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Mpho Mokwape
  • Kebonang was conflicted - State

    In an appeal before the CoA scheduled for hearing today (Friday), the State argued the High Court failed to find that once the CoA had adjudicated Morupisi’s case, it ceased to be open to the High Court to interfere with any judgment pronounced by...

  • Ketlogetswe: The jurist with judicial temperament

    In his service journey, he has demonstrated humility and the ability to listen to even the most unpopular, as described by President Duma Boko. All the praises bestowed upon Justice Ketlogetswe will come to test as he takes his position to lead the...

  • Gaolathe, CMB enter settlement talks

    Gaolathe got into a legal battle with the CMB liquidator when investigators tracing about P600 million that the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) and Bona Life allege was mishandled by an asset manager, filed legal cases against Alliance...

  • Violent girlfriend killer's plea to overturn death penalty

    Unangoni Alton, who was convicted for a single charge of murder, was in April 2023 told he would have to hang by the neck for killing Kefilwe Mogorosi on October 25, 2012. He was sentenced by Gaborone High Court judge, Chris Gabanagae, after the...

  • High expectations for newly appointed Chief Justice

    Speaking on Saturday during the swearing in of the new CJ, Boko said the timing was right as the country had made a commitment to uphold human rights in every action, decision, intervention, and approach it undertakes. "The appointment of the new CJ...

  • Morupisi: The indefatigable fighter

    But the media attention and public scrutiny intensified by the close of 2024 as he spent his Christmas holidays in jail after the Court of Appeal (CoA) slapped him with a seven-year jail term.This resulted in Morupisi becoming the biggest newsmaker...

  • P297m smart meter tender in limbo

    The Corporation started rolling out smart meters in May 2024 year which was expected to cost P1.5 billion. Now part of the tender is affected by legal battles after the WUC outsourced its supply to the manufacturer of the meters, Hitong Holdings....

  • 'Morupisi's allegations didn't spare President'

    Garekwe stated that Morupisi's allegations that the justices presiding over his sentencing "mortgaged their conscience to the Executive" and tried to impress the President, has shredded to pieces and dragged in the mud the integrity of the CoA....

  • Garekwe labels Morupisi court redress malicious

    Justice Garekwe, who yesterday refused to recuse herself from presiding over a case in which the State is seeking to overturn Morupisi’s release from prison, has come down heavy on the latter and his attorneys for levelling unsubstantiated...

  • “I had hoped Garekwe’s conscience will prick her”

    In his attempt to get the judge from his case where the State has filed an expedited appeal against his release from prison, Morupisi said he had hoped that Garekwe's conscience would have pricked her to recuse herself without the unenviable task...

  • Boko sums up an eventful Legal Year

    Judicial Review “Re na le judge tsa mofuta mang, ke batho ba sebopego se se ntseng jang, naare re ba tsaya kae? Ba golagetse mo ditlhaloganyong, ga ba kgone go bona tsuulolo le kgatako ya ditshwanelo tsa motho, re tsaya kae batho ba (What kind of...

  • Morupisi, an example for would-be corrupt officers

    In the history of the country, no senior government official has been successfully tried for white collar crime and went to prison for it. As much as there have been cases nothing comes to the fore that has successfully sent an official to jail or...

  • Magosi interdicted from top agents disciplinary hearing

    The agents, Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa, Sebuweng Mukani and Mpho Molokwane who some of them were on various occasions arrested and detained by the DIS and the Botswana Police Service (BPS) officers recently made an interdict...

  • Bidders battle over P296m water smart meter tender

    The reason Melco Structure is taking Hitong Holdings and Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) to court is that it entered into a Distribution Agreement between them in which it was given the exclusive mandate to advertise, market, and solicit clients...

  • Genesis of the multi-million smart meters tender war

    Melco Structure being the aggrieved party contends that it put in the work for Hitong Holdings which is the manufacturer of the Smart Meters.The complaint company following its Distribution agreement with Hitong Holdings was tasked with advertising...

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