Debene Natale fails to secure appeal
Thursday, March 06, 2014
The ruling effectively means that Tshipa will have to complete the 10-year jail term imposed on him by a Molepolole magistrate in 2009.
However, he was given a reprieve when Kirby allowed his appeal to backdate his sentence.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...