A quiet lawyer steps into Botswana’s loudest fight

Aubrey Lute4 weeks ago5579 min

For the better part of two decades, Batlhalefi Moeletsi practiced the kind of law that rarely makes front pages: patient, procedural, argued in the measured cadences of a courtroom rather than the din of the political arena. On Wednesday, that changed. President Duma Boko named him Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, handing a soft-spoken attorney the country’s hardest brief.

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