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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...
19 July 2013
Digging tswana roots
Does it make sense to have a talent and then bury it into the ground? No. (Matthew 25:14-30) This is exactly why I write, why you are reading this column. Only where there is something bigger to gain in silence or inactivity does this become...
L.M Leteane 19 July 2013
Over 300 cyclists for Kalahari Challenge
The premier mountain biking event will be run over two days in several phases. Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, GCC spokesperson Peter Sekwale said the Challenge has continued to grow in leap and bounds over the years. He said by yesterday 315...
FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
first cut
A decade or so years ago, Botswana football faced an imminent split with the birth of Botswana Soccer Association (BOSA). Such was the threat that the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) through its then chairperson Dorcas Makgato-Malesu had to...
Dennis Keagile 19 July 2013
Zambia to honor heroes with new stadium
Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili had indicated on July 9 that the Cabinet had decided that the stadium that is due for official handover by December would be known as Gabon Disaster Heroes National Stadium. Honouring the team was popular but...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 19 July 2013
Tricky ties for BDF Cats
And, as the league resumes, Cats face last season's losing national championships' semi-finalists, Jungle Queens and Notwane.Cats are aware of the threat Notwane pose as well as the level of preparation Queens engaged in during the off season.In...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 19 July 2013
Eccentric Bondo blows to the top
He would occasionally walk into the offices of the now defunct Mirror newspaper with a dirty looking paper clutched in his hand. It looked worthless. The double sheet was plucked from a mathematics book and sports reporters would take a glance with...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
'Amos can win gold despite injury concern'
Amos won gold in 800 metres at the 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan, Russia, last week Thursday. And Dube believes the Universiade triumph is a good omen that the budding superstar can bring a medal home next month despite his...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 19 July 2013
ECCO failing to attract investors
ECCO City Greens are still struggling to attract investors months after Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) announced their decision to stop sponsoring the club. Despite numerous attempts to approach certain business people, the club committee has so far...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Motlakase call emergency meeting
The club's public relations officer (PRO) Abel Lebopo told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they have a number of crucial issues to discuss to ensure the team is ready when the season starts next month. "The meeting was supposed to be held on Monday, but...
FREDERICK KEBADIRESE
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Centres of excellence not so excellent after all
MOGODITSHANE: Much still needs to be done to improve the running of Centres of Sports Excellence (CSE), Mogoditshane Senior School sports master, Basimanebotlhe Thelo has said.Thelo told Mmegi Sport during a ceremony where the Botswana National...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Taliban accuses Malala of smear campaign, promoting 'satanic' values
She made a powerful speech to the UN on Friday in her first public appearance since the near-fatal attack, vowing to continue her struggle for education and not be silenced by the militants.In an open letter released on Wednesday, Adnan Rasheed, a...
19 July 2013
French general says EU Mali mission should be extended
The EU trainers, dispatched to Mali in the wake of a French-led military intervention in January that drove al Qaeda-allied Islamist insurgents out of the main northern towns, face a big challenge in turning Mali's rag-tag army into a capable force....
19 July 2013
DR Congo troops step up offensive against M23 rebels
Backed by tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns mounted on gun carriages, the regular soldiers pounded M23 positions on the hills overlooking Kanyarucinya and Kibati in the restive east of the country. As on Tuesday, three army helicopters also...
19 July 2013
Monitors foresee Zim poll chaos
Less than two percent of police and officials eligible for a special vote ahead of crucial national polls managed to cast their ballots in early polling "fraught with irregularities," the Election Resource Centre said. About 80,000 police, soldiers...
19 July 2013
Madiba spends 95th birthday in hospital as world honours his legacy
With a wave of good deeds planned to mark Nelson Mandela Day, South Africans awoke to word that their national hero was getting better six fraught weeks after he was admitted to hospital with a recurring lung infection. "Madiba remains in hospital in...
