Following Emmanuel Tsebe’s death last December, the Botswana government appears reluctant to repatriate the corpse back to Botswana.
Tsebe’s body still lies in a mortuary in South Africa.
Meanwhile, South African authorities are said to be pushing for the deceased to be buried in South Africa.
Information passed to The Sunday Standard suggests that the deceased’s family is unable to raise funds to repatriate Tsebe’s body to his home village in Mokobeng to give him a dignified burial.
The South African government is understood to be pushing for the deceased to be buried by the municipal authority because it will be too expensive to repatriate the body from South Africa.
The Botswana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Motlagodi Molomo, said, “The corpse is still lying in the mortuary while we are still waiting for his relatives to come to South Africa and make some arrangements.”
Tsebe died while in South African cells, waiting for Botswana to make “an undertaking” that he would not be hanged if found guilty for allegedly murdering his girlfriend in Machaneng sometime around 2008 before fleeing to South Africa.
