Etcetera II
Monday, March 29, 2010
This is an extract from my now out of print book, Etcetera 1991-1997, which I re-produce in his honour and his memory.
"It seems to be the general line that the Appeals Court's recent judgment represents a disaster for Kgosi Seepapitso and a triumph for Minister Chapson Butale. Understandably so, given Justice Aguda's damning assessment that: 1. Seepapitso's is a record of a despot, a trouble-maker and of someone with little respect for either the law, for peace or for good order, and 2. the High Court's decision that the Minister's suspension order was procedurally correct, fully justified and in no way dictated by malice.
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...