Murder convict dodges hangman's knot

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Murder convict dodges hangmanu00e2u20acu2122s knot

A 34-year-old murder convict, Tonderai Kakamba who was condemned to death for killing his five-month-old baby, breathed a sigh of relief as the Court of Appeal (CoA) in Gaborone overturned his judgement last week.

Kakamba was sentenced to death on November 5, 2020, after the trial court found him guilty of killing his child.

It is said the accused killed his daughter by slitting her throat back in 2015, following a quarrel with the mother of the child. Kakamba will now serve 22 years behind bars for the baby’s brutal murder, with the sentence backdated to the time he was first put behind bars.

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Who watches the watchdog?

For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...

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