{UAH} Who wants to go to jail for King Dalindyebo?
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Who wants to go to jail for King Dalindyebo?
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The Council of Traditional Leaders is looking for a chief to take the place of King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo in jail according to a repor
NCA reports that the council is calling on the abaThembu nation to appoint a chief to go to jail in the controversial leader's place.
According to the report the NPA has dismissed the idea.
The king meanwhile will not be going to jail today - as his lawyers have managed to extend his bail for two weeks.
The Mthatha High Court convicted Dalindyebo in 2009 on three charges of arson, three of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, two of defeating the ends of justice, one of culpable homicide and one of kidnapping. The victims were his subjects and the crimes were committed on the farm Tyalara, near Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
He was sentenced to a total of 44 years imprisonment - an effective 15 years because of sentences running concurrently.
The appeal court set aside the conviction and 10-year sentence for culpable homicide, but dismissed Dalindyebo's appeal on all the other charges.
This reduced Dalindyebo's sentence to a 12 years.
Justice and Correctional Services Department spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said Dalindyebo had to report to Mthatha prison within 48 hours of delivery of the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment.
The DA has terminated Dalindyebo's party membership.
The chief argued on appeal that the trial had been unfair because it did not begin until eight years after the events, he was inadequately legally represented and the presiding judge acted improperly.
The appeal court rejected this. The judges said: "Imagine a tyrannical and despotic king who set fire to the houses, crops and livestock of subsistence farmers living within his jurisdiction, in full view of their families, because they resisted his attempts to have them evicted, or otherwise did not immediately comply with his orders.
"This is not a description of medieval times but it is how the appellant treated his subjects at a time after South Africa became a constitutional state subject to the rule of law."
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