By Libuseng Nyaka
QWAQWA- Lehlohonolo Maketoane (42), who is charged with murdering his wife Mamello Thamae – a Free State Magistrate and Acting Judge is expected to apply for bail on September 25,2024.
This after Maketoane appeared before Heilbron magistrate court on September 11, 2024 where he secured d Legal Aid representation on September 11 ,2024 .
He was extradited from Lesotho on August 26, 2024.
According to Free State and Northern Cape National Prosecution Authority (NPA) spokesperson, Mojalefa Senokane, Maketoane is expected to be in court for legal representation.
According to media reports, Maketoane was extradited to South Africa under heavy escort by the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) on August 26 and handed over to South Africa Police over Maseru bridge.
His extraction was in terms of extradition treaty the South Africa and Lesotho have signed.
Murder suspect Lehlohonolo Maketoane.
Extradition is deemed a sovereign act. It is a process, initiated by an adequately founded, formal request from one sovereign State to another, based on treaty, reciprocity or comity, by means of which one or more person/s accused or convicted of the commission of a serious crime within the jurisdiction of the requesting State, is surrendered to competent courts in the territory of that State for trial or sentence.
