Gaborone High Court — Botswana's superior court handling civil, criminal, and constitutional matters including defamation, same-sex marriage rights, and murder cases.
In a landmark judgment delivered at the Gaborone High Court on Tuesday, the court ruled against Gaborone University College of Law and Professional Studies (GUC), effectively barring its law graduates from sitting the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) bar examinations and, by extensi …
… itating the return of the late Paul Rantao to the BNF.He also became popular in 2019 after it was alleged that the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) had stolen some ballot boxes and there were brought in a truck to Gaborone which was then escorted from Ghanzi to Gaborone High court …
A 57-year-old police officer has been spared the death penalty after Gaborone High Court judge, Justice Oteng Motlhala on Tuesday sentenced him to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife. …
… The writ of summons, filed at the Gaborone High Court on June 2, 2026, accuses the Gambling Authority of orchestrating a deliberate campaign to tarnish his professional reputation. …
The rights organisation has made an application before the Gaborone High Court to be joined in the proceedings filed in the ongoing case brought by Bonolo Omphile Selelo Tsholofelo Seele Kumile and another applicant. …
The application was filed before the Gaborone High Court, and the main case involves applicants Bonolo Selelo and Tshofelo Kumile, who are challenging decisions related to civil registration. …
… Justice Itumeleng Segopolo of the Gaborone High Court confirmed that the matter concerning the provisionally suspended athletes is now scheduled for a hearing on August 10. …
Zimbabwe immigrant, Lovemore Sithole, was not the last person seen with deceased seven-year-old Tlotso Karema and therefore could not have been his killer, the Gaborone High Court heard on Tuesday. …
The Gaborone High Court ruled against Gaborone University College of Law and Professional Studies, preventing its law graduates from registering for the Law Society of Botswana bar examinations. The court sided with the Law Society's position that GUC's Leeds Beckett University franchise qualifications do not meet the Legal Practitioners Act requirement that only graduates from the University of Botswana or listed universities may practise law in the country.
The Gaborone High Court ruled against Gaborone University College of Law and Professional Studies, preventing its law graduates from registering for the Law Society of Botswana bar examinations. The court sided with the Law Society's position that GUC's Leeds Beckett University franchise qualifications do not meet the Legal Practitioners Act requirement that only graduates from the University of Botswana or listed universities may practise law in the country.
Salakae, a senior BNF Member of Parliament and longstanding party activist since his youth, has remained loyal to the party through its turbulent periods, including the historical split with the Botswana Congress Party and recent internal turmoil.
A 57-year-old police officer, Motlalekgosi Mogalakwe, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Gaborone High Court for the murder of his wife, Mmasabata Mogalakwe, in April 2020. The killing followed a domestic dispute over an unanswered phone call, during which he stabbed her multiple times in the chest and head.
Potlako Mawande, former Chief Operating Officer of the Gambling Authority, has filed a defamation lawsuit at the Gaborone High Court seeking P16,729,000, alleging he was dismissed based on fabricated evidence and subsequently blacklisted by the Authority through a December 2025 letter to industry licensees that damaged his professional reputation.
The rights organisation LEGABIBO has applied to the Gaborone High Court to join proceedings in a case brought by applicants challenging the Department of Civil and National Registration's refusal to publish banns for a same-sex marriage, with the department having cited lack of legal support for the marriage arrangement.
A University of Botswana law academic has applied to intervene as an amicus curiae in a Gaborone High Court case where applicants Bonolo Selelo and Tshofelo Kumile are challenging civil registration decisions; respondents include the Acting Director of Civil Registration, the Attorney General, and the Evangelical Fellowship of Botswana.
The High Court scheduled an August 10 hearing in a doping investigation involving four Botswana track athletes after confusion over an earlier court date sparked public criticism and allegations of judicial misconduct. Justice Itumeleng Segopolo used an emergency session to clarify the postponement and defend the court's integrity.
A doping matter before Gaborone High Court was missing from the roll for a scheduled status hearing and has been postponed to August 10. The applicants' attorney said the delay frustrates his clients, who want the court to make a decision, noting there are disputes over test results between the parties.
Lovemore Sithole, 41, accused in the 2022 disappearance and murder of 7-year-old Tlotso Karema in Lobatse, has recanted his earlier confession, telling the court he was beaten and suffocated into admitting to the crime and denying responsibility for the child's death. He testified in a trial-within-a-trial hearing that he was not arrested in Lobatse but at Sejelo Police Station in Kanye, where he claims he was invited by police.
Zimbabwe immigrant Lovemore Sithole's attorney told Gaborone High Court that his client was coerced by police into confessing to the 2022 murder of seven-year-old Tlotso Karema, alleging Sithole was forced to undress, dressed in refuse bags, and suffocated at Sejelo Police Station before making a confession statement.