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Staff Writer 12 December 2014
Abortions and brothels should be legalized in Botswana
These are noble ideas, but I don’t agree with the latter suggestion. Pregnancy allowances would be a waste of taxpayers’ funds. Women shouldn’t be praised for giving birth to children they cannot afford to take of. They should be...
Keletso Thobega 12 December 2014
Behind the scenes: Isibaya, Zabalaza, Rockville
Recently I experienced this as a part of a media group hosted by MultiChoice in Johannesburg, South Africa. The group comprised media people from Southern African countries that included Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and...
Mpho Tlale 12 December 2014
Even idiots know the art of revenge
The hype may be due to the fact that the movie has maintained its star-studded cast with the likes of Golden Globe award winning actor Jason Bateman who still plays Nick Hendricks and is one of the three main characters. The trio...
Bakang Israel 12 December 2014
Tour guiding is important to tourism � Madikwe
Speaking at a tour guiding book launch at the University of Botswana (UB) last week, Madikwe indicated that being a very good tour guide is a challenging job and that for many tourists, the tour guide plays a key role in the enjoyment of the...
Isaac Pinielo 12 December 2014
Lentsenye leans on the setinkane
Today, Lentsenye is a master of the setinkane and everywhere he goes people turn their heads or ask him to play one or two songs for them. This setinake player is well known in and around Mahalapye and has competed in two President’s Day...
Teichler Rankoa 12 December 2014
Digging Tswana Roots - The lake of fire awaiting the Beast
Revelation is very difficult to understand mainly due to the symbols – often multi-layered – that pepper the book. These symbols are even harder to decipher and interpret without the power of Setswana to unlock the proto-meaning of many...
L M Leteane 12 December 2014
Kgathi misled Parliament
He was responding to a question from the Members of Parliament for Gabane-Mankgodi, Major General Pius Mokgware, on tenders awarded to the company. In response to a question from the former commander of the ground forces of the Botswana Defence...
Mmegi Editor
| 12 December 2014
P2 billion supplementary budget: epitome of budget indiscipline
In the Westminster type of system like Botswana, parliament holds the ‘power of the purse’, that is to say it must sanction all expenditures, all borrowings from national, regional or international financial institutions, and all revenues...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 12 December 2014
BOPEU conference - an eye opener for the labour movement
Selfish and narrow personal interests of leadership must give way to broader worker interest with objectives to improve worker welfare, ensure decent work, and inculcate quality service principles through workers unity. BOPEU leadership rose...
Correspondent 12 December 2014
Major Blue takes to the skies
Mmegi: When did you start operating in Kasane? McAllister: Major Blue Air was established in 2006. Our main base is in Maun and with the high demand and number of tourists travelling from Kasane we chose to base an aircraft in Kasane. Mmegi: What...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 12 December 2014
�Who can I trust?�
You wouldn’t blame BotswanaPost if someone sent you an insulting email or sent you a brochure for a service you didn’t want. Nor would you blame BTC if someone cold-called you in the evening trying to sell you a hotel discount scheme....
Mmegi Correspondent 12 December 2014
Hospitality industry expects festive business boom
The first day of December is generally considered the kickoff to the season, with hotels offering special deals to draw tourists. Lily Rakorong, Chief Executive Officer of the Hospitality and Tourism Association of Botswana (HATAB), said this...
Isaac Pinielo 12 December 2014
BOBS laments low SMME standards uptake
In its 2014 annual report tabled before legislators recently, the standards body said SMMEs continued to report various barriers to their adoption of the various product and service standards. “SMMEs, for the most part, perceive the cost of...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 December 2014
Moody�s reaffirms Botswana�s sovereign credit rating
However, the rating agency notes that the economy’s heavy reliance on the diamond industry and the relatively slow pace of economic diversification remain key weaknesses for the rating over the long term. In making the assessment, the agency...
Isaac Pinielo 12 December 2014
Women�s Football League goes into recess
Many had written them out after their slow start to the season. Township Rollers are second on the league table with 20 points from seven games. With two games in hand, Rollers look set to give the defending champions a run for their money when the...
Teichler Rankoa 12 December 2014
Pula hits all-time low against US dollar
The drop in nominal rates, from P8.83 at the beginning of the year, continues a trend seen in the last two years, as the US dollar has strengthened from its global recession weakness. In 2013, the Pula shed 10.8 percent against the US dollar, while...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 December 2014
�Chewed but not swallowed�
As told traditionally, a forgetful pastor tells his congregation that Jonah swallowed a whale, to which a watchful congregant points out that, actually, the whale swallowed Jonah. The pastor, in turn, mumbles that all he remembers is that...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 December 2014
Netball team guns for Nations Cup bronze
Botswana needs an outright win to set up a third and fourth place playoff that could see them bring home a bronze from their second appearance at the tournament. However, should Singapore lose to Malaysia, there will be a tie in points which would...
Thato Kala 12 December 2014
Watching the rain fall down
“In the future, you will be flushing that water and also drinking it later on,” said former PS Paya a few decades ago. Then, every residential and most business structures featured gutters, allowing for easy rainwater harvesting. Old,...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 December 2014
The �ebolarisation� of our culture
Even though Ebola has not affected Botswana yet, one wonders what would happen if at all the deadly virus came knocking. The disease, which is spread via contact with bodily secretions of the infected, has already ridden on the back of cultural...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 December 2014
Catholic bishops identify sunken Gaborone Dam church
The compound, according to Bishop Emeritus Boniface Setlalekgosi, was called Forrest Hill and comprised a small church, livestock kraals and other structures related to agriculture. The compound – located on the eastern banks of the Gaborone...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 December 2014
Investment in a green economy crucial � Molatlhegi
In response to the State of the Nation Address this week, Molatlhegi, who is also Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly told parliamentarians that engaging in environmentally friendly practices would go a long way in ensuring natural resources...
