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Africa's Sahel region a vast Islamist breeding ground- analysts
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has referred to the lawless, arid hinterland, stretching from Senegal in the west to Somalia in the east, as "Sahelistan"- the new front in the global fight against terrorism.Six months after a French-led...
30 July 2013
Requiem for Detroit
At mid-day, I was driving on one of the great avenues that radiates out of the old Beaux Arts fan of streets that emanates from the Grand Circus at the heart of downtown - Woodward or Cass or Gratiot, I forget. It was a six or eight laner, and...
*JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER 30 July 2013
Archaeologists and modern day witch doctors
If, however, his cattle strayed onto your farm you would be expected to suffer in silence as witch doctors were thought to possess powers, including control of where lighting would strike next. During last week's international conference of...
*PHILLIP SEGADIKA 30 July 2013
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30 July 2013
Monarch, Area S bridge of terror
The Monarch side is immediately dotted with a number of houses and gardens while in Area S sits a complex of bars and shops. Residents say criminals prey on those who patronise bars at night. Monarch Court President Gunny Moses says...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Monarch women team up to fight poverty
The women established Nkadzi Maboko Federation (NMF) on May 8, 2011 in response to the rampant poverty and unemployment situation that has bedeviled the township for a long time.Speaking with the society's collector, Kushatha Gungwa, she explained...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 30 July 2013
When Eskom falls off its 'coal cliff', will it fall on Botswana?
The last few months have been unkind to Eskom, the company that, at least until the end of July, remains Botswana's power supplier until the thermal plant at Moropule B gets up to full capacity. First, in March NERSA, the South African Energy...
30 July 2013
Prelude to a feast of senses
The world of liquor, alcohol or any other name you want to fashion for drinks is a fascinating one to no end. It's also one which needs a bit of understanding to be fully enjoyed and appreciated. To be honest, it's a world that most people frown upon...
30 July 2013
Monopoly politikos: An account of a de facto one party state (Part 3)
No opposition party has come close to challenging the BDP dominance, nor have they done so combined. Over the 10 general elections, 1965-2009, the BDP's predominance was steady: 1965 BDP 90 percent, opposition10 percent of parliamentary seats; 1969...
30 July 2013
The BCP from 2009-2014 (Part 2)
As resolved by the 2012 Sefhare conference, we will be discussing the draft manifesto for the 2014 general elections. The key issues that we decided to focus on are the economy, labour, education, health, democracy, and housing and land...
* DUMELANG SALESHANDO 30 July 2013
'Financial illiteracy spurs indebtedness'
According to panellists at a debt management discussion held at the University of Botswana (UB) Library Auditorium last week, high indebtedness is a 'disease' that is home grown and passed on to children by parents, a cycle that can only be broken by...
Kgomotso Molelekeng
Correspondent 30 July 2013
The winners code
He is a millionaire in his own right. He has mentored entrepreneurs, advised large corporations, and is a board member of many companies and non-profit organisations. With 20 years of experience in the success industry, Hardy works with many top...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 30 July 2013
Should Stan Tshosane Go?
Since the team came back from the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, it has not been smooth sailing for the Zebras as they went on to lose over a half dozen games. This led to the team failing to qualify for...
30 July 2013
Cheetahs look to build on title success
Cheetahs overcame giants UB Rhinos 20-16 in an exciting match on Saturday to clinch the prestigious rugby title."Our plan is to go outside the country and play some friendly matches in preparation for next season.This would help us improve and...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Montsho steps up World Championships preps
In 10 days' time, Montsho returns to the World Championships, this time in Moscow, Russia seeking to retain the world title.Montsho will spend eight days in Turkey as she wraps up her preparations for the upcoming championships. She decided to...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 30 July 2013
Back stage
This is the fifth and final film being shown in a series of movies made by the great German director Wim Wenders. They began with Alice in the Cities (1974), Lisbon Story (1995) and The End of Violence (1997) followed last week by The Million...
SASA MAJOMA 30 July 2013
Zambia's Sulu in shock exit
The Zambian 'transport logistic officer' reached the end of his Chase bid on Sunday, much to the shock of many. Sulu, however, did not lose to Ghana's Elikem on country vote, as they both had six countries. Because there was a tie between them, the...
