Gov’t concedes Gaoberekwe burial ruling sets precedent, framing it as restorative justice

For three years, the body of Pitseng Gaoberekwe lay in a mortuary refrigerator, caught between the ancestral claims of his family and the legal objections of the state. When he was finally laid to rest last December on the red scrubland of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, it was not merely a burial – it was, the government now acknowledges, a turning point. In its first formal acknowledgment of the consequences of that decision, Botswana’s...