DR CONGO PRESIDENT PARDONS COUP PLOTTERS OF AMERICAN ORIGIN. (PHOTO).

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 DR Congo president pardons coup plotters of American origin    President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi has granted a presidential pardon to several coup plotters of American origin, who had been sentenced to death, according to official sources, Xinhua reported. Marcel Malanga, born in Utah, United States, and two other Americans who were sentenced to death last September, "will not be executed, as the death penalty is commuted," said Tina Salama, spokesperson for the DRC presidency late Tuesday. Tshisekedi has ordered the commutation of Marcel Malanga's sentence to life imprisonment, said Salama, adding that the measure also applies to the other American nationals convicted. Thirty-seven alleged coup plotters were convicted and sentenced to death in September last year by a Kinshasa military court in a trial against the failed coup. The coup plotters attacked the residence of Vital Kamerhe, then vice-prime minister, before targeting the ...

S. A: FOUR LESOTHO NATIONALS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ABD CHARGED WITH THE TRIPLE MURDER OF THREE MEN . (PHOTO).


 Four Lesotho nationals, Mosweu Letsie (32), Tumisang Khoachone (21), Tshidiso Mohloboli (18), and Itumeleng Mosweunyane (24), have been arrested and charged with the triple murder of three men aged between 25 and 38 in Kanana.


The incident occurred on Saturday, 18 January 2025, at a tavern in Extension 3, Kanana, where a fight broke out between two groups of Basotho nationals. One group overpowered the other, kidnapped five victims, and took them to the nearby Schoonspruit River, where they were assaulted. One victim escaped, four were thrown into the river, and three went missing.


The four suspects appeared before the Orkney Magistrates' Court on Monday, 20 January 2025, and were remanded in custody until Monday, 27 January 2025, for a formal bail application.

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