I gave the plot to Debswana, not Nchindo - Mogae

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The public in Magistrate Lot Moroka's court yesterday were treated to an entertaining mixture of humour and legal tactical gamesmanship laced with yet more revelations as lawyers cross-examined former president, Festus Mogae.

The first victim of Mogae's caustic humour and tactical awareness was Nchindo's Advocate, Craig Webster, who had a difficult time trying to get Mogae to contradict himself in the evidence that he had earlier given under cross-examination by chief state counsel, Kgosi Ngakaagae.

While Mogae sought to show that the plot allocated to Nchindo was given to the Tourism Development Consortium with the understanding that it was a Debswana initiative, Webster was trying to show that the plot might have been given in other circumstances such where TDC was Nchindo's private business.

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