Manual Workers Union call for vote against Khama`s A-Team faction

24 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Sunday Standard by Sunday Standard Reporter 24.08.2009 7:38:37 A Botswana’s biggest trade union, the National Amalgamated local & Central Government Workers Union, has called on its members and other Batswana who have registered for elections not to vote for the A-Team faction of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party. The union’s Administrative Officer, Samuel Molaodi, [...]

South Africa: `50 000 to volunteer for 2010`

24 August, 2009 in South Africa

source: SouthAfrica.info 24 August 2009 With an average 1 500 applications a day pouring in from around the world, the organisers expect the volunteer applications for the 2010 Fifa World Cup to break the 50 000 mark by the 31 August deadline – surpassing the 48 167 received for Germany 2006. Over 47 000 applications [...]

CIC Energy to shed equity in MEP

24 August, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi THATO MOSEKI Correspondent CIC Energy, the principal equity holder in the multi-billion pula Mmamabula Energy Project (MEP), plans to shed its shareholding in the project to allow investors to pump in funds needed to bring the coal-fired export power station to commercial production. The Canadian company has already signed off 35 percent equity [...]

Chinese equity firm eye Mmamabula

24 August, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi BRIAN BENZA Staff Writer BEIJING: The China-Africa Development Fund (CADF) says it is keeping a close watch on developments at the Mmamabula Energy Project (MEP) with a view to snapping up a stake. Speaking to Mmegi here on the sidelines of a briefing of African journalists, the Assistant Manager in the Fund’s Southern [...]

SADC envisions food security in spite of the recession

24 August, 2009 in Botswana, SADC

source: Sunday Standard by Gowenius Toka 02.06.2009 2:13:24 P Ministers for Agriculture and Food Security in the Southern African region have said that despite the economic slow-down that affected the region the food security in the region is reassuring. The ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said this at the end of their [...]

Suspected Botswana ivory smuggler caught in SA police snare

24 August, 2009 in Botswana, South Africa

source: Sunday Standard by Reuben Pitse 24.08.2009 7:46:06 A In a telephone interview, a spokesperson of South Africa’s North West Province police, Superintendent Lesego Metsi, confirmed at the weekend that they recently arrested a Motswana national on suspicion of ivory smuggling. He said the suspect, Lenyeletse Sedimba, 35, was arrested while attempting to cross into [...]

High-risk status dents Africa`s share of global mining

24 August, 2009 in Botswana, Business, Mining

source: Mmegi Concerns over political stability, security of tenure, infrastructure, shortage of skills and especially health and safety are among factors debilitating against Africa’s share of global exploration spending, writes THATO MOSEKI Researchers in the mining industry say Africa’s plethora of operational risks is the biggest factor reducing the continent’s share of global exploration spending [...]