{"id":217264,"date":"2025-12-19T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-killing-sibling\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:32:56","slug":"lesotho-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-killing-sibling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-killing-sibling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Killing Sibling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>T<\/em>HE High Court has sentenced 40-year-old Ts&#8217;eliso Chabalala to 10 years&#8217; imprisonment or a fine of M20,000 after finding him guilty of culpable homicide for killing his brother, Bongane Chabalala, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Chabalala, from Ha Sheshe village in Qholaqhoe, Botha-Bothe, was initially charged with murder for contravening Section 40(1) of the Penal Code Act of 2010, read with sub section (20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">However, he entered a plea of guilty to culpable homicide, which was accepted by the prosecution after evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180289.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 High Court has sentenced 40-year-old Ts&#8217;eliso Chabalala to 10 years&#8217; imprisonment or a fine of M20,000 after finding him guilty of culpable homicide for killing his brother, Bongane Chabalala, in 2018. Chabalala, from Ha Sheshe village in Qholaqhoe, Botha-Bothe, was initially charged with murder for contravening Section 40(1) of the Penal Code Act of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217265,"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":[258,256,7805,4717,1407,6867,257,6787,30503,254,5114],"class_list":["post-217264","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-sentenced","tag-sibling","tag-south-africa-today","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\/217264","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=217264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}