Ngoma targets Masisi’s campaign manager
FRANCISTOWN: City Mayor, Peter Ngoma has applied to the High Court to compel his rival’s campaign manager to respond to a P250 000 lawsuit he launched for defamation of character. The Mayor has accused Ignatius Moswaane, the campaign strategist for his political rival and Francistown West MP Tshelang Masisi of defamation. Ngoma who is the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) chairman of the northern region lost twice to Masisi in the party primaries.

Body removed without prisons’ officials knowledge
FRANCISTOWN: The body of a Tanzanian asylum seeker, who was shot dead in March by prison officers, has been removed from the Kagiso Funeral Parlour without the knowledge of senior prisons officials. Speaking to Mmegi yesterday the prisons divisional commander (North), assistant commissioner, Obusitswe Ntsima said that her office only realised that the body of the deceased, Shabani Ramadhani - who had claimed to be from Burundi - had been removed from the funeral parlour at the end of last month.

Mob justice at Francistown
FRANCISTOWN: A whistle is heard, an abrupt moment of silence and attention reigns at the bus rank. Someone shouts ‘thief! thief!’ and people rush to the place where the voice is coming from. The victim points at the suspect and the angry mob chase and land on him like a swarm of angry bees. They batter and assault him with any instrument at hand and if the police take long to arrive at the scene, the crowd would leave the alleged thief on the verge of death.

Fear of the gods haunt traditional doctor’s son
FRANCISTOWN: A traditional doctor’s son is living in fear after the court recently ordered his late father’s healing equipment to be burnt. Samuel Makoka of Block Three said that the burning of the items would evoke the anger of the ancestors who in turn would cast bad luck on him and his siblings.

Catholics march for abstinence tomorrow
ROMAN Catholics from Ramotswa, Mogoditshane, Lobatse, Pitsane and Goodhope will tomorrow march in support of sexual abstinence as an anti-HIV/AIDS measure, a church spokesperson has said. Daddy Mogorosi of the Roman Catholic Chiro movement said the march will begin in Ramotswa with a keynote address by Balete paramount chief Kgosi Mosadi Seboko at the village amphitheatre (Kgotla).