{"id":224786,"date":"2026-02-23T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-court-remands-kgoro-gang-rape-accused-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:53:29","slug":"botswana-court-remands-kgoro-gang-rape-accused-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-court-remands-kgoro-gang-rape-accused-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Court Remands Kgoro Gang Rape Accused in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Lobatse \u2014 The trio accused of gang raping a 13-year-old minor at Kgoro in Good Hope District on July 11, 2025 have been further remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">They appeared before Lobatse Magistrates Court, senior magistrate Mr Tshoganetso Atamelang on Monday who further remanded first accused Wabile Mohlomi of Kgoro, 30, second accused Phenyo Khubitla of Good Hope, 19, and third accused 17-year-old minor of Good Hope charged with a single count of rape contrary to section 141 of the penal code of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100328.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>Lobatse \u2014 The trio accused of gang raping a 13-year-old minor at Kgoro in Good Hope District on July 11, 2025 have been further remanded in custody. They appeared before Lobatse Magistrates Court, senior magistrate Mr Tshoganetso Atamelang on Monday who further remanded first accused Wabile Mohlomi of Kgoro, 30, second accused Phenyo Khubitla of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224787,"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":[7083,258,256,4718,2462,6185,11828,8206,53740,257,305,27022,254],"class_list":["post-224786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-court","tag-custody","tag-gang","tag-kgoro","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-remands","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/224786","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=224786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}