FRANCISTOWN: The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MESD) has won against teachers in the high stakes course work matter that the ministry had instituted against the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU).
Justice Moesi tears Task Team report to shreds
Francistown High Court Judge, Justice Bashi Moesi has set aside a decision by the Minister of Local Government, Eric Molale to cancel the recognition of Lechedzani Kemmonye as the rightful heir to the Ditlaldi Chieftainship throne.
Bogosi in Ditladi village was thrown into disarray in 2018 when the heir apparent, Lechedzani, 27, attempted to claim his throne from his aunt Gaobodiwe Gabanakgosi, who had been holding the fort for him following the death of his father, Kemmonye Letamo in 2013.
However, instead of handing the reigns to the young royal as per the initial agreement, Gabanakgosi threw a curveball, claiming her late brother had another son, Kgosietsile Letamo.
Yes, we still have legal bills to settle – Mohwasa
‘We hope BMD will not neglect to pay us’ -Mohwasa
PHILLIMON MMESO
editors@thepatriot.co.bw
Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) are facing their unending financial challenges emanating from the court cases they had before and after the 2019 General Elections.
While the party recently managed to settle their legal fees with Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) they are now facing old debts to the two South African advocates who represented them during their case with Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in August 2019.
Information gathered by this publication is that the two South African advocates Paul Kennedy and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi are demanding over P500, 000 from the UDC as legal fees.
22nd December 2020
Still reeling from a humiliating defeat at the hands of Percy Raditladi at the Francistown High Court last week, Grow Mine Africa trading as Dineo Tsa Pula suffered yet another debilitating blow when its lawyers of record withdrew their legal representation mandate. Through its notice filed with the Francistown High Court on 17
th December 2020, the law firm, S Thapelo Attorneys informed the court that they had withdrawn their mandate from representing the company.
Last week, Judge Justice Bashi Moesi discharged an interim order he issued on November 9
th, 2020 calling upon Raditladi to show cause why the order sought by Grow Mine Africa should not be made final. Discharging the interim order last Friday, Justice Moesi opened his ruling with the wise words of Lord Wilberforce in the seminal case of Ebrahimi versus Westbourne Galleries Ltd & Another: “My Lords, …a limited company is more than a mere legal entity, with a personality in law of its own… ther