Brotherhood leaders arrested
A week after the army toppled Egypt's first democratically elected leader, bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab world's most populous country, with bitterness at its most acute in modern history.Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad said...
12 July 2013
ZANU-PF suspected in attack on MDC supporters in Zimbabwe
"I can confirm, I just received news of the incident," Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told AFP.A party source said members were pasting campaign posters in Harare for their candidate Gift Chimanikire ahead of crucial...
12 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 12 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 12 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...
12 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 12 July 2013
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12 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...
12 July 2013
Consumer watchdog
Because nobody else is going to do it for you.Ask yourself this. Who else really WILL protect you? The Police don't, they are usually only involved AFTER a crime is committed. Likewise your security company, they'll turn up AFTER the alarm has...
12 July 2013
Book review
Alexander McCall Smith is well-known in Botswana for his 13 No 1 Ladies' Detective series starring our very own Precious Ramotswe, the rotund detective now of international fame, last here in The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (Mmegi, 6th June...
Sheridan Griswold 12 July 2013
Back stage
The first film was simply called Spud (Mmegi, 22nd December 2010). Following the same group of early adolescents over four years when each film is over three years apart, sounds complicated. Spud-1 was filmed at Michaelhouse, a famous school, in...
Sasa Majuma 12 July 2013
Promoting Kalanga in books full steam ahead
Writers who aspired to employ their literary prowess to promote the language established the society in 1997 and located their first offices behind Francistown College of Education campus. The society comprised of bible translators, poets and...
ITUMELENG TSHENYEGO
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Ritual of avoidance: Symbolic features of the 'Go Loma Bogadi'
This is followed by 'go loma bogadi' ritual performed before the marriage celebration can take place. To perform this ritual, a beast is killed and a round piece of meat is cut from the 'milking side'. Arts & Culture interviewed some...
JOSEPH MORUPISI
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Bakgatla National School to celebrate 90 years
Ninety years ago the then Bakgatla regent Kgosi Isang Pilane lead a successful project of building the first school in the district Bakgatla National School whose building currently houses the Phuthadikobo Museum in Mochudi.The tribe now plans to...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
NDB privatisation reaches key milestone
According to Parliament rules, the NDB Transition Bill, which underwent its second reading this week, is due for scrutiny by legislators who will assess its "general application and desirability" before approving or rejecting it in principal. The...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
EU chief jets in as SADC trade talks falter
De Gucht is due to jet into Botswana on Thursday evening and leave on Friday afternoon, with an agenda that reportedly includes meetings with local and possibly regional ministers."We are confirming that he will be here next week on Thursday and...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Mining at Ghaghoo to start in six months
Briefing the media at the mine site, Ghaghoo Diamond Mine general manager Kavis Kario explained that they have now completed digging, manually, a 466 metre length and six metre diameter sand tunnel. "We have completed the dangerous stage and we are...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Organisers bullish on inaugural Electra Mining Expo
Slated for September 3-5 in Gaborone, the Electra Mining Expo, which is held annually in several other African countries, will see manufacturers of mining, construction, industrial and electrical equipment showcasing their products over three...
STAFF WRITER 12 July 2013
Sluggish property growth hurting Maun
Maun's growth is fuelled by the fast expanding tourism sector. Moreover, the opening of the Boseto Copper mine near Maun and other envisaged mineral findings elsewhere in Ngamiland are expected to catapult the district into a mining powerhouse. It is...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 12 July 2013
BOCRA ponders introduction of national roaming
National roaming is where, without changing sim cards, mobile phone subscribers automatically get connected to the network of other operators if they enter an area not serviced by their own operator.BOCRA is carrying out a Regulatory Impact...
LERATO MALEKE
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Debswana workers seek new wage deal
De Beers recently awarded a nine percent wage adjustment for its lowest-ranked employees, after workers had initially demanded 13 percent while the mining giant offered six percent.By comparison, Debswana's non-management workers this year received...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 12 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 12 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...
12 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...
12 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 12 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...
12 July 2013
Khama shows his deft hand at Maun congress
The party's history is also littered with tales of paralysis and splits after disputes at the elections. Ahead of the BDP polls, all attention was on the two candidates for the tightly contested position of party chairman, wealthy...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
Life in an open cesspool
"We connected to the main sewer in 2004, which was then under the control of the Kweneng District Council. The first spillage was in 2005 and ever since, we have never had peace in our house. Every two or three months, the main pipeline blocks, and...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 12 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...
12 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...
12 July 2013
BONASW goes to benchmark in UK
BONASW president Jongman Kgomotso told Mmegi that the delegation will focus on how Bingham deals with youth and development, child protection and safety, aging, aftercare, administration and supervision."We have a very close relationship with the...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Cooperatives will bounce back - Shabani
"The chain stores that set up shop in the country took many of our affiliates out of business because they came with better management skills and qualified personnel compared to cooperatives which were run by people with little or no business...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 12 July 2013
Dwindling fortunes to haunt BNF congress
It emerged from the 2009 general elections with six Members of Parliament before losing three - Olebile Gaborone and Mephato Reatile to the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and Isaac Mabiletsa who joined its offshoot, the Botswana Congress...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 12 July 2013
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