STAFF WRITER 30 July 2013
Spokes is gone but Rabaki remains
Even though the artiste has died, his influence and his all-time hit Rabaki will continue to entertain and inspire.Spokes H broke onto the music scene in a big way in the late 90s, but he only reached for the stars in 1999 with the release of his...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
What sets dazzling jazz songbird Nnunu apart
The album has been receiving massive airplay on local radio stations. Some of the tracks from the popular album include Mampi, Memories, Potang ka koo and Role la tsie.In this album, Nnunu was influenced by her Bamalete culture, which is evident...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 30 July 2013
Malians go to polls in watershed election
Voters chose from 27 candidates to lead the nation from the crisis ignited by last year's mutiny, which allowed Islamists to seize the vast desert north before a French-led military intervention dislodged them earlier this year.Preliminary results...
30 July 2013
Wave of car bombings in and near Baghdad kills 36
The blasts, which wounded scores more, are part of a months-long surge of attacks that is reviving fears of a return to the widespread sectarian bloodshed that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 US-led invasion. Suicide...
30 July 2013
Marikana Commission awaits potential funder's decision
Commission chairman retired judge, Ian Farlam stood down proceedings yesterday morning until 9:00 am tomorrow."I have been reliably informed that another body might provide funding... we should hear [its decision] by the end of tomorrow [Tuesday],"...
30 July 2013
Succession questions loom amid Mugabe re-election bid
You don't rule a country especially one as volatile as Zimbabwe for 33 years without knowing a thing or two about seeing off rivals.Since taking up the reins of a newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980, Mugabe has for three decades deftly...
30 July 2013
Zuma optimistic about Zimbabwe elections
"... I think you will agree with me that in the last elections, by this time there were problems in Zimbabwe, with violence etc, and everybody was convinced the elections were on a very slippery kind of slope, but I can say today there has been a...
30 July 2013
Tunisia government meets as protesters demand Islamists go
Tensions have spiralled in Tunisia since the murder on Thursday of opposition MP Mohamed Brahmi, the second anti-Islamist figure gunned down in six months.Many Tunisians blame the government for the two killings, particularly for failing to rein in...
30 July 2013
High transport costs hit Botash
The company's MD Montwedi Mphathi told Mmegi Business last week, "The huge costs of transporting our products, mostly Soda Ash from Botswana to our markets within the SADC region, particularly South Africa (Botswana Ash's main market for the product)...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Batshu commends mines for reduced fatalities
"The number of fatal accidents over the same period has also decreased from 73 to 16 over the same period which is an impressive record," he said.Notably, jobs in the mining sector increased by 25 percent in the past 15 years, Batshu also said that...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Successful Zim polls spell doom for F/town
In 2008, when Zimbabweans went to vote, expectations were high that Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democracy (MDC) would win, given the support, backing and goodwill it got from the international community.The presidential election along with a...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 30 July 2013
Mugabe likely to win poll, but who will lead Zimbabwe
The presidential, parliamentary, and local elections are expected to return Mugabe as president and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) as the ruling party. It continues to be regarded as the party that liberated Zimbabwe,...
FIONA BLYTH 30 July 2013
As I see it
Some would call it abundant arrogance for the Secretary General of the ruling BDP to go public that the ruling party is ruling Botswana and it must be left to rule the way it wishes and does. "...they must live with it ........."he tells anybody who...
30 July 2013
Caution needed as football is privatised
Abramovich injected millions of pounds into the club, triggering a transfer frenzy that has redefined Chelsea and revolutionised English football. Inspired by Abramovich, a host of other tycoons bought shares in various premiership sides,...
30 July 2013
Zim needs fair elections and freedom from Mugabe
With voting underway this week, the country is at a crossroads: Will Zimbabwe transition democratically to a socially just and inclusive economy, led by a government committed to the people, or will it continue down a road of despotism and political...
30 July 2013
Open letter to Statistics Botswana
When the transition from Central Statistics Office to Statistics Botswana started, a lot of jobs were advertised internally and externally.However, most of the jobs were never interviewed for as the Statistician General later gave some of her...
