The Voice (Botswana)
FINED FOR BROKEN VOW
Furious at her baby daddy’s failure to follow through on his six-year promise to marry her, a scorned woman dragged her ex to court just two days before he was due to wed another woman! Married life got off to a rocky start for Joel Thusoyame...
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DCEC SPOOKS TARGET RAMOGAPI
Ashadowy, illegal raid at Minister Onneetse Ramogapi’s farm has sent panic through the political landscape, with police now hunting for unknown impostors who reportedly masqueraded as Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) officers. As...
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“LEGALISE IT”
CALLS for the liberalisation of adult entertainment and sex work in Botswana are growing louder, after a similar motion to regulate the industry crashed and burned in Gaborone last week. Francistown councillors have since thrown a spanner in the...
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I’M NO FUGITIVE!
The high-profile investigation into former Minister, Kefentse Mzwinila, by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is likely to stall after this publication established that he has left the country. The under investigation Botswana...
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TRAPPED IN RUSSIA’S WAR
WHAT presented itself as the opportunity of a lifetime has turned into every parent’s worst nightmare for Zibanani Madumo, better known as DJ O’neal, whose only son is helplessly trapped in the Russian warzone. The 19-year-old (names withheld) left...
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MOTSWANA MAN IN US COURT FOR RAPE
AMotswana man’s pursuit of the American dream has turned into a nightmare after he was arrested in Florida last Wednesday on rape charges. 35-year-old Kabo Makgoeng recently relocated to the United States for a breakthrough career as a Disney cast...
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PACK AND GO!
BY A MOTSWANA woman’s desperate bid for asylum in the United Kingdom since 2022 has suffered a crushing setback after UK authorities rejected her claim and placed her on a deportation list. Masego Baitseng, 50, who worked at Tsholetsa House -...
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SHE WANTS ME JAILED
NEARLY seven years after a bitter divorce that made headlines, former Magistrate, Taboka Slave, and her ex-husband, Maun businessman Augustine Mopipi, are back in court. The couple divorced in 2018 when Slave allegedly claimed that her husband’s debts...
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GHOST OF KALAFATIS RETURNS
Former President, Ian Khama’s name has once again resurfaced in connection with the notorious killing of John Kalafatis, a controversy that gripped the nation 15 years ago. Tshepo Mosala, an armed robbery convict on the run since June 2011 after...
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VEBROK IN MURDER ROW
THE freedom of oncecelebrated singer, Veronica Vebrok Kgalalelo Brooks, hangs in the balance following the mysterious death of her South African husband, Thabiso Kenneth Rathebe, whose family believe she killed. The 50-year-old Rathebe died suddenly...
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“SHE’S A FRAUD”
Former Kweneng Land Board Chairman, Kgang Kgang, has, in a dramatic turn to a viral sexual assault accusation, filed a police case against 31-year-old Lola Lebogang Tirelo, who publicly accused him of a brutal sexual assault. In a recent live...
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‘SHE BROKE MY PENIS!’
SEVEN years after a violent altercation al between be two neighbours n at a Molepolole sheeben left a man’s manhood a mutilated, bleeding mess, his accused ‘penis-puller’ will finally learn her fate. Charged with grievous harm over the unsavoury 20th...
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BLOOD MONEY
In a shocking twist to the brutal murder of 45-yearold Walter Gombalume at his Tuutebe farm near Letlhakane, his estranged wife, alongside three men accused of carrying out the gruesome killing, were arraigned in court this week. Kebareileng...
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DELIVERED FROM EVIL
Famous for preaching about love and forgiveness, a well-known Mogoditshane man of God is behind bars, accused of attempting to burn his two young sons alive because he believed their mother was cheating on him. According to the police officers who...
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GRAVE SECRETS
THE dust has barely settled on prominent businessman, Seloma Tiro’s grave, following his passing two months ago, but his family is already at war in court over his multimillion-pula estate. At the centre of the bitter dispute is a P70 million loan...
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ATI’S DRUG HELL
ATI’S battle with drugs was well-documented. However, his suppliers remain shrouded in mystery. In a deeply personal interview, a close confidant of the late Atlasaone ATI Molemogi has made explosive allegations, claiming well-known figures within...
