Category Archives: Botswana

Ethiopia beats Botswana 1-0 to top World Cup qualifying group

March 24, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

JOHANNESBURG – Ethiopia’s chances of reaching the 2014 World Cup in Brazil became a little more realistic on Sunday after beating Botswana to open a two-point gap at the top of its group in African qualifying. Ghana beat Sudan 4-0 … read more »

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Africa: 2014 World Cup qualifiers Live Blog

March 23, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Welcome to our coverage of today’s football action. The focus for today is the World Cup qualifiers, especially South Africa’s match at 8:15pm CAT (SA, GMT+2). Updates Full Time: Nigeria 1-1 Kenya Congo 1 – 0 Gabon Cameroon 2 – … read more »

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List of African Nations Cup winners

January 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

(Reuters) – African Nations Cup winners (host country in brackets) : 1957 – Egypt (Sudan) 1959 – Egypt (Egypt) 1962 – Ethiopia (Ethiopia) 1963 – Ghana (Ghana) 1965 – Ghana (Tunisia) 1968 – Congo-Kinshasa* (Ethiopia) 1970 – Sudan (Sudan) 1972 … read more »

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2013 Africa Cup of Nations: Group B Preview

December 12, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The countdown is on to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Group B sees Ghana, the darlings of Africa during the 2010 Fifa World Cup, lining up against Niger, DR Congo, and the continent’s third-ranked team, Mali. Get primed for … read more »

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2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers Day2 Live updates

October 14, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Result: Ethiopia 2-0 Sudan – Addis Ababa Aggregate: Sudan 5-5 Ethiopia Ethiopia win on away goals Result: Cameroon 2-1 Cape Verde Islands -Yaounde Aggregate: Cape Verde 3-2 Cameroon Result:Angola 2-0 Zimbabwe – Luanda Aggregate Zimbabwe 3-3 Angola Angola win on … read more »

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2013 African Cup of Nations qualifiers Live updates

October 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

In Summary Seven second-leg ties on Saturday First-leg scores in brackets Morocco 4-0 Mozambique 2100 BST (0-2) Senegal 0-2 Ivory Coast (2-6 agg) Match abandoned after 76 mins FT: Uganda 1-0 Zambia (1-1 agg) Zambia through 9-8 on penalties FT: … read more »

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Bush travels to Zambia, Botswana to raise cancer awareness

July 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Former President George W. Bush is visiting Zambia to promote a health initiative that focuses on cervical and breast cancer prevention and treatment. In the city of Kabwe, Bush worked with local residents Saturday to refurbish a clinic used to … read more »

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Zimbabwe minister doubts polls this year

February 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Harare – Zimbabwe’s constitutional affairs minister on Wednesday cast doubt on President Robert Mugabe’s bid to hold elections this year. A referendum on a proposed new constitution must take place before the holding of general elections. “My assessment is the … read more »

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Elephant kills SA man in Botswana

November 24, 2011 by benim

Cape Town – An estate agent from Knysna has described how her husband was killed by an elephant cow, which she had been photographing only minutes earlier, at a watering hole on a game farm in Botswana. Ling Dobson told … read more »

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Legalise prostitution, Mogae says

November 8, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – For 15 years Thato Serite has made her living as a prostitute along Botswana’s busiest highway, hired by truckers plying the main route to South Africa. The 35-year-old is an expert at dodging police patrols, but Botswana’s former … read more »

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Tourists killed in Botswana plane crash

October 18, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Eight foreign tourists were killed when their plane crashed after take-off near an airstrip in north Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the country’s civil aviation authority said on Monday. Four Swedes, two Britons and two French tourists were killed when … read more »

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Botswana approached US for arms of war to fight Zimbabwe – Wikileaks

September 5, 2011 by benim

BOTSWANA approached the United States for arms of war and related military equipment to help prepare for an expected attack by Zimbabwe as tensions escalated between the two countries over claims President Ian Khama was harbouring MDC-T militias. President Khama … read more »

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Botswana’s Bushmen boycott census

August 20, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Botswana’s indigenous people don’t want to be counted by a government with whom they have long clashed. Jumanda Gakelebone, spokesperson for First People of the Kalahari, said on Friday that Bushmen, also known Basarwa, boycotted a census that … read more »

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SAfrica’s Youth League apologises for Botswana remarks

August 14, 2011 by benim

The Youth League of South Africa’s ANC apologised to the ruling party on Saturday for meddling in foreign affairs when it called for the overthrow the democratically elected government of neighbouring Botswana. The African National Congress earlier this month blasted … read more »

