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Attorney Jama, Mphu his wife and 3 daughters lived in Botswana, arrested for fraud and accessory to murder in 1982, disappeared the day before court appearance; Jama brought up in Lesotho by Moeranes from age 10, the Moeranes stalwarts of the Africanist Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), an offshoot of the ANC but closer to the PAC; Jama a BCP student leader, joined community of BCP exiles in Botswana when he was 23; Thabo arranged a scholarship for him to Leeds BCP went underground in 1974, established the insurgent Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA); ANC allied with the Basutoland National Party (BNP), LLA accepted support from SA regime, yet Thabo and Jama developed close bond; Jama settled with family in Botswana, 1985; family hired attorney in early 1990s to investigate Jama's disappearance, found that he was trapped and executed, Mbeki men did not want to take case to police.
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