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Mpho Mokwape
  • Paledi escapes Khama, Kgosi ‘curse’

    Paledi was facing three counts of aiding and abetting unlawful possession of firearms. In 2022, he found himself on the wrong side of the law and was among the prominent persons thrown into the web of high profile prosecutions. He was accused of...

  • BIUST ordered to continue negotiations with BOSETU

    The University called out for its dishonesty, has been ordered by the Francistown Industrial Court to continue negotiations with BOSETU for the interest of employees. BIUST has been at loggerheads with the union for reportedly unilaterally...

  • State defaults against DIS agents

    By the end of business on Tuesday, the Attorney General Mmako Abram, Commissioner of Police, Dinah Marathe and Director General of the DIS, Peter Magosi had failed to file replying papers against the agents’ interdict application.The three...

  • Suspension orders are crippling – DIS agents

    The agents, Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa, who are fighting to interdict their boss, Peter Magosi from alleged constant arrests and detention, cry that the orders created are simply meant to ensnare them and justify arrests.The...

  • We have fallen out with Magosi – DIS top agents

    The three agents, legal director, Pulane Kgoadi, principal intelligence officer, Paul Setlhabi and legal deputy director, Kuda Malikongwa, who allegedly held a significant influence within the Directorate, said under the command of Magosi they have...

  • Police officers fear Magosi – Suspended DIS agents

    The Police Commissioner has been cited by the agents in an urgent interim interdict application. Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa said the police were part of the arresting team during their detention. They said the police were...

  • Suspended DIS top agents’ harrowing details of arrest, detention

    The agents, who are currently under suspension, indicated that they need protection from court as their liberty has been jeopardised by the constant harassment, surveillance, arrest and detention. Through Kgoadi’s founding affidavit, below are...

  • Top DIS agents’ fear arrest, detention

    Yesterday the top agents, Pulane Kgoadi, Paul Setlhabi and Kuda Malikongwa appeared before Lobatse High Court judge, Justice Boipuso Makhwe after filing an urgent application against Commissioner of Police, DIS Director general (DG) Peter Magosi and...

  • ZCC crash victims: The sight of 45 coffins profound, sad moment

    It becomes even worse when a loved one is lost in a horrific car crash. It is even more heart breaking that 45 Batswana lives were lost in such a tragic manner on an Easter pilgrimage enroute to a place considered so holly, Moria.When 45 coffins were...

  • Fare thee well St. Engenas ZCC members

    The victims, who died in Mamatlakala, Limpopo in South Africa on their last journey to Moria, have been in South Africa for over a month following the crash on March 28, just few hours shy from Good Friday driving the nation into an emotional...

  • Statistics Botswana defends bargaining position with BOPEU

    SB was dragged before court by BOPEU accusing it of bargaining in bad faith with respect to the 2020/21 salary negotiations.This was due to the fact that SB had apparently withdrawn its first position paper and replaced it with a second one. It was...

  • Justice Moesi tussles with CEDA over P3.9m debt

    This follows Lobatse High Court judge, Justice Jennifer Dube's recent summary judgment against Justice Moesi and his company cancelling a loan agreement with CEDA. The parties entered into the agreement in 2011. Justice Dube ordered that the...

  • State disputes Matsheka’s unlawful detention claim

    In a recent filing where the DIS through the Attorney General is once more seeking further particulars from the former Finance Minister, there has been inconsistency regarding his detention.According to the DIS, it alleges that Matsheka is trying to...

  • DIS denies agents contracts breach

    In a response to a lawsuit filed by over 400 employees who are accusing the DIS of failing to fast track their progression since 2007, the intelligence agency has defended its decision.It based its defence not to fast track progression of the said...

  • High Court judge denies bias, refuses recusal

    Last Thursday, the judge chucked out the company’s request for his recusal, stating it didn't hold water. Lamworld is battling it out with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. The company claims it was roped in back in 2013...

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