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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...
23 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 23 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...
23 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 23 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 23 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...
23 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 23 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 23 July 2013
The winners code
How wrong he was. As all students of history would tell us on that day unbeknown to King George III, one of the most important events in the history of the entire world happened on that day. America declared independence from Britain. That day...
George Chingarande 23 July 2013
The painful aftermath of passion killings'
Her two young children lost a loving mother; her family lost a sister, a daughter and sole breadwinner.The aftermath of Tekanelo's touching death would continue to be felt in the Mohutsiwa family for many more years. Her youngest son, Thabang,...
Chippa Legodimo
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Vilakazi ready for Notwane spell
This is a first for a local team. Vilakazi will become the first big name South African player to ply his trade in this country. While some football followers might argue that Vilakazi is finished, his name can draw attention to local...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 23 July 2013
Situation was gloomy - Notwane chairperson
The situation was made worse by lack of revenue from the broadcasting deal. Premier League sides were forced to fend for themselves despite the Premier League signing a deal with RP Productions and later Supersport.Ramotlhwa said some of the club...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Tshosane laughs off dismissal talk
Strong reports suggesting that Botswana Football Association (BFA) had given Tshosane the boot circulated over the weekend following the team's failure to go beyond the group stages at the COSAFA recently.But Tshosane drilled his charges on Saturday...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 23 July 2013
'The Sweetest Thing I Ever Heard'
Million Dollar Hotel is an unusual film, even for Wim Wenders. It is his 20th movie and the first that he made using the new digital technology. Its bizarreness and depth was made possible by Wenders deep collaboration in the making of this film with...
23 July 2013
Vee, T-Les on Boombox CD
It looks set to be bigger, with greater impact thanks to the involvement of the two local music stars. The 38-track offing has been packaged into CD to be sold online and in each nation that has a representative artiste.The man behind the continental...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 23 July 2013
Pastrica's magic feet are his eyes
His Woza kimi video on YouTube has garnered 124 views since it was loaded eight months ago. It is an entertaining piece of work that demonstrates the musician's artistic footwork and sound brilliance. Pastrica grew up at Diteneng, a small squatter...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Barclays rewards employees
Giving a keynote address at the event, the bank board member Alfred Dube said Barclays has a long standing commitment to a set of pillars encapsulated in its five Cs - Company, Colleague, Customer, Citizenship and Conduct."These pillars or score card...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 23 July 2013
Absa gets final nod for Barclays deal
The move is aimed at accelerating expansion on the continent. Under the deal, Barclays' Africa assets will transfer to Absa, creating a unit with 14.4 million customers through a network of more than 1,300 outlets and employing over 43,000 staff...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
SADC trade talks are "95% settled" - De Gucht
Addressing local media at the end of a whistle-stop visit to Botswana on Friday, the EU's top trade chief revealed that a SADC and EU ministers' meeting would be held soon to add impetus to the efforts to finalise a trade deal before year...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
The bane of our development agenda: Non-payment for service delivery
The issue of non-payment of service levy and rates has become a permanent feature in almost every speech by our mayors and council chairpersons to their respective full council sessions throughout the country.Predictably therefore, when addressing...
23 July 2013
As I see it
Since the first country's general elections in 1965 the popular vote for the opposition has been climbing up steadily, so too the ratio of opposition seats, though it fluctuates due to the disproportionate system of allocating seats under the...
Michael Dingake 23 July 2013
Selefu 23 July 2013
23 July 2013
Not in this day
According to a recent survey, some parents in the area lack even basic literacy, resulting in their children, some as young as six years, being the driving force of prosperity on many farms and cattle ranches.It is mind-boggling how such a...
23 July 2013
BTU elects new leadership
Tshukudu's team won nine positions with the remaining four going to the Setsiba's team. Speaking to Mmegi after the congress, Tshukudu said it was necessary for BTU to have a new leadership that would bring fresh ideas to develop the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 23 July 2013
DK cautions against instability
Speaking at the welcome rally held for Member of Parliament (MP) for South East South Odirile Motlhale over the weekend in Ramotswa, Kwelagobe said since primary elections are looming, he knows that there will be instability.The MP for Molepolole...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
How free and fair are elections in Botswana?
With the election season effectively upon us, the credibility of our election process once again comes under scrutiny.Because free and fair elections are central to peace and stability, all proponents of democracy as a national integrity system,...
