Archives
Explore
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Full Picture
Featured Videos
More
About Us
Advertise with Us
Archives
Sitemap
Contact us
Sign in
Create account
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Select Year:
2024
|
2023
|
2022
|
2021
|
2020
|
2019
|
2018
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
2014
|
2013
|
2012
|
2011
|
2010
|
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
2003
|
Select Month:
January
|
March
|
April
|
May
|
June
|
July
|
August
|
October
|
November
|
December
|
Archives:
Friday August 01
Monday August 04
Tuesday August 05
Wednesday August 06
Thursday August 07
Friday August 08
Monday August 11
Tuesday August 12
Wednesday August 13
Thursday August 14
Friday August 15
Monday August 18
Tuesday August 19
Wednesday August 20
Thursday August 21
Friday August 22
Monday August 25
Tuesday August 26
Wednesday August 27
Thursday August 28
Friday August 29
Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks are winning
"It is a slap in the face of all Americans," said Senator John McCain (R - AZ), referring to Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. He demanded that the Russians face " serious repercussions " for their decision.Well, turn the other...
13 August 2013
Nitty gritty
Ausi Maggie is one of the few women in Gaborone who doesn't have a house helper, or to use the more common term, a maid. Everyone in every town of Botswana has a maid. Even the maid has a maid of one sort or another either cooking for her or looking...
Barolong Seboni 13 August 2013
Digging tswana roots
Truth-gathering is an active, not passive, process. Only if the reader actively follows up on my insights (and independently affirms them) will a whole new order of history unfold before his or her eyes. But, logically, the reader must also allow the...
L.M Leteane 13 August 2013
Violent crime requires new strategies
We acknowledge that led by Botswana Police Service (BPS), our country's law enforcement structures have made tremendous efforts to deal with the situation. The capture of several suspects in connection with many of the robberies points to this. While...
13 August 2013
Africans 'persecute' democracy
Mugabe's victory which has been endorsed by the Zimbabwe election Commission ( ZEC) as well as the invited international observers did not come as a surprise to the octogenarian leader who had predicted it at the launch of his manifesto rally on July...
JOSH PETERS
Correspondent 13 August 2013
Africa's next narco state
The report is a chilling indictment of political and military elites in West Africa who are making common cause with drug traffickers and money launderers in order to advance or protect their power and influence.In regard to Guinea-Conakry - as...
MICHAEL J.M. KEATING 13 August 2013
Trade Unions do not practice democracy
The union bureaucracy conducts its discussions with the bosses and collective agreements without witnesses in flush restaurants: or for less important problems, in the bosses' offices, behind closed doors. They sign deals and contracts without...
Alberto Durango 13 August 2013
A perfect storm approaches
COSATU was at great pains on Monday to stress that its national leaders were only engaged in a normal, routine meeting. But it was a meeting of what COSATU unfortunately calls its National Office Bearers. By the end of it, Vavi may well have thought...
13 August 2013
Egypt and military democracy - Part II
Unlike in South Africa where there are existing mechanisms to recall a sitting president and the US where they can impeach the president, the only appropriate method of recall was by means of the military answering the call of the masses. The...
13 August 2013
The BNF - opportunities and challenges Part 2
One of the most intransigent challenges the party has faced has been the development of its Headquarters, Kopano House. It has now become a theme song sung throughout the years that this project must be pursued and finalised. Some individuals within...
DAVID MCKNIGHT 13 August 2013
An opportunity to create jobs
AGOA is, in effect, a one-way free trade agreement that allows qualified African countries to export over 6,400 categories of goods, duty free, into the United States. The US Congress passed AGOA with the hope that it would stimulate economic...
*MICHELLE D. GAVIN 13 August 2013
The battle for water
Transnational water resources have become an especially active source of competition and conflict, triggering a dam-building race and prompting growing calls for the United Nations to recognise water as a key security concern.Water is different from...
13 August 2013
ETCETERA II
Any feelings of satisfaction about the latter may strike some people as being rather odd but I have long been baffled to understand why Zimbabwe was bothering to have an election in the first place. Much of the concerned world would have...
SANDY GRANT 13 August 2013
Kingdom-0-metre
While many are called, few are chosen. This we have heard and been taught from time immemorial.This should teach us something concerning our belief that almost takes the status of a faith in numbers. Democracy can be so much of a slave to numbers...
DUMI MMUALEFE 13 August 2013
Issues in education
The key objective of Aspire is to "deliver an enriched student experience".The idea for Aspire began in Botswana at Books Botswana. Over the past eight years it has been implemented in England and now helps over 100,000 students in a variety of...
