Khama! reinstate Motswaledi – BDP Gabs Central

25 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi ISAIAH MOREWAGAE Staff Writer – Constituency to petition Khama on Motswaledi -Area BDP members will not support any other candidate Yesterday evening the Motswaledi fiasco took another turn when Gaborone Central Botswana Democratic Party members gathered in an improptu meeting characterised by emotions and palpable anger. The electorate in Gaborone Central vowed to [...]

Zimbabwe invests in fiber optics

25 August, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: Sunday Standard by Sunday Standard Reporter in Bulawayo 24.08.2009 7:01:03 A Zimbabwe has started developing an undersea fiber-optic cable aimed at improving the country’s telecommunications services. Fiber optics connections offer a higher carrying capacity. These cables connect to the rest of the world at lightning speed. Zimbabwe, like many other African countries, is trying [...]

Khama salutes chief justices` role

25 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi KASANE: President Ian Khama has hailed chief justices, saying he hopes the interaction among the region’s top legal brains will contribute to the development of the Southern African judicial systems, and improve their efficiency. He was speaking at the opening of the recent Southern African Chief Justices Forum (SACJF) conference in Kasane. The [...]

Zimbabwe: New survey shows Mugabe has lost support

25 August, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Lance Guma 24 August 2009 Two new surveys by the Mass Public Opinion Institute show that support for Robert Mugabe has dropped by 20 percent since the unity government was formed in February. The two polls conducted in April and May also reveal that ZANU PF would be reduced to [...]

Who Says Khama Must Go?

25 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi Gale Ngakane Correspondent The turmoil currently gripping the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is making critics fearful that it could spill over or has already filtered into government, and that President Ian Khama should resign before things get out of hand. However, the majority of people Monitor spoke to on the streets of [...]

CEDA’s new strategy expands the Agency`s mandate, influence and power

25 August, 2009 in Africa

source: Sunday Standard by KABO MOKGOABONE 24.08.2009 7:09:10 A It will be interesting to see how the third strategic plan by CEDA (Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency) will be received by such influential institutions as the Bank of Botswana. The new strategy gives CEDA an expanded mandate and increased power. In the past, the Bank of [...]

Khama Speaks On Motswaledi

25 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi Ephraim Keoreng Staff Writer As the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) saga unfolds, President Ian Khama has publicly explained his decision to suspend secretary general Gomolemo Motswaledi. In a statement read by Department of Broadcasting Services director Mogomotsi Kaboyamodimo, Khama said that the unacceptable behaviour from some BDP central committee members has caused him [...]

Africa`s population reaches one billion

25 August, 2009 in Africa

source: SouthAfrica.info 25 August 2009 Africa’s population has reached one billion, says a report published jointly by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau and US government aid agency USAID. The report, a companion to the Population Reference Bureau’s 2009 world population Data Sheet, provides data and analysis on world population trends, youth, gender and the environment. [...]

More airlines to come to Botswana next year

25 August, 2009 in Botswana, Business

source: Mmegi BABOKI KAYAWE Correspondent A focal development in Botswana’s civil aviation sector is due next year when more operators besides Air Botswana will be licensed to provide domestic and international scheduled air services on a competitive basis, the Minister of Works and Transport, Johnnie Swartz, has said. Already this year, two giant foreign airlines [...]

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 [...]