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Orapa Closed golf tourney this weekend
BGU secretary general, Mpho Kelosiwang, told Mmegi Sport that the tournament is usually held in February but it had to be pushed to a later date because the Orapa golf course was being irrigated and the greens were being re-planted which meant the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Ping Pong squad goes into camp
The tournament coincides with the Botswana Table Tennis Association's (BTTA) Phikwe Open tournament.The fourth edition of the Phikwe Open will be held at Mmadinare Senior Multi-Purpose Hall next Saturday and has attracted Zambian and South African...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 23 August 2013
COSSASA games moved to Namibia
According to Botswana Primary School Sports Association (BOPSSA) spokesperson, Lawrence Moseki, since most COSSASA executive committee are in Namibia they took a decision to host the games again. Volleyball teams from girls and boys categories will...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
A1 Hardware athletics meet for this weekend
Otsetswe, who is also a Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) and International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) accredited coach, said since their inception, the events have seen an increasing number of athletes every year. He said the...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Changes at Chiefs recipe for league victory
One of the teams that has turned commercial is the defending champions, Mochudi Centre Chiefs. A critical question is whether Chiefs will be able to defend the league title that it won last season.In the previous season, Chiefs managed to...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Man U legend Quinton comes to Bots
Quinton comes to Botswana as Manchester United Ambassador and DHL spokesperson. The former Bafana Bafana midfielder's visit is facilitated by DHL, the official logistics partner of the defending English Premier League champions Manchester United.The...
THATO KALA
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Premier League teams still strengthening squads
Following the arrival of former Bafana Bafana midfielder, Notwane look set to sign another South African player, Manqoba Ngwenya who has started training with the team this week. After years of struggle, Toronto, under new management, are looking to...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
Kabelano organisers award participating teams
Dambe was speaking at the hand-over of prizes for the participating teams in Gaborone yesterday. Mochudi Centre Chiefs were crowned the champions of the tournament after defeating Extension Gunners 2-0 in the final.They had earlier in the day beat...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
Swedish politician attacked in Somalia's Mogadishu
The three were shot as they were returning to Ms Livh's hotel after she gave a lecture on democracy at the city's university, witnesses said. The motive for the attack is still not clear. Somalia is battling an Islamist-led insurgency and high levels...
23 August 2013
Hosni Mubarak faces house arrest when released
The prime minister's office said the measure would be taken 'in the context of the emergency law' currently in place across the country. Mubarak, 85, was expected to be released from prison yesterday.He still faces charges of complicity in the...
23 August 2013
Zimbabwe's Mugabe sworn in as president
The elections ended a fragile power-sharing government formed by the two men in 2009 under pressure from regional leaders following elections the year before marred by violence and allegations of electoral fraud. Outgoing Prime Minister and...
23 August 2013
Troubled waters: But the good news is the drought
No matter which way you look at it, when you review Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), the picture is simply not pretty. And the deeper you go, the less pretty it becomes.On the one hand, we are in the midst of a dreadful drought, the 'water view'...
23 August 2013
Nitty gritty
We are sitting at the Nitty Gritty, as is our wont, in our favourable haunt, drinking our drinkables. Generally minding our own business, except for Walkie, whose general business is to mind everybody's business, but her own. She has just started her...
Barolong Seboni 23 August 2013
'BONELA's is a cesspool of Hell'
On Thursday and Friday last week, a major issue in Mmegi was on BONELA's desperate and outlandish affront to get their group of homosexuals recognised as a sub-culture in Botswana. I can understand why BONELA cannot comprehend why the Evangelical...
23 August 2013
No more cheap water for big business
Owing largely to climate change that has exacerbated our temperatures, the rains do not come the way they used to. Go to the top of any high-rise building in Gaborone and you will see what remains of what was once a dam. Without major...
23 August 2013
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23 August 2013
Digging tswana roots
The advent of colonialism has served to turn the "belief systems" of Batswana (and most Africans) upside down.Although we did not suffer the same level of religious persecution as did the Europeans from the Middle Ages until barely three hundred...
L.M Leteane 23 August 2013
BotswanaPost revenues scores P200m
The report shows that the corporation has managed to improve operating profit to P4.7 million from a loss of P4.8 million in the previous year. According to the report, the cash cost to the operating income has been declining steadily from in excess...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Book review
Michael Stanley (2013) Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery. London, Harper Paperbacks Original, 477 pages, P144. ISBN 978-0-06222-152-0. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. Everyone in Botswana and millions more outside Botswana,...