19 July 2013
Nitty gritty
It is quiet in the Nitty Gritty today for two good reasons. It's not yet month-end, and it is midweek during working hours. This explains why Ausi Maggie is surprised that Smooch is there and not at work."Ampo rra MaChaena a go kobile? Have those...
Barolong Seboni 19 July 2013
Forensic Audit: Executive branch must not meddle
In fact, during his testimony before the Special Select Committee appointed to investigate BMC troubles, the minister pledged his support for the committee and how he views it as critical to his ministry. The Forensic Audit that was supposed to...
19 July 2013
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Book review
Ivan Doig (1987) Dancing at the Rascal Fair. New York, Scribner Book Company, P199. ISBN 978-0-68483-105-3. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk, when it reopens. Reviewed by Sheridan Griswold Ivan Doig in Dancing at the Rascal Fair...
Sheridaqn Griswold 19 July 2013
Back stage
The End of Violence (1997) was shown on Tuesday at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. It is the third of five films in a Wim Wenders retrospective that looks at his unique ways of perceiving the world. It is...
Sasa Majuma 19 July 2013
Kemoitse Makaso's bad night at Stinkane Night
When she appeared again on the big stage for the third year running, her name was marked as one of the ones to watch.It was a lively night of stinking performances with every performer appearing to be at their best. When one of the most...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
The stimulating traditional musical instruments
Even more stimulating was the way artists, especially young ones, demonstrated good skills in playing such instruments. There was clear passion among both the players and the crowd.The intensity and concentration, coupled with the cheers of saluting...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Consumer watchdog
I want you to imagine a scene. A woman is in a shopping mall. It's late at night and she's alone. She's being approached from behind by a man who is clearly carrying some sort of weapon, possibly a knife. You, a trained martial arts expert who...
19 July 2013
Botswana AGOA textile exports tumble
The data, compiled by the US Department of Commerce and released recently by the Southern Africa Trade Hub, also pegs local AGOA textile exports for 2012 at US$10.4 million (P88.8 million). The figure is a 31 percent fall from the US$15 million...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Recovering African Copper to rekindle Mowana Mine
The UK miner suspended mining activities at Mowana Mine last year, citing numerous operational challenges as well as the need to focus on the higher grade available at Thakadu.The decision bore fruit for the Botswana Stock Exchange-listed company as...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
IMF warns on P15bn unsecured household debt
According to Bank of Botswana figures, from the P21 billion that households owed commercial banks as at April, 70 percent was in the form of the more expensive unsecured loans while P6 billion was through fenced loan products such mortgages and...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Agriculture a raw nerve as EU chief engages Botswana
De Gucht, the EU's most senior trade representative, is scheduled to meet with Vice President Dr Ponatshego Kedikilwe and trade and industry minister, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu in two meetings set to last an hour-and-a-half collectively.In remarks made...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Democracy and the SADC Gender Protocol saga: Women cry foul
Surely this issue deserves special attention and critical analysis at this time when we realise from all social and cultural evidence that the departure of women from the laborious, routine, mundaine attendant chores in kitchens and homes into the...
*DR MORGEN CHAWAWA 19 July 2013
Monopoly politikos: An account of one party state (Part 2)
Political parties and national elections in Botswana have shown certain idiosyncrasies from independence. The most noticeable one is the dominance of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), founded by Sir Seretse Khama. Du Toit, 1995 observed that the...
19 July 2013
Astonishing statistics from Zim's June 2013 voters' roll
The report acknowledges that compilation of a voters' roll is always a moving target because old voters die and new voters are added. The voters' roll can thus never meet the ideal indicated at the outset. However, the report notes, the gap between...
GLYN HUNTER & DOUGLAS TSIAKO 19 July 2013
Tall men, short men what is the fuss all about?
This war can at times assume ridiculous proportions. For instance as the agitation for "regime" reached fever pitch in Zambia in the early 1990s, former president Kenneth Kaunda (KK), a six-footer, would often dismiss his nemesis, then Zambia...
