No justice for Montshiwa eight years later

The murder trial is yet to see the light of day despite the police having long completed investigations and handed the case to prosecutions office and having pin pointed local lawyer, David Modise as the accused in the matter. This week the matter was before Justice Michael Motlhabi for trial dates, who at the opening lamented that the matter was so old and needed to be dealt with. “This matter has been before court for long, it is very old and as it is known I am not the first to preside over it.

It needs to move forward and be disposed off in reasonable time,” he said. Justice Motlhabi is the third judge to preside over the matter since it was registered before the High Court for trial. It was initially presided over by Justice Michael Mothobi then allocated to Justice Zein Kebonang who in the last appearance handed it over to Justice Motlhabi citing backlog of cases before him.