SOUTH African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) chairman Barney Pityana has appealed to President Thabo Mbeki to intervene to save Marietta Bosch from being hanged in Botswana, The Sunday Independent newspaper reports. Bosch, on death row in Gaborone, is facing the gallows for murdering her best friend so that she could marry her husband. “In our view it is the duty of government to protect the rights of South African citizens, wherever they are,” Pityana said. – AFP