Ramaphosa to consider King Dalindyebo pardon

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In 2009, the Eastern Cape High Court sentenced Dalindyebo to an effective 15 years in jail for kidnapping, assault, arson and defeating the ends of justice.

JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa will consider recommendations to pardon AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo.Traditional leaders have asked Ramaphosa to release Dalindyebo.

His pardon application has been finalised by Justice Minister Michael Masutha and submitted to the president to exercise his prerogative on the matter. The Supreme Court of Appeal found that he ordered some of his subjects to be disciplined by having their homes torched; they were also kidnapped and assaulted.The matter relates to incidents that took place between June 1995 and January 1996 on his farm near Mthatha.

 

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😂 Mr President trying to score votes from AbaThembu. Asizi bricks!!

AndileJabavu Release our king please today today don't make appointment

Do this before May 8, maybe I might consider voting for you.

Just before an election, any other pardons you think may get you a few cheap votes.

This Hooligan will come out and carry on where he left off. Inja lento nx

If he is given pardon all cash heist kings should be pardon too ,they were trying living

Pardoned this dagga smoking king

ude athi he is considering. King Dalindyebo is more important than Cyril that's a fact. NtandoSogoni AndileJabavu NoliJvN

I can't wait to see him out

Zuma did what he did out of spite, yeah we know but....does he not deserve punishment? for hooligan behaviour instead of behaving like royalty? Phela him too is not above the law.

Just before the election!

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Ramaphosa considering king Dalindyebo pardonJustice minister Michael Masutha has recommended pardoning the abaThembu king. This would be great. We need the King. Long live the King.
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Former justice spokesperson paid nearly R200K to help King Dalindyebo apply for presidential pardonAmid mounting pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa to pardon AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, Justice Minister Michael Masutha appointed a former justice department spokesperson and advocate to assess the king's prospects for a pardon. azarrahk No need for these left overs from the middle ages. Just a drain on already overburdened tax payers azarrahk Not content with running an autocratic fiefdom in the rural areas, and forcing the rural poor to live in a parallel, non-democratic SA, these TraditionalLeaders also expect to be above the law, assaulting their 'subjects' & taxing them illegally, with impunity! azarrahk Dalindyebo is NOT a king, he is merely a convicted criminal, who still thinks he is above the law, and hopes to blackmail the ANC into granting him a pardon, using public money to fund his appeal!
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