Moroka�s mystery dog �rose� from the dead
Thalefang Charles | Friday January 16, 2015 17:31
In his statement seen by Mmegi, Moroka gives supernatural accounts of the dog. He alleges that a few days before he shot and killed Danster, he had received information to the effect that this mysterious and unusually aggressive dog was troubling his farm residents. The dog, according to his statement ate the residents’ food and threatened to bite them. They feared it.
Moroka received reports from several other people including his younger brother Johannes Moroka that this dog was bad news. In fact, earlier on Johannes had told Moroka a rather bizarre story of how the dog rose from the dead after it had been ‘killed’.
According to Johannes, at one point they hit the dog repeatedly with a wooden dropper on the head until it ‘died’. While they were digging a hole to bury the dog that was lying dead next to the hole, the dog strangely rose up and fled away.
Apparently this weird incident troubled Johannes to a point that when it was reported to him that the dog was back troubling the residents, he made it clear to everyone including his brother (Moroka) that he should never attempt to put the dog down again.
Unfazed by these unbelievable stories, Moroka said in his statement that he was more determined to finish off the dog. On April 19, 2014, three days before he killed Danster, Moroka says that he attempted to kill the dog by shooting it but he repeatedly missed it.
Still determined to finish off the dog, Moroka led a five men (including his minor grandson) mission to kill this dog on April 22, 2014 after one of his employees had informed him that the dog had aggressively occupied his tent.
Once more he failed to put down this dog and ended up killing his own employee Danster. In his police statement Moroka appears to put the blame on the mysterious dog for the death of Danster.
He said after firing a shot at the dog he was shocked to see Danster who was at least four metres away screaming in pain saying he had been shot.
Even after brutally shooting his employee and while he was gasping for breath, Moroka picked up the shotgun, chased the dog and fired two more shots at it. But like before, he missed.
The dog, he says, then disappeared, never to be seen again. Interestingly the DPP believes Moroka’s story hence the decision not to prosecute him.
Danster died in a hail of buckshots
The graphic images of the fatal injuries of Kealeboga Danster who was mysteriously shot and killed by De Bees Botswana boss, Neo Moroka in April last year show that he died in a hail of bullets.
On his right lower chest, there are six bullet holes of about two centimetre each in diameter scattered in close range of about 10cm.
The gaping holes are the entrance of the buckshots as they pierced into his ribs bursting the lungs and shattering the liver as described by the postmortem report. On his lower abdomen, there are other wounds that show where some of the buck shots exited his body after severing his intestines.
Danster also had a wound on his right arm. It appears the bullet took out a chunk of the flesh on his arms before it penetrated his chest. A postmortem examination report prepared by Dr Kaone Panzirah Mabaka, says Danster died of “gunshot injury to the chest and abdomen injuring the lungs and the liver”.