TOP SOUTH AFRICAN COP GETS 15 YEARS FOR CORRUPTION

Johannesburg, South Africa (AHN) - A South African court has sentenced former National Police Commissioner Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi (60) to 15 years imprisonment on corruption charges. In his verdict, South Gauteng High Court’s Judge Joffe Meyer said, "You were an embarrassment to the office that you occupied". Interpol’s ex-president Selebi was convicted last month for accepting bribes of $156,000 from a drug kingpin identified as Glenn Agliotti, who wanted Selebi to turn a blind eye to his business in return. "At no stage during the trial did the accused display any indication of remorse. The accused lied and fabricated evidence in an effort to escape the consequences of his conduct," the judge said. Selebi is free on bail for next two weeks during which he is expected to file an appeal against the verdict. While the judge announced the verdict, there was complete silence in the courtroom, even his wife and other members of the family did not react. Later, Selebi's brother George told reporters that an apartheid judge sentenced his brother. Prosecutors, on the other hand, hoped that the court had given a strong message that no form of corruption would be tolerated in the country. Justice Meyer said that he chose the minimum sentence for Selebi because it was the first offense by the 60-year-old police officer. The minimum sentence in South Africa is 15 years. However, he added that he could not ignore corruption by a top officer and its affect on the society. SOURCE State prosecutor argued that former South African national police commissioner should be convicted of corruption

SOUTH AFRICA RIFE WITH POVERTY BUT NO SHORTAGE OF CASH FOR STADIUMS

It seems that despite overcoming the evils of apartheid and finally getting rid of the white supremists, South Africa still remains under the control of a corrupt government. The townships that existed during apartheid remain, yet the government have spent millions on creating 10 new sports arenas for the world cup. Sport seems to be a far greater priority than the living conditions of the poor South African people who still live in utter squalor and deprivation . London is going the same way with the coming Olympics that are costing billions to create the sports stadiums, while millions still live in squalid conditions. Greece has all but been bankrupted after having spent so much on the Olympics at the utter expense of the ordinary citizens of Greece. When the powers that be say there is NO MONEY it is an utter nonsense as when they want to find the money for their exclusive sporting events, that the ordinary South Africans cannot afford, they will. Just like the many billions being spent on science projects like the International Space Station and Cerne that billions are poured into while the world's poor starve and are denied the basics of life. Those running this world have very different priorities from the ordinary victims of their extravagant and outrageous spending. South African stadiums built for 2010 world cup(VIDEO)

SOUTH AFRICAN WHITE SUPREMIST LEADER STABBED TO DEATH VIDEO

FULL SCREEN VERSION HERE A notorious South African white supremacist leader was killed Saturday by his own employees, police said, in an apparent dispute over wages. Eugene Terreblanche, the 69-year-old leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on his farm with clubs and a machete, police said. Two of his farmworkers turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the killing. No other details were immediately available. Terreblanche's AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid. The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections. Terreblanche was convicted of the 1996 attempted murder of Paul Motshabi, a black man who worked as a security guard on Terreblanche's farm. He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence. He also was convicted of setting his dog on a black man in an earlier incident. His death Saturday comes amid a time of heightened racial polarization in the country. A South African court last month banned the playing of a political song called "Kill the Boer," most recently sung by radical youth leader Julius Malema. The apartheid-era song's lyrics translate to "kill the farmer."

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2010 WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER VIDEO

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