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"I am very worried as I stand here today in front of you. Yesterday there was a question that I put through to Parliament. Like you have been asking us Mr. Speaker if we slept well, unfortunately, I have been sleeping on the edge of my bed."

"I have been sent so many threatening messages by the Head of State and by his bodyguard."

"So what is to be done about that? Is my life in jeopardy? Should I go into exile now my speaker."

"I want to put this on record that my life is in your hands."

"We are building a Botswana that will be a global hub for sports, culture and the creative industries."

"Artists are businesses. They must be recognised and supported as such."

"We must take full advantage of digital marketplaces, streaming services, and international festivals."

"Our artists should not be limited by geography."

"We must build an ecosystem where Botswana’s stories are told by Batswana, produced by Batswana, and exported to the world."

"This will not be a talk shop."

"The feedback from today’s discussions will be taken seriously, and we will report back soon."

"We have realised that local athletes experience breakdowns after winning and getting money."

"Some derail and use money unwisely."

"We need to engage athletes and national sporting associations on welfare issues and take this matter very seriously."

"This is not just about managing money,” Kelebeng added. “It’s about creating a support system that helps athletes build sustainable futures. We want to ensure that their success doesn’t end on the field."

"We have said that high-class facilities are needed."

"On facilities, this new government intends to construct infrastructure that will enable us to compete with other countries."

"This is about setting the stage for consistent excellence in sports."

"There is a policy as to how we incentivize our athletes or sporting codes. So what we will do is to look at the policy but currently the policy is under review because we are not just looking at short term but the long term."

"So we have a policy that guides us at what to do when athletes have performed like this on these stages for different sports."

"We are happy with how the athletes performed at Tokyo. We really believe in them and now we are expecting more from these kids to do well. We are really happy."

"I spoke to them. We had to wait for the event (World Relays) to pass. It was not about payments, but more to do with their welfare. They are concerned that they are not getting the attention they deserve when it comes to preparations. Payments also come late. We promised that we are going to improve our communication."

"It is in athletics where we do well. We ask, what can we do to improve their performance? What can we do in terms of how we do our things? I spoke to the boys when we were in China, but some were already taking part in their respective races. I managed to speak to their (Olympics) captain (Boitumelo) Masilo."

"We are still with the entire team, but I know their problems and internally we are working towards addressing that. We need to achieve a common goal. It is not about who is right or who is wrong."

"We must never allow such incidents to repeat again as they destabilise. We are hosting the World Relays next year as well as the Grand Prix again. We need to protect our record."

"What I am going to do, very soon, I am going to meet representatives of all sport association. We need to address all welfare issues."

"We want these associations to be professional, manage things well and not damage the confidence that the private sector has. I am going to talk to these associations very soon. We are addressing all the problems and I hope once we meet with the associations, they will understand the vision that we have for our sport."

"From school sport to elite sport, we will need coordination. School sport is on the way, we will have school sport and we will have school development programmes. We will announce these very soon."

"The study is ongoing, and an Inception report, a Needs Assessment and Solution Options Report were submitted in January 2025 for consideration."

"The key priorities include private sector participation and leveraging on digital platforms to enable streaming, e-commerce and mobile distribution of Botswana’s music, film, fashion and visual arts."

"We have identified grassroots development as a key priority area, recognising it as the foundation for long-term growth and success in both sectors. To this end, the ministry has, upon its inception in November 2024, set its sights on ensuring the return of school sport and arts as an inextricable component of grassroots development. From the onset, MoSA have always known and appreciated unions as critical stakeholders and custodians of teachers' rights. It is for this reason that we engaged them in earnest on the matter of school sport at the beginning of 2025."

"This delay by the unions caused a major disruption to our intended timeline of delivering school sport to the nation. Due to the belated response, the MoSA, along Ministry of Child Welfare and Basic Education, determined to bring about an interim solution whilst the negotiations remain ongoing."

"We could no longer wait and sit on the rights of children. Our engagement with unions remains active, with our last meeting held on August 4. Currently, the proposals by the unions are undergoing assessment by our technical teams as agreed with the unions. A technical committee on School Sport has been formed, and it has representation of the ministries of Child Welfare and Basic Education, Sport and Arts, Local Government and Traditional Affairs, and the Ministry of Health."

"In the meantime, we will let children play within the prescribed school hours. After the technical teams' review, we are confident of a more competitive programme at the beginning of the first term of 2026."

"The 1940s and 1950s were marked by intense debates over the origin of drug resistance in microbes. ... Antibiotic resistance became a key issue among those disputing physiological (usually termed ‘’) vs. genetic ( and ) explanations of variation in . Postwar developments connected with the gave this debate a new political valence. Proponents of the weighed in with support for the genetic theory. However, certain features of drug resistance seemed inexplicable by mutation and selection, particularly the phenomenon of ‘multiple resistance’—the emergence of resistance in a single strain against several unrelated antibiotics. In the late 1950s, and his collaborators solved this puzzle by determining that resistance could be conferred by rather than . These could carry resistance to many antibiotics and seemed able to promote their own dissemination in bacterial populations. In the end, the vindication of the genetic view of drug resistance was accompanied by a recasting of the ‘gene’ to include extrachromosomal hereditary units carried on viruses and s."

