Customary Court of Appeal endorses mandatory stock-theft sentences

The week-long hearing of appeal cases by the CCA also covered Mahalapye where it reviewed nine cases involving 15 convicts.
"In this case, only one appellant was released for insufficient evidence," said Kgosi Christopher Masunga, the President of the Customary Court of Appeal.

"Apart from the stock-theft cases, we also had a number of civil cases. In most instances, we realised that civil matters involved fighting over inheritance (boswa). One such case involved a couple that had been married for 27 years, under the customary law.
"The husband was not satisfied by the decision of the lower court, but we ruled that the property they accumulated during marriage must be shared equally."