Mmegi journalist files urgent application
Friday, July 26, 2019
Basimanebotlhe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Basimanebotlhe was on or about July 16, 2019, indisposed and home at Lenganeng Block 4 ward in Tlokweng when four detectives from Broadhurst Police Station and Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) Services ambushed her with a warrant of entry, search and seizure issued by Magistrate Thandi Baleseng on July 19, 2019.
In her founding affidavit, Basimanebotlhe who is also seeking to stay the execution of the order, said the mean-looking and uncompromising officers forced their way into her living room and demanded that she produce my phones and computers.
The ruling party’s position we understand is to ascertain if there were no excesses by the previous Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) regime led by Mokgweetsi Masisi. The BDP had until last year been in power for the past 58 years before it lost the 13th General Election to the UDC.President Duma Boko reiterated the position of his government, which inherited almost ‘empty’ State coffers from the previous regime, this week to find out how...