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The state has informed the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Arbitrary Executions that the police have concluded a case in which businessman and former President Ian Khama associate, Evangelist Shadrack Baaitse had reported that the Directorate of Intelligence Service (DIS) wants to kill him.
Botswana economy is registering growth as the country emerges from one of its worsts economic recessions since independence, following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the government’s contentious response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (UNSR), businessman, Shadrack Baaitse has countered the information concerning his matters though a letter to the UNSR in which he details what he terms a string of lies by Minister Dr Lemogang Kwape.
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Councillor for Medie/Kweneng, Edwin Shanakane, on Monday appeared before Molepolole Magistrates’ Court charged with defilement. Shanakane, 37, is accused of defiling a 16-year-old Form 4 schoolgirl. During Shanakane’s arraignment before Chief Magistrate Goabaone Rammapudi-Lesedi, the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent Uyapo Koketso, told the court that some exhibits have been sent for testing […]
New charges and 8 suspects added to 30 Lentsweletau rioters About eight people have been added to the 30 suspects charged with inciting violence and causing malicious damage to property in Lentsweletau village recently. The 38 accused were part of an angry mob that went on the rampage during the search for 32-year-old Oteng Tebogo Mokokong who went missing on March 17th, 2021, and was later found dead and decomposed in the bush. The accused are said to have taken the law into their hands burning down property at the village customary court and vandalising a newly built funeral parlour as well as government vehicles following the mysterious disappearance of Mokokong after he arrived in the village from a traditional doctor where he worked.