13 August 2013
The Winners Code
One of the most fascinating developments in recent times that has largely gone unnoticed is the degree to which the subject of happiness has forced itself onto the agenda of the world. In 2010 British Prime Minister, David Cameron declared, "It is...
13 August 2013
Mma-V rescues students
Mma-V has now told Parliament that progressing students (self-sponsored students wishing to progress to degree level) will now be sponsored, while completing students needing retakes will also be sponsored this year. The Minister's Friday...
13 August 2013
Africa Youth Games face P25m deficit
Already, the Botswana government and Association of National Olympics Committee (ANOCA) in Africa have pledged P50 million leaving (BAYGOC) with the P25 million shortfall.The Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Shaw Kgathi said at the launch of...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Locals to benefit from Castle, Barcelona partnership
Local journalists and soccer fans are expected to benefit from a recently signed three-year partnership between Castle Lager and Spanish giants, FC Barcelona.Speaking during the local launch in Phakalane on Thursday, Kgalagadi Breweries Marketing...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Montsho settles for silver after thrilling finish
A photo finish had to settle an enthralling 400 metre race as Briton, Christine Ohuruogu dashed Amantle Montsho's hopes of defending her title at the Moscow World Championships last night.Both finished the race in 49.41seconds but Ohuruogu had a...
MQONDISI DUBE
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
New calendar for DRC trio
Linafoot, as the DRC league is known, is reformulating the national championship to realign it with international calendars. The DRC league runs in between one full year, while the common international standard is August to May. Mochudi Centre...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 13 August 2013
BFA urged to capitalise on Constituency tournaments
Reikeletseng told the BFA general assembly that the constituency tournaments are here to stay and commended the BFA leadership for having shown so much commitment in getting involved. "I am aware of the proposal you sent to government to lobby for...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Back stage
Larks on a String (1969) a.k.a Skrivanci na niti is showing on Tuesday August 13th only, at the Gaborone Film Society at 7 pm in the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. Jir’ Menzel, born in 1938, has directed 29 movies and been involved in 70...
Sasa Majuma 13 August 2013
11 hopefuls to compete for Miss Global Botswana title
Special talents that are sought after in the aspiring queens include dancing, cooking, swimming, athletics, poetry or acting, to name a few. Speaking to the one of the organisers of the event, Keneilwe Sebonego, said auditions have been...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 13 August 2013
Feza, O'Neal's one and only
Speaking with Showbiz, O'Neal said he didn't have a girlfriend before he went into the BBA house.He said: "I did not have a girlfriend before entering the BBA house. I don't know why that is hard to believe but it's the truth." O'Neal said the fact...
MPHO TLALE
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Poverty eradication music festivals to be held
Captive Eye Organisation in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development will be educating the nation on poverty eradication.Captive Eye Organisation is a group of youth volunteers whose ambition is to see a Botswana with...
KGOMOTSO MOLELEKENG
Correspondent 13 August 2013
Indonesia volcano forced mass evacuations
Mount Rokatenda, on Palue island in East Nusa Tenggara province, threw red-hot ash two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the sky Saturday and unleashed torrents of molten lava onto a beach, killing three adults and two children as they slept. Officials had...
13 August 2013
Gay couple attacked in Haiti
Several people were injured, two cars were set ablaze and windows were smashed at the residence where the ceremony took place in Port-au-Prince late Saturday.Police arrived just in time to prevent people being killed, inspector Patrick Rosarion told...
13 August 2013
Norway prime minister works secretly as cabbie
Wearing a taxi driver's uniform and sunglasses, Jens Stoltenberg drove passengers around the streets of the Norwegian capital for several hours, confirming his identity only after his passengers realised who he was.The stunt, dreamed up by an ad...
13 August 2013
Obama takes aim at Putin
Vladimir Putin might lead the world's biggest country and command more nuclear warheads than any other man on the planet, but the Russian leader's "slouch" makes him look to Obama like a "bored kid in the back of the classroom". Obama's bluntness in...
13 August 2013
Tight security at Madiba hospital
The Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital's two entrances, on Park and Celliers Streets were manned by South African Police Services members and security guards since Madiba was admitted to the private facility on June 8 with a recurring lung infection....
13 August 2013
Mugabe makes first speech since disputed Zim poll
Mugabe will address a Heroes' Day celebration in the capital, Harare, to commemorate those who died during the country's war of independence.The Movement for Democratic Change of his main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is boycotting the...
13 August 2013
Pope by name, Pope by nature
Conventional liberals do not want to overthrow or even reform oppressive institutions. They want to 'respect' religion while blocking out the darkness within. I often think religious leaders can treat them as PR men treat gullible consumers. All they...
