The kingdom of AbaThembu will on Saturday tackle the “serious challenges which are associated with the vacuum” which resulted from the jailing of King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo.
“It’s nearly seven weeks after the king of AbaThembu was incarcerated following the rejection of his appeal case in the Constitutional Court on December 2‚ 2015‚” the spokesperson for the royal family‚ Nkosi Daludumo Mtirara‚ said on Tuesday
“Members of the Ngangelizwe royal family supported by other royal houses converged on numerous occasions and discussed the challenges that the kingdom of AbaThembu is currently facing.
“The engagements have reached a stage which requires the notification and participation of the Greater Dlomo descendants.”
It for this reason that “Ngangelizwe Royal Family invites the members of the Greater Dlomo descendants to a meeting scheduled to take place…at the Great Place in Bumbane” on Saturday.
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa last month petitioned President Jacob Zuma to secure the release of jailed Dalindyebo.
The 51-year-old king was detained on December 30 to start serving a 12-year prison sentence for assault‚ kidnapping and arson.
The crimes were committed between June 1995 and January 1996 at Tyhalarha near his Bumbane Great Place in Mthatha‚ Eastern Cape.
He was sentenced in December 2009 by the Mthatha High Court but Dalindyebo appealed and his R6000 bail was extended pending the appeal.
In October 2015‚ the Supreme Court of Appeal denounced Dalindyebo’s brutal “disciplining of his subjects”‚ describing him as a “tyrannical and despotic king” who “behaved shamefully and abused his position”.
Kingdom of AbaThembu to meet on Saturday to ponder future
“It’s nearly seven weeks after the king of AbaThembu was incarcerated following the rejection of his appeal case in the Constitutional Court on December 2‚ 2015‚” the spokesperson for the royal family‚ Nkosi Daludumo Mtirara‚ said on Tuesday
“Members of the Ngangelizwe royal family supported by other royal houses converged on numerous occasions and discussed the challenges that the kingdom of AbaThembu is currently facing.
“The engagements have reached a stage which requires the notification and participation of the Greater Dlomo descendants.”
It for this reason that “Ngangelizwe Royal Family invites the members of the Greater Dlomo descendants to a meeting scheduled to take place…at the Great Place in Bumbane” on Saturday.
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa last month petitioned President Jacob Zuma to secure the release of jailed Dalindyebo.
The 51-year-old king was detained on December 30 to start serving a 12-year prison sentence for assault‚ kidnapping and arson.
The crimes were committed between June 1995 and January 1996 at Tyhalarha near his Bumbane Great Place in Mthatha‚ Eastern Cape.
He was sentenced in December 2009 by the Mthatha High Court but Dalindyebo appealed and his R6000 bail was extended pending the appeal.
In October 2015‚ the Supreme Court of Appeal denounced Dalindyebo’s brutal “disciplining of his subjects”‚ describing him as a “tyrannical and despotic king” who “behaved shamefully and abused his position”.
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