Kgama who is facing a single count of threat to kill, allegedly threatened to kill the complainant, by uttering the words: "Ke tla go hula ka thobolo (I will shoot you with a gun.)"

The magistrate asked the accused to tell the court if he owns a gun. Kgama said that he does not own a gun, "but it was just a way of scaring the complainant."

The accused continued: "I was very upset and ended up telling the complainant that I will end his life," said the accused, who appeared uncomfortable as he stood in the dock.

But the public prosecutor, Innocent Billy interjected and claimed that the accused has access to a gun. He said that the gun, whose owner was not identified, was kept in the next room in the homestead where the two resided.

Billy also stated that the parents' efforts to reconcile the two proved pointless as the accused repeated the threatening words.

The misunderstanding started when the accused wanted to enspan a donkey.

"We were fighting over a family donkey," said the accused in a worried low tone voice.

Apparently, the magistrate had assumed throughout the proceedings that the accused person had threatened to kill his girlfriend, until the prosecutor explained to him that the complainant was infact the brother.

The complainant is said to have refused to let his brother (accused) enspan a family donkey that he has been using for three months. The accused said that he only had three donkeys thus he needed one more to balance his scotch cart in order to go to the farm. The donkey belonged to their father. Kgama told the court that his brother was merely expressing jealousy, as he did not need the donkey for anything on the material day. Kgama pleaded to be granted bail as he promised that he would go and stay with his sister in Tonota or relocate to the farm but the magistrate did not comply.