Did Phumaphi quit the World Bank for the vice presidency?

30 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI Correspondent The name of former Minister of Health, Joy Phumaphi, keeps cropping up among the list of favourites for the position of Vice President after the general elections. According to sources in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), if she does not become the next Vice President, Phumaphi will become the next [...]

Zimbabwe: More farm violence and looting as soldiers ignore court orders

30 September, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa Gerry Jackson 29 September, 2009 The Swiss government have cleared Nestle of any wrong doing over the fact that the company trades with Grace Mugabe. The disingenuous argument being used is that the Swiss regulations that bar trade with the Mugabes, only apply to companies in Switzerland, and not subsidiaries in [...]

Palai confirms Lekaukau`s termination

30 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: The Botswana Gazette Written by EDITOR Tuesday, 29 September 2009 07:27 Questions as to why DIS was Asked to escort him out of his office The Acting Permanent Secretary to the President, Mr. Bruce Palai, has confirmed that government has terminated Mr. Moses Lekaukau’s contract. The Director General of the Government Implementation Coordination Office’s [...]

Zimbabwe: Swiss govt clears Nestle over trade with Grace Mugabe

30 September, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 29 September 2009 The Swiss national food giant Nestle has been criticised heavily for buying milk from Grace Mugabe, who controversially has ‘acquired’ six farms, most of them taken from white commercial farmers. It was exposed this week that Mrs Mugabe’s Gushungo Dairy Estate (formerly known as Foyle [...]

European Commission commits to greater cooperation

30 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi STAFF WRITER The European Commission (EC), the Government of Botswana and civil society yesterday witnessed the handing over of the first Grant Contracts/Projects in support of Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) capacity building and service delivery to community members in vulnerable parts of Botswana. The event took place in Gaborone where 14 organisations will [...]

South Africa: Criminals `don`t do warning shots`

30 September, 2009 in South Africa

source: News24 2009-09-29 22:12 Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma threatened criminals with a shoot-to-kill policy on Tuesday, re-igniting the debate on the rights of criminals in a country where 50 people are murdered every day. “Criminals don’t take an oath to do warning shots,” Zuma told 1 000 police station commanders at the Voortrekker Monument [...]

ARV manufacturing company to set up in Phikwe

30 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi CALISTUS KOLANTSHO Correspondent SELEBI-PHIKWE: President Ian Khama Khama has said that a company manufacturing Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs will open in Selebi-Phikwe soon. He said the company will invest P210 million in the project and hire more than 1,000 workers. Khama made the announcement during a political rally in Selebi-Phikwe over the weekend. He [...]

Zimbabwe: Bennett says MDC have no power in government

30 September, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 29 September 2009 Roy Bennett, the MDC-T Deputy Minister of Agriculture nominee, has said the security situation in the country is now one of concern, eight months after the formation of the inclusive government. The MDC official, who is still waiting to be sworn into office by Robert [...]

Official Acknowledges DCEC-Ombudsman Confusion

29 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi Patricia Maganu Staff Writer FRANCISTOWN: It seems people have not figured out the difference between the Ombudsman and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crimes (DCEC). This became evident at a breakfast seminar hosted by the Ombudsman in Francistown last week. The seminar was aimed at bringing the Ombudsman closer to the people, [...]

Zambia: Stay Out of Local Issues – Danish Envoy

29 September, 2009 in Zambia

source: allAfrica The Times of Zambia (Ndola) 28 September 2009 DANISH ambassador to Zambia Thomas Schjerbeck has said diplomats accredited to Zambia should desist from commenting on internal matters of the country but instead help the Government in the fight against corruption. Speaking in an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Schjerbeck said that internal matters [...]

Zimbabwe: Robert and Grace Mugabe own 12 farms between them

29 September, 2009 in Zimbabwe

source: SW Radio Africa By Violet Gonda 28 September 2009 Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have always insisted that the government’s land reform programme is meant to correct ‘historical imbalances’ and give land to landless black Zimbabweans, through a one man one farm policy. But over the last decade productive farms have been [...]

Africa: Americans, Africans Use Business Summit to Expand Trade

29 September, 2009 in Africa

source: allAfrica America.gov (Washington, DC) Charles W. Corey 24 September 2009 American and African entrepreneurs and investors will meet face to face to develop relationships and to establish and expand business, trade and investment ties at the Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit, which convenes in Washington September 29-October 1. Kevin Boyd, director of the Office [...]

EU, Botswana Evaluate Development Cooperation

29 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi Baboki Kayawe Staff Writer The Botswana government and the European Union hosted a one-day seminar last Thursday to evaluate development cooperation between them. The seminar looked at the results of an evaluation of the European Commission (EC) Botswana Development Co-operation from 1997 to 2013, which was taken in June this year. Head of [...]

South Africa: Job losses – 475 000 in 6 months

29 September, 2009 in South Africa

source: Fin24 2009/09/28 05:56:00 PM Cape Town – Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel told MPs on Monday that job losses have been widespread across the economy, but the government’s response to the economic crisis, in particular the impact on the construction sector of pressing ahead with much-needed infrastructure investment, has been acting to counter the [...]

Botswana courts Chinese telecommunications

29 September, 2009 in Botswana

source: BOPA 29 September, 2009 GABORONE – Botswana may soon become a strategic hub for telecommunication and scientific technology development for southern Africa. That is if the countrys efforts to woo Chinese companies to set up telecommunications business here succeed. When Minister of Communications, Science and Technology (MCST) revealed Botswanas eagerness to Ambassador Liu Huanxing, [...]