13 February: Salisbury High Court Sentence was due to be passed on TOM NCUBE (19), on conviction of possessing arms of war. A further charge of murder, arising out of the deaths in June 1978 of two Jesuit priests, Father Gregor Richert and Brother Bernard Lissan, of St. Rupert's Mission near Sinoia, was withdrawn by the State. According to a statement of agreed facts, Ncube, alias Rikki Ndllovu, had received guerilla training in Zambia. He was arrested in Highfields in August 1978. He subsequently gave information to the security forces leading to the discovery of arms caches at a guerilla base camp and to a fellow guerilla, allegedly responsible for the death of the two priests, being killed by Rhodesian troops. (RH 13.2.79)
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FURTHER CASES
Report on the case of Tom Ncube.
