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Mpho Mokwape
  • Kgotlhane’s troubles with the DIS

    Kgotlhane is alleged to have been part of a five member presidential task force commissioned to establish the DIS in March 2018 during the former president Ian Khama’s tenure. He joined the security unit when he was appointed by Khama as deputy...

  • Court declares DIS Deputy DG suspension unlawful

    Justice Busang who said he had a hard time understang why Kgotlhane was placed on suspension explained that there was no explanation for the indefinite suspension, and why it has been in existence for the period of close to two years.“In my view,...

  • Kgosi increases his wins against DIS

    Justice Zein Kebonang of the Gaborone High Court ordered the DIS to return the guns and ammunitions they long seized from Kgosi’s residence in 2019.“The confiscation of these firearms, ammunitions and licences was therefore without just cause,...

  • Court slams Magosi’s attitude

    Justice Makhwe, in a ruling that Magosi and the Commissioner of Police, Dinah Marathe, failed to file replying papers against allegations of harassment by three DIS top agents, said the fact that Magosi found it okay to travel outside the country at...

  • Makgophe, a ‘free’ man

    Makgophe was charged along with former president, Ian Khama, ex-Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) boss Isaac Kgosi, former deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture (MYSC), Victor Bruno Paledi, facing...

  • Stay far away from suspended agents – DIS ordered

    The legal order follows DIS' appearance before Justice Boipuso Makhwe of the Lobatse High Court on Monday, begging the mercy of the court after failing to file against alarming allegations of continuous harassment made by three of its suspended...

  • Paledi escapes Khama, Kgosi ‘curse’

    Paledi was facing three counts of aiding and abetting unlawful possession of firearms. In 2022, he found himself on the wrong side of the law and was among the prominent persons thrown into the web of high profile prosecutions. He was accused of...

  • BIUST ordered to continue negotiations with BOSETU

    The University called out for its dishonesty, has been ordered by the Francistown Industrial Court to continue negotiations with BOSETU for the interest of employees. BIUST has been at loggerheads with the union for reportedly unilaterally...

  • State defaults against DIS agents

    By the end of business on Tuesday, the Attorney General Mmako Abram, Commissioner of Police, Dinah Marathe and Director General of the DIS, Peter Magosi had failed to file replying papers against the agents’ interdict application.The three...

  • Suspension orders are crippling – DIS agents

    The agents, Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa, who are fighting to interdict their boss, Peter Magosi from alleged constant arrests and detention, cry that the orders created are simply meant to ensnare them and justify arrests.The...

  • We have fallen out with Magosi – DIS top agents

    The three agents, legal director, Pulane Kgoadi, principal intelligence officer, Paul Setlhabi and legal deputy director, Kuda Malikongwa, who allegedly held a significant influence within the Directorate, said under the command of Magosi they have...

  • Police officers fear Magosi – Suspended DIS agents

    The Police Commissioner has been cited by the agents in an urgent interim interdict application. Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa said the police were part of the arresting team during their detention. They said the police were...

  • Suspended DIS top agents’ harrowing details of arrest, detention

    The agents, who are currently under suspension, indicated that they need protection from court as their liberty has been jeopardised by the constant harassment, surveillance, arrest and detention. Through Kgoadi’s founding affidavit, below are...

  • Top DIS agents’ fear arrest, detention

    Yesterday the top agents, Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa appeared before Lobatse High Court judge, Justice Boipuso Makhwe after filing an urgent application against Commissioner of Police, DIS Director general (DG) Peter Magosi and...

  • ZCC crash victims: The sight of 45 coffins profound, sad moment

    It becomes even worse when a loved one is lost in a horrific car crash. It is even more heart breaking that 45 Batswana lives were lost in such a tragic manner on an Easter pilgrimage enroute to a place considered so holly, Moria.When 45 coffins were...

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