A South African ruler who is a nephew of the late Nelson Mandela has started a 12-year jail sentence for seizing, ambush and fire related crime.
Ruler Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo answered to jail after his legitimate endeavors to topple his conviction fizzled.
The argument against King Dalindyebo was identified with a debate he had with some of his subjects around two decades back.
He originates from the Thembu faction, to which Mr Mandela, South Africa's first dark president, had a place.
He is the first ruler to be imprisoned in South Africa since minority guideline finished in 1994.
Ruler Dalindyebo, 51, rose to the throne in 1989, and has around 700,000 subjects.
South Africa has 10 authoritatively perceived rulers speaking to distinctive ethnic gatherings and tribes.
They assume a to a great extent formal part, and take care of minor debate inside of their groups.
Nelson Mandela kicked the bucket two years back matured 95
Ruler Dalindyebo was blamed for abducting a lady and her six kids, setting their home ablaze and pounding four young people, one of whom kicked the bucket, on the grounds that one of their relatives had neglected to present himself in the witness of the lord's customary court.
He gave himself to jail compelling voices in the eastern city of Mthatha in consistence with a court request after a judge declined to augment his abandon Wednesday, the equity service said in an announcement.
Prior, Justice Minister Michael Masutha turned down his solicitation for a retrial, saying there was no lawful defense for doing as such.
Lord Dalindyebo had kept up his blamelessness, saying he taught his subjects under standard law.
Examination: Milton Nkosi, BBC Africa, Johannesburg
A significant number of the lord's subjects feel that he has sullied the notoriety of the Thembu imperial family unit.
His dad, Sabata, was a worshipped ruler who battled against minority govern, and crusaded for the solidarity of South Africa's ethnic gatherings.
Conversely, his child ended up being a disfavor, and has died.
All the more fundamentally, South Africa has at the end of the day exhibited that, in spite of its authority issues, it maintains the tenet of law, regardless of the fact that it implies locking up a ruler and distancing some of his subjects in front of pivotal nearby races one year from now.
It is additionally to the ruler's credit that in the wake of debilitating all his lawful alternatives, he answered to jail as opposed to challenging the police to come and capture him at his royal residence in South Africa's Eastern Cape area.
Sentencing the lord in October, the Supreme Court of Appeal said: "His conduct was all the more despicable in light of the fact that the casualties of his rule of fear were the helpless provincial poor, who were indigent upon him. Our constitution does not face such conduct.
"We are an established vote based system in which everybody is responsible and where the most defenseless are qualified for assurance."
There are clashing reports on whether King Dalindyebo would remain the ruler of the Thembu individuals.
One regal family representative was cited in the South African media as saying that its seniors would meet on Monday to pick a successor, while another representative said that he would remain the ruler regardless of his detainment.
Ruler Dalindyebo absconded from the representing African National Congress (ANC) to the restriction Democratic Alliance (DA) party amid his fights in court.
The DA renounced his enrollment taking after the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Ruler Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo answered to jail after his legitimate endeavors to topple his conviction fizzled.
The argument against King Dalindyebo was identified with a debate he had with some of his subjects around two decades back.
He originates from the Thembu faction, to which Mr Mandela, South Africa's first dark president, had a place.
He is the first ruler to be imprisoned in South Africa since minority guideline finished in 1994.
Ruler Dalindyebo, 51, rose to the throne in 1989, and has around 700,000 subjects.
South Africa has 10 authoritatively perceived rulers speaking to distinctive ethnic gatherings and tribes.
They assume a to a great extent formal part, and take care of minor debate inside of their groups.
Nelson Mandela kicked the bucket two years back matured 95
Ruler Dalindyebo was blamed for abducting a lady and her six kids, setting their home ablaze and pounding four young people, one of whom kicked the bucket, on the grounds that one of their relatives had neglected to present himself in the witness of the lord's customary court.
He gave himself to jail compelling voices in the eastern city of Mthatha in consistence with a court request after a judge declined to augment his abandon Wednesday, the equity service said in an announcement.
Prior, Justice Minister Michael Masutha turned down his solicitation for a retrial, saying there was no lawful defense for doing as such.
Lord Dalindyebo had kept up his blamelessness, saying he taught his subjects under standard law.
Examination: Milton Nkosi, BBC Africa, Johannesburg
A significant number of the lord's subjects feel that he has sullied the notoriety of the Thembu imperial family unit.
His dad, Sabata, was a worshipped ruler who battled against minority govern, and crusaded for the solidarity of South Africa's ethnic gatherings.
Conversely, his child ended up being a disfavor, and has died.
All the more fundamentally, South Africa has at the end of the day exhibited that, in spite of its authority issues, it maintains the tenet of law, regardless of the fact that it implies locking up a ruler and distancing some of his subjects in front of pivotal nearby races one year from now.
It is additionally to the ruler's credit that in the wake of debilitating all his lawful alternatives, he answered to jail as opposed to challenging the police to come and capture him at his royal residence in South Africa's Eastern Cape area.
Sentencing the lord in October, the Supreme Court of Appeal said: "His conduct was all the more despicable in light of the fact that the casualties of his rule of fear were the helpless provincial poor, who were indigent upon him. Our constitution does not face such conduct.
"We are an established vote based system in which everybody is responsible and where the most defenseless are qualified for assurance."
There are clashing reports on whether King Dalindyebo would remain the ruler of the Thembu individuals.
One regal family representative was cited in the South African media as saying that its seniors would meet on Monday to pick a successor, while another representative said that he would remain the ruler regardless of his detainment.
Ruler Dalindyebo absconded from the representing African National Congress (ANC) to the restriction Democratic Alliance (DA) party amid his fights in court.
The DA renounced his enrollment taking after the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
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