Moatlhodi stands witness to whipping of misbehaved boys

Moatlhodi
Moatlhodi

SEMOTSWANE: Two mischievous boys were on Saturday whipped for misbehaving at the funeral of a popular disc jockey. The young men, barely out of their teens were given mabele a kgomo (four lashes) in the presence of the deputy Speaker and Tonota South Member of Parliament, Pono Moatlhodi.

Headman of Mophoka ward in the village, Thoki Selemani administered the four strokes on the boys who had harassed mourners the previous night during the vigil and in the morning at the cemetery as the body of the DJ, Tshotlego Tapela was being laid to rest.

Tapela, going by the trade name Dj Small, did his disc jockeying in Maun, Francistown and Borolong.  He was involved in a fatal car accident last Wednesday when the Francistown-bound car he was travelling in overturned near Gweta.

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