JOSEPH PALEDI

MR

[U.S. Embassy Gaborone, Botswana @USEmbassyBW]

🇺🇸🪖🇧🇼 One C-130H “Hercules” aircraft arrived in Botswana in 2024 under the U.S. Excess Defense Article (EDA) program, where a partner nation receives a piece of used military equipment for free and pays the upfront costs to ensure that item is serviced and maintained to fully mission capable status. The 2024 acquisition marked a renewal of Botswana’s strategic airlift capability.

#C130Hercules #SecurityPartnership #USInBotswana

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Mpumalanga Police are investigating a suspected staged kidnapping involving a 27-year-old professional soccer player after evidence suggested the alleged kidnapping may never have occurred.

The player’s family reported him missing on 5 July 2026, claiming he had been kidnapped after receiving a ransom demand from an unknown caller using the player’s cellphone.

SAPS immediately launched an investigation and deployed detectives to trace him.

Later that same day, the player returned home unharmed. Subsequent investigations reportedly found that no ransom had been paid and that the alleged kidnapping may have been fabricated.

Police are now considering charges, including defeating the ends of justice. Acting Provincial Commissioner Major General (Dr) Zeph Mkhwanazi warned that false crime reports waste valuable police resources and divert officers from responding to genuine emergencies.

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@advocatemahere All the best Fadzi

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@MaipeloMop Regarding Local Government, and Traditional Affairs ministry the Government should take back all roads connecting small villages back to the councils for maintenance and rehabilitation. Most of these roads are very dangerous to road users bcaz they are not attended to.They

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@keorapetsedlk Mr Speaker

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@PetraPereyra @Ndaba_Gaolathe @BWGovernment @duma_boko @UNDP @USEmbassyBW The great path for renewable energy

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@duma_boko Great one.He has an ermomous task

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@mphoM_botwash Job well done

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@HHichilema @duma_boko @OfficialMasisi @ZambiaMFAIC Thank you your Excellency. Batswana loves you and Zambians a lot

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@SibsMacd Impressive!what a dance

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@duma_boko Congratulations President of the Republic of Botswana

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@OfficialMasisi Congratulations

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@SeramePeggy @TheBanker Congratulations to you Peggs

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@_Fiwa_B Hey

[Prof Jonathan Moyo @ProfJNMoyo]

JUSTICE FOR JOB SIKHALA: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

In light of the right to bail enshrined as a fundamental right in the Constitution of Zimbabwe and based on the principles of natural justice – given the facts that have been placed on record before Zimbabwe’s courts of law – the continued detention of Job Sikhala in jail without bail now for over 500 days is cruel and unusual punishment. Sikhala’s ordeal smacks of heartless vindictiveness.

Sadly, it’s now impossible to reflect on Sikhala’s unfolding tragedy without being consumed by an uncanny feeling that Sikhala is being cruelly punished for an undisclosed sin known only to those who are keeping him in jail without bail, but which sin is not a crime in the country’s criminal code.

This should disturb and shame every right thinking and fair-minded Zimbabwean, and should jolt them into doing something right and just for Sikhala.

The question must be asked yet again for the umpteenth time: why have Sikhala’s lawyers not approached the Constitutional Court for his bail? Is there a conspiracy of inaction at play here or what?

Meanwhile, there is now a real risk and possibility of the Sikhala issue becoming vulnerable to all manner of uncontrollable collateral damage, including a Sarajevo Moment, to the detriment of both the national interest and national security.

Yet there is still an opportunity for things not to get there, and things should not be allowed to get there, and this can be best done by having Sikhala bailed out of jail as an expression of the justice he has deserved ab initio.

Better late than never!

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@advocatemahere Congrats Fadzi

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@DumsSaleshando @nelsonchamisa @CCCZimbabwe God bless ZIM

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@Julius_S_Malema Happy birthday SG

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@advocatemahere Hi I wish u all the best

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@7bmo @ReelCoastGear Hi Brendan