Moatlhodi explores reconciliation in child assault case

The State alleges that the maverick UDC MP for Tonota and married couple, Maranyane Kebitsang, 68, and Nnyana Kebitsang, 61, acting together in concert subjected Kesego Olekantse, now 12, to inhuman treatment on January 30, 2019 by assaulting him at Tonota.

The trio is alleged to have thereafter unleashed a vicious dog to bite Olekantse causing him puncture wounds and bruises on his face and body contrary to the Children’s Act. In the past, the police stated that Olekantse incurred the wrath of the accused after he allegedly stole some mangoes from the Kebitsang homestead. When the matter came for status report recently before Chief Magistrate Faith Dlamini-Nga’ndu, prosecutor Gaone Miller produced a death certificate showing that Maranyane recently died on August 22. After Miller produced the certificate, Dlamini-Nga’ndu withdrew charges against the deceased.