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• Engen Volumes Increase Despite Oil Prices Rise

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Staff Writer Engen Botswana volumes have increased despite the upturn in international oil prices, which has seen local fuel pump prices going up. The company published first half-year results to September 2009, reporting a 17.3 percent increase in Earnings Per Share to P0.26. Though volumes ...
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• Border post workers need to protect Botswana`s image

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 LOBATSE – Workers at border posts have been implored to serve customers diligently in order to maintain Botswana’s positive image to the outside world. Addressing Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) employees at Ramatlabama and Pioneer Gate border posts, finance and ...
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• Boreholes Rescue Makgadikgadi Pans Wildlife

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe Staff writer The provision of 12 boreholes and artificial watering pans for the wildlife at a national park in the vast Makgadikgadi Pans is expected to improve the quality of wildlife and tourism activities in the area. Last year the Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS), ...
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• Choppies faces collapse as armed robberies cripple their operations

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Sunday Standard by Sunday Standard Reporter 09.11.2009 1:44:32 A The management of local supermarket chain Choppies has revealed that they might face collapse if the spate of armed robberies that have been targeted at their countrywide operations are not stemmed with immediate effect. Speaking to The ...
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• Police operation nubs 53

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 SELEBI PHIKWE – A total of 53 offenders were nabbed and charged during a two-day police operation dubbed Defrost Two in Selebi Phikwe. The Selebi Phikwe Police combined forces with other government departments such as Botswana Defence Force, Bye Law, Labour officers, Immigration ...
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• Water Galore For The Bushmen In The CKGR?

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe Staff Writer Who needs to ferry tanks of water in trucks now when the wilderness is alive with boreholes of free flowing water? The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) may not need to load trucks with water tanks now after 10 boreholes inside the wilderness were ...
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• Diamond industry offers opportunities – Tombale-bizz

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 GABORONE – Entrepreneurs have been called to take advantage of unlimited investment opportunities available in the diamond industry brought by beneficiation and expansion of Jwaneng Mine. Speaking during the Global Expo business forum at the Pavillion last week, the Coordinator of ...
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• Trade Official Tips SMMEs On Productivity Systems

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Baboki Kayawe Staff Writer A senior government official has urged Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) to build productivity systems into their management so that they can compete internationally. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Bonniface Mphetlhe told SMMEs ...
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• Mailbox Monday

  
  Suko's Notebook — Authority: 408
  When I received a package from Botswana today, practically covered with colorful stamps, I knew I had to do Mailbox Monday . Every week Marcia from The Printed Page hosts Mailbox Monday . Ive never done this meme before, although Ive often commented on others Mailbox Monday posts. The book from Botswana is ...
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• Khama Meets Obama

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. I just want to welcome President Khama to the Oval Office and to make a brief statement about Botswana and its relationship to the United States. Although Botswana is not a large country, it is truly one of the extraordinary success stories in Africa. Since the ...
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• Obama hails Botswana

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 09 November, 2009 GABORONE – Although Botswana is not a large country, it is truly one of the extraordinary success stories in Africa, United States President Barrack Obama said on Thursday when welcoming President Seretse Khama Ian Khama in the United States of America. Since the mid 1960s it ...
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• ORACLE DAY 2009 – Gaborone, Botswana

  
  IT EVENT — Authority: 439
  November 10, 2009 The Grand Palm Hotel, Bonnington Farm, Molepolole Road Gaborone, Botswana Join us for the launch of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Listen to experts from Oracle, since these products to discuss how to make businesses more flexible and responsive, while saving ...
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• President Obama Discusses Africa’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic With President Of Botswana

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  President Barack Obama met with Botswana’s president, Ian Khama, on Thursday to discuss issues facing the country, including the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, Bloomberg reports (Johnston, 11/5). “Although Botswana is not a large country, it is truly one of the extraordinary success stories in Africa,” Obama ...
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• Airport tenants in rent arrears

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi ISAIAH MOREWAGAE Staff Writer Tenants at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (SSKIA) owe the Botswana government close to P800, 000 in rent arrears. About 16 tenants collectively owe the Department of Lands P788, 869.17 in rentals. The company with the highest amount due is the Alliance ...
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• Agricultural land under utilised – De Graaff

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 06 November, 2009 BOBONONG – Government is committed to improving the agriculture sector. Speaking during a tour of Talana Farm recently, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Christian De Graaff said it was worrisome that the country was not using its farmland adequately. During the presidents recent ...
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• Heart of Dryness: Climate Change Coping Strategies

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 502
  By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue Copyright 2009 Walker & Company, Excerpt from Heart of Dryness Circle of Blue’s “Water + Climate: Words” highlights literary investigations of water and climate intersections. As politicians debate the line-by-line contents of a global climate change ...
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• Video: James G. Workman Discusses the Water and Climate Issues that Haunt Botswana’s Bushmen

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 502
  Video courtesy of Vanessa Workman . The video above and corresponding transcript below are a Q&A author James G. Workman did with the book’s publishers, Walker & Company. Find out more information about the book here . What drew you to water? As a journalist, I learned to follow the money. As you ...
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• Botswana: Face-to-face with a gay couple

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 134
  Image via Wikipedia Source: Mmegi Online By JERRY KAI-LEWIS We see them everywhere, at the grocery stores, at restaurants, at school, nightclubs, even at church. They are musicians, actors, doctors, soldiers. If it is not in the way they dress, its certainly in their gait or the way they talk. Not too long ...
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• Stock exchange vigilant against insider trading

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 05 November, 2009 FRANCISTOWN – As the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) continues to grow, so is the accompanying risk emanating from situations whereby people deal illegally in shares, a situation that can undermine investor confidence in terms of the fairness and the integrity of the stock market. ...
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• Disease control gate effective

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi 05 November, 2009 MOLEPOLOLE – Located at Lephepe in Matsheng region, the disease control gate was a tool to control the movement of livestock products including meat from entering Kweneng region from Central and other districts in the northern part of Botswana. The districts from which the animal ...
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