{"id":214801,"date":"2025-11-25T09:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-murder-accused-mob-awaits-judgment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:29:39","slug":"lesotho-murder-accused-mob-awaits-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-murder-accused-mob-awaits-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Murder Accused Mob Awaits Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>S<\/strong>IX Sefikeng men, accused of killing a traditional healer they suspected of practising witchcraft, will know their fate on 5 December 2025 when High Court judge, Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko, delivers judgment in their murder and attempted murder trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Justice Mokoko reserved judgment this week after both the defence and the Crown wrapped up their arguments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Initially, 14 men from Sefikeng, Berea, were charged with the murder of Mokola Lebakeng and the attempted murder of his brother, Seemane&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIX Sefikeng men, accused of killing a traditional healer they suspected of practising witchcraft, will know their fate on 5 December 2025 when High Court judge, Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko, delivers judgment in their murder and attempted murder trial. Justice Mokoko reserved judgment this week after both the defence and the Crown wrapped up their arguments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[7083,258,256,11781,7382,4717,1407,11498,304,257,254],"class_list":["post-214801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awaits","tag-judgment","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mob","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}