Judge questions Kgafela's professional credentials

Mmegi: "He said he was surprised that in one of the cases in question, it was Kgafela's younger brother, Mmusi, who represented one of the litigants, not him. Tafa described Kgafela as sarcastic, arrogant, paranoid, and a good liar who was able to create things that did not exist, as confirmed in a letter he wrote to the Registrar and Master of the High Court, Godfrey Nthomiwa, last November. "The applicant comes out as a person who is always right, and that anybody who differs with him is oppressive and biased," he said. Besides Tafa, Kgafela also applied for the recusal of the two other judges in the case, Steven Gaongalelwe, and Mercy Garekwe. All the judges declined to recuse themselves from the case. In declining to recuse himself, Gaongalelwe stated that judges have a mandate to dispense justice fairly and should not succumb to mere, unsubstantiated fears as grounds for recusal. Garekwe was to recuse herself on grounds that she was a judge and 'guilty by association'. Kgafela also argued that the matter should be treated as a criminal case on grounds that the constitution of Botswana is a fraud and should be set aside.
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