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Mpho Mokwape
  • Non compliance costs Special Constables

    The two Special Constables, Olebile Modisakgosi and Gagoleame Poromate, though they won their challenge at the High Court, they could not maintain their winning streak at the Court of Appeal (CoA) this Tuesday. The CoA bench of Justices Isaac...

  • Ewallet costs police constable job

    The judgement of the CoA bench comes after the Commissioner, Attorney General, chairperson of Botswana Police Council and charperson of Class II Board, Mahalapye, were appealing the September 28, 2022 Francistown High Court decision by Justice...

  • Genesis of Bluthorn’s troubles

    The group’s troubles became a public affair on February 19, 2021 following a High Court judgment placing it under liquidation. Before that the regulatory authority discovered, during its supervisory activities in May 2019, that Bluthorn was not...

  • Bluthorn demands over P200m from individuals

    The embattled Bluthorn, which is currently under liquidation, says the directors and officers were the controlling minds behind the formation and the running of the business of the companies therefore, they are liable to pay BFM in the sum of P239...

  • UN: Gov't fails to satisfy safe water demand

    UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Dr David Boyd, expressed concern over the scarcity of water, deeming it a human rights issue.In the report scheduled for presentation to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2024, Boyd...

  • BMWU petitions gov’t over Khoemacau’s alleged ‘inequities’

    The union that is petitioning the government over the treatment of black employees by the mine management says the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs is to blame for such influx for allowing expatriates as part of human resources.As such, the...

  • Khoemacau takes BMWU head on

    The copper miner that has acknowledged the existence of BMWU said it is committed to working with the union as one of its key stakeholders to achieve very high safety and health standards and very high labour productivity levels for the benefit of...

  • Curtain closes on gov’t, nurses ‘Call to Duty’ feud

    The final judgement will be delivered following the government’s refusal to accept the discontinuation of the ‘Call to Duty’ for nurses or pay overtime as per a recent Industrial Court judgement by Justice Galesite Baruti. The government,...

  • Nurses to continue dispensing medicine

    The nurses’ union had brought an application before court seeking an interim interdict pending a review application against Ministry of Health and Director of Public Service Management (DPSM) on an order authorising that they (nurses, midwifes)...

  • NWDC ex-chairperson, deputy challenge ouster

    The two councillors, Kebareeditse Ntsogotho, a resident of Khwai and sitting councillor for Khwai-Mabebe ward and deputy chairperson Lekone Masoko who is a resident of Maun and a sitting councillor for Shashe Ward say they were illegally removed from...

  • Kebonang lambasts the AG for ‘unruly’ behaviour

    Justice Kebonang was allocated the case after it was remitted back by the Court of Appeal to the High Court in August to be heard by a new judge after it was initially heard by retired Judge President Abednigo Tafa.On Monday this week, Justice...

  • Judge chides State over recusal proceedings

    The application was after Justice Kebonang was allocated the case following the Court of Appeal (CoA) judgment that remitted it back to the High Court to be heard by a new judge.The Attorney General (AG) has filed a recusal application against...

  • Infotrac P110m demand outrageous-CoA

    The judges, CoA President Tebogo Tau, Justices Singh Lakhvinder Walia and Johan Froneman all agreed that the P110 million demanded by Infotrac was highly improbable.“The alleged fee is so outrageous and preposterous for the work that was alleged to...

  • Infotrac's ploy to scandalise, influence Court

    CoA Justices, President Tebogo Tau, Lakhvinder Singh Walia and Johan Froneman said Infotrac laid complaints with the Chief Justice (CJ), Terence Rannowane and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) before bringing the recusal...

  • ‘Class action’ ruling stalls retired soldiers’ pension lawsuit

    A class action is a legal proceeding in which one or more plaintiffs bring a lawsuit on behalf of a larger group, known as the class. In 2019 many retired soldiers launched a lawsuit against the BDF’s decision to move their Pension Fund to a new...

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