It is almost two weeks since, President Ian Khama's sister, Jacqueline, tabled a complaint against the Sunday Standard newspaper before the Media Complaints Committee demanding that two of the paper's journalists be barred from writing following a story the weekly ran after the killing of Kalafastis by security agents.
In a letter addressed to Kaboeamodimo, Kalafatis family lawyer, Dick Bayford, demands that Btv should give his clients a chance to refute stories and comments made at two press conferences addressed by cabinet ministers, Dikgakgamatso Seretse and Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi."In the course of the said press conferences, which were aired on Botswana Television (Btv), certain statements and insinuations were made about the deceased. These included allegations that he was a criminal and insinuations that, as a result, his death was somewhat justified," Bayford complains. Bayford slams Btv for covering but failing to air a press conference organised by the family lawyers, which, he said, refuted reports carried in the national broadcaster following the death of Kalafatis.
