{"id":216377,"date":"2025-12-11T22:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-man-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-killing-uncle\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:15:53","slug":"lesotho-man-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-killing-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-man-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-killing-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Killing Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE Northern Division of the High Court has sentenced Phaketsi Ramoholi (66) to an effective eight years&#8217; imprisonment for the murder of his uncle, Rasello Ramoholi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Phaketsi, who has a hearing impairment, pleaded guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The court at T\u0161ifa-Li-Mali in Leribe heard that the murder occurred on November 9, 2020, when Phaketsi fatally stabbed Rasello with a knife following an altercation that erupted from a long-standing family dispute over a field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110242.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>THE Northern Division of the High Court has sentenced Phaketsi Ramoholi (66) to an effective eight years&#8217; imprisonment for the murder of his uncle, Rasello Ramoholi. Phaketsi, who has a hearing impairment, pleaded guilty to the charge. The court at T\u0161ifa-Li-Mali in Leribe heard that the murder occurred on November 9, 2020, when Phaketsi fatally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216378,"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":[258,256,7805,4717,1407,6867,257,5115,6787,254,35419,5114],"class_list":["post-216377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-killing","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-sentenced","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uncle","tag-years"],"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\/216377","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=216377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}