Keitseng worth remembering in Mandela's Gun

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Last week a film crew led by John Irvin descended on the hilly town of Lobatse to shoot parts of the hugely anticipated Mandela’s Gun biopic film.

Although the story focuses mainly on the iconic anti-apartheid hero, there could be no way such a story could be told without mentioning the brave Motswana, who sacrificed his own life for the struggle.  This courageous man offered Mandela and other guerilla fighters shelter en route to countries like Zambia and Tanzania.

This was Fish Keitseng whose house marked C42 in the impoverished location of Peleng hosted the greatest statesman of modern times.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

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...

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