23 July 2013
Ex-DVS officer dismisses new livestock tracing system
Former veterinary officer, Pilane told the parliamentary Select Committee investigating the collapse of the Botswana meat industry that the problem was not with the bolus itself but its implementation and monitoring.He said the bolus system is the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Businessman's arrest foiled
Mordechay was scheduled to appear before Broadhurst Magistrate Monashe Ndlovu yesterday morning on a charge of official corruption in a case in which he, along with his company manager, Clifford Mogomotsi, are accused of stealing electricity.When he...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Ex-bank teller appears for graft
Onalenna Gaobuse, 30, pleaded not guilty to the charge of allegedly stealing P11,347.30 on March 2, 2011 while working as a teller at the bank.The initial charge sheet read that Gaobuse was being tried for stealing P10,000 but Prosecutor Nomsa...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 23 July 2013
Heavy escort for car theft accused
The two, Rui Ronaldo Vunlarde and Abednigo Ncube, were appearing for mention at Gaborone Regional Magistrates Court where a date was set for their case management conference. Vunlarde is currently remanded while Ncube is out on bail. The...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Gantsi Farms: Prisons or labour camps?
Kgame Xabo* has been working in Kentrek Feedlots in Gantsi for two years now. While his colleagues within the feedlot kept their distance in fear of a reporter with a camera, Xabo approached yours truly and poured his story out. He talked...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent 23 July 2013
Fight over legacy rages on
A full bench of the Court of Appeal presided over by Judge Ian Kirby, reserved judgment in the case until a later date.The particulars of the case show that Edith Mmusi, Bakhani Moima, Jane Lekoko and Mercy Ntshekisang, all women above 65 years of...
GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Child labour rampant in Gantsi
GANTSI: A survey has revealed that child labour is rampant in the Gantsi District, especially in Afrikaner-owned farms. Findings by the study conducted by Thuto Isago Trust (TIT) indicate that children as young as six years of age work in the...
ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent 23 July 2013
TNMC to install surveillance cameras
"Our mandate is to protect the company assets and employees and since we do not have too many employees in our department, we have decided to introduce surveillance cameras to boost the security in the mine," she explained. She said that they have...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 23 July 2013
DK cautions against instability
Speaking at the welcome rally held for Member of Parliament (MP) for South East South Odirile Motlhale over the weekend in Ramotswa, Kwelagobe said since primary elections are looming, he knows that there will be instability.The MP for Molepolole...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Who is lying: Falepau or De Graaff?
The minister appeared before the committee on Thursday while Falepau, who is now a professor of Agricultural Business Studies at Wagawaga University, Australia, testified via video conferencing on Saturday. De-listing of BMC March 2011 - July...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 23 July 2013
Mandela getting stronger - Mandla
"The visit left me with a warm feeling, because my grandfather is getting stronger and stronger every day," he said.The improvement "is particularly heartening, because it flies in the face of those who have been busy spreading lies that Madiba is in...
23 July 2013
Israel to free around 80 Palestinian prisoners- official
United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had agreed to meet to prepare a resumption of direct peace talks, stalled since 2010."The prisoner releases will start when talks commence," the...
23 July 2013
Mali hopes for credible elections, but obstacles piling up
The polls are seen as vital to reuniting the country after a March 2012 military coup and a sweeping offensive by Islamist rebels who captured the entire north before being flushed out by French and African troops.But the timing of the vote has...
23 July 2013
Mpofu wants Marikana commission postponed for funding issue
Advocate Dali Mpofu, for the miners, said he wanted time to approach the Constitutional Court in his quest to have the State fund the workers' legal representation. The High Court in Pretoria turned down his application for funding last week."The...
23 July 2013
Vietnam blogger weak from hunger strike
Nguyen Van Hai - a founding member of the banned "Free Journalists Club" who is better known by his alias Dieu Cay - has not eaten for 30 days, according to his ex-wife Duong Thi Tan."He is very weak... He spoke softly and couldn't sit up unaided,"...
23 July 2013
Tsvangirai warns he will be 'closely monitoring' Zimbabwe vote
He said vote rigging would only happen if it was allowed by officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).It was up to them to ensure fair play on July 31, said Tsvangirai."The rigging can only occur when officials at ZEC are dishonest," he...
23 July 2013
Premier condemns attack on man heading to North West Num rally
Modise called on the police to find those responsible and put them behind bars, she said in a statement."The faceless instigators of violence within these communities have to be unmasked and brought to book soonest so that violence does not become a...
23 July 2013
Mugabe tears into Zuma
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe tore into his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma, at a political rally at the weekend - comparing him scathingly to his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, and accusing him of taking too much of a back seat in...
23 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...
24 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 24 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...
24 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 24 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 24 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...
24 July 2013
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