{"id":234501,"date":"2026-05-26T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-two-appear-for-single-count-of-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:50:49","slug":"botswana-two-appear-for-single-count-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-two-appear-for-single-count-of-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Two Appear for Single Count of Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Letlhakane \u2014 Two men of Letlhakane, Boikhutso Nkoshwane (42) and Donald Malonda (36) were on Monday arraigned before Letlhakane Magistrate Court on a single count of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to Letlhakane Police Station Assistant Superintendent Thojane Segomotso the police were alerted by a passerby who saw a motionless body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">He said he was taken to Letlhakane Primary Hospital where he was certified dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Particulars of the offence are that the accused persons, and another suspect, who is still at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260351.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>Letlhakane \u2014 Two men of Letlhakane, Boikhutso Nkoshwane (42) and Donald Malonda (36) were on Monday arraigned before Letlhakane Magistrate Court on a single count of murder. According to Letlhakane Police Station Assistant Superintendent Thojane Segomotso the police were alerted by a passerby who saw a motionless body. He said he was taken to Letlhakane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234502,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,13858,304,257,9074,254],"class_list":["post-234501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-count","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-single","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\/234501","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=234501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}