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  • Mandela sentence is cut

    07/05/2004 12:47:18 PM PDT · by Stoat · 4 replies · 319+ views
    The Scotsman ^ | July 5, 2004
    A SOUTH African anti-apartheid icon avoided jail today when a court partially upheld an appeal and reduced her prison term for fraud to a suspended sentence. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 67, was sentenced last year to a total of five years in prison for a bogus bank loans scheme, but was freed on bail until her appeal was heard. She appeared calm when the court reduced her sentence to three and a half years, suspended for five years.
  • South African vigilante mob of 500 necklaces two men

    05/23/2004 10:15:45 AM PDT · by Stoat · 29 replies · 402+ views
    SABC News ^ | May 22, 2004 | SABC News
    Two necklaced in Mamelodi May 22, 2004, 20:45 A group of around 500 residents participated in mob justice on two men accused of recent murders in the Mamelodi area today. Piletji Sebola, a Pretoria police spokesperson, said one of the two "had his hands tied up with wire, was doused with a flammable liquid, had a tyre placed around his neck and was set alight". When police arrived at the scene shortly after the incident, around noon today, they found both men's bodies with gash wounds in their heads. They were believed to have both been in their 20's. "The...