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HIV SCARE
The much-anticipated 10-day trip to China by Gaborone City Council (GCC) might not take-off after all, the stumbling block being mandatory HIV testing by the host country. The 28-member entourage, comprising the Mayor, Oarabile Motlaleng, councillors...
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NO SEX, NO MARRIAGE
Frustrated at a lack of bedroom action he claims dates back to 2018, an old man’s 14-year marriage is over. Finalising his divorce before Molepolole Customary Court recently, Sepanere Sebase, 74, admitted his relationship with Ditshenyo Sebase, 59, had...
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BLOOD LUST
AT 23, Ogona Tlhabologang’s blood-filled history reads like the script of a hard-to-believe Hollywood horror movie, featuring murders, cannibalism, a mental hospital and police incompetency. Instead, it is the grim reality of a troubled young man...
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BLOODY AMBUSH
Sixteen Letlhakane Senior Secondary School students have been remanded in custody for last Saturday’s savage mob attack on a fellow learner, which left him fighting for his life. The unruly group allegedly used stones, sticks, and metal rods to pummel...
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YOUNG LOVERS JAILED FOR ANAL RAPE
An 18-year-old girl will spend the next 20 years of her life locked up after Kasane Magistrate Court found the teen and her boyfriend, 24, guilty of the anal rape of an 11-year-old schoolgirl. Hiding their heads in shame, One Margret Samunzala and...
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ARMED RESPONSE
TRAFFIC came to a halt last Friday at Molepolole’s Bokaa ward as residents watched in disbelief while a blood-soaked police officer ran for his life, dodging stones hurled by an enraged man. Footage from a viral video captures the dramatic moment as...
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SHOCKED TO DEATH
AKUBUNG ward family in Maun is mourning the shocking death of 7-year-old Maatla Ditsilepele, a Standard One pupil who was tragically electrocuted while drinking water from a backyard tap last Friday. Just four weeks shy of her 7th birthday, the...
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GONE WITHOUT A TRACE
THE Botswana Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa is working tirelessly to assist the heartbroken Dintwe family of Mochudi with the repatriation of their daughter, Reitumetse Dintwe, who died under unclear circumstances in Roodepoort this week. The...
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I WANT JUSTICE, NOT SORRY
FOLLOWING last week’s out-of-court settlement between the Government of Botswana and South African businesswoman, Bridgette Motsepe, former President, Ian Khama, has said that he will not demand any apology from the government. “No, I will not be...
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Mom and daughter arrested for granny’s brutal murder
On Wednesday 11th June, two days after her mother’s body was found slumped in a sea of blood at her home in Makobo village, Ruth Fana granted The Voice an emotional interview. In an impassioned plea, the 54-year-old primary school teacher cried for...
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THEY STOLE MY WOMB
Adisfigured woman from Kuke village in Gantsi District, Bogo Qhoma, has taken the Ministry of Health to court following a botched operation she says has left her deformed, in constant pain and without the hope of ever bearing children again. In a...
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WAS IT MURDER?
Aheartbroken Mahalapye family living in Manchester, United Kingdom, is seeking financial assistance so they can lay to rest their 19-yearold son, who tragically fell to his death from a fifthfloor balcony on May 31st Theo Vucky Nthobatsang fought for...
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BUSTED IN UK
Thato Babedi Sejabodile, a 37-year-old man from Molepolole, has been arrested in the United Kingdom for allegedly leading an international human trafficking syndicate that smuggled over 200 Batswana into the UK. Sejabodile was arrested on Tuesday June...
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BHC ROT EXPOSED
Afinancial storm is tearing through the state-owned property giant, Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) following a 30day suspension of 14 senior staff members this week. Amid allegations of massive looting and a chilling suicide, the suspensions,...
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HORROR AT SBRANA
SHOCK and horror gripped Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital last Saturday morning when nurses and doctors at the hospital were called to a horrifying scene. An inmate was brutally butchered in his cell during the night, his blood splattered across the wall,...
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HOLY WAR
Ahigh-ranking Old Apostolic Church member, Tshupo Pusoetsile, finds himself in a hell of a lot of trouble, accused of threatening to kill a former church mate on suspicion that he is recruiting his church members. Pusoetsile, 52, holds the position of...
