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Phikwe Golf Club to host Botswana Life Insurance tourney
Club spokesperson Palalani Moitlhobogi told Mmegi Sport the tournament is expected to attract golfers and non-golfers from around the country. He said that the tournament is one of their biggest and it has always been a success. Moitihobogi...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 02 August 2013
BONA games continue in F/town
The Botswana Netball Association (BONA) northern regional league spokesperson Mercy Kololo told Mmegi Sport that "it's all systems go" for the games. The matches that were called off late last week were to be played over the July 27 weekend, where...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
First cut
The recent developments taking place within the football fraternity excites me a lot. It is something that any true sport lover will embrace with all their hearts. However reports of fighting at BMC FC, TAFIC and recently Township Rollers are a big...
Dennis Keagile 02 August 2013
Botswana to host crucial Women in Sports 'indaba'
The two-day conference will bring all Zone VI countries together to deliberate on issues affecting women participation in sport. Keaikitse said the conference could not have come at the right time. She said WASBO has been quiet and the conference...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Fierce battle expected as BDF VI, Kutlwano clash
The battlefield is the Lobatse Courts as the army side seeks to maintain its dominance over Kutlwano. The men in black will be out to stop the dominance. Kutlwano's only loss in the first round was at the hands of BDF VI. In the first round, Kutlwano...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Verdict still not out on Comets, Wonder case
The hearing was supposed to continue on Sunday, but was postponed thrice on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Wonder Sporting officials were told that the matter had been referred to the mother body, the Botswana Football Association (BFA).The secretary...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Polokwane City unveil Botswana trio
He penned a deal with Township Rollers, renewed with Mochudi Centre Chiefs and went on to sign for City. Moyana is likely to find settling down in Limpopo easy because his former Chiefs teammate, striker Moloi is also at the club, as well as his...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Rollers hope to restore calm with big launch
The event, expected to bring calm after the turbulence that has rocked the Premier League side, starts at 2:00 pm. The club secretary, Khumo Masonya said the event will be one of their biggest this year. "We are going to launch our membership. We...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Premier League, beMOBILE clash over club funds
The move might disrupt the league programme and force a delayed start. The BPL and be MOBILE contract stipulates that the sponsor will release funds to clubs for mobilisation at the start of each season. Clubs each receive P100,000 at the start of...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Government requests for Twitter users' data on the rise
The United States made three-quarters of the 1, 157 data requests during the six-month period, according to the San Francisco-based company's report.Governments usually want the emails or IP addresses tied to a Twitter account.In one well-known case,...
02 August 2013
Al-Qaeda trainees in New Zealand: PM
Key took to the airways to defend legislation that allows the country's intelligence agency to spy on local residents, saying opponents refused to acknowledge security threats were genuine and needed to be addressed."In the real world, in New...
02 August 2013
South Africa is 'immature'- Swaziland
"Just because South Africa is better at soccer than Swaziland, the neighbouring country cannot dictate how Swaziland should be governed. They are off the mark. What they said lacks truth," Swazi government spokesperson Percy Simelane told the Swazi...
02 August 2013
Marikana in quicksand
The Farlam Commission of Inquiry - charged with uncovering the truth about the Marikana massacre - has been hobbled by constant postponements. Yesterday the hearing was postponed yet again when advocate Dali Mpofu, acting for the injured and arrested...
02 August 2013
Egypt protesters plan new marches after crackdown order
Mursi's Islamist backers said they would hold a "march of the millions" on Friday, and denounced the orders given to police by the interim cabinet to end their Cairo sit-ins.Diplomatic efforts picked up pace, with the EU's Middle East envoy and...
02 August 2013
US spyware has its eyes on millions
British newspaper The Guardian reported on its website yesterday that the National Security Agency boasts that the program, called XKeyscore, is its ''widest-reaching'' internet intelligence-gathering system.Yesterday, senior intelligence officials...
02 August 2013
Mugabe party claims Zimbabwe election win, MDC cries fraud
Wednesday's voting was peaceful across the southern African nation, but the early conflicting claims from the two sides heralded an acrimonious dispute over the outcome and raised fears of a repeat of violence that marred a 2008 election.Releasing...
