MURDER IN HIGH PLACES
A YOUNG woman marries an African leader nearly twice her age and becomes the apparent power behind the throne. She’s accused of committing a crime so audacious and outrageous it makes headlines around the world.
You’d be forgiven for thinking we’re talking about Grace Mugabe, flamboyant former first lady of Zimbabwe – but the woman in question is Lesotho’s Maesaiah Thabane (42). And she’s at the heart of a gripping murder mystery that has flabbergasted the tiny mountain kingdom and puzzled the globe.
Maesaiah dominated the news when she recently turned herself in to police in South Africa – where she’d fled – after a
