Ex-TNMC employee rape appeal quashed

Friday, May 18, 2018

FRANCISTOWN: A former miner who was convicted of rape in September 2014 and subsequently sentenced to 10 years in jail has been denied leave to appeal at the Court of Appeal (CoA).

The convict, Selebogo Morwaagole, an ex-stores officer at Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC), had approached the High Court on Wednesday on an application to appeal his case at the CoA.

Morwaagole was found guilty of raping the cousin of his daughter at his TNMC allotted Molapo Estates home on December 13, 2009.

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Ex-TNMC employee rape appeal quashed

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