Former BCL Mine employee convicted of murder

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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FRANCISTOWN: An ex-BCL Mine employee who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend will have to show cause why he does not deserve the hangman’s noose at the most.

The convict, dreadlocked Khumoetsile Mantswe, 36, was found guilty of intentionally killing his girlfriend, Masedi Tshime, on December 30, 2016 at Lesenepole village in the Central Administrative District of Botswana.

Mantswe murdered Tshime, the mother of his two children, following a relationship dispute after Mantswe lost his job at BCL Mine following the closure of the mine.

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Former BCL Mine employee convicted of murder

FRANCISTOWN: An ex-BCL Mine employee who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend will have to show cause why he does not deserve the hangman’s noose at the most.

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