Murder case dropped after accused languished 7 years

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

FRANCISTOWN: A Zimbabwean man who was accused of murdering his girlfriend in 2011 walked out of the Francistown High Court a freeman after the state decided not to proceed with a trial.

The accused, Mandla Nyathi, now 26, was accused of killing his girlfriend, Lebogang Ncube, also from Zimbabwe, on July 26, 2011 at a cattle post near Selebi-Phikwe.

Nyathi has been languishing in jail for seven years since he was charged with the offence.

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