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Innocent Selatlhwa
  • BGI employees 'report' management to Kenewendo

    The employees want the minister to intervene as they decry that management has withheld funds meant for their salary increment, amongst other issues.Led by BOPEU/BGI Branch Executive Chairperson Kagiso Gakale, the employees marched to the District...

  • Borolong residents up in arms over P65 million vet fence

    According to the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture (MLA), the fence was erected in response to the increasing threat of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the neighbouring North West province in the Republic of South Africa which shares a border with...

  • Self help is a no- Court tells Phadi-Mmutle and Co

    Spoliation is an old common law remedy commonly used by a person who has been dispossessed of goods without following due legal procedure.The JV had, in protest, locked up chambers for the project termed Goodhope District water supply Scheme 2.2....

  • Convicted armed robber fails to ‘escape’ jail

    Khupe was convicted of house-breaking, stealing from a dwelling house, robbery, and theft of a motor vehicle, and sentenced to 10 years behind bars.According to court documents, on or about October 27, 2017, at Pitikwe Township in Lobatse, Bokani...

  • CAAB defends P47m airfield ‘paving’

    CAAB recently announced that Tender No CAAB 27/24/WORK, a design and build contract for Palapye airfield paving, was directly awarded to NMA Consulting Engineers in joint venture with K’s Transport and Plant Hire at a cost of P47,303,098.73. The...

  • Lil' Clifford was deceived, tied, burned alive

    On Friday, one of the lead investigators in the case, Assistant Commissioner Detective Sergeant Marapo, took the witness stand and made shocking revelations about what Selaolo told him whilst interviewing her.Marapo testified that Selaolo confessed...

  • Man fraudulently sells stepdaughter's house

    This is after the court established that Montsho fraudulently sold the developed plot to Obusitswe Moeng for P270,000 without the knowledge of Khumoyame nor his then-wife Gorataone Montsho (Khumoyame’s biologcal mother).Khumoyame approached the...

  • DM Catalyst Project Team pockets millions despite ‘poor job’

    According to the Task Team led by Kabo Motswagole, it was not justified that the CPT Coordinator was in the same salary scale as the Chief Justice, earning P154,443.44 monthly.According to the report, the CPT had a total staff complement of 12...

  • Thirst persists in Mokatako despite ‘expensive’ interventions

    WUC said to date it has spent over P2 billion to provide water to Mokatako and other areas under the Lobatse Service Centre.WUC’s general manager for Lobatse Service Centre, Mpho Tsotetsi, had visited the village on what he said was an annual...

  • Battle for Kang bogosi resurfaces

    Seipone is the third eldest daughter of the late Kgosi Church Seipone, who passed on in 2010 after leading his tribe for 38 years. Motaung wants Motshegwa to take what he calls corrective measures to restore the chieftainship of Kang village to the...

  • DM model review uncovers rot

    The DM model was initiated and implemented by the government as a procurement initiative to execute some projects of the second Transitional National Development Plan, or TNDP (2023-2025). It was however marred by controversy, leading to the newly...

  • Retrenchment of nearly 200 haunts BTC

    The former employees have since approached the Industrial Court after the parties failed to mediate at the Department of Labour offices.The matter was before the Francistown Industrial Court recently, whereupon the court had ordered that the said...

  • Court orders Masisi’s sister & Co to ‘unlock’ water supply

    The JV had, in protest, locked up chambers for the project termed Goodhope District water supply Scheme 2.2. awarded for P549.6 million.WUC, through attorneys, Otto Itumeleng Law Chambers, had dragged the JV (first respondent) and the project...

  • Former BONU leaders 'fight' for way back in

    Former BONU president Obonolo Rahube and three others have through attorney Lesedi Rammika called on the BIEC to make an undertaking that it will not proceed with progressing preparations for elections and further proceed to the holding of elections...

  • Masisi's sister shuts down controversial Goodhope pipe

    This they state was their last resort as Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) has failed to settle outstanding issues with them. Further, they accuse WUC of dealing in bad faith and have even gone to the extent of reporting the Corporation to the...

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