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Botswana: Two South Africans jailed for 18 years in Botswana on murder charges
Wed. August 27, 2008 02:35 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) One Botswana local was on Tuesday sentenced to execution, and two South African men jailed for 18 years each by a Botswana court for the murder of a businesswoman seven years ago, court documents said.
Botswana high court in Lobatse town, south of the capital Gaborone, imposed the death sentence on Benson Keganne, a Botswana national, who allegedly played a major role in the murder, in March 2001, of Gloria Mahowe, a Botswana national.
The court also handed down convictions to Kagiso William Sebi and Amos Suna Moloi after finding them guilty of involvement.
Moloi and Sebi have six weeks to appeal their sentences, the court said.
Judge David Newman said in his ruling that the two South Africans had played a minimal role in the woman's killing.
Botswana is the only country in southern Africa still to carry out the death penalty, which was banned in South Africa after the end of apartheid white minority rule. - Sapa-AFP
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