The State has moved to resurrect the corruption prosecution of Lefoko Moagi, the former Minister of Minerals and Energy, filing an appeal against his acquittal in the P4.7 million New Energy matter and taking direct aim at the reasoning of the judicial officer who set him free.

Botswana has pushed harder against human trafficking than it did a year ago, yet it remains stranded short of the baseline the world has set for itself, hobbled by thinning budgets for the very programs meant to shield victims and forestall the crime, according to the 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report released by the United States Department of State. The report keeps Botswana on Tier 2, a designation that credits a government for mounting a...

The case had everything a corruption prosecution could want except the one thing it needed. There was a figure – 4,706,000 pula. There was a conduit, a company called Wisecreatives Investments.

Mampori, who is already on death row for the murder of another woman, remains a serious and continuing threat to society – particularly vulnerable women, Chief Justice Ketlogetswe said. Serial killer Simba Mampori will spend the remainder of his life behind bars after the High Court in Gaborone sentenced him to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment on Wednesday for the brutal murders of two women. Delivering sentence, Chief Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe said life imprisonment...

Mahalapye Magistrate Kedirileng Venetia Moruakgomo appeared before the Broadhurst Magistrate’s Court this week, facing a charge of threatening to kill two people. According to the charge sheet, Moruakgomo, 40, is charged with threatening to kill, contrary to Section 220 of the Penal Code (Cap. 08:01) of the laws of Botswana. The charge alleges that, on or about October 11, 2026, at or near Flowertown in Mahalapye, Moruakgomo, without lawful excuse, indirectly threatened to kill Tshoganetso...

Long before John Thiite, the former Member of Parliament, and the businessman Nicholas Zakheem were summoned to answer corruption charges at the Broadhurst Magistrates’ Court, the State had already tested – and lost – a central thread of its case in a quieter courtroom hundreds of kilometres away. The reckoning came not with the clang of handcuffs but in a measured judgment handed down in March 2026, when the Francistown High Court dismissed the government’s...

In the ledgers of Botswana’s financial underworld, the crime of the moment is deceptively mundane: taking other people’s money and promising to make it grow. It rarely does.

More than a quarter of a trillion pula flowed into Botswana last year, a torrent of mining receipts, family remittances and foreign investment that moved through the country’s banks, border posts and, increasingly, the ledgers of digital-currency firms.

A long-running battle over who holds the legal authority to prosecute one of Botswana’s most closely watched financial crime cases has moved to a higher stage, as businessman Bakang Seretse presses the High Court to remove a senior anti-corruption official from the matter altogether. Having failed in his first attempt before a lower court, Seretse has filed a notice of appeal challenging the ruling handed down by Broadhurst Regional Magistrate Mareledi Dipate on 30 June...

Nearly nine years after the death of nine-year-old Metlha Sibanda, former Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana aircraft marshal Motlatsi Khoto is set to challenge his murder conviction and death sentence before the Court of Appeal on October 2, 2026. Khoto was convicted and sentenced to death by the Francistown High Court in connection with Metlha’s death. The case began in January 2018, when the child, who was the daughter of Khoto’s former girlfriend, Unami Sibanda,...