Three Botswana citizens who after they were found guilty, admitted in an appeal application hearing on Wednesday, 24 April, in the High Court in Kimberley that they illegally crossed the border with illegal ammunition to illegally hunt rhinos on a Northern Cape farm. An accomplice of theirs died in a shootout with the farm workers and game rangers. In March, acting judge Cordelia Kgopa found they must have foreseen that someone would die during their raid and found them guilty of the murder of K.J. Matshetse, their accomplice. He died in the crossfire. The applicants, David Mitswi, Khetamile Cooper and Tebo Mogare, disputed that they should have foreseen a deadly confrontation in their unsuccessful appeal application against the murder conviction sentence of ten years. The combined sentence was 12 years on various charges.