At last Rasesa Village gets services from Mochudi

Although the village of Rasesa in the Kgatleng District does not have either a headman or chief representative since the High Court in Gaborone annulled the unlawful appointment of a certain Kagiso Buisanyang as the village headman of record sometime this year, service delivery in the case of court hearings has been restored, courtsey of deputy Kgosi Sekai Linchwe. Service delivery had been disrupted following the removal of Buisanyang.  Significant disruption in fact occurred earlier than that when the Mochudi tribal administration decided not to extend Letshwenyo Rasesa’s contract because Sekai and others had reached the conclusion that Letshwenyo had been there by default. They concluded that Buisanyang was the rightful heir and therefore dumped Letshwenyo.

This is how the matter ended up in court. Letshwenyo and others challenged the appointment of Buisanyang in court with the support of many villagers, resulting with the annulment of the appointment by the High Court. When it became apparent that service delivery had stalled, villagers assembled at a kgotla and decided to send a delegation to Mochudi to ask Sekai to revive the service. Initially the delegation was composed of both factions but, the faction aligned to Buisanyang withdrew. To his credit, Sekai assigned one of his strong and able deputies, Modise Pilane to occasionally visit the village to provide the much needed service, ending months of what villagers perceived as a deliberate move by Mochudi not to service the village. They believed that they were being punished for challenging the appointment of Buisanyang in court and also for booing Sekai the other day at the Rasesa kgotla when he had gone to introduce the new headman of record.