New milk processor predicts no shortages

30 April, 2008 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi STAFF WRITER Botswana is not likely to face milk shortages this year, an investor in the dairy industry has said. In a statement released on yesterday the investment partners of Delta Dairies, VPB said that after the acute shortages of last year will not be experienced again. The private equity and venture capital [...]

SA: Petrol climbs to the R10 mark

30 April, 2008 in South Africa

source: IOL Babalo Ndenze April 29 2008 at 07:37AM With an expected increase of 20 to 25 cents a litre next Wednesday, the petrol price is well on the way to hitting the R10 mark in two to three months, economists warn. The price for petrol on the coast is R8.67 a litre. Next week’s [...]

SA airports lose 7 868 bags

30 April, 2008 in South Africa

source: News24 Johannesburg – A total of 7 868 items of luggage belonging to South African Airways passengers were reported missing from airports in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London in the three-month period between December 1 and February 29 this year. That was in stark contrast to figures supplied to Independent [...]

Zimbabwe: Govt Finally Admits Attacks On Opposition

30 April, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica The Nation (Nairobi) 30 April 2008 Posted to the web 30 April 2008 Kitsepile Nyathi and Agencies Harare The Zimbabwe government today said soldiers had killed an opposition supporter and wounded two others following skirmishes near a military training camp. Meanwhile, verification of Zimbabwe’s disputed presidential election results is to start on Thursday, [...]

Zims seek refuge in Botswana

30 April, 2008 in Botswana, Zimbabwe

source: Mmegi RYDER GABATHUSE and ONALENNA MODIKWA Staff Writers FRANCISTOWN: Zimbabweans have started fleeing to Botswana to escape the political crisis caused by the delay in announcing the results of the presidential poll in the March 29 general elections. Reports reaching Mmegi indicate that over the weekend asylum seekers from Zimbabwe crossed the border into [...]

South Africa and China block Zimbabwe discussion

30 April, 2008 in South Africa, Zimbabwe

source: The Zimbabwe Guardian SOUTH AFRICA and China yesterday blocked efforts to include Zimbabwe on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council as the group met yesterday. Lynn Pascoe, undersecretary-general for political affairs, presented a report handed over to him by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s Secretary General Tendai Biti, to the 15-member [...]

Botswana International University of Science and Technology Will Not Duplicate UB Courses

29 April, 2008 in Botswana, Education, Palapye, Palapye University

source: Mmegi By Tumelo Setshogo Correspondent With the coming of the country’s second university which is to be located in the Serowe-Palapye area, Government is keen to avoid duplication of subjects already offered at the University of Botswana (UB). The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) is envisaged as a purposeful place of [...]

Choppies Opens Store In Bobonong

29 April, 2008 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi By Mqondisi Dube Correspondent BOBONONG: Choppies chain stores now have 45 branches countrywide, following the opening of another supermarket in Bobonong last Friday. While the opening of the chain store is seen as a threat to the survival of small and medium retailers, Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Shaw Kgathi believes such businesses should [...]

Zimbabwe: Vote Recounts Suspended As Zanu PF Loses

29 April, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica Zimbabwe Standard (Harare) 26 April 2008 Posted to the web 28 April 2008 Kholwani Nyathi Bulawayo The recount of votes in the Bulilima East constituency in Matabeleland South was suspended temporarily last week after losing Zanu PF candidates held an alleged secret meeting with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). ZEC officials were forced [...]

Information Services Vacancy To Be Filled

29 April, 2008 in Botswana, Technology

source: Mmegi By Tumelo Setshogo Correspondent It is now two years since the Department of Information Services has been without a director after the redeployment of Bapasi Mphsu to the Department of Broadcasting Services in April 2005 to replace Habuji Sosome. Kebareng Solomon, the Chief Information Officer at Information, has been acting on renewable six-month [...]

Burkina Faso: Second ICT Best Practice Conference in Ouaga – Closing the Gap Between Words And Action

29 April, 2008 in Africa, Technology

source: allAfrica Balancing Act (London) ANALYSIS 26 April 2008 Posted to the web 28 April 2008 Russell Southwood London This week, the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou hosted the second annual “Africa ICT Best Practice Forum” which serves as a practical way for Governments from across Africa to share their own experiences and demonstrate practical [...]

Zimbabwe: Leaked memo says opposition crackdown set for Matabeleland

29 April, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Lance Guma 28 April 2008 A crackdown on opposition activists primarily targeting Mashonaland, Masvingo and Manicaland areas will soon be extended to Matabeleland, opposition sources suggest. Although there have been cases of political violence in Matabeleland areas like Nkayi, Newsreel understands the International Trade Fair that ended over the weekend [...]

Africa: `Banking Technology Conference Looks At Borderless World`

29 April, 2008 in Africa

source: allAfrica Leadership (Abuja) 28 April 2008 Posted to the web 28 April 2008 Amaka Ifeakandu The theme for the forthcoming African Banking Technology Conference which is scheduled to hold from May 6-7 next month at the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, is: ‘Competing in a borderless world.’ Sean Moroney, chairman of Aitec Africa, the [...]

VP To Commission BR Signalling System

29 April, 2008 in Botswana

source: Mmegi Vice President Mompati Merafhe is expected to officially commission one of the three Botswana Railways (BR) fully protected level crossings in his home-town of Mahalaphe tomorrow. BR spokesperson Alina Masenya they have been renewing their signalling and telecommunications infrastructure since 2005 at a cost of P165.5 million. Ansaldo STS, an Australian company is [...]

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai and Mutambara join forces

29 April, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Tererai Karimakwenda April 16, 2008 Opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leaders of the two MDC formations, held a press conference in South Africa on Monday where they announced that they would be joining forces to ensure the MDC holds the majority in parliament. This would effectively make ZANU-PF [...]