"Nako e tsile ya gore seemo se sa mosuke kwa dikoleng se rarabololwe, mme go molemo ka jaanong sekole se se botlana sa boraro se tsweletse ka go agiwa, ke dumela fa se tlaa thusa go tokafatsa seemo. Keletso yame ke gore Kopong JSS e fetolwe gonna sekole se akaretseng mophato wa ntlha go ya kwa go wa botlhano, go itsa gore bana ba motse o ba tlhole ba tletsetletse le lefatshe ba isiwa kwa le kwa ka gotwe ga ba itshware sentle ntswa ba tswa mo gae re ba godisitse e le bana ba nang le tsebe."

"Laboratory instructions and recipes are sometimes edited into books with a wide circulation. Even in the late twentieth century, publications of this nature remained influential. For example, s from a 1980 summer course on at provided the basis for a bestselling laboratory manual by , and . Not only did the Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual become a standard reference for s (commonly called the ‘bible’), but also its recipes and clear instructions made gene cloning and technologies accessible to non-specialists. Consequently, this laboratory manual contributed to the rapid spread of genetic-engineering techniques throughout the , as well as in industry. As is often the case with how-to books, however, finding a way to update methods in this rapidly changing field posed a challenge, and various molecular-biology reference books had different ways of dealing with knowledge obsolescence. This paper explores the origins of this manual, its publication history, its reception and its rivals – as well as the more recent migration of such laboratory manuals to the Internet."

"There are many reasons to revisit the history of research on (TMV), beginning with the fact that it was the first virus to be identified and so marks the start of the field of . However, not every original example of a new biological category becomes a well-studied object in its own right ... As virology took off in the early twentieth century, TMV did become one of the best-studied viruses and remained at the forefront of the field. It was used to elucidate basic knowledge about the nature of viruses and served as a in as well as agriculture, where it had emerged. The fact that the first recognized virus came from plants—although es were rapidly identified—meant that virology was, from the outset, highly comparative ... Literature on the origins of often privileges and the contributions of the ... Yet early work with TMV inspired Max Delbrück and other early molecular biologists to take up the study of bacteriophages. Moreover, TMV itself became a prominent model system for understanding the molecular nature of heredity and the relationship between proteins and nucleic acids ... Notably, some of the main scientists involved in elucidating the double-helical structure of DNA were also studying TMV, which became a tool for cracking the ."

"By 1950 the nature of the virus was no longer a mystery. Viruses were known to be s, genetic units, parasites that depend on their hosts for and . But a funny thing happened on the road to this knowledge. The viruses that most shaped this emerging portrait were not the most dangerous s, but those examples, however innocuous to humans, that made good laboratory subjects. Researchers constructed general knowledge about viruses based on a few that, by reason of historical precedence or biological robustness, were intensively studied as representatives of the rest."

"Like ’’’’, is part of the biologist's . The best-known model systems—standardized organisms such as the and the —are investigated by an entire community of biologists. Model systems become prototypes within which key biological questions are defined and resolved, useful precisely because they have already been so well studied. was a model system in these respects, studied and discussed by a large contingent of s, s, and other agricultural and medical researchers ..."

"s used s to reveal the sequence of chemical reactions in . s followed the assimilation and turnover of key s and tagged molecules such as to track the movement and activity of s. s labeled s with radioisotopes to follow the replication and expression of s. Physicians utilized radioisotopes such as and to diagnose and detect s. Ecologists profited as well, using to trace through the living and nonliving parts of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes, giving concrete meaning to the notion of an ecosystem."

"put to work in , having induced in an inbred mouse strain (Strong A) that was particularly susceptible to the implantation of tumors ... He and K. G. Scott found that these leukemic mice concentrated more radiophosphorus in their s and s than did healthy mice after both groups received tracer doses. ... This finding stoked hopes that radioisotopes would be selectively absorbed and localized in cancer patients, where they could serve to irradiate tumors."

"In Life Atomic, Angela Creager weaves an engaging tale of the history of s. Much of her material came from government documents from the Manhattan Project that were declassified during the . ... Creager introduces the concepts and vocabulary of radioisotopes at a level that any reader can appreciate."

"Joseph Thiaka as Kamante"

"Stephen Kinyanjui as Chief Kinanjui"

"Malick Bowens as Farah Aden"

"It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."

"I had a compass from Denys. To steer by, he said. But later it came to me that we navigated differently. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."

"Robert Redford as Denys Finch Hatton"

"Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen"