Finding Bad Jesus Of Mmopane

Ditiro Ngakane was assaulted by a mob of Block 7 residents
Ditiro Ngakane was assaulted by a mob of Block 7 residents

How does a 17-year-old Motswana boy become a feared gang leader? Staff Writer THALEFANG CHARLES goes in search of a story of the upbringing of Jesus, a young boy from Mmopane who police have labelled as ‘extremely dangerous’ and tells a tale of an obedient boy that fell into the cracks of a broken family

Seventeen years ago, Onneetse Ngakane, an orphan from Mmopane, dropped out of school at Ledumadumane Junior Secondary Sechool while doing Form 3 because she fell pregnant.

She was 16-years-old when she discovered that her boyfriend, Boiki Dibotelo, an unemployed resident of Mmopane, who was 22 years at the time, had impregnated her.

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