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…DPP Motinyane hires SA’s Gareth Leppan to prosecute the case Moorosi Tsiane THE much-delayed trial of the murder-accused duo of former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his wife ‘Maesaiah, has again been postponed. The duo who are accused of the 14 June 2017 murder of Mr Thabane’s ex-wife, Lipolelo Thabane, will now stand trial […]
Gang wars spill into courts MASERU – FOR the first time in history a gang will fight it in court instead of violently gunning each other down in the streets. The feared Terene gang, in whose vestige there is bloodshed, widows and orphans, is now fighting over the retention of the name after the death of its founder Rethabile Mokete, known as Mosotho Chakela, earlier this year. But this time his successors Nteei Tšehlana, a loyalist of Chakela, and Sello Sarele, popularly known as Lehlanya (Lunatic), have referred their disputes to their lawyers. Lehlanya is a loyalist of a slain Molefi Mat...
‘He was special’ MASERU-Thapelo Mokete always had an inkling that his father would die by a bullet and not through natural causes. That was because his father, Rethabile Mokete, better known as Mosotho Chakela, had made “too many enemies that were vying for his blood”. Feared and loathed in equal measure, Mokete was the kingpin of the Terene famo music gang that was always in mortal combat with a rival gang called Seakhi. Mokete controlled the Terene famo gang with icy ruthlessness. Those who dared cross his path were quickly eliminated. Mokete, who died on December 28 from a Covid-19...