02 August 2013
Lawmakers back government-grown marijuana
The controversial measure approved on Wednesday was unveiled in June last year as part of a series of efforts to combat rising violence.If the measure wins Senate approval, it would mark the first time a national government takes charge of production...
02 August 2013
Towards a progressive UDC
It was to dedicate itself to the cause of the oppressed and exploited. The UDC came at a time when the public service had an outburst in the form of the longest strike in the history of Botswana. Workers demanded high wages and improvement in the...
02 August 2013
Nitty gritty
Everyone at the Shebeen Nitty Gritty is convinced that maids and gardeners operate on a different set of laws from those of us ordinary mortals. This conviction is so strong that there is a saying at the Nitty Gritty that "maids and gardeners...
Barolong Seboni 02 August 2013
Bye bye load shedding but...
Numerous reasons were offered by the government through Botswana Power Corporation why the Morupule B power plant project has delayed, leading to perpetual load shedding. Logistics - typhoon at sea, strike action in SA, delays in Provision of...
02 August 2013
Abortion: Who has the right?
There is a "world" out there made up of millions of crying but silent voices, who are asking a simple question to the legal experts in our world: "Who will defend our human rights since we cannot defend ourselves, being victims of those who were...
02 August 2013
Intervention brigade - end game in the Congo?
The recent approval by the UN Security Council of two extraordinary measures to deal with the situation in that country--the use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide reconnaissance of militia activity, and the deployment of an...
LANSANA GBERIE 02 August 2013
The BNF - Opportunities and challenges
Thirty-six months ago almost to the day the membership of our organisation met in Mochudi to elect a new leadership. They also met to take stock of their organisation and give it direction. The lead up to the Mochudi elective Congress was...
02 August 2013
Digging tswana roots
The whole truth is required in court testimonies, not part of the whole truth. Courts also require nothing else but the truth, and this has been a good guide to me in my research. To this I have also added my own maxim: no two opposing truths can...
L.M Leteane 02 August 2013
The case for whistle blower protection
To ensure the public good and protect the common good, countries with whistleblowing laws rely on the actions of such public-spirited men and women - who are martyrs, really - to rein in propensity for excess, especially in the public sector. This is...
02 August 2013
Selefu 02 August 2013
02 August 2013
consumer watchdog
Labels matter. I know they're a bit boring but they really do. Life would genuinely be better if more people read more labels and more people actually understood what the labels said. That's because labels are the unsung heroes in consumer affairs....
02 August 2013
Book review
Sheridan GriswoldToni Strasburg (2013) Fractured Lives: A Memoir. Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa, Modjaji Books, 314 pages, with a dozen black and white photos, P210. ISBN 978-12-920590-09-3. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk - it has...
02 August 2013
Back stage
Man of Steel (2013) aka Superman Prequel (SP) was at the New Capitol Cinemas. It opened in June at all three venues. If you haven't seen it yet, you'll have to catch it when the DVD is released. The focus again, as what has been happening in most...
Sasa Majuma 02 August 2013
Badheti o Matobo celebrate their cultural heritage
Not only does the village share a name with one of Zimbabwe's World Heritage site of Matobo Hills. Elderly people in the village trace their origins to this famous site and argue that the hills are named after their renowned leader she (chief) Matobo...
ABEL ABEDNICO MABUSE
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Molepolole elder carves wood for survival
The 55-year-old is able to raise his family of seven thanks to his pride in his culture and his resolve to use it to make ends meet.He carves wood to make mortars and pestles (Kika and Motshe), which he sells for P150 per piece. It would appear as if...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Lower imports aid trade surplus surplus
The figures show that within both imports and exports, lower diamond inflows and outflows were behind trends in May.During the month, diamond imports fell 37 percent to P1.4 billion, while exports were down 28 percent to P4.09 billion.Under the De...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Swedish mining firms for Electra Expo
"Almost all the companies I visited were showing interest to come to Botswana for the exhibition," said Soapbox Communications director Vuyiswa Mojela, who just returned from Northern Sweden's VŠsterbotten Province. The expo exists to showcase...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Retail ops power Sefalana to "best ever results"
"Yet another fantastic year for Sefalana," directors said on Wednesday in a commentary accompanying the group's results for the year ended 30 April 2013."The group achieved its best result ever last year for the period ended 30 April 2012 and despite...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
BCM to start plant for disposables
The organisation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Charles Siwawa told Business Week recently in an interview here where mining giant Botswana Ash (Botash) was celebrating five million fatality free shifts. The plant will be used exclusively by the BCM...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Audit uncovers security threats at BoB
In their report, made available recently, the committee members noted several instances where the central bank's IT integrity was vulnerable to breach owing to the slackness of existing checks.One instance pointed out by the committee involved an...
