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...Events surrounding the killing have divided public opinion in the country and mystified local people who knew both families. The minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Gaborone, the Rev. Arthur Cloete, still finds it hard to understand that Mariette Bosch could have coldly planned and committed the murder of Ria Wolmarans. Before the killing the two families-each with two daughters and a son-sat in the front pews of the church, Cloete said, the Boschs to the right, the Wolmaranses to the left. "They were close friends," he added. "When Tienie had to go and work up north...
...only view that really matters so far-that of the Commonwealth judges acting last week as Botswana's top Court of Appeal-Bosch's motive was "wicked and despicable" and there are no extenuating circumstances to save her from the mandatory death penalty. "The murder had been planned over a long period, no doubt as a result of jealousy and infatuation," said Judge Timothy Aguda of Nigeria...
...three months after the June 1996 killing, police had no suspects in what they considered a burglary gone tragically awry. But Bosch had made a series of blunders that eventually led to her arrest. She had told her sister-in-law, Juliet Bosch, of her love for Tienie Wolmarans; she had given a gun to Juliet's husband after the murder and, three months later, she ordered a wedding dress. Juliet Bosch put the pieces together and turned the gun over to police, who linked it to 9-mm cartridges found at the murder scene. Wolmarans, who was investigated...
...court rejected Bosch's contention that she had been framed by a South African businessman who she contended had killed Ria to stop her from revealing alleged theft and fraud in a company for which they had worked. The panel upheld the original guilty verdict and the finding of the sentencing judge, who had told Bosch that "the crime was carefully planned with the motive of enabling you to take over the husband of the deceased... You are not very young, you were not intoxicated and you were not provoked." Bosch, the court accepted, brought the gun into Botswana from...
...Bosch awaits her fate in Gaborone-at a time when African governments are generally moving slowly away from legal executions despite rising crime rates-another blonde white woman sits in a cell in Tanzania's Arusha Prison. Kerstin Cameron, a 40-year-old German national who has lived most of her life in Africa, is charged with the 1998 murder of her estranged husband Cliff. For her, too, conviction could mean death by hanging...