• By Jeremiah Ndjoze

An unsuspecting woman from Bo-tswana has found herself a victim of dubious lies from a ‘Namibian’man, only known to her as Moses or JeffMula, who allegedly swindled her out ofmoney amounting to P250,000 - the equiv-alent of N$339,818.40. The two were lovers.The lovebirds met on dating site Tinder. December 2024 will forever be tattooed on Kenanao Kenny Ntseane’s heart, as the month that she met the love of her life, and ironically, the romance that has now made her life a living hell.Ntseane, a 43 year old Microbiologist from Gaborone, Botswana, told Confidente this week that she met ‘Moses,’ who was portraying himself as Namibian, on a dating site and ‘thought we were going somewhere.’ Little did she know, that Moses was only harbouring plans of self-gratification, not a lasting romance. 

“We met in December on Tinder. My friend Tirelo Eshima is the one who introduced me to the site and opened an account for me. Initially there were three or four people who were talking to me, but he and I hit it off. He said he is called Moses. I am 43 years old, and he said he was 48. He lived in Mafikeng, South Africa,” Ntseane told Confidente.

THE ROMANCE
She maintained that, coincidentally, the same week that they spoke, she was already planning to go on a shopping trip to Mafikeng, which is about 150 kilometres from Gaborone. “We spoke on a Monday and on the Friday I informed him about my trip. We agreed to meet and I drove to Mafikeng on Saturday morning, accompanied by Tirelo [Eshima]. We met him at Mafikeng Mall, went around shopping and later bought lunch before going to his place,” she said. “We ended up spending some time there until it got late and decided to stay for the night. 

Tirelo [Eshima] already had a boyfriend in Mafikeng - who she also met through Tinder and he came and picked her up,” she added. The two women drove back to Botswana on the Sunday morning, but Ntseane and Moses ostensibly still maintained contact. She revealed that she skipped one weekend after the trip and then drove alone the following weekend to go and see him. She also went to see him again for another weekend be fore Christmas.

“That is when he told me that he has won a tender to build 70 RDP houses in Klerksdorp, which will be constructed in 3 phases,” she revealed. During Christmas Ntseane stayed in Botswana and only went to Mafikeng on 31 December to spend New Year’s Day with her beau.
“He told me he needed R250,000 to finance the project while he was awaiting the funding. But we also said that he was going to tell his mother, back in Namibia, to ask around for money from relatives. According to Ntseane, she re turned to Botswana on 4 January 2025 and Moses kept giving her updates on the money situation, which was clearly going nowhere fast.

“He acted all frustrated and de pressed, as if he was going to lose the so-called tender if he did not get the money. He did not force me to give him the money. I offered to help and reiterated that he should repay my money after getting the funding. I did not have a loan before and decided to get one in order to help,” she said.

THE TRANSACTION
In her one word, on 6 January 2025 Ntseane went to the Botswana Savings Bank to inquire about the loan process. On 7 January 2025 she returned to the same Bank with all required documents and applied for the loan. “They said the money will be credited to my account in five working days, but before these days passed I was anxious and called to verify if everything was alright. That is when they told me that their Bank did not have money and I took my documents and proceeded to Standard Bank. The money was approved in the last week of January. It was a Thursday and I notified him and told him that I will be in Mafikeng the next day,” she narrated.  

She maintained that she wanted to transfer the money to his account, but he insisted that he needed it as cash. He also convinced her not to tell her friend about their transaction, she said. “I ended up lying to Tirelo [Eshima] that Moses received the money from a cousin through my account. I did not ask him to show me the tender documents nor did I inquire about his passport to verify if the name he gave me was truly his,”
“Tirelo [Eshima] said we can transfer some P150,000 to her business account. I changed the P100,000 in Rands (South African
currency) and with the exchange rate at that time he got about R120,000 in cash. Tirelo had given me her ATM card to the account
and I gave it to him to be able to withdraw money from South Africa. He kept withdrawing large amounts daily and refused to swipe.” she revealed.
 

