Dramaboi - Chronicler of township life

Dramaboi has been the talk of the town in the local media following his involvement in a hip-hop competition hosted by HUB Magazine (HUB Music Series) where he proved to be a fan favourite. He took part in the Sprite Urban Expressions show, where he had a face-off with another talented young rapper Bone C.  His first single Godzilla made it to the top charts on both Yarona fm and RB2.  It became one of the most requested songs.  The song was influenced by a movie where the animal Godzilla was the hero as it had the power to overcome all the obstacles put before it, Dramaboi considers himself as the Godzilla child as he sees himself doing the same thing.

How 28.5% became a pass mark

The report notes that the three bidders were requested to submit refreshed bids after the initial documents handed in last June.However, All Kasi did not heed this call and therefore the adjudicators had to use the company's initial bid. All Kasi was quickly off the blocks, amassing a healthy lead through 'soft points' when they got 5marks for being citizen owned, while the other two received none. The local company was to further surge ahead when it surpassed the tender equipment requirement. The local company provided 10, 249 units (of varied equipment), or 978 above BFA's expectation of 9,271. Umbro had 6,909 units, 2,362 less than what the mother body required, while Puma scored zero after it failed to indicate its quantities. (See EQUIPMENT table below) In the financial evaluation, Puma made progress, but some how hit a brick wall in the final analysis when BFA made its calculations. The association had indicated in the tender requirements that the successful company should be able to provide 150,000 Euros (approx. P1,5 million) per season for three years. While Puma promised to fulfil the requirement, the company made a proposal that BFA should purchase replica jerseys or an assortment of sporting goods worth R4.65million every year. The total Puma sponsorship was P2, 389 million, which would have left the BFA with a deficit of around P2, 261million (if the association had agreed to the proposal), which did not make business sense.

Demolition friday

The Monitor: "Are we not Batswana?" she asks, "Are we not Batswana to be treated like this? Even foreigners are never treated like this. They are asked nicely to get into trucks and driven to their countries". Moagi relates that the demolition has affected her three-year-old child, who was present on the day. She says since that day, the little boy talks about their house being razed down and cries whenever he sees a yellow monster or a big truck driving past.
Moagi, her partner and her children have since moved back to her parents' home, where they live in a hut previously used as a kitchen.

Minister denies 'sabotaging' tourism

Mmegi: The soft spoken Mokaila said he was shocked to hear that and rubbished this as "blue lies". "You know I don't like petty issues particularly concerning my ministry. You know me, even in parliament, I don't participate in petty issues and that is why most of the time I don't participate in debates," he said. Mokaila said if people are concerned about something concerning him or his ministry, "they should come forward. "All the doors in my ministry are always open, rather than running to the papers and run serious allegations about me and my ministry as well", he stated.

Air Botswana drivers demand overtime pay

Mmegi: She further said the airline followed the arbitration ruling to recalculate all overtime using the prescribed method and arrived at figures that were "at variance" with the drivers' claim. "Naturally Air Botswana, through its lawyers, then wrote to the lawyers representing the drivers to request clarity on how to handle the differences. Proof of payments made by Air Botswana was made available and currently Air Botswana awaits formal response from the drivers' lawyers on the issue," she said.

MoH re-employs lay counsellors

Mmegi: "We demand immediate removal of the unbearable working conditions extended to the re-employed workers," the petition letter reads.BOFEPUSU further demanded reimbursement of re-employed nurses who were transferred from their duty stations but were denied transport contrary to the Directorate of Public Service Management's (DPSM) policy. MoH had not responded to Mmegi's request for confirmation of the re-employment of the lay counsellors.

As I see it

Mmegi Online: He could have been depicting Khama's Five-Ds! President Ian Khama took over the reins of power on April Fools Day 2008, bristling with macho determination to steer the ship of state forward-ho with gusto of a worthy successor of his predecessors. Making his inaugural speech a short distance from his late father's statue which hitherto had faced East, but had now turned around to face West, whether to ensure the father watched him deliver a renewal of his vow to guide the young republic to prosperity or whether it was to protest that his father's image had been distorted and falsified by making him face East when his gaze was always westward, we will never know!

BotswanaPost to sell electricity

The Botswana Gazette: “A total of 24 organisations, including BotswanaPost, submitted bids for the tender, and six were approved as preferred bidders. We are still at different stages of negotiations with the preferred bidders so names can only be disclosed after negotiations,” said Moreri.