Racist white farmer: Prison for SA ‘baboon murderer’

Many Zimbabwean migrants look for work on farms.

A South African farmer has been jailed for 20 years for killing Zimbabwean farm worker Jealous Dube, who he said he had mistaken for a baboon.  

The judge dismissed Jewell Crossberg’s claim that he had fired shots to scare off baboons on his farm in Limpopo Province, which borders Zimbabwe. 

The farmer was also found guilty of attempting to murder four other workers he had accused of laziness.

Hundreds of Zimbabweans cross illegally to South Africa each day seeking work.

Many head to nearby farms where, according to US-based Human Rights Watch, farmers routinely violate their basic labour rights. 

Race tensions  

“I really, really, really didn’t mean to shoot anyone dead,” the farmer cried in court earlier this week, according to South Africa’s Beeld newspaper. 

But Judge Ronnie Boshielo said on Thursday that Mr Crossberg had no respect for human life, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.

He had not bothered to check what had happened to Mr Dube after the shooting incident, Judge Boshielo said.

Mr Crossberg was refused permission to appeal. 

Correspondents say such cases highlight race tensions that still exist in the South African countryside 13 years after apartheid.

Two years ago, white farmer Mark Scott-Crossley was convicted of beating up a black employee and then throwing him into a lion enclosure where his remains were found.

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Uganda / Baganda the seat of government

Baganda BEWARE!!

You are the largest tribe in Uganda, but it seems that you get used and killed all the time by opportunistic politicans, do you know why?? Because you are the majority, and because the Seat of Government is in Kampala which is located in Buganda.

Baganda are understandbly bitter because all wars have taken place in Buganda, but that is because as I said before in one of my previous emails, Buganda hosts Kampala which is the Seat of Government and most rebels or liberators always advance towards the capital which is usually the Seat of Goverment.

If you all follow the current news you will realize that Baghdad is suffering the most violence precisely because it is the Capital City of Iraq, hence the Seat of Government.
 
Now it seems some of you have become enarmoured of these UPC guys Edward Mulindwa and Matek. You are calling them knowledgeable, and some of you are agreeing that Kony does not exist!

Check out this link to VERIFY AND CLARIFY THAT KONY EXISTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony
Baganda DON’T BE LIKE THE USED CONDOMS ON MP SAID BAGANDA WERE. If you(Baganda) fall for the LIES AND TWISTED INFORMATION THAT EDWARD MULINDWA AND MATEK ARE GIVING YOU, THEN YOU WILL INDEED BE THE USED CONDOMS THAT ONE MP SAID BAGANDA WERE. BE SMART ABOUT WHO YOU FOLLOW. 

DO NOT JUST JUMP WITH SOMEONE ANYHOW BECAUSE THEY ARE TELLING YOU BIG LIES AND THEY KNOW HOW TO TWIST INFORMATION LIKE HOW KONY DOESN’T EXIST, AND THAT IT IS MUSEVENI CUTTING OFF THE NORTHERNERS NOSES AND LIPS!
 
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Spain is said to have created a “small Guantanamo”

Madrid (Spain) A group of Spanish NGOs has filed a complaint against the Spanish government, accusing it of creating in Mauritania a “small Guantanamo” where Asian and African illegal immigrants are confined, APA learnt Thursday from authorized sources.

In their complaint which has just been filed at the public prosecutor’s office, the group of NGOs asserts that the Spanish authorities have violated the International Convention on maritime search and rescue (SAR) adopted in 1979 under the aegis of the International Organisation for Migrations (IOM).

The initiators of this complaint demand that justice be rendered to the immigrants who were on board “Marine I”, a cargo boat transporting about 400 illegal Asian and African immigrants, who were stuck at high sea for several days in early February.

A diplomatic battle had pitted Spain and Mauritania on who was supposed to take charge of the ship, intercepted off the Canary Islands, and which ended with the landing of the illegal migrants at the Mauritanian port of Nouadhibou.

The illegal migrants who tried to reach the Canary coast in early February on board “Marine I” were kept for 40 days in a Nouadhibou fisheries warehouse, after they spent 12 days stranded near the Mauritanian coast.

“Spain bribed a poor country so that it will take care of foreign nationals,” the spokesman of the group, Jesus Hidalgo, said.

He added that 23 of the occupants of “Marine I” are still locked up in Mauritania and 35 were transferred and then imprisoned in Cape Verde, a country which has nothing to do with this issue.

The Spanish justice system has to determine the responsibility of the Madrid authorities in the violation of the International Conventions of protection of the rights of the immigrants and people in danger at sea.

 

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Norway: Body found in burnt house

*”Investigators found a body in the scorched ruins of a building that burned to the ground over the weekend. It’s believed to be the remains of a young woman missing after the fire broke out.

Friends of Monica Mørch Røysland gathered outside the burned-out building where she was last seen in Holmestrand. PHOTO: HANS O. TORGERSEN

Around 45 friends of the missing woman, 20-year-old Monica Mørch Røysland, gathered outside the building in Holmestrand on Monday, to light candles and lay down flowers.

Røysland, from the small town of Skoppum, was among those inside the three-story structure in central Holmestrand when fire broke out about 5am Sunday.

