Orange launches `Livebox` Internet facility

30 June, 2008 in Botswana, Business, Technology, Telekoms & Providers

source: Mmegi LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI Correspondent Mobile phone operator, Orange, on Tuesday launched Livebox, a high speed broadband internet service. This “pioneering service” is based on the most advanced Wimax radio technology which delivers state-of-the-art high speed Internet access via radio link, with no landline connection required. Livebox is the first service that provides for wireless [...]

Zimbabwe: Mbeki Endorses Mugabe in Hope of Coalition Deal

30 June, 2008 in South Africa, Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica Business Day (Johannesburg) 30 June 2008 Posted to the web 30 June 2008 Dumisani Muleya Johannesburg PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will recognise Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who was inaugurated yesterday for a further five-year term after he won a one-man election race, in a bid to find a negotiated settlement to Zimbabwe’s political crisis. [...]

Teachers` welcome teaching council

30 June, 2008 in Africa

source: Mmegi THATO CHWAANE Staff Writer The proposed teaching council is long overdue, teaching organisations have said. This comes after the assistant Minister of Education and Skills Development, Lebonaamang Mokalake, announced that his ministry is considering establishing a teaching council. Speaking to Mmegi yesterday, the president of the Botswana Primary Teachers’ Association, Sam Malete, said [...]

Zimbabwe: Isolate Mugabe Starting with African Union Summit

30 June, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica Freedom House (Washington, DC) PRESS RELEASE 27 June 2008 Posted to the web 30 June 2008 Washington, DC Freedom House urges the African Union to lead a global effort to exclude Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from regional and international bodies, starting with Monday’s African Union summit in Egypt. Mugabe has vowed to attend [...]

Farmers decry lack of support

30 June, 2008 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi ONALENNA MODIKWA Staff Writer TULI-BLOCK: Farmers in the Tuli Block area are decrying lack of support by traders who prefer to buy from South Africa, leaving local produce to perish due to lack of market. Farmers expressed concern that traders have abandoned local farmers so much that they prefer to cross the border [...]

Zimbabwe: Mugabe was declared the duly elected President of Zimbabwe

29 June, 2008 in Africa

souce: SW Radio Africa At 4.17 pm on the 29th June 2008, 84 year old Mr Mugabe was declared the duly elected President of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe: 2,150,269 votes Morgan Tsvangirai: 233,000 votes Spoilt papers: 131,481. Mugabe declared winner in Zimbabwe’s one-man election

Botswana to boost training of engineers

29 June, 2008 in Botswana, Education

source: Africa Science Service Written by ASNS in Botswana Saturday, 28 June 2008 Botswana’s Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi said the country is keen to see the development of young people into future engineers and technologists as there is the challenge of having an adequate technology literate workforce. Officiating at the [...]

Call for intervention in Zimbabwe

29 June, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: BBC News Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged the international community to intervene in Zimbabwe – by force if necessary. The former Cape Town archbishop said he would support the deployment of a UN force to restore peace in the country. He said African Union leaders should refuse to recognise Robert Mugabe as the legitimate [...]

Zimbabwe: `Mugabe to be sworn in soon`

28 June, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: The Times (SA) AFP Published:Jun 28, 2008 HARARE – Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe, certain of victory following a one-man election, is expected to be inaugurated for a new term as president on Sunday, government sources told AFP. “The inauguration is tomorrow (Sunday) at 10am (0800 GMT),” said one source close to Mugabe. Another source [...]

CIC Energy vulnerable to a takeover bid

28 June, 2008 in Botswana, Business, Mining

source: Mmegi STAFF WRITER Global bankers have warned CIC Energy that it could be subject to some sort of corporate takeover by another large player in the region due to its rich Mmamabula resource. The size of the Mmamabula resource is 2.3 billion tonnes. CIC Energy CEO Warren Newfield admitted to Miningmx online that they [...]

Low voter turnout in Harare suburbs

28 June, 2008 in Zimbabwe

source: SW RAdio Africa By Mandisa Mundawarara June 27, 2008 The people of Harare today stayed away from polling stations, with reports of queues with ‘no more than five people.’ Thabani Moyo told us that he had visited polling stations in the suburbs of Mabvuku, Mufakose, Chitungwiza, Mbare, Mabelreign, Marlborough, Bluff Hill and Eastgate. Most [...]

Complex relationship keeps South African leader from criticizing Mugabe

28 June, 2008 in South Africa, Zimbabwe

source: International Herald Tribune By Celia W. Dugger and Barry Bearak Published: June 27, 2008 JOHANNESBURG: President Robert Mugabe’s enforcers had already begun to rampage across Zimbabwe, beating his political opponents, when television cameras captured a startling image of Mugabe holding hands with the smiling South African president, Thabo Mbeki, a professed champion of African [...]

Local businesses want share of govt tenders

28 June, 2008 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi MQONDISI DUBE Correspondent SELEBI-PHIKWE: The business community here has told the Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry that government needs to expedite the creation of an enabling environment and to deliberately promote small- and medium-scale enterprises. Keith Kgathi, a local businessman, appealed to the Minister Duke Lefhoko to regulate the market to ensure [...]

Mbeki report on Zim leaked

28 June, 2008 in South Africa, Zimbabwe

source: News24 27/06/2008 12:26 – (SA) Johannesburg – President Thabo Mbeki wrote a stinging report to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe in 2001, pleading with him to stop land grabs and admit that the ruling party has failed to create a democratic state. In a 37-page analysis of the situation in Zimbabwe, written a year after Zanu-PF [...]

Gaborone City Council to receive P156m for roads

27 June, 2008 in Botswana

siurce: Mmegi THATO CHWAANE Staff Writer Ministry of Local Government assistant minister Ambrose Masalila has told a full Gaborone City Council (GCC) meeting that the council will receive P156 million for the roads rehabilitation. Making the announcement yesterday, Masalila said that a special warrant is to be signed this week and a total of over [...]