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Correspondent 15 November 2013

What is in a name?

Maya Roze aka Palesa Bautloane. Maya because I like the way it sounds as well as a weird admirable for the masochistic Mayan tribe of South America and Roze because Palesa means flower and well, a rose is a type of flower aaaaand I rise everyday to...

Maya Roze 15 November 2013

Sparks expected to fly at cricket final

Nkwe captain Aholaq Raja told Mmegi Sport this week that the tournament had been competitive and BCA would use the game to select members of the national team. Raja said they were proud to be in the final as they had been playing as a unit...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 November 2013

Kutwano coach slams players

Samuel questioned his players' commitment after the defeat that killed their hopes of catching log leaders, Botswana Defense Force (BDF) VI in the volleyball league. Kutlwano's weekend loss to Diphatsa is the second in a row after they fell to...

Shingirai Madondo 15 November 2013

Chiefs deny Stanojlovic exit

On Wednesday, Chiefs stretched their winless run to four games when they were held to a 2-2 draw by 10-man Uniao Flamengo Santos. Yesterday, the club management allegedly fired the coach although the spokesperson, Clifford Mogomotsi said he was...

Mqondisi Dube | 15 November 2013

Volleyball league race still wide open

"We do not want to get excited, our target now is to win the remaining matches and then can we talk about winning the league," said Mabuthu. BDF are the only team that has not dropped a point in the league after a 19-game unbeaten streak. Should...

Mosah Mokganedi 15 November 2013

Left-handed Molatlhegi defies golf odds

This year, the talented lefty has won four major Botswana Ladies' Golf Union (BLGU) tournaments, hitting the ball from what many would consider the wrong side. She won the Botswana Ladies Open, the Makgadikgadi Open, Independence Trophy and the...

Thato Kala 15 November 2013

Ngwenya signs for Rollers

Although Rollers' executive manager, Phuthego Setete said the club had not signed the player, sources claimed Ngwenya was a Popa after penning a two-year deal. "We have exhausted our foreign quota and therefore cannot sign him," Setete said. But...

Chakalisa Dube | 15 November 2013

Rolling Boys hit a slumpling Boys hit a slump

The Tlokweng outfit has been relegated to position five after the weekend loss to Gantsi Terrors. Boys have played eight matches, winning four and losing the other four. The side has managed to find the back of the 14 times and conceded 10...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 November 2013

Mogapi expected to attend BPL board meeting

Mogapi is the Premier League's vice chairperson. BPL chief executive officer, Bennett Mamelodi said he had confirmed that he will attend. The Notwane owner has been in the news recently with reports that he has abandoned the club. However, he penned...

Mqondisi Dube | 15 November 2013

Defiant BDF XI goes to court

The matter will be heard this morning before Justice Mercy Garekwe at the Lobatse High Court. BDF XI insist that they should play Mochudi Centre Chiefs in a league match on Sunday, a day after the Botswana champions played their South African...

Mqondisi Dube | 15 November 2013

Response to State of the Nation Address (II)

This so-called economic miracle has not transformed the lives of the ordinary Batswana who continue to be passive onlookers in the sharing of the wealth created by theirforefather as well as themselves. The beneficiaries of this wealth have over the...

Dumelang Saleshando 15 November 2013

Judiciary is in the spotlight again

CJ Maruping had come short of accusing some judges and support staff of being corrupt. The judges, especially those from the Lobatse division, took offence to these allegations and in turn accused the CJ of failure to address poor service delivery...

Mmegi Editor | 15 November 2013

Two-year wage freeze causing nervousness

The initial intended strike was only halted after a meeting that was hastily convened by the secretary to the cabinet Roland Msiska with the public service trade unions. He met the union in Lusaka on October 28 amidst fears of a countrywide work...

Arthur Simuchoba 15 November 2013

Local Investors urged to look into regional markets

The business magnate said the return on investment from regional markets is very good, compared to the local market. "Why are local investors not servicing Africa while the Europeans, Americans and Chinese do," he wondered. He said that ignoring the...

Boitshepo Majube 15 November 2013

Minister explains ICT bottlenecks and solutions

This is due to a number of factors like affordability and high tariffs, ICT illiteracy, lack of local content and sector inefficiencies.Speaking in Parliament this week, the minister said that government is committed to addressing bottlenecks in the...

Lerato Maleke 15 November 2013

Northern Gateway City plot sales kick-off

In the first phase of the sale that commenced this week, nearly 200 of the 626 plots of 104.1 hectares have been snapped up. The plots in an area measuring 946.5 hectares are owned by Modern Ventures. Promoters of Northern Gateway City say it will...

Boitshepo Majube 15 November 2013

Competition Commission dismisses auto-repair shops' challenge

The four companies, CarWorld, Carfill, Specialised Panel Beaters and Top Care wanted the commission to recuse itself from the case because its relationship with the authority has the appearance of bias. The companies charged that the organisational...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 November 2013

Diamond captain forced off a sinking boat (Part I)

What is amazing, however, is the quite successful "spin" exercised by all parties to make it seem like business as usual, just a normal transition. Journalists dutifully recycle the press release in which De Beers Group CEO Philippe Mellier praises...

