Johannesburg – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was warned in a wedding song at the weekend to leave President Jacob Zuma alone, The Star reported on Monday.

“Thuli Madonsela, akazi lutho ngaleyonto uZuma [Thuli Madonsela, Zuma does not know what you are accusing him of],” a Zulu regiment reportedly sang at the wedding of Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma at the weekend.

According to the newspaper, Sipho Mkhize, who was part of the regiment, said the song was composed recently, following controversy between Madonsela and Zuma.

“You cannot really say who composed that song. We all sing it now because we support Zuma and Madonsela must leave him alone,” he was quoted as saying.

Khulubuse married Swazi princess Fikisiwe Dlamini at the president’s home at Nkandla, in KwaZulu-Natal.

In March, Madonsela found that Zuma had derived undue benefit from R246m in improvements made to the homestead and recommended that he pay back a portion of the money.

The Special Investigating Unit has since blamed the architect Minenhle Makhanya for inflating the costs of the project and filed a civil claim for R155m against Makhanya in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on 11 August. Makhanya has hired high profile lawyers to contest the case.

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A landscaped garden at President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal cost R16-million, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday.

This included fully grown trees, that were planted at R7500 a tree.

Also, 12 protected cycads were planted at a cost of R5500 each.

The total tree bill for Nkandla was R1.6 million.

This information is contained in court papers in the R155 million civil claim against Nkandla architect Minenhle Makhanya, filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

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Polokwane – The ANC Youth League leader in Limpopo, Boy Mamabolo, was shot and wounded in a nightclub on Sunday evening, Capricorn FM reported on Monday.

Mamabolo and three friends were allegedly at a nightclub in Polokwane when the shooting happened.

Mamabolo was recovering in hospital, the Limpopo-based radio station reported, quoting eyewitnesses.

Several other people were injured.

Limpopo police were not immediately reachable to confirm the report.

Mamabolo is a former friend of ex-African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema, now the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters.

Mamabolo is facing 72 fraud charges related to his chairmanship of the Limpopo Geographical Names Committee.

He was also embroiled in a court battle with Malema last year after he allegedly sent a threatening text message to Malema. He allegedly wrote in the SMS he would exhume Malema’s mother’s body and take her remains to Malema’s grandmother’s home in Seshego.

This was apparently in retaliation for Malema allegedly sending his allies to seduce Mamabolo’s girlfriend.

But the crimen injuria case against Mambolo was provisionally struck off the court roll last year.

#ANCYL member #BoyMamabolo shot and injured, allegedly by former #ANCYL office bearer. Tune in as details unfold. @CapricornFM

— CapricornFM News (@CapricornFMNews) September 15, 2014

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Durban – The case against three minors implicated in the murder of a woman who was decapitated was expected to continue in the Durban Regional Court on Monday.

On Friday, the court postoned the case so that their pleas could be typed out.

Falakhe Khumalo, aged 18, pleaded guilty on Thursday and was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the death of Desiree Murugan, whose headless body was found by municipal workers at Shallcross Stadium, in Durban, on 18 August.

He said he and his three co-accused lured Murugan, aged 39, to the stadium, where he paid her R100 for sex.

Khumalo said one of the minors stabbed her several times.

The body was dragged to another part of the sports field, where the head was chopped off.

Khumalo said he was promised R2m for the head of a white, Indian or coloured woman.

Traditional healer Sivonkaliso Mbili and his assistant Vusumuzi Gumede, aged 30, who were linked to the murder, have not pleaded and are expected to apply for bail on 22 September.

In an explanation of plea, Khumalo detailed how he plotted for more than a year to get the head to pay Mbili, who had cured him of a sexually transmitted disease.

Khumalo and the minors took the head to Mbili, the fourth accused in the trial.

Mbili allegedly ordered Gumede to bury the tins in which Murugan’s body parts were placed.

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Johannesburg – A 13-year-old boy drowned in a quarry dam in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, on Sunday, paramedics said.

“Paramedics received an emergency call from the Saps about a child that had apparently drowned in the nearby lake,” said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring in a statement.

“Once on scene, paramedics discovered the lifeless body of the young body. Unfortunately there was nothing more the paramedics could do for the child and he was later declared dead.”

The boy was apparently pulled out of the dam by a passer-by.

Police were investigating.

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Johannesburg – A 13-year-old boy drowned in a quarry dam in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, on Sunday, paramedics said.

“Paramedics received an emergency call from the Saps about a child that had apparently drowned in the nearby lake,” said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring in a statement.

“Once on scene, paramedics discovered the lifeless body of the young body. Unfortunately there was nothing more the paramedics could do for the child and he was later declared dead.”

The boy was apparently pulled out of the dam by a passer-by.

Police were investigating.

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Johannesburg – The fate of a Botswana man who was illegally deported – despite facing the death penalty – will be raised at the North Gauteng High Court.

Lawyers for Human Rights are seeking to compel the department of home affairs to locate Edwin Samotse after he was illegally sent back to his country last month.

The organisation also wants an assurance from the Botswana government that Samotse – who is wanted for murder in his home country – will not face the death penalty if convicted.

At the time of his illegal transfer, Samotse was in custody at the Polokwane police station while the Botswana government sought his extradition.

However, after the Botswana government refused to give assurances that, if extradited, Samotse would not face the death penalty, a South African court order was issued to ensure he was not deported.

In two previous cases, South African courts have ruled to ensure that the country’s government and its officials do not deport people to countries where capital punishment is used; unless assurances are given that they will not face the death penalty.

Meanwhile, two home affairs officials have been suspended for allegedly arranging Samotse’s unauthorised deportation, which apparently took place on 13 August.

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