Drama as man flees from roadblock

MOCHUDI: There was drama here on Monday morning when a Botswana police helicopter directed squad cars on the ground to a house where a 25 year-old man was aarrested. Scores of people gathered as the squad cars laid siege on the house and the helicopter hovered over it. The house is the home of a female oracle who is widely known as MmaTselapedi in Mochudi.

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.

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