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...Mariette Bosch was looking for peace and security when she emigrated north from South Africa to Botswana nine years ago. For a while she appeared to have found just that. With her husband Justin and three children, she enjoyed a comfortable life amid the tightly knit expatriate community in an upmarket suburb of Gaborone, the overgrown village that is Botswana's capital. Bosch's days were pleasant ones, filled with school runs, shopping, socializing, decorating porcelain dolls, baking cakes...
...security means a tiny cell in Gaborone Central Prison, where the gaunt, 50-year-old blonde says she is at peace and where she awaits death by hanging for the 1996 murder of Maria "Ria" Wolmarans, one of her closest friends. In the year after the killing, Bosch married Wolmarans' widower-Marthinus, known as Tienie-with whom she had been having a passionate affair since shortly after her own husband's death in a 1995 auto accident. Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch-who still maintains she is innocent-would be the first white woman to be executed...
...story an echo of British colonial Kenya's decadent White Mischief years (depicted in the 1987 film based on James Fox's book), hers is a decidedly less glamorous version of that early-1940s tale of adultery and murder among the bluebloods. Still, according to Botswanan prosecutors, the Bosch case similarly embraced "the four Ls of murder-love, loot, lust and loathing...
Preceptor Daniel Bosch wishes the Faculty was more diverse, but says the situation is nothing...
...first year I taught a course where I taught Nigerian plays and I'm a white person who's never been to Africa," Bosch says. "Someone else who's been to Africa might have been able to present the material better...