Father Fights Children For Inheritance

Morubana believes his elder son and sister-in-law connived with the University of Botswana (UB) to deny him a stake from his late wife’s death benefit. He feels authorities failed him and is now taking the matter to court.

Pearl Morubana, who was a secretary at UB’s Distance Learning department died of a stroke in October 2015 leaving benefits totalling just over P1.3 million. Narrating his story, Morubana, said he was shocked that the initial benefit schedule he was shown by the university was changed while he was waiting to receive the money. “We were called by the university where we were shown that I and three of my children would get 25% each from the total of her insurance and pension benefits. At the meeting, it was agreed that since my firstborn daughter was now late, we would also share her 25%. My late wife’s elder sister Sally Pillar objected to me getting anything saying I did not deserve it,” he said.