{"id":235521,"date":"2026-06-06T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-dpp-orders-open-inquest-into-retshepiles-death\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:15:43","slug":"botswana-dpp-orders-open-inquest-into-retshepiles-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-dpp-orders-open-inquest-into-retshepiles-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: DPP Orders Open Inquest Into Retshepile&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gaborone \u2014 The death of Retshepile &#8220;Tshepi&#8221; Tshedu is set to come under public judicial scrutiny after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) directed that an open inquest be held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The move to hold an inquest marks a significant phase in a case that has attracted widespread public attention and calls for accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Addressing the nation through public media platforms on Tuesday, the Minister for State President, Defence and Security, Mr Moeti Mohwasa confirmed that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040041.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 The death of Retshepile &#8220;Tshepi&#8221; Tshedu is set to come under public judicial scrutiny after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) directed that an open inquest be held. The move to hold an inquest marks a significant phase in a case that has attracted widespread public attention and calls for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235522,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6974,8840,6972,257,5983,6186,54552,254],"class_list":["post-235521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-death","tag-dpp","tag-inquest","tag-news","tag-open","tag-orders","tag-retshepiles","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\/235521","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=235521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}