STAFF WRITER 02 August 2013
Botswana sparkles in Alexander Forbes' stable
According to figures contained in its annual report, Botswana's contribution was the second highest after Namibia which made up 47 percent of the net revenues for the year. Kenya and Nigeria, contributed 17 and two percent respectively.Collectively...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Shadow of the army over Egypt's revolution
There may be surprise that an army source said 14 million Egyptians (some sources claimed as many as 33 million) demonstrated on June 30, and that the army supplied the media with photos taken from military planes to back the claim. Or that interior...
02 August 2013
Egypt and military democracy [Part 1]
In 1998 at President Khama's well rehearsed speech dominated by the "4Ds", he stated that he had joined the military to protect democracy. The crowd heard and applauded this statement. Those listening never interrogated the statement beyond the...
02 August 2013
The feel of Trinidad and Tobago
The prospect of visiting a country for two weeks seems like you have all the time in the world until the reality that your time there is up hits you hard. After what seemed like decades of planning, my trip to Trinidad and Tobago finally...
02 August 2013
Sata's plans backfire as MMD loses three more seats
The PF won only one seat, raising questions whether President Michael Sata's policy of encouraging defections from the opposition to boost the ruling party's ranks has backfired. Three of the by-elections were due to defections from the opposition...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Botswana cautious about Zim elections
However, in a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, the government noted that cases that fell short of best practice for the conduct of credible elections were reported before the date of the elections.The statement said it...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Mugabe 'wins'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party claimed a landslide victory on Thursday in Zimbabwe's elections, but its rival, Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said there had been "monumental fraud".Wednesday's voting...
02 August 2013
Sub-divide Zone 7- Kgosi Madema
Kgosi Phineas Madema of Semolale argues that they are victims of circumstance in Bobirwa because they fall within the same zone with FMD-hit areas like Matopi and Robelela.He said that the village has no FMD but its people are not allowed to sell...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
The Bomb that never was
Yesterday morning business came to a standstill at the Government Enclave when a receptionist at Barclays House received an anonymous call threatening that a bomb had been planted in the building. The police and other security institutions scoured...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
A war of multiple fronts
Drought and marauding elephants have conspired to destroy the little harvest some would have taken home. As if they have not had enough trouble, cross border crime has made the community prisoners in their own homes.Many farmers have lost their...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
FMD leaves destruction, lost hopes for Matsiloje farmers
Of course, throughout their lives Batswana livestock farmers have experienced one problem after another. Some of the problems could be minor, like occasional lack of stock feed, lack of market for small stocks, lack of managerial skills and credit,...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
FMD punches hole in BMC profits
The BMC (Francistown) cannot slaughter beef destined for the EU market because it is located in Zone Six, which is affected by FMD."This year we were targeting to kill 11,960 animals for the EU market but we have failed owing to the FMD," he said.He...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 02 August 2013
Uncle rapes 5-year-old niece
The bizarre incident is said to have taken place on October 17, 2008. According to the 5-year-old girl who had been brought to the accused home to play with her cousins she had taken time off when nature was calling. She claimed that the accused...
SHARON MATHALA
Correspondent 02 August 2013
Rise in sex crimes in Kgaphamadi and Maipaafela worry Kgosi
She stated that the crimes usually involve family members or relatives. Regrettably, parents take such crimes lightly reasoning that it is a mistake that has happened within the family and should be mediated without involving the police."In...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 02 August 2013
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