DISAPPEARING ACT
At some point, Moses allegedly told her that he was only having R46,000 left in his possession and that his mother was having some heart complications, in Windhoek, and needed R80,000 to cover her ‘hospital bed.’ He also spoke abouthaving to go home. Upon enquiry on the where abouts of his passport, Moses allegedly told Ntseane that it was stolen and claimed to have gone to the Namibian Embassy in Pretoria where he was allegedly told that he was only going to get a temporary travel document. 

“He received the document on 14 March 2025 and told me that he was crossing over to Namibia the same evening, before it expired. In hindsight I am glad I did not go see him on that day, like I was planning to. He would have even taken my car or done something worse to me,” she said. Before his disappearing act, Moses is said to have left Ntseane a R5000 upon her request, but through her suggested friend. She only spoke to him on 15 March 2025 where he claimed that the border patrol did not accept his temporary travel document and made him sign a deportation form and on 17 March 2025, he told her that he arrived, ‘but became a very busy man,’ she said.

“That is when it all started to make sense. I started asking him about the tender document and the deportation note so that I can have proof but he only kept telling me that he will send them, but never did. I even asked for his home address or any of his relative’s numbers but he did not give me. He allegedly went silent on me and only came back online on Sunday, 22 March 2025 ‘and as soon as he came online everything on her phone was deleted. “He managed to access my WhatsApp and deleted all our conversations. I think he did that through my google account because when I looked at the devices connected on it and the phone
he [is] currently using was one of them. The phone he is using now was my phone.” “I am using an IPhone that I got from him. Before that I used a Vivo. I think he logged onto my cloud through the moseskenny32@gmail.com email address,” she maintained. Ntseane told Confident that she is yet to alert the authorities on her predicament.

“I have not done anything like going to the police or whatever in Botswana. I went to the police in Mafikeng and was told that they
cannot help me without the proper identification of the suspect. They also said such cases are very common and I will find out later that Moses did not even go to Namibia but relocated to someplace in South Africa,” she added. 

She now has it that she lives in fear and has not returned to Mafikeng, but she will find a way to pursue the matter up to an accept
able solution. “I was so honest with him. Told him everything about me that was true. I thought we were going somewhere,” she said.

NEVER KNEW HIS SURNAME
Eshima corroborated Ntseane’s narrative. She confirmed that she introduced her friend to Tinder and that Ntseane connected with Moses and they met physically at the beginning of December 2024. “I am the one who introduced Kenny to the Tinder site. We did not know, at that time, that there were scammers on the site. She connected with the guy and they started talking. We went to Mafikeng and thereafter my friend visited him several times on her own. The guy was a charmer and really got her. I don’t know what this guy was using” she said in a phone conversation from Botswana.

She also recalled what Ntseane told her about Moses having borrowed money from his cousin and her needing to deliver it in cash. “I offered my business bank account, including my bank card, for the depositing and withdrawal of the P150,000 and large sums of money, between R5000 and R7000 were drawn from the account on a daily basis until the cash ran out. That is when I heard stories about his mother being sick and him having to return to Namibia,” she said.
“We also found out that there was no project whatsoever in Klerksdorp. We knew him as Moses, but only discovered later, when we saw an eviction order on his room that the name he was known for by the landlord was Jeff Mula,” she revealed, saying before that she told Kenny to find out his surname and she did but they both forgot what it was.

NOT REACHABLE
The phone number: +27 68 2123213, which Confidente was told belongs to Moses failed to connect on numerous attempts. Efforts to get further information from Moses’ former landlord proved futile. The individual who answered hung up the phone as soon as this journalist identified himself. The phone was later not reachable.

VERBATIM POSTS FROM
TIRELO TO MOSES 

• The world is so small. God is watching us. Life is so good whn u do the right things. Jus Open up and tel us what how u are planning to do to return my friend’s money
• She did that out of love. She loved u so much and she thought she is building a future with u. We really loved u and I can see u regret everythn u did to her 

• Why can’t u send Kenny any official document with ur photo and ur names, I’d or licence Moses jus somethn Send here your
photos coz she lost them if no u honest in whatever u telling us
• Hi. Why r u taking long to send somethn to Kenny whn things r this serious
• Moses we need assurance. Up to now haven’t sent anything to Kenny. Time is ticking Moses. P250 000 is a lot of money Moses. You are not going to go away with it just like that.