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Archive for July, 2011
WALKING THE TALK!
Jul. 29 | ORIENTATION: arrival at Mosu kgotla Y Care Charitable walk a success The Y Care Charitable Trust has grown in leaps and bounds over the years with participation increasing with every walk, all in the name of charity. The latest walk saw over 70...
CHANGE OF MOTION
Jul. 29 | BFA OFFICIALS Premier League to review constitution Botswana Football Association (BFA) regions and affiliates will tomorrow (Saturday) gather at Maharaja Conference centre in Gaborone for the biennial general assembly. This year’s assembly...
FIRST DIVISION TEAMS TO MERGE
Jul. 29 | CALLING FOR CHANGE: Olopeng First Division North league committee’s Chairperson Eatametse Olopeng has called on teams to merge in order to reduce their numbers. He said this at their Annual General Meeting held in Francistown last weekend....
BNSC COMMENDED
Jul. 29 | NEW BROOM: Reikeletseng Ministry of Sports Youth and Culture’s Permanent Secretary Ruth Maphorisa acknowledged good performances by various national teams and attributed their success to BNSC’s hard work. Maphorisa said this at BNSC Annual General...
MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
Jul. 29 | In love: Sandra Tshugulu and Telmore Kamuruko Couple celebrates union made possible by Voice dating column SandraTshugulu is not an avid reader of newspapers, but as fate would have it, the day she decided to flip through The Voice newspaper in July last...
It’s a nightmare!
Jul. 29 | People complain over poor service at DRTS Spending the night by fire at the Department of Road Transport and Safety offices in the hope of getting service has become a norm in most parts of the country. The Voice recently spent three days observing the...
SAVED BY THE COALITION
Jul. 29 | RETAINED: Botsalo Ntuane Ntuane retains position as leader of opposition as BMD loses majority Opposition parties on Wednesday unanimously agreed that Member of Parliament for Gaborone West South, Botsalo Ntuane retain his position in parliament as leader...
FREED BY A DNA TEST
Jul. 29 | CONTROVERSIAL: Simon Patrick Moroka Teacher’ sex scandal lands ex-student in jail An affair with a 14-year-old student eight years ago has become a nightmare for a Maun teacher and the girl. Expressing relief at DNA test negative results, Matola primary...
JUSTICE DENIED
Jul. 29 | Police accused of sweeping nine- year- old girl’s rape case under the carpet Three years after her nine -year old child was defiled, a distraught mother who was also raped as a little girl, is struggling to come to terms with delayed justice. In...
THE NAKED TRUTH
Jul. 29 | By Thobo Ketikilwe Billboard We live in a world of our own – a world where people look at things differently. People perceive things differently because perception differs from person to person. This can be influenced by the environment that...
COMING IN FROM THE COLD!
Jul. 29 | Pretoria sign As you all know by now that we are in Pretoria, South Africa. We are currently at the high performance centre. This venue is such a good place with everything in it. The training grounds and all the gym machines are there. The instructors...
Dear Consumer’s Voice
Jul. 29 | I saw an advertisement for “Immune solutions” and treatments for “sugar diabetes”. Do you think they can be real? SMS communications CV: No, they’re not. I contacted the advertiser and asked him whether he could really offer treatments...
A MOTHER’S BOUNDARIES
Jul. 29 | SUPER HERO: From a human transport to a being bed, mother is expected to do it all If someone had told me that motherhood would be akin to slavery, I would have probably dismissed them as crazy. But then again, like I have come to realise and accept;...
SOUTH AFRICAN IN COURT FOR LYING TO GET WORK PERMIT
Jul. 29 | DECEITFUL; Pieter Thennisen A South African man appeared before a Francistown magistrate court early this week charged with giving false information to a person employed by the public service. Phillip Pieter Thennisen, 60,allegedly mislead an immigration...
SOMETHING FISHY…
Jul. 29 | I’m a very active person and I like keeping busy, you know I’m one of those people who are always itching to do something. So I volunteered to help at the Reading Association of Botswana conference for a week because I was just too tired of sitting...
The 5th Annual Bessie Head Literature Awards
Jul. 29 | Prof Mwiksa Recently I was interviewed by Kaya FM in South Africa and the interviewer, Mmasechaba Moshoeshoe, asked what advice I would give up and coming writers. I said writers must read, and writers must write. And I think they should come in that...
The March on Kgale Hill
Jul. 29 | Support a crime free Gaborone Kgale Hill is the face that greets us as we return to Gaborone from almost anywhere. As you drive wearily back from the cattle post, home village, South Africa, or a camping holiday it is a familiar beacon in the distance....
Keeping Up Appearances
Jul. 29 | ROLE MODELS: Image rules… not ok So what do you think about the picture I stuck at the top of this week’s piece? Yeah, I like it too and I figure it might entice a few more pager-turners to pause at the business section and possibly even read my blurb,...
TREKKING THE MAKGADIKAKGADI PANS
Jul. 22 | SLIPPERY WHEN WET: Patel sliding in the mud Determined men and women from various corporate organizations traded their formal wear for camping gear and walking shoes as they took to the Makgadikgadi pans to embark on a more than 120km charity walk. The...
