Kebonang jails Magosi, Macholo for contempt

The 401 DIS employees had registered several victories against the DPSM and DIS in a case in which they had taken the employer to court for breach of contract (for refusal to pay them backpay dating as far back as 2001). Their main contention was that the employer had failed to pay them salary backpays despite the government having issued Directives and Savingrams to that effect. The employees had taken the DPSM, DIS, and Attorney General to court seeking salary back pay effective from April 2008. The Court of Appeal on June 14, 2025, hammered the last nail in the coffin when a bench of three Judges struck off the appeal with costs in an ordinary scale. Yesterday, Justice Kebonang declared that Magosi and Macholo were in contempt of the order of the court issued on June 3, 2025.

He issued an order committing the duo to imprisonment, where they shall be held until they purge their contempt. "An order directing the Registrar to forthwith issue a writ of personal attachment and committal to prison pursuant to the above order authorising Deputy Sheriff or officers of Botswana Police Service to apprehend the first [Macholo] and second [Magosi] respondents and deliver them to any prison in Gaborone," Justice Kebonang ordered.