Retracing Nchindo's last footsteps
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Reports that former Debswana managing director Louis Goodwill Nchindo was missing, and finally found dead, had attracted reinforcements of the army, police and intelligence sleuths amongst others to comb the Chobe forest. They were searching for answers to the nagging questions surrounding the missing and ultimate passing on of Nchindo.
To some lodge owner this was a grand opportunity as some of them were able to sell their rooms to the visiting government officials who were in this area for about three to four days on official work.
“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...