13 August 2013
As I see it
Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe, our former Vice President who led the large Botswana observer delegation of 80, to the recent Zimbabwe general elections, has come back from retirement spitting fire. President Khama apparently missed his bombastic...
Michael Dikgake 13 August 2013
Urgent solution to Letlhakeng mess needed pronto
Patients consult doctors in the presence of an officer whose duty is to ARV drugs.This is so because the clinics lack adequate consultation rooms.In his response to a parliamentary question, the minister responsible for health said that the situation...
13 August 2013
Bottlenecks emerge in cellphone uptake explosion
Yesterday, senior officials at the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) said urban and rural councils, as well as land boards were among key approving authorities for the installation of cellphone masts, base stations and other...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Bank of India opens for business
It was founded in Mumbai in 1906 and has over 4,322 branches in India and 53 operations in 21 other countries. Botswana is now the 54th overseas centre of the bank.Speaking at the launch last week, Bank of India chairperson Vijayalakshmi Iyer said...
KEIKANTSE LESEMELA
Correspondent 13 August 2013
The Western reaction to the Zimbabwe election
When US voting rights are being ripped away from Constitutional structures established in the 1960s in several US states it is rather rich for the US to complain about unfair elections in Zimbabwe observes GARY K. BUSCHThere is a great deal more to...
13 August 2013
Botswana Elections are also grossly unfair
"Look at who is talking!" one could not help but retort. All indications are that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF manipulated the election process in their favour. The Electoral Commission was a fraud, the voter registration process was flawed, the...
13 August 2013
Artistic mother turns waste paper and pebbles into cash
When their lives have reached that low ebb, they turn to government to feed their families, but this is the opposite for Gabaiphe Tlhaloso, a 50-year-old single mother of 10 children.Tlhaloso, who hails from Bobonong in the Central District, reveals...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 13 August 2013
61 firefighters fired up for heroism
Giving the course overview during the graduation ceremony held on Saturday, Chief Fire Controller in the CDC Whitfield Joshua said the course was vital since they were in the process of establishing fire substations in Tutume and Mahalapye.Fire...
BOTHO BAPUTAKI
Correspondent 13 August 2013
Measles threatens beef industry
The disease, which is called 'Mabele' in Setswana, affects humans and cattle and is caused by a parasite scientifically known as Taenia Sacinata, a tapeworm that breeds in the intestines of infected humans.The parasite is transmitted to cattle...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 13 August 2013
Sebina monster mystery solved?
FRANCISTOWN: There is mounting excitement among villagers of Sebina, Marobela, Nshakazhogwe and neighbouring lands that the man, dubbed the "Sebina Monster", who has been terrorising them is now in police custody.But the police, apparently because...
PATRICIA EDWIN/PINI BOTHOKO
Staff Writer/Correspondent 13 August 2013
BURS employees dodge taxman
The parliamentary standing committee, led by Robert Masitara, noted that employee files are not being updated on a regular basis for changes to employee remuneration, conditions of employment and/or deductions."The committee also noted that temporary...
CHAKALISA DUBE
STAFF WRITER 13 August 2013
FET move paralyses BCET
FET moved with equipment from computers, workshop machinery, tables, chairs to even curtains.BCET institution's principal told a student body meeting last Friday that he was equally surprised by the move.He revealed that authorities at FET had made...
BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Car break-in suspects arrested
An eyewitness who saw the suspects breaking into a motor vehicle parked at Airport Junction Mall on Friday morning, raised the alarm.The Deputy Station Commander at Sir Seretse Khama Airport, Assistant Superintendent Unoziba Rari said yesterday that...
STAFF WRITER 13 August 2013
Seretse fails to modify Jamali probe
It took voting by MPs to have the report debated in its entirety after Seretse wanted the part which talks about the accommodation agreements expunged from the PAC report before it could be debated in Parliament.Those who opposed the expunging of the...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Cops will make sure 'robbers' stay in jail
The five, Sikhumbozo Mpofu, 47, Lytton Dlamini, 41, Milton Shoko, 41, Denis Moyo, 35 and Thuso Maziba, 23, are alleged to have robbed Engine Filling Station and Caltex Filling Station in Mogoditshane when a spate of armed robberies hit Gaborone...
VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer 13 August 2013
Selefu13 August 2013
13 August 2013
Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks are winning
"It is a slap in the face of all Americans," said Senator John McCain (R - AZ), referring to Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. He demanded that the Russians face " serious repercussions " for their decision.Well, turn the other...
14 August 2013
Subscribe
Receive latest and breaking news via email
Submit
Have a Story? Send Us a tip
Invalid key
Send