LUCAS LEDWABA
THE Botswana government’s decision to employ AfriForum’s Gerrie Nel to represent them in their battle against SA business woman Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe has raised the ire of Gaborone’s legal profession.
AfriForum announced this week that its private prosecution unit led by Gerrie Nel was officially appointed by the Botswana government to represent it in a money laundering and fraud case.
The organisation said Motsepe-Radebe, sister to mining magnate Patrice Motsepe, is implicated in the case.
The organisation said Nel and advocate Phyllis Vorster were officially appointed by Botswana’s Director of Public Prosecution, advocate Stephen Tiroyakgosi to represent them in the case against Radebe.
The Botswana government has not commented on the matter.
However, AfriForum said the mandate in this case “is to facilitate the Botswana government’s request for mutual legal assistance in the Bank of Botswana fraud and money-laundering matter.”
According to AfriForum, Motsepe-Radebe was allegedly identified as a
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