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Mpho Mokwape
  • Deceit by BDF, DIS 'too much'—Soldiers

    The 11 soldiers, Mpho Baleseng, Matlhogonolo Kearabile, Timothy Mogatwe, Kaone Matlhosi, Moagisi Buti, Morena Mangesi, Karabo Tsimako, Baeng Ramohobo, Edward Gabaikanngwe, Vincent Motsie and Lesego Mokopakgosi say they were led into the contracts...

  • DIS officers sue gov’t

    Over 400 employees have issued a writ of summons against the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), the DIS and the Attorney General on grounds that the decision taken by the government not to pay salary back pays effective from April 2008...

  • State questions Katlholo’s conduct on Kgosi’s ‘dead file’

    In an application, the Attorney General (AG), the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) DG Peter Magosi, DIS spokesperson Edward Robert, DIS lead investigator Jet Mafuta and former acting DCEC DG Tshepo Pilane requested for better and...

  • I did not assume DCEC duty to target anyone – Katlholo

    The embattled Katlholo says contrary to suggestive allegations, he did not take office at the DCEC to target any particular individual but he was to address the general phenomenon of corruption irrespective of who was involved. Responding to the...

  • Allegations of abuse at SADC office in

    The alleged cases at the Secretariat office called Plant Genetic Resources Centre (SPGRC) centre around an alleged male perpetrator named Dr Justify Gotami Shava, a Zimbabwean national. The latter has reportedly left many employees at the office...

  • Failed appeal earns convict more jail time

    The rapist, Tshepiso Bohule was on June 6, 2019, convicted by the then Kanye Senior Magistrate Daniel Nkau on a single count of rape and was sentenced to six years imprisonment instead of the statutory minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment as...

  • Court refuses to stay retired soldiers’ pension fund trial

    The State had sought leave to appeal the ruling or alternatively stay of execution in order to approach the Court of Appeal (CoA) for a redress following the ruling by Justice Michael Leburu in early September. Justice Leburu had ruled that the...

  • Non compliance costs Special Constables

    The two Special Constables, Olebile Modisakgosi and Gagoleame Poromate, though they won their challenge at the High Court, they could not maintain their winning streak at the Court of Appeal (CoA) this Tuesday. The CoA bench of Justices Isaac...

  • Ewallet costs police constable job

    The judgement of the CoA bench comes after the Commissioner, Attorney General, chairperson of Botswana Police Council and charperson of Class II Board, Mahalapye, were appealing the September 28, 2022 Francistown High Court decision by Justice...

  • Genesis of Bluthorn’s troubles

    The group’s troubles became a public affair on February 19, 2021 following a High Court judgment placing it under liquidation. Before that the regulatory authority discovered, during its supervisory activities in May 2019, that Bluthorn was not...

  • Bluthorn demands over P200m from individuals

    The embattled Bluthorn, which is currently under liquidation, says the directors and officers were the controlling minds behind the formation and the running of the business of the companies therefore, they are liable to pay BFM in the sum of P239...

  • UN: Gov't fails to satisfy safe water demand

    UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Dr David Boyd, expressed concern over the scarcity of water, deeming it a human rights issue.In the report scheduled for presentation to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2024, Boyd...

  • BMWU petitions gov’t over Khoemacau’s alleged ‘inequities’

    The union that is petitioning the government over the treatment of black employees by the mine management says the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs is to blame for such influx for allowing expatriates as part of human resources.As such, the...

  • Khoemacau takes BMWU head on

    The copper miner that has acknowledged the existence of BMWU said it is committed to working with the union as one of its key stakeholders to achieve very high safety and health standards and very high labour productivity levels for the benefit of...

  • Curtain closes on gov’t, nurses ‘Call to Duty’ feud

    The final judgement will be delivered following the government’s refusal to accept the discontinuation of the ‘Call to Duty’ for nurses or pay overtime as per a recent Industrial Court judgement by Justice Galesite Baruti. The government,...

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