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Botswana To Begin Sending Aid to Somali Refugees

August 1, 2011 by benim

Botswana plans to ship relief items to Somali refugee camps in Kenya this week. Government spokesman Jeff Ramsay said “[The administration] announced it will fly food aid to Kenya refugee camps to help in assisting the people of both Kenya … read more »

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Botswana public servants challenge labour law change

June 28, 2011 by benim

Botswana’s public sector union has taken the government to court to contest the classification of diamond cutters and teachers as essential workers who cannot strike, a spokesman said Tuesday. Hot on the heels of the country’s first-ever civil servants strike … read more »

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Michelle Obama and family go on African safari

June 25, 2011 by benim

MADIKWE GAME RESERVE, South Africa – It’s an African safari for Michelle Obama and her family. The first lady, her daughters, her mother, and a niece and nephew climbed into an open-air vehicle Saturday afternoon in search of lions, tigers, … read more »

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Michelle Obama visits Botswana Aids clinic

June 25, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – US First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday started the last leg of her African tour in Botswana by helping spruce up an Aids clinic, in one of the countries hardest-hit by the disease. She landed in Gaborone after … read more »

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Botswana ends public workres strike.

June 11, 2011 by benim

Authorities says Botswana public workers have ended their 8-week strike and will be back on the job as early as Monday. The French Press Agency quotes a union spokesman as saying 90,000 workers have agreed to accept the government’s 3-percent … read more »

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Botswana government rejects conditions to end strike: unions

May 31, 2011 by benim

Botswana’s government has rejected conditions made by unions in a bid to help end a 6-week strike that has shaken the ruling party’s 45-year grip on power, a union spokesman said on Tuesday. The unions said on Monday they had … read more »

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Unionist charged, Botswana strike drags on

May 28, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – A Botswana union leader says his arrest on assault charges is part of government attempts to end a month-long civil service strike. Pelotshweu Baeng, former president of the Botswana Land Boards, Local Authorities and Health Workers’ Union, was … read more »

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Botswana govt suspends wage talks

May 25, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Botswana has suspended wage negotiations with striking public service workers, insisting that they return to the job before resuming talks, an official said on Wednesday. “In view of the fact that the government has made its position on … read more »

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No work, no pay angers Botswana strikers

May 24, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – More than 50 000 striking civil servants in Botswana will go without salary or see their pay deducted as government begins implementing its “no work, no pay” policy, a union official said on Tuesday. About 90 000 workers … read more »

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Botswana govt warns strikers

May 20, 2011 by benim

GABORONE, Botswana – Botswana’s government has told 1,478 civil servants considered essential workers they will be fired for taking part in a nationwide strike that has dragged on for more than a month, officials said Friday. Akanyang Mmoi, a spokesman … read more »

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Botswana closes strike-hit schools

May 17, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Botswana’s minister of education says schools are being closed indefinitely after student protests in support of a teachers’ strike erupted into violence. The minister, Pelonomi Venson Motoi, took the step on Monday, saying she was acting to safeguard … read more »

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Botswana police fire tear gas on rioting students

May 13, 2011 by benim

GABORONE, Botswana – Police in Botswana fired tear gas on rioting students angry over a teachers’ strike. Teachers’ union secretary Justin Hunyepa says the students rioted in Molepolole, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) outside Gaborone, on Friday. He says 95 … read more »

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Botswana health workers back at work

April 27, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Botswana doctors, nurses and other essential workers who last week joined an ongoing public service strike returned to work on Wednesday in obedience to a court order. The government had sought the order from the industrial court, saying … read more »

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Botswana govt ‘intimidates’ strikers

April 21, 2011 by benim

Gaborone – Striking civil servants in Botswana accused the government on Thursday of using intimidation and illegal substitute workers to derail their strike. The Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions, which is demanding a 16% wage hike after a three-year … read more »

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Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalahari Bushmen

January 22, 2011 by benim

The US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned the government’s forced eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen, according to secret US embassy cables released today. Ambassador Joseph Huggins told his bosses in Washington in 2005 that the Bushmen had been ‘dumped in … read more »

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Botswana: For Some Bushmen, a Homeland Worth the Fight

November 5, 2010 by benim

CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, Botswana — They were on the move beneath an unyielding sun, and for a while their approaching shapes seemed just another part of the desert, their tattered clothes bleached like the thorny scrub around them. These … read more »

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