Until Death Us Do Part

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.

Now, security means a tiny cell in Gaborone Central Prison, where the gaunt, 50-year-old blonde says she is at peace...

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