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“Rarely, has agencies or arms of government come into conflict with each other over their respective mandates to a level at which litigation ensues up and proceeds to the apex court of the jurisdiction? This is such a case. Our attention has not...

Justices Isaac Lesetedi, Baaitse Nkabinde and Edwin Cameron said the AG (who at the time of the clash between the two organs was Abraham Keetshabe), acted nonchalantly to provide legal direction between the DIS and the DCEC to avoid escalation of the...

On Friday, the court stated it was clear that the intelligence agency, without lawful authority, sealed the DCEC offices and that of then director-general, Tymon Katlholo. The Attorney General (AG) representing the DIS had appeared before CoA...

Morupisi, who last week was compelled by the Court of Appeal (CoA) to continue with his appeal despite his wishes to withdraw, says he no longer has the financial muscle to continue with his appeal and that any court rule that forces him to do so is...

The appeal had been filed in relation to his conviction on two counts of corruption and one count of money laundering. However, on Tuesday the bench of the Court of Appeal President Justice Tebogo Tau, Justices Lakhvinder Singh Walia and Baaitse...

Now, in a filed rescission application dated June 11, 2024, they seek leave to defend the main action blaming the non appearance during scheduled set down of the matter to an honest mistake that resulted from Justice Kebonang’s switching courts. In...

Ntsuape, who was convicted last year after pleading guilty to two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder, had a psychologist vouch for him last week when he appeared for mitigation before Gaborone High Court judge, Barnabas Nyamadzabo....

Over 400 employees had taken the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), DIS and Attorney General to court seeking salary back pays effective from April 2008. Their main contention was that the employer had failed to pay them salary pay...

This is despite the two agencies having previously said the guns shouldn't be released to Kgosi as they formed part of their investigation into illegal possession of arms of war and a pending case at the Magistrate's Court. The DIS had also...

Kgotlhane is alleged to have been part of a five member presidential task force commissioned to establish the DIS in March 2018 during the former president Ian Khama’s tenure. He joined the security unit when he was appointed by Khama as deputy...

Justice Busang who said he had a hard time understang why Kgotlhane was placed on suspension explained that there was no explanation for the indefinite suspension, and why it has been in existence for the period of close to two years.“In my view,...

Justice Zein Kebonang of the Gaborone High Court ordered the DIS to return the guns and ammunitions they long seized from Kgosi’s residence in 2019.“The confiscation of these firearms, ammunitions and licences was therefore without just cause,...

Justice Makhwe, in a ruling that Magosi and the Commissioner of Police, Dinah Marathe, failed to file replying papers against allegations of harassment by three DIS top agents, said the fact that Magosi found it okay to travel outside the country at...

Makgophe was charged along with former president, Ian Khama, ex-Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) boss Isaac Kgosi, former deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture (MYSC), Victor Bruno Paledi, facing...

The legal order follows DIS' appearance before Justice Boipuso Makhwe of the Lobatse High Court on Monday, begging the mercy of the court after failing to file against alarming allegations of continuous harassment made by three of its suspended...