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‘Scar Face’ insult ends in murder

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 210 Views |

Justice Zein Kebonang. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

What began as a casual insult at a Molepolole shopping complex in 2012 has ended, 13 years later, with the High Court convicting one man of murder and freeing his co-accused.

Justice Zeinub Kebonang of the Gaborone High Court has last week convicted Dikalelo Mphakelwa (1st accused) of murdering a man known as States, while Kesego Kentshitswe (2nd accused) was acquitted of the same charge.

The court found that the fatal assault stemmed from the deceased’s remark referring to Mphakelwa as “scar face”, a comment the judge described as “an insult that was to have very grave consequences”.

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‘Scar Face’ insult ends in murder

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