/ 15 January 1999

BOTSWANA TO HANG TWO

AUTHORITIES in Botswana have signed execution warrants for two convicted killers expected to be hanged on Saturday, the country’s deputy attorney-general said on Thursday. The hangings will bring to 34 the executions carried out in Botswana since its independence from Britain in 1966. The last executions took place in 1995 when five convicted murderers were hanged on the same day. Deputy attorney-general Abednico Tafa said Gwara Motswetla and Tlhabololgang Maauwe are to hang for murdering a man and burning his body.