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OFFICER AWAITS RAPE TRIAL IN POLICE HOLDING CELL
Feb. 10 | Scales of Justice A Mochudi policeman facing a series of charges including rape will await his next court appearance in a Special Support Group (SSG) holding cell after he convinced the Mochudi Magistrate not to remand him in prison lest other...
NATA EXORCIST JAILED
Feb. 10 | ACCUSED; Nduse A Nata exorcist awaiting trial for allegedly raping his 13-year- old stepdaughter was on Tuesday imprisoned for violating bail conditions. George Nduse, 54 was locked up after he visited Nata despite a court order that prohibited...
MAN LINKED TO DEATH OF BOSS
Feb. 10 | CHAINED: Kgosibodiba outside court Employee faces murder rap Tati-town police are holding a 37-year-old Tonota man on suspicion of murder after his boss’s mutilated body was found wrapped in a blanket at Makobo Village. Brick yard labourer Mooketsi...
DEATH ROW INMATE APPEALS SENTENCE
Jan. 20 | MURDER CONVICT: Gabaokelwe A murder convict is appealing the death sentence handed down to him for killing his girlfriend and their two kids has to wait until next month to know his fate. Gabaokelwe, 31,was found guilty of killing his live -in girlfriend,...
MAGAMA CHARGED FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING
Jan. 20 | Court Stories Botswana National Front’s (BNF) Secretary General and former Member of Parliament for Gaborone South, Akanyang Magama will this morning (Friday) appear before a Mochudi Magistrate court to answer for a drunken driving charge. He would...
NOTORIOUS ARMED ROBBER ARRESTED
Jan. 13 | NABBED: Kabo Kaisara The armed robber who terrorized unsuspecting fishermen at Letsibogo dam in Mmadinare for weeks has been finally arrested. Kabo Kaisara from the village of Mmadinare was arrested last week Friday but escaped from police custody the...
SCHOOLGIRL 17, SURVIVES VIOLENT GANG RAPE
Jan. 13 | Gang rape illustration form net A Barolong Farms teenager who survived violent gang rape and reported the matter to the police is bracing herself to face her attackers in court. The brave 17 -year -old survivor who was kidnapped, beaten and raped by a...
WILL THE REAL MISTRESS PLEASE STAND UP!
Dec. 16 | ACCUSED? Nnananki Mokone Two elderly women fight over a married man Two women traded insults at old Naledi Customary court on Tuesday in a bitter fight to establish which one of them was cheating with their friend’s husband. Nnananki Mokone and...
SHOPLIFTERS JAILED
Dec. 16 | CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Mongadi and JohnTwo female shoplifters caught stealing at Nzano Centre recently got the shock of their lives when they were sentenced to six months in jail instead of lashing. Opelo Mongadi, 25 and Chandapiwa John (28) pleaded guilty ...
YOUTHS IN PISTOLS ARMED ROBBERY CASE
Dec. 1 | Court Stories Three unemployed youths from Smorden ward in Mogoditshane were this week arraigned before Village Magistrate Ephraith Ndegwa to answer for armed robbery charges. A 17- year- old Foster Mukwena, Baboki Hadzisani Robby, 23 and Nchidzi Boniface...
13 MEN AND A WOMAN FACE ROBBERY CHARGES
Dec. 1 | Court Stories Village Magistrate Court was this week fi lled to capacity when 14 robbery suspects stood before Magistrate Cele Motlhaleng facing 11 counts of robbery. The accused are : Daniel Mathibe ,28, Johnson Mathibela 27 , Alakanani Mosweswe, 33,...
I WILL CRUSH YOUR HEAD, MAN TELLS MOM
Nov. 18 | URBAN COURT PRESIDENT: Monametsi A middle aged man was recently arraigned before Urban customary court President J.I.D Monametsi to answer for common nuisance charges after he allegedly threatened to “crush” his mother‘s head. According to the court...
OFFENSIVE REMARKS LAND MAN IN COURT
Nov. 18 | ACCUSED: Saeid Nejad Riverwalk Pharmacy Manager, Saeid Kushani Nejad has landed in court for uttering offensive words to a customer. Referring to a wheelchair bound Tebogo Balebetse, who was in the pharmacy to buy some medicine, the 49- year- old...
HABITUAL CRIMINAL REPENTS
Oct. 28 | A prohibited immigrant and habitual criminal recently confessed he had not benefitted from his life of crime and now wanted to lead a clean life. “I have realized that I benefitted nothing from my life of crime and have decided to go back home and just...
JUSTICE AT LAST
Oct. 27 | CRIPPLED: Phomolo Kalayamotho Court orders BPC to pay electrocuted victim The Lobatse High Court has ordered Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) to compensate Phomolo Kalayamotho, a young woman who survived electrocution in a freak accident that paralysed...
I AM SORRY I WAS DRUNK
Oct. 21 | SENTENCED: Kgomotso Dipalelo Rapist pleads for mercy A 24 year old Mathangwane herdboy who was this week sentenced to 15 years in jail for rape blamed his behaviour on alcohol. Kgomotso Dipalelo, a first time offender committed the crime in 2008 and disappeared...
SUSPECTED ROBBERS NABBED
Oct. 14 | CAGED: The accused robbbers A group of criminals who allegedly robbed a motorist of a hand bag containing personal belongings at City Way filling station in Francistown were on Tuesday denied bail. Armed with sharp knives Kuda Phuti, Keamogetse Pholi,...
RUNAWAY RAPIST RUNS OUT OF LUCK
Oct. 14 | Arrested: Kgomotso Dipalelo A 24-year-old Mathangwane herd boy, who has been on the run since 2008 after raping a woman was on Tuesday thrown behind bars after confessing to his crime. Kgomotso Dipalelo allegedly disappeared into thin air shortly after...
SUED FOR RUINING A MARRIAGE
Oct. 7 | ACCUSED: Monyanya Suspected Adulterer Dismises P 75, 000 suit A 25- year- old Kasane woman who is being sued for an adulterous affair with a 72- year -old married man has threatened the scorned wife with a counter lawsuit. Responding to lawyers summons...