Sheridan Griswold 23 August 2013
Back stage
Planes (2013) is now at the New Capitol Cinemas. Walt Disney is reaching out to the under ten market with a film that is actually rated for older children (3D version). Some under tens will demand they see it, and at least one parent will have to...
Sasa Majuma 23 August 2013
Chops unusual
"A lot of people are going to be shocked," exclaims a ditlhaka (reed/pipe) player of the Balete Ditlhaka Traditional Group as he takes in the playback after a tracking session in the booth at Livewire Recording Studios, Ramotswa.A dozen or so of his...
23 August 2013
Bonjo - I just want to play
He was wearing a black beret, white T-shirt and playing his cover version of a song by Dolly Paton. With his dark wrinkled face contrasted by the white T-shirt, bloodshot red eyes, the constant flushing of white teeth and his red tongue sticking out...
THALEFANG CHARLES
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
consumer watchdog
Actually they never left. They never leave, not ever. Scammers are like viruses, they're constantly mutating. Just as we get used to one strand of scammer, they mutate and come back in another form to challenge our intellectual immune systems. Or so...
23 August 2013
Pula Fund gallop slows down
Bank of Botswana data released this week indicates that the nationally strategic asset shed P1.23 billion during June, its first month of negative movement since last year's drawdown. While central bank officials were unavailable to immediately...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
FNBB cushions impact on squeezed interest income
The First National Bank of Botswana (FNBB) produced satisfactory results for the year ended June 2013, cushioning against the impact of squeezed margins on interest income.Before reducing the bank rate three times this year in a bid to free up...
MOTHUSI SERETSE
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Fake cellphone complaints flood Consumer Protection Unit
The latest figures emerge as telecommunications industry regulators and stakeholders prepare for a crackdown on uncertified cellphones due to start after August 31. The Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) will require all retailers...
MBONGENI MGUNI
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
FMRE re-brands to FMHL
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the re-branding of the company from FMRE to FMHL Wednesday, Taonesa said their priority is to assist in the development of markets in which they operate.Taonesa explained that the re-branding exercise is more focused on...
MPHO MOKWAPE
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Banks cash in on household debt
According to the 2012 Banking Supervision Annual Report, commercial banks raked in 61 percent of their P6.5 billion incomes from household borrowings compared to a 20 percent contribution from businesses.The economic slowdown has reduced businesses'...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
We are the masters of decoloniality
When some of us write about decoloniality and post-coloniality, there are those that are quick to point out that it makes little sense to write all this stuff 'from the comfort of imperialist countries,' and the presumption here is that Western...
23 August 2013
Promise and peril at the turn of the tide
"The horses have vanished. Heroes hop around like toads." - Pablo Neruda, Right Comrade, It's the Hour of the Garden, Chile, 1973 Writing after the French Revolution Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher, noted that 'while the drama of great...
23 August 2013
Barotseland separatists' arrest shows secession threat far from over
The alleged 'agitators' appeared in court in the provincial capital of Mongu on August 20 and were remanded in custody until September 3 when they will appear again. Police have indicated that these charges are preliminary as more could be on...
ARTHUR SIMUCHOBA
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Botswana ignores 'gold mine in game farming'
MAUN: In order to diversify the wildlife industry and enhance game farming, the Ministry of Environment Wildlife and Tourism has announced measures to clear legislative constraints stifling such ventures and any other bottlenecks in the tourism...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 23 August 2013
DWNP vows to crack down on errant researchers
Addressing the researchers on Tuesday, Koboto said cases of researchers violating their licences and privileges in the Delta, Chobe and the Makgadikgadi Pans were increasing. Some of the researchers allegedly abuse their research privileges by...
BONIFACE KEAKABETSE
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Matlhabaphiri's headache
In the midst of drug shortage in government health facilities across the country, Mmegi Reporters BAME PIET and GOTHATAONE MOENG sat down with the Assistant Minister of Health, Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri, who shared with them the challenges the...
23 August 2013
Ramokgwebana border ready to operate 24 hours - BURS chief
Known in Botswana as Ramokgwebana and in Zimbabwe as Plumtree, the border crossing currently opens at 6am and closes at 10pm. However, Botswana Unified Revenue Services (BURS) director, Ken Morris has told Mmegi that they are considering opening...
CHAKALISA DUBE
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
NEDC agrees to help Bazezuru in Moroka
The development came after a push by Moroka councillor, Edward Makhumalo at the ongoing full council meeting in Masunga on Wednesday. Attempts by NEDC chairman, City Kealotswe to shift responsibility to Makhumalo and the village Kgosi fell flat when...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Govt forks out P12.8m for Motloutse electrification
The power line will directly cover 47 existing horticulture farmers and the project will lead to the cultivation of around 1,000 hectares, Selebi-Phikwe Town Mayor Tebogo Matlhogonolo has said. He added that the project was envisaged to start in...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
Omang to disenfranchise Phikwe voters - IEC chief
"National Development Plans (NDPs) talk about participatory democracy but if voting numbers decline in this manner, then it would be an embarrassment for this town to talk about participatory democracy," he said. Seeletso, who was addressing a full...
ONALENNA KELEBEILE
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
Troubled times at Kelemogile JSS
RAMOTSWA: A group of teachers at a junior secondary school here says staff morale has plummeted because of the head teacher's autocratic tendencies and lack of respect.However, the Chief Education Officer for the South East District, Moses...
DOUGLAS TSIAKO
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
Lucky man fished out of sludge dam
What perplexed the mine's officials was the fact that the sludge dam, situated along the perimeter fence, is heavily patrolled by the mine security personnel."We do not know what could have happened for this man to have drowned in our dam. But what...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Three more Bible translation projects underway
With completion of the New Testament in one of the San languages and ikalanga recently, three more translation projects are in the offing. While the San project is headquartered in Ghanzi at D'kar, the Kalanga Translation Project, which is currently...
EDWARD MPOLOKA
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Balete to enjoy first 'Maowaowa' in 30 years
Taking centre stage will be Mme Motlatsi Ratau of the Maipofi Regiment of old who is the Chief Priestess or Mogokgo of the Class of 2013. She will lead the initiates - now women - out of 11 homesteads around this principal town of Balete that...
DOUGLAS TSIAKO
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
US Embassy schools youth in elections
*'Your vote is your weapon to influence policy' FRANCSITOWN: The US Embassy's Political/Economic Section has embarked on a major drive to educate the youth about the importance of the electoral process. The embassy recently hosted a live session...
23 August 2013
Vision 2022 to transform Francistown
The new kid-on-the-block comes with five pillars, namely: *to be effective and efficient in networking an economically vibrant city,*safe and secure city, *united and proud entity and;* an educated, innovative and productive...
LEBOGANG MOSIKARE
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Govt beefs up security at CMS
In an interview Assistant Minister of Health Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri said: "There is tight security where drugs are kept.For instance drugs are dispatched to an area and distributed and the remainder is returned to the warehouse at the end of the...
23 August 2013
BNF throws its weight behind UB students
In a week where tertiary school students have been at loggerheads with government, the Botswana National Front (BNF) has entered the fray criticising the country's leadership over problems that continue to besiege our education system.BNF Publicity...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
S/Phikwe faced with shortage of medication
A frustrated patient at Kagiso Clinic in Distance area, Michael Sanoto, told Mmegi that he could not get his monthly supply of high blood pressure pills. He said the pharmacist at the clinic advised him to buy the medication at private pharmacies...
CALISTUS KOLANTSHO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
Drug shortage undermines delivery clinics
This shortage of medication at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital and its satellite clinics has seen patients being sent from clinic to clinic in search of prescribed drugs.In a snap survey undertaken by Mmegi in the streets of Francistown, we found...
PINI BOTHOKO
Correspondent 23 August 2013
DCEC probes P60m project
Mmegi investigations have revealed that for a year, 20 reprographic machines worth P30 million have been lying idle in schools around the country with reports that the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has moved in to probe the...
LAWRENCE SERETSE
Staff Writer 23 August 2013
President must embrace meaningful dialogue for social harmony
The recent Botswana Sectors of Trade Union (BOSETU) Special Congress was held under a very important theme:Meaningful Social Dialogue: A Remedy to Challenges in the Education Sector. BOSETU strongly believes in meaningful social dialogue. This is...
23 August 2013
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