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Court orders relocation of Mandela remains

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 02 Juli 2013 | 09.52

A SOUTH African court has ordered the return of the remains of three of Nelson Mandela's children to his ancestral village, following a bitter family feud linked to the eventual burial site of the ailing anti-apartheid hero.

A judge in the southern city of Mthatha instructed Mandela's eldest grandson Mandla to transfer the remains to Qunu by 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Wednesday.

Mandla allegedly had the graves moved to Mvezo, about 30 kilometres away, without the rest of the family's consent in 2011.

Mandela, who remains critically ill in what is now his fourth week in hospital, had expressed his wish to be buried in Qunu, and his daughters want to have the children's remains transferred so they can be together.

Mandela's parents are also interred at the family gravesite in Qunu.

Previously the grandson has argued that Mandela should be buried at his birthplace Mvezo, where Mandla holds court as clan chief.

The court order was issued in response to a request by 16 relatives of the revered leader, including two daughters and several grandchildren.

"I now rule that the respondent complies with the order to return the remains by 3:00 pm on Wednesday," said Judge Lusindiso Pakade.

The remains belonged to Mandela's eldest son Thembekile who died in 1969, his nine-month-old infant Makaziwe who passed away in 1948, and Mandla's own father Magkatho who died in 2005.

Mandela has three surviving children, and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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70-year-old charged over child sex offence

A FORMER member of the Catholic church has been charged over child sex offences from the 1970s and 1980s.

The 70-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in connection with child sex offences allegedly committed on the NSW south coast and in Sydney's west, police say.

He was later charged with with five counts of indecent assault on a male.

Conditional bail was granted and he's due before Penrith Local Court in late July.

A police spokeswoman would not provide details about the man's position within the church.

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US auto sales accelerate in June

US auto sales accelerated in June with General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Toyota posting strong gains as analysts forecast more growth in the months to come.

Toyota led the pack with a 14 per cent gain to 195,235 vehicles in June. Sales for the first half of the year were up six per cent at 1.1 million vehicles.

"The auto industry led the economic recovery through the first half of 2013, kicking off a strong summer selling season, which we expect will carry into the second half of the year," said Bill Fay, general manager of the Japanese automaker's Toyota division.

"Sales in June were solid, and demand didn't skip a beat."

The gains came as Toyota celebrated selling its 10 millionth Camry, which has held the crown for the top-selling car in the Unites States for the past 11 years.

Ford's sales climbed 13 per cent to 235,643 vehicles in its best June performance since 2006. Sales for the first half of the year were also up 13 per cent at 1.3 million vehicles.

"In June, we continued to see strong demand across the entire lineup," said Ken Czubay, Ford's sales chief.

"We're particularly encouraged by strong retail share gains, especially in coastal markets, where the combination of great design and fuel economy is resonating with customers -- including many buying a Ford for the first time."

Chrysler's sales rose eight per cent to 156,686 vehicles in the company's best June in six years. Sales for the first half of the year were up nine per cent at 908,332.

"The fundamentals for continued industry gains in new vehicle sales remain intact," Reid Bigland, Chrysler's sales chief, said in a statement.

GM's sales increased six per cent to 264,843 in June and were up eight per cent for the first half of the year at 1.4 million vehicles.

"We have good momentum heading into the second half of 2013: the economic outlook is solid and our launch vehicles are performing well in the marketplace," GM sales Kurt McNeil said in a statement.

Automotive website Edmunds.com forecast that total industry sales will rise 6.3 per cent in June and come in at an adjusted, annualized rate of 15.5 million vehicles once all automakers have reported.

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Countries reject Snowden asylum bids

SEVERAL countries have rushed to reject asylum requests from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden after he sought safe haven in 21 nations in a bid to win protection from American authorities.

Most European countries either flatly rejected the request or reacted cooly. But the leftist leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia rose to the 30-year-old's defence and said they would consider the application under the right conditions.

Snowden found particular support in Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela -- a long-term thorn in the side of the United States.

"What he did was reveal a big truth so that we could avoid a war," Maduro said during a two-day visit to Moscow for an energy summit.

"What is happening now should not be -- he never killed anyone or planted any bombs."

But Maduro refused to entertain speculation he might take Snowden on a plane with him from Moscow -- a possibility raised both by Russian media and political observers of the explosive case.

Bolivian President Evo Morales also said his country was willing to consider giving Snowden asylum.

"If there were a request, of course we would be willing to debate and consider the idea," Morales told Russia's state-run RT television in comments translated from Spanish.

Poland immediately rejected Snowden's petitions while an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said there was "no reason to accede to the request."

The Netherlands also said no while Brazil said it was "not going to respond."

And a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Snowden himself had decided to scrap his petition with Moscow -- where he has been stranded in an airport transit zone since June 23 -- after the Kremlin chief said he wanted him to stop releasing damaging allegations about the United States.

"He abandoned his intention and his request to receive the chance of staying in Russia," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website -- its associate Sarah Harrison travelling with the former National Security Agency contractor -- said he had sent out applications to 13 European countries as well as six Latin American nations along with China and India.

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