Police have arrested a 29-year-old man and charged him with arson with intent to endanger human life (mordbrann). It’s been reported that the suspect was denied access to a late-night party inside the building, and set the fire in an act of revenge.

He denies the charges again him, however, and was expected to plead not guilty at a custody hearing on Tuesday, according to his defense attorney.

Nine people including an 86-year-old woman were rescued from the inferno, and taken to hospital in Tønsberg for treatment of burns and smoke inhalation.”*

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Norway: The sun warming up Norwegians in readiness for easter festivities

*”Most of southern Norway was basking in sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures this week, but clouds rolled in over Oslo on Wednesday and forecasters warned of possible storms in the mountains.

This is what many Norwegians define as the perfect Easter experience, but it may not last through the weekend. PHOTO: LISBETH E. VIIG

Early Easter weather forecasts sounded great, with lots of sun, at least in the southern part of the country. Northern Norway wasn’t so good, with a new round of sub-zero temperatures and snow. Trondheim was hit with rain and winds early in the week.

State meteorologists changed their tune Wednesday morning, saying that high winds were likely in the mountains and the sun would likely disappear in the south. Shifting temperatures raised the avalanche danger as well.

Temperatures were due to hover around 10C or slightly lower in Oslo, but “soar” to as high as 16C on Easter Sunday. There was a slight chance of rain over the weekend.

The Norwegian Red Cross was maintaining patrols in the mountains, to aid errant skiers as needed, especially if storms arose. They urged all skiers to carefully check conditions before setting off on lengthy ski tours, have proper equipment and not to be ashamed to turn around if the weather got bad.”*

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Eritrea calls on Kenya to help release its nationals

ASMARA –  Eritrea has called on Kenya to help secure the release of three of its citizens that it says Kenya handed to authorities in Somalia in January, an official statement said.

Kenya gave the Eritreans to the Somali authorities January 20 after arresting them in late December and detaining them illegally for more than three weeks, said a statement posted on the Eritrean foreign ministry Web site late Tuesday.

“The Government of Eritrea again calls on the Kenyan authorities to get the three Eritrean citizens released as soon as possible and repatriate them to their country,” the statement said.

It did not explain what the three prisoners had been doing prior to their arrest, where they had been arrested, or where they were being held.

Press rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that the detainees were journalists working with Eritrean state-owned media.

The three were “working for the Eritrean ministry of information,” said Leonard Vincent, who is in charge of Africa in the RSF headquarters in Paris.

Two were working with the public television, EriTV, and the other worked with the country’s radio station, he said.

Kenyan officials were not available for comment Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the governments of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the United States Saturday of secretly detaining hundreds of people fleeing the deadly conflict in Somalia.

In a statement, the rights group detailed “arbitrary detention, expulsion, and apparent enforced disappearance of dozens of individuals who fled the fighting” between Ethiopia-backed Somali troops and a powerful Islamist movement between last December and January 2007.

HRW said that Kenyan security forces had arrested at least 150 individuals from some 18 different nationalities at border crossing points with Somalia since late December.

They were sent to Nairobi, where they were detained illegally before being deported to Somalia, from where many were then sent to Ethiopia, it said.

Horn of Africa watchers have expressed fears that Ethiopia and Eritrea, still at odds over their unresolved 1998-2000 border conflict, may fight a proxy war in Somalia.

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Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta’s first wife Wahu dies

    By Capital News Team  

Jomo Kenyatta’s first wife Wahu has died in
Nairobi.  

Sources close to the Kenyatta family say she died Tuesday on the outskirts of
Nairobi where she lived. Her body is lying at the Lee Funeral Home.  

So far there has been no comment from the prominent Kenyatta family besides a statement from the office of the Leader of the official Oppositon Uhuru Kenyatta sent to newsrooms Thursday afternoon, acknowledging the demise.  

The country’s founding President married Wahu in 1920.  

Jomo Kenyatta had two children from his first marriage with Wahu. His son Peter Muigai who later became a Deputy Minister was born in 1920.  

They also had a daughter Margaret Kenyatta who was born in 1928. She served as the first woman Mayor of Nairobi between 1970 and 1976.  

The most popular of Kenyatta’s wives is Ngina Kenyatta also known as Mama Ngina who is the mother of Uhuru.

 

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Spending a lot of money on sick members of government

Khartoum (Sudan) The government of South Sudan spends millions of dollars treating its sick officials overseas every year.

Health Minister Theophilos Ochang on Thursday described to APA the accounting involved as a “hell”.

He said he is looking into new ways of getting sick members of the government treated.

“At the moment we are sending people as far as South Africa, Jordan, London … It’s a hell of expenditure, ” he said.

“We are trying to make an agreement with a hospital in one of these countries with better conditions, get a memorandum of understanding so that the bills are sent to us directly,” he said.

Ochang said the government was just giving patients a plane ticket and cash in hand and it was unclear how much money was being spent exactly on making sick officials well.

“We cannot follow up on how much is being spent on treatment,” he said. “It’s $5,000 here, $10,000 there, and millions every year.”

Ochang said that an insurance policy would be the answer to the problem and already the government has started working on the Southern Sudan Health Insurance Fund.

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