Les GoneX Times

Memory Mkange By The Great GoneX Memory Mkange, born in Kadoma in 2002, is appealing to the public for help in tracing her mother's family and reconnecting with her maternal relatives. Memory's mother was known as Sbonile Mlilo, who was originally from Zhombe. According to the family information Memory has, Sbonile met Memory's father, Albert Mkange, at Mugodoyi Farm in Kadoma. Sadly, Memory was separated from her mother when she was only one year old. She subsequently grew up in Mberengwa, KwaMposi/Danga kwaMposi, under the guardianship of her paternal grandmother. Although Memory knows something about her paternal side, she has never had the opportunity to know and connect with her mother's family. Today, she is appealing especially to people from Zhombe who may have known Sbonile Mlilo or members of the Mlilo family. Where is Sbonile Mlilo? Does she have brothers or sisters? Are there maternal aunts, uncles, cousins or other relatives who may know about M...

Lesedi Molapisi By The Great GoneX After more than four years of uncertainty, anguish and international attention, Botswana’s Lesedi Molapisi is finally free. Molapisi, the Motswana woman who was sentenced to death in Bangladesh after being convicted of a drug-smuggling offence, has been released from the Bangladeshi prison where she had been held since her arrest in 2022. The development was confirmed on Tuesday, 1 September 2026 , by the Government of Botswana through the Office of the President. Her release brings an extraordinary chapter in her life to a close — one that had at one point appeared to be heading towards the ultimate punishment. Arrested at Dhaka airport Molapisi was arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on 23 January 2022 after Bangladeshi authorities found her in possession of narcotics. According to Botswana government records, she was found with approximately 3.145 kilograms of heroin . Bangladesh has historica...