The High Court ordered Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi's...

The High Court ordered Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi's retrial, a South African man who was due to hang for murder. The Court of Appeal sentenced him to death in 1999, but the High Court agreed that Kobedi's trial was improper in that he was not given an interpreter though he had asked for one nor did he get proper legal representation. His first legal counsel, Amstrong Marumo, was struck off the roll of practising advocates before the end of the case. The South African was condemned to death for the murder of a Botswana policeman, Kebotsetswe Goepamang, in 1994 in Sotho, and had been on death row for over two years. Kobedi's case is the second in three years in which death row prisoners have managed to win a retrial after it was found that their trial was not fair. His lawyer is Themba Joina. There is another case involving sud african citizens: on March 27, Kagiso Sebi, from Madutle in North West South African, and Benson Keganne, a Botswanan, appeared before a magistrate's court in Lobatse on a charge of murdering a woman. Police said the two dumped the woman's body in a bush after killing her. The accused were arrested the day after the victim's funeral. They risk the death penalty.