Two men have been sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor under a witchcraft law for plotting to kill Zambia's president using charms and spells.

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed, with costs, an application by the family of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal. The family had challenged an earlier ruling that granted the Zambian government the right to repatriate Lungu’s body for a state funeral and burial.