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Fake South African sign language interpreter helped burn men to death in 2003

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Details
 have emerged about the violent crime charges that Thamsanqa Jantjie, 
the fake sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's funeral sevice 
faced a decade ago. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">From </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/16/fake-mandela-signer-helped-burn-2-men-to-death-in-2003/" style="background-color: white; color: #b41e20; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NYPost.com</a><br />
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The
 bogus sign language interpreter at last week’s Nelson Mandela memorial 
service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a 
stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires 
placed around their necks, one of the interpreter’s cousins and three of
 his friends told The Associated Press Monday.<br />
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But
 Thamsanqa Jantjie never went to trial for the 2003 killings when other 
suspects did in 2006 because authorities determined he was not mentally 
fit to stand trial, said the four. They insisted on speaking anonymously
 because of the sensitivity of the fake signing fiasco, which has deeply
 embarrassed South Africa’s government and prompted a high-level 
investigation into how it happened.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Their
 account of the killings matched a description of the crime and the 
outcome for Jantjie that he himself described in an interview published 
on Sunday by the Sunday Times newspaper of Johannesburg.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“It was a community thing, what you call mob justice, and I was also there,” Jantjie told the newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jantjie
 was not at his house Monday, and the cousin told AP Jantjie had been 
picked up by someone in a car Sunday and had not returned. His cellphone
 rang through to an automatic message saying Jantjie was not reachable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Instead
 of standing trial, Jantjie was institutionalized for a period of longer
 than a year, the four said, and then returned to live in his poor 
township neighborhood on the outskirts of Soweto. At some point after 
that, they said, he started getting jobs doing sign language 
interpretation at events for the governing African National Congress 
Party.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jantjie
 told the AP last week he has schizophrenia and hallucinated, seeing 
angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away from President 
Barack Obama and other world leaders during the Tuesday ceremony at a 
Soweto stadium. Signing experts said his arm and hand movements were 
mere gibberish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In
 the interview last Thursday, Jantjie said he had been violent in the 
past “a lot” but declined to provide more details and blamed his 
violence on his schizophrenia, for which he said he was 
institutionalized for 19 months in a period that included time during 
2006. The cousin and the three friends said the “necklacing” killing of 
the suspected thieves occurred within a few hundred meters (yards) from 
Jantjie’s tidy concrete home near ramshackle dwellings.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The four spoke to the AP on Monday in Jantjie’s neighborhood, and one of the friends described himself as Jantjie’s best friend.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Necklacing
 was a method of killing that was fairly common during the struggle 
against apartheid by blacks on blacks suspected of aiding the white 
government or belonging to opposing factions. The method was also used 
in tribal disputes in the 1980s and 1990s. While people who encounter 
suspect thieves in South Africa have been known to beat or kill them to 
mete out punishment, necklacing them has been rare.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">An
 investigation is under way by South African officials to determine who 
hired Jantjie as the onstage interpreter at the Mandela memorial service
 and if and how he received security clearance. The officials have not 
said how long their investigation will take place, and reaching them for
 updates was difficult Monday, a public holiday in South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Four
 government departments involved in organizing the historic memorial 
service have distanced themselves from the hiring of Jantjie, telling 
the AP they had no contact with him. A fifth government agency, the 
Department of Public Works, declined to comment and referred all 
inquiries about Jantjie to the office of South Africa’s top government 
spokeswoman, who has only said a “comprehensive report” will eventually 
be released.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jantjie
 told the AP he was hired for the event by an interpretation company 
that has used him on a freelance basis for years, but government 
officials have said the owners of the company have disappeared. The 
address that Jantjie provided for the company was occupied by a 
different company that is not involved in interpreting for the deaf.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
 AP was unable to verify the existence of the school where Jantjie said 
he studied signing for a year. An online search for the school, which 
Jantjie said was called Komani and located in Eastern Cape Province, 
turned up nothing. Advocates for the deaf said they have never heard of 
the school and said there are no known sign language institutes in the 
province.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The
 Star newspaper of Johannesburg reported Friday that Jantjie said he 
studied sign language interpretation in Britain at the “University of 
Tecturers.” A British charity that awards qualifications for deaf and 
deaf-blind communications techniques said it had never heard of the 
university.</span>

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Renegade
 UPDF General David Sejusa aka Tinyefuza over the weekend launched an 
opposition political party in London and cautioned President Museveni 
that his 28-year reign could come to an end soon.</div>
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The
 former spy chief who launched his party on Saturday, named his party 
the ‘Freedom and Unity Front’. “He’s had enough time,” Gen Sejusa said 
on the sidelines of a meeting to launch his party. “He can leave and go,
 and we start a new process of national healing. And we are organising 
ourselves, we are establishing a constitutional rule which he 
destroyed,” Sejusa told Reuters at the launch.</div>
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When
 contacted, Defence and Military spokesperson Paddy Ankunda laughed off 
before saying that he does not want to waste time on such news. “He 
(Sejusa) very well knows that he is breaking the law since he has not 
officially retired from the army,” Lt Col Ankunda said yesterday. 
Adding: “That is just<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">kajoogo</i> (literally meaning familiarity).”<br />
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When
 Gen Sejusa was asked at the launch of his party if he would use force 
to bring change, he said: “It’s not so much that we want to do so. But 
if he (Museveni) continues to unleash terror on the population ours will
 be self-defence.”</div>
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Early
 this year, the five-star general fled the country to the UK after he 
wrote a dossier to the internal security boss asking him to investigate 
assassination claims on top government and military officials opposed to
 the First Son Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba being groomed to take over from 
his father.</div>
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URP leaders have denied that there is a rift in the Jubilee Coalition and termed such reports as propaganda.</div>
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Speaking
 on Sunday at the Africa Inland Church Pioneer in Eldoret at an event 
attended by Deputy President William Ruto, they said that the aim of the
 coalition was to unite all Kenyans and not divide them.</div>
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Elgeyo-Marakwet
 Senator Kipchumba Murkomen criticised leaders attacking the Jubilee 
Coalition, saying they do not understand how the government works.</div>
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Mr
 Murkomen called upon the Deputy President to ignore such utterances 
saying that such leaders were not present when the Jubilee coalition was
 being formed.</div>
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“It
 is so sad to see some leaders criticise the Deputy President yet they 
were not there when they were signing the agreement binding the Jubilee 
Coalition,” Murkomen said.</div>
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“We
 believe God will always be there to ensure that we lead the country 
well. Those leaders who want to cause mayhem in the Jubilee coalition 
should stop,” said the deputy president.</div>
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Another day, another Boko Haram attack. This time in Jakana, Borno

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Over 200 people have been killed in the last two weeks in some troubled 
northern states by Boko Haram insurgents. Another 35 was added to that 
list after gunmen carrying AK47 rifles, Rocket 
Propelled Launchers, Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol 
bombs, invaded Jakana village in 
Konduga LGA, Borno State around 7pm yesterday Monday March 3rd.<br />
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They slaughtered residents of the community and set their homes ablaze 
in a raid that lasted for hours. They also burnt down shops and a police
 station along the 
Maiduguri-Damaturu road.<br />
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The
 attack in Jakana comes barely 12 hours after gunmen killed over 36 
people including 3 soldiers in the Mafa Council area of the state.</div>

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