Mdluli sentenced to 5 years in prison

JOHANNESBURG - Former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli has been sentenced to an effective 5-year prison term.

In July last year, Mdluli and a former police officer were convicted of kidnapping, assaulting and intimidating Oupa Ramogibe in 1998.

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Ramogibe had married Mdluli's customary-law wife, Tshidi Buthelezi.

Mdluli was charged with Ramogibe's 1999 murder but those charges were later withdrawn.