11 January 2008

It ain't just Jacob Zuma

Speaking of cultural bankruptcy... anybody starting to notice a pattern here?
-- South Africa's police chief Jackie Selebi is to be charged with corruption and "defeating the ends of justice", state prosecutors say.

A court on Friday rejected an urgent application by Mr Selebi, who is also the president of Interpol, to try to stop the prosecution. --
Compared to the lifestyle of the average South African... this guy must have seemed like Bill Gates... but apparently, even that... just wasn't enough.

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