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Mpho Mokwape
  • Commander justifies removing soldiers from delinking benefits

    In a recent judgment, the Court of Appeal (CoA) said the five soldiers, who hold Diploma in Accounting and Business Studies (DABS), weren't entitled to the delinking benefits.The CoA judge argued that the applicants’ review of their conditions...

  • DIS agents demand backpays, say delay is unlawful

    Their main contention is that the employer had failed to pay them salary back pays despite the government having issued Directives and Savingrams to that effect. The employees had taken the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), DIS, and...

  • Kweneng District Council fails to defend defamatory utterance

    This is after district council failed to defend a defamatory lawsuit filed by Estate Construction and its proprietor Kegone Sebina. The taxpayer will each pay P250,000 to both plaintiffs in the case against KDC and Kgari. According to Justice Tshepo...

  • Justice rather than a deal – Matsheka

    The former Lobatse Member of Parliament’s comments come amidst speculation that the Directorate on Intelligence Security and the Attorney General could be seeking an out-of-court settlement in matter. The speculation comes hot on the heels of an...

  • Judges not beyond probing – Boko

    “Judges cannot be influenced by public opinion, but they are open to probing. Every institution should be subjected to probing which should not be viewed as disrespect,” he said.Speaking during the formal swearing in of newly appointed judges of...

  • 'Dikgosi' designation not sanctioned by law—Urban customary courts

    The Court of Appeal recently addressed the presidents and deputies of the urban courts dashing their hopes of ever being referred to as Dikgosi saying the matter must be set straight to rid any confusion and misleading information."The matter that...

  • Boko issues direct order for gov’t litigation

    “This is a standing instruction to all government legal teams that do not litigate against a citizen where you have clearly wronged the citizen. Do not litigate but settle. This is the approach going forward,” he said.Speaking at the High Level...

  • Boko issues direct order for gov’t litigation

    “This is a standing instruction to all government legal teams that do not litigate against a citizen where you have clearly wronged the citizen. Do not litigate but settle. This is the approach going forward,” he said.Speaking at the High Level...

  • School caretaker gets 22 years for 'indecent assault'

    The forty-seven-year old was recently sentenced by a magistrate at the Mahalapye Magistrates' Court following numerous postponements of the case. When sentencing Peloyakgosi, Magistrate Kefilwe Resheng said the unlawful act deserved a stiffer...

  • Justice and Correctional Services gets P860m for prisons, inmates rehabilitation

    He explained that the Service is committed to ensuring safe custody, rehabilitation, and reintegration of offenders to promote societal protection and national development. “These funds will be utilised to cover operational expenses for Botswana...

  • Ramaotwana proposes DPP autonomy

    He explained that an independent DPP budget from that of the AGC would enable the Director, as a warrant holder, to prudently and efficiently run the affairs of the Directorate without being overly reliant on what has been apportioned to the DPP....

  • My mother's kind nature took her life – Daughter

    The matriarch of the family, a 68-year-old retired primary school deputy head, Elizabeth Ramolala and her two grandchildren, Katlego Ramolala, 17, and nine-year-old Alefa Ramolala, were shot and killed in their home in the early hours of February 25,...

  • DIS lawsuits pile up as more disgruntled spies emerge

    . The latest being agents, Sebuweng Mukani and Mpho Molokwane. This is just as the other agents were indefinitely suspended sometime March 2024 following allegations of leaking confidential information and are now suing a collective of P4.4million....

  • ‘Kebonang outburst did not mitigate any fears’

    Justices Isaac Lesetedi, Leatile Dambe, Johan Froneman, Edwin Cameron and Goemekgabo Tebogo-Maruping when analysing the recusal application against Justice Kebonang, said the principal ground on which the latter’s recusal was sought was clearly...

  • ‘CoA is final court of appeal in the country’

    The CoA pronounced decisively that there is nowhere in the Constitution that gives the High Court the powers to sit and review the judgments of the apex court including those dealing with the rights and freedoms of individuals. “The High Court does...

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