South African King Dalindyebo Jailed For 12 Years

A Supreme Court of Appeals in South Africa has sentenced one South African king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, for 12 years for a series of charges including kidnapping, assault and arson.Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo is from Nelson Mandela’s Thembu ethnic group in South Africa.

The charges relate to a dispute he had with some of his subjects more than two decades ago. He was accused of kidnapping a woman and her six children, setting their home on fire and beating up four
youths, one of whom died, because one of their relatives had failed to present himself before the kings’s traditional court.The king has never denied the charges but believed his actions were in line with disciplining his subjects, reports say. In Bloemfontein in the Free State Province, a panel of judges looked at his case in August and the evidence presented before sentencing.