With the Court of Appeal (CoA) this week granting the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) its sought expedited appeal, the apex court Judge President Tebogo Tau has outlined that Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe’s November 10 temporary order is confusing and has the effect of finality.
A shopping mall situated along Mmopane junction, estimated to cost around P32 million and expected to be opened on the 18th of November, faces jeopardy as it has surfaced that the land in which the mall is erected on is disputed.
The Chief Justice (CJ), Terence Rannowane’s delayed alarm on the high profile case of spy agent Welheminah Maswabi codenamed Butterfly has irked the Law Society of Botswana which has accused the CJ of hypocrisy and posturing saying he was a part of a panel of 5 judges that heard the state’s appeal against Maswabi but never raised his evidence fabrication concerns in the ruling, only to do so through a letter to the president, Mokgweetsi Masisi.
The appeal by the State against the acquittal of the suspended spy agent, Welheminah 'Butterfly' Maswabi has been postponed to the next session of the Court of Appeal (CoA) at the instance of the new Judge President Tebogo Tau. Justice Tau postponed it with the hope that the foreign Judges of the CoA would be available in the country.