Botswana defines boundary with neighbours

29 January, 2009 in Botswana

source: BOPA 29 January, 2009 TUTUME – The Director of Surveys and Mapping, Mr Godffrey Habana says there is concern about lack of clear cut international boundaries between Botswana and her neighbours Mr Habana said since independence the boundaries have never been properly defined, which could be a recipe for land dispute. Mr Habana revealed [...]

Zimbabwe: Over 3,000 Dead as Cholera Crisis in Country Worsens, Says UN Health Agency

29 January, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica UN News Service (New York) 28 January 2009 The death toll from Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera epidemic has climbed to over 3,000, with more than 57,000 infected by the water-borne disease, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. Some 3,028 people have now died from cholera since the outbreak first hit [...]

Botswana jobs in SA mines under threat

29 January, 2009 in Botswana, South Africa

source: Mmegi EDGAR TSIMANE Correspondent Miners Gold Fields Limited is set to retrench 4,700 workers at its South African operations, the country’s biggest miners union said yesterday. “Gold Fields has indicated its intentions to retrench ten percent of it workforce. Our position on retrenchments is that we are opposed to the idea and would ensure [...]

Global recession hits small businesses hard

29 January, 2009 in Botswana, Business, Tourism

source: BOPA 29 January, 2009 KASANE – The global economic downturn that is sweeping across the world has not spared small business operations in Kasane. Coffee shops, curio shops, Internet cafes and car wash outlets ,in the tourist hub, have experienced a huge slump in their businesses resulting from the economic meltdown. Small businesses largely [...]

South Africa: Zuma could be president when charged

29 January, 2009 in South Africa

source: IOL Karyn Maughan January 29 2009 at 09:03AM Jacob Zuma could be president of the country when he applies for his corruption prosecution to be permanently quashed – if his lawyers have their way. Zuma’s lawyers on Wednesday formally proposed August 12 as the date for the ANC president’s permanent stay of prosecution application, [...]

Botswana welcomes Zimbabwe power-sharing deal

28 January, 2009 in Botswana, Zimbabwe

source: The Zimbabwe Guardian Ralph Nkomo/APA reporter Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:35:00 +0000 BOTSWANA’S acting Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Ramadeluka Seretse on Wednesday welcomed the recent developments in the power sharing deal between President Mugabe’s Government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change parties. Speaking in Gaborone a day after the Extraordinary Summit [...]

`Debswana won`t shut its mine hospitals`

28 January, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi BAME PIET Staff Writer Debswana mining company says it will not close down its two hospitals in Orapa and Jwaneng, allaying fears among members of the public. The majority of the people in the two mining towns depend on the Debswana hospitals for medical attention, but a squeeze in diamond sales resulting from [...]

Hundreds of Malaysia Students to Return

28 January, 2009 in Botswana

source: The Botswana Gazette Ministry Won’t Sponsor them anymore Hundreds of Batswana students based in Malaysia are bound for home because the Ministry of Education and Skills Development will not sponsor them anymore. They are said to have under-performed. The Principal Public relations Officer at the Ministry, Ms Nomsah Zuze, confirmed to The Gazette that [...]

Zimbabwe: SADC `Deal` Puts MDC`s Tsvangirai on the Spot

28 January, 2009 in SADC, Zimbabwe

source: allAfrica Business Day (Johannesburg) Dumisani Muleya and Hopewell Radebe Johannesburg — ZIMBABWE’S main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is sharply divided over the Southern African Development Community (SADC) decision to instruct it to form a unity government headed by President Robert Mugabe. The decision was announced yesterday morning after a marathon SADC extraordinary [...]

Letshego`s offshore acquisition brightens up dull market

28 January, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi BRIAN BENZA Staff Writer Buoyed by news of another acquisition in Namibia, Letshego lit up the market last week in an otherwise dull trading period on a bourse still characterised by highly risk-averse investors. Letshego recorded the highest trades during the week on increased buying as a total of five million shares were [...]

South Africa: 2010 costs go up

28 January, 2009 in South Africa

source: IOL January 28 2009 at 09:40AM By Colleen Dardagan Durban’s 2010 stadium will finally cost R3,1-billion, R500-million more than originally expected, but ratepayers will not be asked to foot the bill and there is no crisis about the funding of the massive structure. This is according to municipal manager Michael Sutcliffe, who told a [...]

Phikwe Bus/Taxi Rank Project to Forge Ahead

28 January, 2009 in Botswana

source: The Botswana Gazette The Selebi-Phikwe bus and taxi rank project will not be put on ice after all. Acting Town Clerk Barulaganye Mosetlha told The Gazette in an interview this week that at first the project was deferred but the Ministry of Local Government later wrote, advising the council to reinstate the project. Mosetlha [...]

Communique of Sadc Extraordinary Summit on Zimbabwe

28 January, 2009 in SADC, Zimbabwe

source: The Zimbabwe Guardian COMMUNIQUE EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE SADC HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT: PRESIDENTIAL GUEST HOUSE, PRETORIA, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 26-27 JANUARY 2009 1. The Extraordinary Summit of the SADC Heads of State and Government met at the Presidential Guest house in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa on 26-27 January 2009. The [...]

Government moves to ban Chinese trade in clothes

28 January, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE Staff Writer Government has moved to put in place trade laws that will ban Chinese traders from dealing in clothes. The Chinese traders were given 24 months from May last year to rearrange their businesses or face being sent back to China. The government’s decision to bar non-citizens – especially the [...]

Questions raised over cholera threat to 2010 World Cup

28 January, 2009 in South Africa, World Cup 2010, Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Alex Bell 27 January 2009 As Zimbabwe’s cholera death toll continues to rise, and as fears grow that the epidemic has yet to reach its peak, concerns have been raised about what the disease will mean for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Zimbabwe’s neighbour has also been [...]