Many of these ABC activists are allies of former premier Thomas Thabane who had been forced out of office in May 2020 due to the furore after his wife Lipolelo Thabane was shot dead three years earlier (AC Vol 63 No 5 Power struggle intensifies as Thabane goes on trial & AC Vol 61 No 9 Thabane out of time)...
This power struggle is playing out as Thabane is due in court on 8 March to face charges of murdering his first wife Lipolelo Thabane who was shot dead in 2017...
Vol 61 No 17 |
- SOUTHERN AFRICA
Accused of links to the murder of his second wife Lipolelo Thabane in 2017 Thabane had refused to go deploying the army on the streets of Maseru in April...