{"id":211716,"date":"2025-10-29T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-letsididi-stands-trial-for-double-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:12:55","slug":"botswana-letsididi-stands-trial-for-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-letsididi-stands-trial-for-double-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Letsididi Stands Trial for Double Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Gaborone \u2014 As Gosegomang Kareng peered through the window in Magokotswane ward, Molepolole, she saw a pair of legs tied with a black rope behind the bed. The rest of the body was hidden from view, but the sight was enough to confirm her worst fears , that Hubona Mhaladi (54) and her 10-year-old grandchild, Laofa Mmamorepo, had been murdered inside their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Her fears were confirmed when police officers, called to the scene, discovered the two victims&#8217; bodies in an advanced state of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280646.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 As Gosegomang Kareng peered through the window in Magokotswane ward, Molepolole, she saw a pair of legs tied with a black rope behind the bed. The rest of the body was hidden from view, but the sight was enough to confirm her worst fears , that Hubona Mhaladi (54) and her 10-year-old grandchild, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,7053,52713,304,257,254,6443,6564],"class_list":["post-211716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-double","tag-letsididi","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}