Kgosi Haunted By 'Car Turned Into A Snake' Rumour

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe | Monday February 17, 2014 17:10

 

 He says the situation is so bad that his phone was jammed by curious villagers, who even thronged his home.

Molefhe says three inquisitive media houses have visited his office already. The traditional leader, who refused to have his photograph taken in his office when The Monitor team visited him in Kopong on Friday, says he is determined to catch the rumour peddlers and have them prosecuted.

In fact, the kgosi claims he caught another rumour peddler who has been spreading yet another rumour about the chief recently, but he did not disclose to The Monitor what the other rumour entailed.

“I nabbed him and handed the matter over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID); the rumour that was spreading was very personal, it involved myself, but I won’t tell you; I’m hoping that in the same way I nabbed the other peddler, I might find who started spreading the rumours about my car turning into a snake”.

On Friday the rumour mill had it that the kgosi was in fact lying at the Princess Marina Hospital, where he is being treated for shock after he was frightened and collapsed by the huge snake that his car had turned into; but The Monitor team found him well and fine at work in his Kopong office.

According to the kgosi, he has not been to Marina lately.  While he acknowledges that he took off days sometime last month it was not related to anything about snakes.

Kgosi Molefhe, who is a Catholic, says he first learnt about the rumour from his own child who goes to the Assemblies of God, when he returned one day from church with his friends. “I told them here I am, and I showed them the car, it was just fine, but the rumour never died”.

“Once I was at Game City shopping mall in Gaborone and came across a group of diners at a Chicken Licken outlet chatting about this rumour; they did not know me, so they freely narrated the events that led to my car turning into a snake; until one woman who knew me, came to them and said, borra, this is the man you are talking about, and there is the car that has supposedly turned into a snake”! Kgosi Molefhe says he suspects there is someone or some people that are out to tarnish his name. “I agreed with my family not to give the rumour any attention; I thought of addressing the rumours at the forthcoming Kgotla meeting; but it might raise a lot of questions as some people may continue to believe their imaginations”.

“We decided we should not go to the press about the rumours either, but since you came here on your own, we cannot tell you what to write or not to write, but we suspect the rumour is being spread by someone just to scandalise me and if we catch that person, he will regret it”, the kgosi said.