A South African man, Bongani Mkhwanazi, escaped the...
A South African man, Bongani Mkhwanazi, escaped the gallows in Swaziland, SABC radio news reported
A South African man, Bongani Mkhwanazi, escaped the gallows in Swaziland, SABC radio news reported.
The Court of Appeal in Mbabane dismissed a death sentence imposed on him by a local high court early in 2001. Mkhwanazi had his sentence reduced to a total of 25 years in jail, backdated to March 1998.
He was sentenced to death for killing a Swazi man, Elliot Dlamini, in Hlatikulu in the south of Swaziland in 1998. The three judges - all from South Africa - argued that Mkhwanazi was still a young man and was influenced by a traditional healer who told him Dlamini was a wizard.
The Court of Appeal in Mbabane dismissed a death sentence imposed on him by a local high court early in 2001. Mkhwanazi had his sentence reduced to a total of 25 years in jail, backdated to March 1998.
He was sentenced to death for killing a Swazi man, Elliot Dlamini, in Hlatikulu in the south of Swaziland in 1998. The three judges - all from South Africa - argued that Mkhwanazi was still a young man and was influenced by a traditional healer who told him Dlamini was a wizard.
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- (Sources: SAPA, 27/11/2001)