A date with death

Kgalalelo and Mpa are in a fight for survival PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Kgalalelo and Mpa are in a fight for survival PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Two Gantsi farm hands, Tshiamo Kgalalelo and Mmika Mpe, are already on death row for the brutal murder and burning of their boss in 2014. At the Court of Appeal, the pair is hoping their story of poverty, desperation will be enough to escape the noose. They will find out next month. Staff Writers, MBONGENI MGUNI and MPHO MOKWAPE report.

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.

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