• From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurshipJune 27, 2025
    BAKANG PHUTHEGO BUSINESS WITH BK RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae   In the early years after independence, Botswana stood out as a… Read more: From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship
  • Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic ImperativeJune 27, 2025
        RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae Dr Dimakatso Polokelo  Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is emerging as a core component of socio-economic… Read more: Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative
  • ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISINGJune 25, 2025
    SOLOMON TJINYEKA editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Illegal wildlife trade is escalating in northern Botswana, specifically in the pristine Okavango Delta, following a gruesome discovery… Read more: ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
  • Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur MothooagaeJune 25, 2025
    STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Local techpreneur Ogone Mothooagae has urged upcoming entrepreneurs to focus on identifying a problem that urgently needs to be… Read more: Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae
  • UDC impress BagaMmangwatoJune 24, 2025
    Kgosi Khama happy over regaining control of Serowe kgotla Bangwato curiously await BDP apology from Balopi BAKANG TIRO editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Residents of… Read more: UDC impress BagaMmangwato
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
  • Login
  • Register
Friday, June 27, 2025
17 °c
Gaborone
21 ° Tue
22 ° Wed
24 ° Thu
26 ° Fri
The Patriot On Sunday
Subscribe
Advertisement
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
No Result
View All Result
Cart / $0.00

No products in the cart.

  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
No Result
View All Result
The Patriot On Sunday
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Bridgette Motsepe hits back

patriot by patriot
November 19, 2020
in News
242
0
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
ShareShareShare

MOTSEPE: It is preposterous to allege that I am a co-signatory of bank accounts that don’t exist

DIRCO: AfriForum is barking at the wrong tree

RelatedPosts

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING

UDC impress BagaMmangwato

DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’

DAILYMAVERICK.CO.ZA

Businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe has hit back after AfriForum’s Gerrie Nel was appointed by the Botswana government to pursue a case against her.

South African businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe has resumed her eight-month-long fight to clear her name of allegations of money-laundering and fraud in Botswana. 

She issued a statement on Tuesday 23 June shortly after it was announced that AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, headed by Gerrie Nel, had been appointed by the Botswana government to help it pursue its case against Motsepe. 

She has also been accused of helping finance a “coup” attempt against Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi in 2019, and of bankrolling his opponent’s campaign months before last year’s general elections in October.

“There is no truth to these allegations,” Motsepe said. “I have never laundered money. I have denied these allegations since December last year on the basis of readily available evidence which has already been widely reported on in both South Africa and Botswana media.” 

Motsepe said the allegation that she was a co-signatory of at least two bank accounts holding funds allegedly stolen from the Botswana government to finance the “coup” was “baseless”, and she had already publicly produced letters from the banks in question – Absa and Nedbank – stating that the alleged bank accounts didn’t exist.

“It is preposterous to allege that I am a co-signatory of bank accounts that don’t exist, held by companies which also don’t exist,” she said.

Motsepe said the Bank of Botswana has previously publicly refuted claims that 100-billion pula had been stolen from its accounts. She has appointed an international law firm Omnia Strategy LLP, led by Cherie Blair, to clear her name by investigating the money laundering allegations, and said she would sue those who made these “false allegations” against her. 

The allegations first surfaced in an affidavit by an investigator in Botswana’s Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, Jako Hubona, during the bail application of a former intelligence agent, Welheminah Maswabi, who was codenamed Butterfly.

In its statement on Tuesday, AfriForum said Nel and Phyllis Foster had been officially appointed by Botswana’s Director of Public Prosecution, Stephen Tiroyakgosi, to represent that government in this case. 

“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.” 

AfriForum alleged that Tiroyakgosi had already requested this assistance on September 25 from SA’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco), but that none was forthcoming. Nel said this showed “that the South African government is unwilling to assist our client with their request”.

Dirco spokesperson Clayson Monyela, however, said: “AfriForum is barking up the wrong tree.” He said Dirco would “happily” have provided the information had AfriForum asked for it. The department received a request for mutual legal assistance through a diplomatic note on September 17 and replied on September 25, saying it had submitted this request to the Department of Justice. 

“My information is that their request is receiving attention from the Department of Justice and their relevant agencies,” Monyela said.

In its request, the Botswana government asked South Africa to keep the request confidential. Its letter doesn’t list Motsepe amongst the seven suspects, but it does include former president Ian Khama, who is a close friend of Motsepe. It also mentions Khama’s former spy boss Isaac Kgosi as well as Maswabi, who was a technical manager for Kgosi. Maswabi’s case is due to be heard on August 17, after it was postponed in May to give the state more time to complete its investigations.

The matter against Motsepe, who is President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sister-in-law, has strained diplomatic relations with Botswana. The then-minister of international relations, Lindiwe Sisulu, travelled to Botswana in April last year to assure the government there that Motsepe’s alleged attempt to back a rival candidate to Masisi in the governing Botswana Democratic Party’s leadership election didn’t have anything to do with the South African government.  [dailymaverick.co.za]

Related

Tags: bridgettemotsepe

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe
Previous Post

Minister Moagi visits OLD mines

Next Post

DIS agent wins reinstatement

Related Posts

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
News

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING

June 25, 2025
UDC impress BagaMmangwato
News

UDC impress BagaMmangwato

June 24, 2025
DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’
News

DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’

June 23, 2025
Auto Draft
News

BOKO’S WAR ROOM

June 23, 2025
News

AP, BPP ‘steal’ democrats

June 18, 2025
Wayei, Basubiya reject Motshegwa
News

Wayei, Basubiya reject Motshegwa

June 17, 2025
Next Post
DIS agent wins reinstatement

DIS agent wins reinstatement

Please login to join discussion
  • From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurshipJune 27, 2025
    BAKANG PHUTHEGO BUSINESS WITH BK RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae   In the early years after independence, Botswana stood out as a… Read more: From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship
  • Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic ImperativeJune 27, 2025
        RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae Dr Dimakatso Polokelo  Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is emerging as a core component of socio-economic… Read more: Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative
  • ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISINGJune 25, 2025
    SOLOMON TJINYEKA editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Illegal wildlife trade is escalating in northern Botswana, specifically in the pristine Okavango Delta, following a gruesome discovery… Read more: ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
  • Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur MothooagaeJune 25, 2025
    STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Local techpreneur Ogone Mothooagae has urged upcoming entrepreneurs to focus on identifying a problem that urgently needs to be… Read more: Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae
  • UDC impress BagaMmangwatoJune 24, 2025
    Kgosi Khama happy over regaining control of Serowe kgotla Bangwato curiously await BDP apology from Balopi BAKANG TIRO editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Residents of… Read more: UDC impress BagaMmangwato
The Patriot On Sunday

© 2024 Copyright The Patriot On Sunday - Inspired by Search Mart.

Navigate Site

  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Disclaimer
  • Contact Us

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Sign Up
  • Cart
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders

© 2024 Copyright The Patriot On Sunday - Inspired by Search Mart.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?