The royal family will meet next week to discuss whether a successor should be chosen due to their monarch’s imprisonment.
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The royal family has appealed to the abaThembu nation to “remain calm and allow the King Ngangelizwe Royal Family to direct and guide the nation in collaboration with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs”.
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The AbaThembu have been without a king since Wednesday, after Dalindyebo began serving his 12-year jail term at Wellington prison in Mthatha for assault, kidnapping and arson.
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“This was in compliance with a court order issued by Mthatha High Court on December 23”.
In power since 1989, Dalindyebo is one among 10 traditional kings whose duties include presiding over ceremonies and mediating in local disputes. He turned himself over to the Mthatha Correctional Center in the Eastern Cape Province just before midnight on Wednesday, media reported.
His lawyer, Yasmin Omar, said the judge had not given them reasons for his decision.
“No indication was given for when we can expect the reasons for the dismissal of the application and we will continue with the case”, said Omar.
The king made the statement after Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha dismissed his petition for a retrial.
The king said that besides the petition he sent to Masutha, there is also the presidential pardon, and that too must be considered before he is imprisoned.
“My understanding is that they (the police) are on their way to locate him wherever he is and make sure that … he must go serve his 12-year sentence”, Mthunzi Mhaga, a prosecution authority spokesman, told reporters.
He was sentenced to 15 years in 2009, but in October the Supreme Court dropped the manslaughter charge and reduced his sentence to 12 years on appeal. He was granted bail pending the outcome of his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
Fifty-one years old King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, was convicted of the offenses in 2009 but had been fighting the verdict in the courts for years.
The case against King Dalindyebo was related to a dispute he had with some of his subjects more than two decades ago.
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The AbaThembu royal council will now consider whether to temporarily or permanently replace King Dalindyebo, Nwaila said.
