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Batswana urged to fight police brutality

Makwati also slammed the Minister of Defence and Security Kagiso Mmusi's leadership PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Makwati also slammed the Minister of Defence and Security Kagiso Mmusi's leadership PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

In November, Dr Tshepang Makwati, an attorney at Modimo and Associates secured a court victory for the Mosala family where the Botswana Police Service (BPS) was ordered to exhume the body of their daughter Pedzani Mosala for a fresh autopsy.

The family did not buy the story of suicide inside the Kutlwano Police Station cells in Francistown but went on to bury their loved one as the BPS post- mortem report stated suicide.

They would land in the hands of Makwati who approached the court on urgency challenging the conduct of the police in investigating the matter including the use of an employee of the BPS to conduct an autopsy. Though the fresh autopsy report is yet to be shared, the Mosala family emerged victorious and the exhumation was finally done. According to Makwati, while they were already following numerous such cases of alleged police brutality, more people came forward to lodge their cases as they felt hard done by the police hoping to get closure on what really led to the demise of their loved ones in the hands of the police.


Editor's Comment
Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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