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FINED: Thebe
Botswana’s 400 metre sprinter, Baboloki Thebe, was this week fined P3000.00 and had his driver’s licence suspended for a year after pleading guilty to drunk driving.
The 23-year-old runner was recently convicted of one count of driving a motor vehicle with alcohol content in excess of the prescribed permissible limit.
Court heard that Thebe, on the 21st of March 2020 along Gaborone/Molepolole road drove a white VW Golf whilst the alcohol content in his breath was 0.94/100ml thereby exceeding the prescribed limit of 0.22/100ml.
He lost control of the vehicle he was driving and it overturned.
He was accompanied by another star athlete, Onkabetse Nkobolo.