The Kalahari Killings by Jonathan Laverick

Author:Jonathan Laverick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750964593
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Preston-Whyte was cross-examined by Fraenkel, the judge, Ellenberger and the Native assessor, during which the following points were added:

When I spoke to Twai Twai at Nata I used an interpreter, although I can understand Setswana. I did not meet any of the other accused at this time. Twai Twai told us that he had first seen the missing aircraft about three weeks earlier. I travelled to the pan with five natives, including one Masarwa, and when we got to the plane the engines were covered and I did not notice if the compass was missing. Twai Twai said the spoor he had seen was of men in shoes, but that now the wind and rain had destroyed these footprints. The plane was south of the village of Kombe.

The village of Nekate consists of two ‘proper’ mud huts and several Masarwa-style shelters. I do not know if the handle of the axe we found there would have soaked up blood and I did not see any blood stains on it. This group of people would have done some trading and, although South African coinage is legal tender, Rhodesian money is in common use. Tammai’s trousers were filthy and clearly had not been washed for a long time – the bloodstain was near the fly and was the size of a sixpence. This was the main stain on the outside of the trousers, but I noticed many various stains on the inside of the garment.

Rekisang’s hut, where the bottles were found, was in the same compound as Twai Twai’s. The place where she showed us the burnt patch was an area of dense scrub with no large Mopani trees, but with plenty of firewood. By the time we visited this place, Rekisang had implicated Twai Twai in the murder of the airmen.

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