Attorney General reins-in Bakgatla over floggings
source: Mmegi
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer
As the controversy over the whipping of people in Kgatleng rages on, Defence, Justice and Security Minister, Ramadeluka Seretse and police commissioner, Thebeyame Tsimako are said to have met Bakgatla paramount chief, Kgosi Kgafela II today to discuss the goings-on in the district.
The meeting interestingly coincides with a press release by the Attorney General Athaliah Molokomme published in the government owned Daily News paper, where she posited that “The flogging or caning of people without their consent, outside the foregoing legal framework, is illegal and offenders can be charged with criminal offences for assault and other offences, as well as being sued in civil proceedings,” she said.
Molokomme’s statement comes in the wake of the whipping of a 56 year old Mokgatla man, Tselapedi Mooketsi at the behest of Bakgatla royalty. According to Botswana law, as the attorney general states, corporal punishment against [continue reading]
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