Drama as man flees from roadblock
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
However, as it turned out, the woman was not home when law enforcement decided to leave nothing to chance and made its terrestrial and aerial call. Her daughter, Tsholofelo Mooketsi, told Mmegi that MmaTselapedi had travelled to South Africa.
The literal translation of her name is the Mother of Two Ways. But it was her son that the police were interested in; he from whom his mother takes the name by which everyone calls her. Tselapedi, whose name means Two Ways, is allegedly a regular customer of the police and was once investigated for the theft of horse reins from the royal family here. Or so people assumed. But they were wrong. The man arrested by the police was not MmaTselapedi’s son of suspected equestrian interests. But the 25 year-old youth had come coasting - at a speed certainly faster than a racehorse’s - across three districts, Tlokweng, Gaborone and Kgatleng.
It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...