Two South Africans and a Botswana national, who are on trial for murder in a Botswana court, have pleaded guilty to killing a woman more than six years ago, the SABC reported on Tuesday.

The three accused, Benson Keganne, Kagiso Sebi and Amos Moloi, allegedly shot dead Gloria Mahowe after robbing her in her shop in a village at Lobatse.

They are to plead in mitigation of sentence in the Lobatse High Court on Tuesday.

The three accused have already spent six years in jail awaiting trial.

Botswana has given an undertaking to South Africa that the three will only be given a prison sentence and not the death penalty.

Sapa