ALFRED MULENGA
Correspondent 19 July 2013
Dear Tata, while you were sleeping
Dear Tata, These have been strange times. We have been having odd weather. We keep waiting for the worst of winter to arrive but it seems like it will come late this year. Out on the streets, in the mountains and valleys of our land, and outside your...
19 July 2013
The BCP from 2009-2014 (Part 1)
This phrase has been used by many other commentators outside the BCP to describe the state of our country. We had warned that the election of President Ian Khama and his BDP would lead to economic collapse and dictatorship. It did not take long...
DUMELANG SALESHANDO 19 July 2013
Goo-Moremi: A place of unspoilt gorges and amazing folklore
For instance, it is said that in the morning of July 13, 1980 between 2am and 5am the villagers of Goo-Moremi heard a loud rumbling as a huge rock tumbled from the gorge above. The rock falling, the story goes, was a sign or message that someone of...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
The monster
FRANCISTOWN: Wikipedia describes a serial killer as a person who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on...
CHAKALISA DUBE/LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Staff Writer/Correspondent 19 July 2013
BCP to support UDC in 2014 CALISTUS
BCP leader Dumelang Saleshando said over the President's Day holidays that his party will continue where it left off when it supported the Botswana National Front (BNF) in the recent Letlhakeng West by-election. He related that in 2010, the BCP...
KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 July 2013
BNF could lose plot for Kopano House
GANTSI: The Ministry of Lands and Housing has served the Botswana National Front (BNF) with a letter of intent to repossess a plot allocated to the opposition party in 1985 for lack of development, Mmegi has established.Party president Duma Boko...
ZOLANI KRAAI & LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondents 19 July 2013
Saleshando warns members over primaries squabbles
Saleshando was speaking at the just-ended BCP elective congress held at Makhubu Junior Secondary School over the President's Day holidays. He said members must understand that the party is greater than any individual.Saleshando cited...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 19 July 2013
DeGraaff calls for BMC forensic audit
"When things are going wrong you must do the right thing, hence the need for a forensic audit. It must happen as quickly as possible. The forensic audit must happen like yesterday," he told the Parliamentary Special Select Committee investigating the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Sinohydro relocates from Botswana
The company is selling off assets such as cars, office furniture, plumbing, scaffolding, crane, pipe, pavers and bricks, timber, air-conditioners, hand tools, power tools, wiring and lots more, according to an advert iin The Botswana Advertiser...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
BMC fiasco: De Graaff blames CEOs, board
As the Parliamentary Special Select Committee investigating the collapse of Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) and the beef industry enters its final lap of listening to evidence, the Minister of Agriculture Christiaan de Graaff took the stand yesterday...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
President's Day mayhem
As late night commuters boarded buses and combis to return to their home villages that form a conurbation with Gaborone on Tuesday, the bus terminus suddenly took on the aspect of a movie set.The trouble, as everyone soon realised, was that this was...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Family of murder victims finds no closure
The first born in this family of six, Lesego Mojiwa, 61, is unable to forget the morning of May 18 when he received a phone call from a young man hired to fence their land informing him that his sister and mother had been attacked."They were attacked...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 19 July 2013
How a faceless murderer stalks Magori
FRANCISTOWN: The place is strewn with charred remains of clothes, blankets and burnt tyres, corrugated iron sheets and cement.This is a farm belonging to 47-year-old Basupi Magori that, though all evidence points to the fact that it was previously an...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 19 July 2013
Fear rules as 'The Monster' returns
SEBINA: Residents of Sebina, Nshakazhogwe, Marobela, Marapong, Sebina Cross, other surrounding villages and lands are living in fear once more since a notorious murderer, rapist, arsonist and robber may be back to terrorise them .This was after he...
PATRICIA EDWIN/PINI BOTHOKO
Staff Writer/Correspondent 19 July 2013
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