Botswana Prisons News Today

The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is investigating a Meta account which goes by the pseudonym France Museveni. The controversial account is behind the leaking of highly classified DCEC investigations files on its Meta page.

The winds of change are blowing through the Botswana Prisons Services (BPS). Following a changing of the guard amongst the top brass, with Dinah Marathe replacing Silas Motlalekgosi as Commissioner earlier this year, the BPS is now in the process of converting some of its non-uniformed personnel to uniformed staff. In a savingram dated 30 April, the Service revealed all those affected would undergo basic training. The conversion comes across as voluntarily, on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis....

Axed prisons boss Silas Motlalekgosi invited us into his home last week. Earlier this month, Motlalekgosi was retired as head of the Botswana Prisons Service (BPS), made to leave a position he held since 2009 when he was appointed by the then President, Ian Khama. A former Botswana Defence Force (BDF) officer, this is Motlalekgosi’s story; it is a tale he plans to document in a tell-all autobiography soon. Let’s journey back to 2009 and your appointment to the top post in the Botswana Priso...

18th February 2021 Silas Motlalekgosi, the former Commissioner of Prisons, was not just retired his sacking, it would appear, emanates from a disputed tender. He had hoped to receive P 3 million and several hundred thousands from a government tender until the levers of power were cocked into action to circumvent his impending windfall. The State was about to purchase his property for P3,700,000.00 (Three million seven hundred thousand Pula but reneged at the eleventh hour.  President Mokgwee...