SOUTH AFRICA
Vaal Weekly
EVATON.- Samuel Lempe, an Evaton priest who was found guilty of raping and murdering an eight year old Delisile Dlamini in August of 2004 has been sentenced to thirty years in prison. He was sentenced at the Vereeniging High Court last week. The story made headlines on Vaal Weekly (8-14 September-2004).
Lempe has been sentenced to twenty years for murder while another ten years for sodomy another crime which he stood trial off. Delisile, a learner at Setlabotjha primary school was found in a veld three days after she was kidnapped. She was strangled and her hands were broken. Lempe, a Heavens Church priest and a close family friend of the Dlamini's was arrested shortly after the discovery.