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From 6 July 2006, a graphic version of the current edition is available at the Daily News Online web site.

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The Commissioner of Prisons and Rehabilitation Herman Kau said Kobedi was executed and buried at the Gaborone prison.

He was originally from Eldorado Park near Johannesburg and was the second South African in two years to be executed in Botswana following the hanging last year of Marietta Bosch, which made international headlines.

Kobedi was convicted and sentenced to hang in 1998 by the Lobatse High Court for murdering Kebotswetse Goepamang following a bank robbery in Palapye in 1993.

He sought a retrial, alleging he was not given a Sesetho interpreter and a lawyer of his choice.

However, his attempt to escape the hangman’s noose failed because Judge Ian Kirby found that his spoken English was good and that he did not need an interpreter.

He further lost his case at the Court of Appeal, where he was represented by defence lawyer Themba Joina. His execution had been delayed pending his attempt to exercise his right to a petition for clemency to the president.

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