A date with death

The case has all the hallmarks of other tragic, haunting chapters in the annals of Botswana’s homicide history. Two barely literate farm hands from impoverished backgrounds, claim slave conditions on the farm they work at and attack their employer. For others, including the family of Reinette Vorster and shocked members of the Okwa Valley, Gantsi community, Kgalalelo and Mpe are scheming, cold-hearted murderers, who took advantage of the benevolence and trust placed in them, to rob and brutally murder their employer.

Tensions have been high throughout the case. The case cost a magistrate his job. Conditions of farm workers and the relations between workers and their employers have been raised.