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NO LOVE, NO PEACE
TWO divorcees who thought they’d found a second shot at love are single again after their turbulent seven-year romance ended in heartache. For Gaone Skelemani, it has also ended in fear. The 40-year-old now lives in terror, forced to take out a...
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SISTER FROM HELL
What was meant to be a joyful Easter gettogether with loved ones spiralled into a bloody nightmare for 31-year-old Godiraone Nickson, who claims her younger sister came close to chopping her hand off with a knife. As well as her own physical wounds,...
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POLICE COVER-UP?
ADARK cloud of confusion and grief has settled over Francistown’s Colored neighbourhood following the death of 42-year-old Keletso Fox, a mentally challenged man whose decomposed body was found in the Gerald Police morgue last Thursday. Fox had been...
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Granny, 72, files for divorce accusing hubby, 91, of cheating
As most families come togeth together this Easter holida holidays to celebrate love and a togetherness, an elderly Mol Molepolole couple is heading for a bitter divorce after 5 53 years of ma marriage. Without any sign of o peace on the horizon,...
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DJ BAFANA DENIES CHEWING OFF MAN’S EAR CURRICULUM HEIST!
IN what is shaping up to be one of the country’s wildest academic scandals, the Principal of Kanye Seventh Day Adventist (KSDA) College of Nursing, Carol Shabane, is being probed for orchestrating an elaborate scheme to steal a curriculum from a rival...
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SPEAK TO THE SPEAKER!
AMolepolole herdboy caught up in a stock theft saga insists the police should be taking a closer look at former Speaker of the National Assembly, Phandu Skelemani. 32-year-old Kesaobaka Romeo Thebolo and two other men - Godisaone Tshipayagae, 37, and...
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DIDDY DO IT?
In a devastating act of betrayal, a boarding master at Dukwi Junior Secondary School is accused of sexually assaulting young boys at the school. 57-year-old Michael Otukile was detained by the cops on Friday after a concerned parent lifted the lid on...
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BUSTED!
IN a major breakthrough against cross-border crime, the Botswana Police Service has arrested seven suspects believed to be part of a sophisticated car theft ring operating across South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Tanzania. Acting on a tip-off, the...
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MY MANHOOD IS TOO BIG TO FIT
In a jaw-dropping incest trial this week, a 36-year-old Ramaphatle man accused of impregnating his two minor daughters stunned a Molepolole Magistrates’ Court, claiming his manhood is ‘too big’ to commit the crime. The accused father, who cannot be...
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KILLER SOLDIER ON THE RUN
THE Ramolala family in Kgomokasitwa village, just north of Lobatse, is cloaked in sorrow and unimaginable grief after losing their beloved matriarch, Elizabeth Ramolala (68), and her two grandchildren, aged 8 and 16, in a gruesome act of violence. The...
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SIDE-CHICK MAYHEM
Adramatic love triangle involving a 24-yearold University of Botswana student, Tlotlo Motshegare, and former Business Botswana President, Gobusamang Dempsey Keebine (66), has taken a fiery twist, landing Motshegare back in court just months after being...
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WHO IS THE FATHER?
AMAUN High Court has, in a dramatic twist, ordered a couple to undergo a third paternity test after the National Forensic Laboratory produced two conflicting DNA results regarding their two-yearold son’s biological father. Presiding over the...
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MARRIED FOR PAPERS
Father confirms his son has a court case in Canada In a shocking twist of love gone wrong, a 26-yearold Motswana woman, Resego Stanic, claims she was duped into marriage by a Canadian man fleeing rape charges in his home country, in pursuit of a...
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MISTAKEN FOR A BABOON
FOR Sarah Nshimwe (48), life will never be the same. A gunshot, fired recklessly by the woman she had served for three years, left her with shattered dreams, permanent pain, and a lingering sense of betrayal. Now, as her case drags through the courts,...
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I’M COMING FOR YOU!
Member of Parliament for Palapye, Onneetse Ramogapi, finds himself at the center of a swirling controversy following allegations linking him to the disappearance of 70-year-old Tono Moeteledi Magotlho. Magotlho, a resident of Mamenalegwete cattlepost...
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DISGRACED
MAUN’S selfproclaimed apostle and leader of Healing Waters International Church, Samson Katai, has landed himself in hot water, facing a 90-day civil imprisonment for failing to pay off a staggering debt of P241,809.16. The money is owed to Augustine...
