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Confessions of Phase 2’s surviving heist suspect

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | 15160 Views |

Phase 2, Gaborone’s mass shooting incident’s sole survivor, Tsaone Reboeleng narrates how she met the career criminal behind the multiple heists both in Botswana and neighbouring South Africa, Thato Gaopatwe. Mmegi Staff Writer SHARON MATHALA reports how Reboeleng hid in a wardrobe before the police smoked her out

Tsaone Reboeleng met Thato Gaopatwe in South Africa at a club where they exchanged contacts and therein their friendship began.

Unbeknownst to her, life would dramatically change forever. She had acquainted herself with one of the masterminds behind the repeated armed robberies that had been haunting the country.

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Confessions of Phase 2’s surviving heist suspect