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State delays Justice Ketlogetswe's case against Masisi, JSC

Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The State has delayed the hearing of the Gaborone High Court Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe's interim interdict case against the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) as they have filed an interlocutory application hoping to strike out an affidavit from their filed papers.

The case was postponed to next week Tuesday after State lawyer Phazha Molebatsi indicated that they would like to strike out the affidavit they had filed in response to Ketlogetswe’s court papers.

“We have filed an interlocutory application to the current main case as we want to strike out the affidavit. We would like to strike out the affidavit because it has some averments we do not agree with,” said Molebatsi.

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