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TORTURED TO DEATH
Four Botswana Defence Force (BDF) soldiers and an employee of Dumatau Wilderness Camp in the Linyanti charged with the murder of a Zambian fisherman on December 11th breathed a sigh of relief following a successful bail application on Monday.
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MORTUARY MESS
In a dramatic turn of events, the owner of Vision of Hope Limited, Again Pacho, stormed FSG Services Limited offices this week, armed with court orders to seize the mortuary’s movable and immovable assets. The chaos unfolded on Tuesday evening and...
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KGAFELA COMING BACK
AFTER over a decade in self-imposed exile in Moruleng, South Africa, Paramount Chief of the Bakgatla-baKgafela, Kgafela II, could be making a dramatic return to Botswana as early as January 2025. Kgafela fled the country in 2011 amid a storm of...
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LEFT TO SUFFER
WHAT began as an ordinary day for a 39-year-old Zimbabwean man quickly spiralled into a harrowing ordeal, leaving him confined to a hospital bed at Princess Marina Hospital. Willington Chasukwa left his house in Mogoditshane on that fateful morning to...
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OFFICER DOWN
Shamed Chobe Police Deputy Station Commander - Administration, Assistant Superintendent Othusitse Marape, 61, has been suspended from his post following his arrest on Friday. Marape, a decorated cop who has served in different districts across the...
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Teacher’s return deepens kidnapping saga
ACROOKED arm, fresh deep cuts on the head, and black marks above the ankles: this was the shocking state of Dennis Motsie, the lost and found 26-year-old teacher when he was reunited with his family after disappearing for 56 agonising days. Motsie, a t...
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RED FLAGS IN PASTOR’S DEATH
The mysterious death of 46-year-old Golebaone Chidambi-serumola, widely known as ‘Pastor Babe’, has stirred up questions and left her family and friends seeking answers. At the beginning of September, Serumola, a mother of three, travelled to Malawi...
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WHO HIRED YOU?
JUST eight days into power, the newly formed government of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has moved swiftly to uproot corruption and nepotism from the civil service. In his meeting with accounting officers this week, President Advocate Duma...
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CHANGE IS HERE
In a pivotal moment for the nation, Duma Gideon Boko, an Ivy League-educated human rights lawyer, led his party, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), to a historic victory in the country’s 2024 general election on Wednesday. The UDC win marks a...
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Teacher’s disappearance sparks fears of ritual killing
“Like I’ve already stated, the matter is now with the police, and I think it’s only right to let them do their own investigations,” was all the politician was prepared to say. In a statement issued to another local publication, Modukanele maintains...
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BACK TO THE CLASSROOM
In a dramatic dr shakeup, the National Na Executive of Botswana Bot Sectors of Educators Educa Trade Union (BOSE BOSETU) has forced the union leadership out of BOSETU offices o to go back to the classroom classr and resume their teaching tea careers as...
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JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED
On March 3rd, 2022, a terrifying night changed 28-year-old Chipo Sigwele’s life forever. Stabbed and left for dead by Ditiro Ngakane, infamously known as “Jesus” in Mmopane village, Sigwele survived a brutal attack. Now, after Ngakane’s recent...
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INTERNAL WARS ROCK MONEYED CAMPAIGN
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) candidate for Nkange constituency, Onkabetse Daniel, has recently come under fire from within his own party, with several members accusing him of being a bully. Daniel, who is set to face off against Never Tshabang...
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LANDLORD DEMOLISHES HOUSES WITH SITTING TENANTS INSIDE
In an emotional interview, Timothy recounted how her former Motswana landlord, Joseph Tumagole, had informed her, together with other tenants two years ago, that the multi-residential property was up for sale. However, despite his notice, Tumagole,...
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THUGS IN CHURCH
Apower struggle is tearing apart the St. Engenas Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in Botswana as rival factions accuse each other of criminal activities, including money laundering, fraud, and intimidation.
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BOTSI WANTED FOR FARM SHOOTING
The Molepolole police have launched a manhunt for a notorious GooRatshosa resident, 38-year-old Botsi Kefitile, who is wanted for attempted murder. Known by the nickname ‘Bushguard’ in the streets, Kefitile is alleged to have fired shots at a man he...
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