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Ketlhalefile Motshegwa is having the last laugh against Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) Chairman, Solomon Mantswe after court ordered his reinstatement as a Trustee representing Botswana Landboards, Local Authorities and Health Workers Union (BLLAHWU).
Motshegwa and his trade union, BLLAHWU where he is the Secretary General sued BPOPF after Mantswe ochestrated a spirited fight to have him expelled from the Board because he had stood as a candidate contesting a parliamentary seat in the 2019 general elections under the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC). BLLAHWU was represented by its attorney Nelson Ramaotwana.
Delivering the judgment four weeks ago, Lobatse High Court Judge Mercy Garekwe said BPOPF are compelled to admit Motshegwa on Board of Trustees of BPOPF with immediate effect. Garekwe also ordered that the decision by the BPOPF Board of Trustees to expel Motshegwa from the board on 16
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18th January 2021
Lobatse High Court Judge Gaolapele Ketlogetswe has ruled in favour of the state to appeal in a case in which businessman Bakang Seretse intends to recover P82.8 million suspected to be from proceeds of crime linked to the P250 million National Petroleum (NPF) saga. Initially, on the 4
th November 2020, the Court had ruled in favour of Bakang Seretse and the state appealed the decision of the court for the matter to be decided by the Court of Appeal.
Seretse and his companies being Khulaco (Pty) Ltd M& B Properties and Leomog Investments approached court for contempt of court after the state failed to reimburse the money back.Seretse and other suspects were recently discharged by the High Court in the P250 million NPF money laundering case.
On Wednesday the 9
th of December 2020, Mogwera’s team filed a Notice of Withdrawal of Action against Sedimo and his team with the High Court.
In the notice of withdrawal, it is written that the applicants, which are Babereki Investments, Masego Mogwera, Martin Gabobake and Thabologo Galekhutle, hereby withdraw the application against the respondent (Botswana Public Employees Union) filed with the Court on the 27
th November being an application for leave to appeal to the court of Appeal.
On the 17
th of July 2020, Babereki Investments, together with Mogwera, Gabobake and Galekhutle, filed an urgent application before Justice Dube at Lobatse High Court to have a decision to remove them from the Babereki Investments board declared unlawful and set aside.
14th December 2020
The state has suffered a fatal blow on its attempt to convict fund manager and prime suspect Bakang Seretse in the alleged controversial P250 million National Petroleum Fund (NPF) case.
Lat week Magistrate Kamogelo Mmesi discharged suspect Seretse and his chief co-accused from all corruption charges leveled against them.
She said the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) compiled a defective charge sheet which is ambiguous and embarrassing.
Magistrate Mmesi said the particulars are also vague and embarrassing in such that they mention that accused number 1 Kenneth Kerekang and accused number 18 Isaac Kgosi were influenced and in the same particulars Kgosi is mentioned in the alternative with Kerekang.