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Murder of Segametsi Mogomotsi
Segametsi Mogomotsi was a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was found murdered, supposedly for medical purposes, on 6 November 1994 in Mochudi, Botswana. She went missing sometime on 5 November, and her body was found naked and mutilated in an open space the next morning. The ''dipheko'' (medicine murder) sparked protests by the students at the Radikolo Community Junior Secondary School (RCJSS), the school where she attended, as well as among the citizens of Mochudi. The protests led to riots in neighbouring Gaborone, prompting the government of Botswana to call in the Scotland Yard. No one has been formally charged with the murder, and an official police report was conducted, but as of August 2012, the results have not yet been released. The murder inspired the story in Alexander McCall Smith novel ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency''.
==Background==
''Dipheko'' is the ritual murder of a person whose body parts are cut off to make ''muti'' (medicine) that is used to promote business deals. Dipheko is not uncommon in Botswana. The British dealt with ritual murder cases when the country was still a protectorate as early as the 1930s, and social scientist Cyprian Fisiy has called witchcraft "the primary concern of most African communities". Children, especially highly educated students, are the primary targets of dipheko because of their perceived potential for success. When social anthropologist Ørnulf Gulbrandsen interviewed several Batswana, one man said that, "we have no other way to explain how some people become rich overnight". Those who committed dipheko recount either being possessed to murder or being threatened by future attacks through ''boloi'' (witchcraft) and thus were coerced to kill.
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