Baboki Kayawe 12 December 2014
Every drop counts, residents learn the hard way
An old resident of Gaborone, Kitsiso Mmele has lived most of her life in the city and has never seen Gaborone Dam dry up. Harvesting water and keeping it in drums and buckets is an altogether new experience for her. Below she ruminates on the...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 December 2014
The dangers of sex-work
It happened one May night this year, when an enraged truck driver warned the young woman that he would run her over truck if she did not do as he wished. Instead of intervening, other sex workers stood by and dismissed his threats as just that. He...
Bame Piet 12 December 2014
Hungary to sponsor 30 Batswana students
“We are about to sign an agreement with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development on that issue. Our meeting was on Tuesday, but there are certain things that we had agreed upon. If the agreement is signed quickly, 10 students will...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 December 2014
Abortion second highest cause of maternal deaths - report
According to the study, the most common causes of maternal mortality were immediate postpartum haemorrhage leading with 19 cases, unspecified failed attempted abortion constituted 15 deaths, while Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes and Low Platelet...
Baboki Kayawe 12 December 2014
Kgafela entrenches himself as Bakgatla Kgosi
Kgafela is expected to address the meeting from Lesetlheng Ward in Moruleng, where he is currently based. The meeting follows a previous one, which was held at the same venue a week ago and attended by scores of Bakgatla from Botswana and...
Lerato Maleke 12 December 2014
Parly approves social safety net funds
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development had requested the funds to cover the shortfall, which the Botswana Post could not pay out from the last financial year. “The committee acceded to the request based on the fact that...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 December 2014
Thamaga murder suspects appear in court
The prosecutor Sub-Inspector, Mishingo Kedikanetswe told the court that the investigations are still ongoing and two more suspects are still at large. He said they are still waiting for a post-mortem report and other documents, hence the accused...
Keorapetse Kgomotso 12 December 2014
Racial tensions heighten in Tuli Block
One of the residents, Shimane Makera, a 40-year-old farm labourer said he was brutally beaten, stomped on and gun-butted by one of the ‘feared’ white farmers named Stephan. Makera narrated his recent ordeal at the hands of the farmer who...
Thalefang Charles
| 12 December 2014
Team Botswana target more medals
Botswana chef de mission, Healer Modiradilo said they are happy with the number of the medals they have and they are looking forward to rake in more before the games end. He said most coaches have achieved their targets and that is why they are...
Thato Kala 12 December 2014
Volleyball president appeals to new minister
“I know the one at the University of Botswana is about to be completed which is a welcome development, but we need more than that,” Molaodi said at the Mascom Volleyball League awards held in Gaborone on Tuesday. He said they intend to...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 12 December 2014
Tactical battle looms in Chiefs-GU duel
Chiefs rose from their slumber to register an impressive 4-2 win over FC Satmos while GU ended Extension Gunners’ winning streak with a 2-1 victory. Both sides, which are separated by three points, are under the tutelage of former league...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 12 December 2014
Mabote: The Karateka turned tennis master
He was a karate kid before dropping it after his first year at Tlhomo Community Junior Secondary School in kanye. That was when he changed and decided to play Table Tennis. Despite joining the Table Tennis club at Tlhomo CJSS very late, it did not...
Teichler Rankoa 12 December 2014
BOPSSA eyes two major take overs
BOPSSA president, Busani Segweni said they are negotiating with Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) to be given the Re Ba Bona Ha programme because it is currently under different sporting codes. Re Ba Bona Ha was launched in 2002 before...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 12 December 2014
BCA trains cricket teenagers
The BCA chief executive officer, Girish Ramakrishana told Mmegi Sport yesterday that the sessions will be open to all cricket players in the targeted age range. He said the training is meant to polish players for up-coming tournaments. “We...
Teichler Rankoa 12 December 2014
Bathai bows out of BOKA
The outgoing BOKA president said that internal squabbles in BOKA were easy to handle but not the interference from Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC). He accused his detractors of peddling falsehoods against him. He said some officials have no...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 12 December 2014
Why the WCKA festival is failing
Why is the Western Kgalagadi Cultural Association (WCKA) Festival failing? Why does it fail to pull crowds like the relatively new Khawa Dune Challenge, which is hosted in the remote wilderness of the Kgalagadi desert, or Dithubaruba Cultural...
Thalefang Charles
| 12 December 2014
No immediate relief for Gaborone Dam
Along its catchment area and extending into South Africa through the South East District, approximately 200 smaller dams, many of which are located on private holdings, feed Gaborone Dam. Of the smaller dams, none is as significant psychologically...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 December 2014
BMC redoubles non-EU exports
The European Union has traditionally been the Commission’s mainstay, accounting for up to a tenth of revenues in previous years. However, outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease as well as livestock traceability issues triggered the delisting of...
Keikantse Lesemela 12 December 2014
BDP slapped with P2.3m legal bill
Last month the law firm’s legal eagle, Parks Tafa represented the BDP in a controversial case in which the ruling party wanted the court to declare a section of parliamentary standing orders unconstitutional. The BDP and the Attorney General...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 December 2014
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