30 July 2013
Egypt after Morsi
But Egypt - with its strategic location, stable borders, large population, and ancient history - has been the principal power of the Arab world for centuries, defining the movement of history there like no other. This implies that the overthrow of...
JOSCHKA FISCHER 30 July 2013
NACA funds CSOs to spearhead HIV prevention
Already 59 CSOs in Botswana are being supported through a World Bank loan, of which P157.5 million has been disbursed to those organisations.Deputy National Coordinator, Fraser Tlhoiwa, said the programme targets community members at the local level....
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Vavi and the perilous cocktail of politics, sex and conspiracy
Apart from the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), organisations and unions across the tripartite alliance are trying to steer clear from commenting on the sex scandal which Cosatu...
30 July 2013
Mmadinare showground under threat of repossession
He said the arrears were initially P77,000 but the sub land board reduced the debt to P45,000 after negotiations.Seipato said they negotiated on the grounds that the show is not a profit-making event."So the showground is in danger of being...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Security tight as alleged robbers appear in court
Security was tight at Broadhurst Magistrates Court when five suspected armed robbers who were arrested last Friday appeared for mention yesterday.The five, Sikhumbozo Mpofu, Lytton Dlamini, Milton Shoko, Denis Moyo and Maziba are alleged to have...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Soldiers display poor marksmanship
Jansen told Mmegi in an interview that the competition was meant to improve weapons handling skills among officers and other ranks in the BDF with the view to maintaining small arms skill for BDF soldiers at all the time.He added that the competition...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 30 July 2013
NLB leaves ward residents in squalor
Apparently, NLB relocated residents to pave way for new offices the land board wants to occupy as they are said to have shortage of office space.The ward that is opposite the taxi rank, behind Shoprite and Mabogo Lodge, has turned into a haven for...
BOTHO BAPUTAKI
Correspondent 30 July 2013
FCC to give city a facelift
The Mayor James Kgalajwe says FCC recently awarded a tender to a private company to clean up the city and that they have engaged Ipelegeng workers in the wards.He, however, could not disclose the name of the company at the time of going to press, as...
PATRICIA EDWIN
Staff Writer 30 July 2013
Selefu 20 July 2013
30 July 2013
Game could be over for Botswana's Oneal
The show kicked off with 28 housemates from 14 countries who have now been reduced to nine who are still in the running for the money. On Sunday it could be game over for the remaining Botswana contender Oneal; the other contender Motamma got...
31 July 2013
Ghana police find three children locked in house for years
Police broke into the four-bedroom house in the Madina neighbourhood in Ghana's capital Accra, after a tipoff and rescued the children, aged eight, six and two, who had been living in the house with their parents, a sheep, a goat and dogs.Police...
31 July 2013
Pretoria woman pleads guilty to bestiality, child pornography
According to Beeld, Jana Smith, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to four counts of bestiality and one of trying to use a child to create child pornography.In an explanation of plea, she reportedly claimed she was manipulated and controlled by her former...
31 July 2013
Set Mursi free: SA government
"South Africa joins the call by the international community for the unconditional release of president Mursi and all other political prisoners held in detention since the unconstitutional change of government on July 3," said international relations...
31 July 2013
Zimbabwe vote puts AU, SADC in the dock
When Robert Mugabe's government released the list of roughly 50 countries and groups invited to observe this week's crunch presidential and parliament elections, there were few surprises.It was, in essence, a handpicked list of nations Russia,...
31 July 2013
Vavi dodges one bullet
Vavi, flanked by his wife, Noluthando, could not contain his excitement during an exclusive interview with The Times. As soon as his worried children arrived back from school, he announced to them that he was off the hook. "That woman has just...
31 July 2013
Alexander Forbes to spread wings in Africa
In this financial year the group will also focus on growth opportunities in Zambia and Uganda.Alexander Forbes's annual report for the year ended March 2013 shows the company's presence in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
31 July 2013
Aviva unveils P181m kitty for new acquisitions
Having already disinvested from Kenya last year, the recent Mmamantswe sale leaves Aviva with about six months to identify a suitable business before the Australian Securities Exchange possibly suspends its listing.Yesterday, Aviva directors said the...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 31 July 2013
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