Motswaledi saga: Part II begins

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The five judges likely to preside over the Motswaledi appeal this morning are N.J. McNally, Mathealira Ramodibedi, Dr Seth Twum, J.G. Foxcroft and C.T. Howie. Though all are foreigners, they have experience in the Botswana Appeals Court

N.J. McNally (Zimbabwe)
McNally is a Zimbabwean citizen. He has been a judge in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Recently he presided over the Guta Ra Mwari case where members took the church to the Appeals Court to resolve a power struggle. He overturned the judgement of the High Court in favour of the appellants, the members who had complained. He recently presided over the case between the Botswana Telecommunications Corporations and its workers. The workers had won a High Court case regarding their new salary structure, which they argued had been introduced unprocedurally. The BTC lost the original case but McNally, sitting with Foxcroft and Howie overturned the High Court decision.

Mathealira Ramodibedi (Lesotho)
Ramodibedi is from Lesotho. He was born in 1945. He completed the first and third portions of his law degree with  the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS) and the second part at the Edinburgh University in Scotland between 1968 and 1974. He took part in the Intensive Study Programme for Judicial Educators in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1998. Ramodibedi was in private practice from 1984 to 1996 when he was appointed a judge in the Lesotho High Court. He moved to the Lesotho Court of Appeal in 2000, where he is still a judge.

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