Court orders jailing of South African king

A South African king is set to go to jail after the country’s highest court threw out his bid to overturn a 12-year prison sentence.
King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo was convicted of kidnapping, assault and arson.

The monarch comes from the Thembu ethnic group, to which anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela belonged.

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Sources from the king’ss palace said that the South African king has been ordered to report to police within 48 hours or risk arrest.
King Dalindyebo is the first monarch to be given a jail term since South Africa became a democracy in 1994.

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