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Butterfly gets another shot at 'justice'

NOT YET UHURU: Welheminah Maswabi
NOT YET UHURU: Welheminah Maswabi

Suspended Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agent, Welheminah ‘Butterfly’ Maswabi had mixed fortunes before the Court of Appeal when some of her pleas were granted while others were dismissed. What was to be determined in the appeal is whether the High Court was correct in upholding the several special pleas and exceptions raised by the various respondents in her suit.

Maswabi approached the court to seek to vindicate her reputation against alleged defamatory publications made by officials of the state in laying criminal charges against her in October 2019 and an affidavit deposed to the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) by Jaco Hubona in resisting her (Butterfly’s) bail application in those criminal proceedings.

Maswabi is demanding a huge sum against Hubona (first respondent), the Director of Public Prosecutions (second respondent), DCEC (third respondent), Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) as fourth respondent, Botswana Police and the Attorney General as fifth and sixth respondents respectively.

Editor's Comment
Commitment by DPP to fight corruption welcome

Whilst many citizens put trust in their leaders that they are tackling one of the worst curses that can befall a country, the public has lost trust after all the cases seemed not to go anywhere.As the saying goes, ‘corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society’; corruption affects effective governance.Corruption affects delivery of services to the public and also crumbles most systems meant to assist citizens who are very...

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