Correspondent 15 November 2013

Buyer apathy hits De Beers' first Gaborone sale

With a target to sell $5 billion worth of stones in 2013, each of De Beers 10 sales a year should trade at an average of $500 million, although the November sight is traditionally smaller. As part of a 2011 agreement with government, De Beers held...

Brian Benza 15 November 2013

Fledgling Botswana Oil reaches for regional deals

First mooted in 2010, the oil company became operational on July 2 with the appointment of its founding CEO, Willie Mokgatlhe, who was formerly Shell Botswana's country chairman. This week, Mokgatlhe told BusinessWeek that one of Botswana Oil's...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 November 2013

When art unites young aces

Olebile Ndibo (19) and Alfred Motlhabani (19) got a little boost earlier in the year when a piece they had done together came third in the President's Day Competitions. The ambitious youngsters dream of turning their art into a money-spinning...

Thato Kala 15 November 2013

Pangolin Diamonds and Botswana's fiscal cliff

Two weeks ago Canadian junior miner Pangolin Diamonds issued a statement to the Toronto Stock Exhange that it had found one of the world’s biggest Kimberlites in its Tsabong North prospect in Southern Botswana. A week later...

Roman Grynberg 15 November 2013

Victory: Chinese child PIC THALEFANG CHARLES

China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed

In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, says the Xinhua news agency. The one-child policy already exempts rural dwellers and ethnic minorities. The move comes after this week's meeting of a key...

Correspondent 15 November 2013

Excuse me Madam! we are looking up for that stolen dress

Correspondent 15 November 2013

Battle lines drawn as BDP factions are revived

As Bulela Ditswe in the north claimed casualties for both camps, the Barata Phati and A-Team factions are being revived, seemingly in anticipation of what the November 30 primaries in the south will produce. Barata Phathi faction, who lost the...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 November 2013

Cousin support: Ndelu with President Khama

How Seretse might come back

Autlwetse humiliated the Minister of Justice, Defence and Security Ramadeluka Seretse in all but one ward in Serowe North last weekend. In the Patikwane re-run, Autlwetse needs just 704 to finally make it past the Botswana Democratic Party...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 November 2013

Autlwetse's trials and tribulations

His trials and tribulations are well documented for a man who joined the BDP as a youth in 1975. Today he is tormented by re-runs of the BDP Bulela Ditswe primaries even when he is headed for certain victory. Until 2003, Autlwetse was a councillor...

Ryder Gabathuse | 15 November 2013

BCP headed for the courts?

According to reliable sources at the party, Interest David Tawele is allegedly contemplating taking the BCP leadership to court if he is not allowed to contest the party primaries against the party's National Organising Secretary Vain...

Chakalisa Dube | 15 November 2013

BCP primary elections postponed

"The Palapye people failed to submit their voters' roll on time and that is what caused the delay so the elections have been postponed for a week," Lucas said, adding that in other constituencies north of Dibete, the elections will go ahead as...

Gasebalwe Seretse 15 November 2013

IEC underpays Mochudi registration officers

The officers employed in the Mochudi West and Mochudi East constituencies during the month-long registration in October discovered at the end of the exercise that they have been underpaid. While others around the country were each paid P4,269.80,...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 November 2013

Government counters SI campaign

This emerged at yesterday's press conference by the Botswana Tourism Organisation, Chief Executive Officer Myra Sekgororoane who stated that the SI campaign has done damage to the industry. While only three tour operators have joined SI...

Boitshepo Majube 15 November 2013

Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health (Preventive Services), Sheenaz El Halabi

Male cancer is neglected - El Halabi

Giving a keynote address at the launch of the month long commemoration on men’s health in Gaborone yesterday, the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health (Preventive Services), Sheenaz El Halabi, said most male cancers could be...

Zolani Kraai 15 November 2013

Bodies fished out of Letsibogo Dam

Three fishermen drowned on Sunday afternoon when the boat they were using succumbed to torrid waves and capsized. One of the fishermen survived after he managed to hold on to a log the entire night until he was rescued the next morning. The...

Onalenna Kelebeile 15 November 2013

'Public service approach crippled BMC'

The report says the single most important factor explaining the decline of the BMC in the four most recent years is a pervasive culture of poor governance inside the organization and its relation with other government agencies. “Like many...

Isaiah Morewagae 15 November 2013

116 graduates sponsored through RADP

Since its inception, the programme of positive discrimination has seen 40 youths armed with qualifications from teacher training institutions, 22 from Institutions of Health Sciences, 18 from the Botswana College of Agriculture and 36 from...

Baboki Kayawe 15 November 2013

Molelekwa: Ranaka's meticulous potter

Conversing with him about his work would reveal a deeper sense of pride in his trade. His eyes gleam like those of a puppy welcoming its master home as he explains how seriously he takes his work. "I would just say this is what I live for instead of...

Chippa Legodimo 15 November 2013

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