It is a watershed in Kgatleng

When Kgosi Kgafela's regiments went about his 'chiefdom' caning people without the benefit of due process, we called first for Kgabo and his SWAT team to exercise restraint in what appeared to be lawlessness taking root in a part of a country renowned for the rule of law.  When no one paid heed and the whipping developed a momentum of its own, we duly called for intervention because Kgabo and his attendants were proving incorrigible.

Eventually, the state - through the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) - charged Kgafela, alongside his brother Mmusi, uncle Bana Sekai and 11 Bakgatla with unlawful assault, among a slew of offences.  The case continues before the courts.  With the odds heavily stacked against him and his band of zealots, a frustrated Kgafela sought to divert attention by seizing on the Constitution of Botswana as an alien document imposed from outside, a matter that does have considerable merit.