SPEAKING OUT: Carter Morupisi
Almost exactly a year ago, on 17 February 2020, former Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP) Carter Morupisi arrived at the High Court in handcuffs and leg-irons under heavy security escort.
Morupisi, together with his wife, was facing three counts in connection with the misappropriation of funds from the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF).
The case was the beginning of the end for a man who has been in the civil service for 37 years.
Morupisi was appointed PSP on 28th October 2014, but after serving for five years, President Mokgweetsi Masisi suspended him on 2 September 2019.
The former PSP has since been in and out of courts as his criminal case drags on under the glaring watch of the media.
Grow Mine plagiarised our bid -Ithuba Solutions
lthuba submitted an inferior technical offering – Grow Mine
Judgment on urgent application set for Thursday.
DITIRO MOTLHABANE
The fate of the issuance of a lucrative Lottery licence, an untapped industry estimated at over P100 billion annual turnover, will unravel before the High Court this February 2021 when a conglomerate of local investors styled Grow Mine Africa oppose an urgent application by Ithuba Solutions to interdict negotiations to award them the tender.
In the main court case, which is currently before Judge Omphemetse Motumise, Ithuba Solutions is suing the Gambling Authority contesting the selection of Grow Mine as the preferred bidder for the award of the lottery licence. Arguments in the urgent application were heard on Monday (1st February 2021), where Ithuba seeks to stop the Gambling Authority from continuing negotiations to finalise the issuance of the lottery licence to Grow Mine -the preferred