Botswana: Former Miss Botswana Auctions BCW Property

Botswana Council of Women (BCW) property has been put up for sale after Miss Botswana 2013 Rosemary Keofitlhetse and her runners-up sued them for failing to give them their prizes. A notice of sale in execution, which appeared in local newspapers this week, state that a certain piece of land being Lot 13106, situated at portion of Lot 9192, Gaborone, measuring 3048 m2, held under title deed No. 356/ 1989 dated 9th May 1989 made in favour of the Defendant, Botswana Council of Women with developments , with one' flat, comprising of one kitchen, sitting room, bath, two toilets, two bedrooms, two class rooms, kitchen, toilets, storeroom, toilets and playground. These are to be auction on July 25, 2016 in Gaborone.

The three former beauty queens Rosemary Keofitlhetse, Betty Setlholo and Khumo Leburu are cited as the first, second and third plaintiff respectively. Signs that Keofitlhetse and BCW have fallen out glared last year when the beauty queen boycotted Miss Botswana 2015 pageant, which led to the new queen being crowned by Miss Botswana 1995, Monica Somolekae. Things took a heated turn at a press conference held after the pageant when journalists confronted the organisers about Keofitlhetse's absence. When questioned as to why she was not at the event, pageant spokesperson Tshepo Maphanyane said the question should be asked Keofitlhetse and not them. She said as the new Miss Botswana committee they had nothing to do with what happened with the former pageants and cannot address those.

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