THE South African Broadcasting Corporation was served a second subpoena on Thursday in an attempt to force it to hand over to investigators video footage of the lynching in August 1996 of Hard Living gang co-leader Rashaad Staggie. Staggie was shot and burned to death by a vigilante mob in Cape Town in the first public action by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. The SABC was first subpoenaed for the video footage last year, along with several other local and international news organisations. The corporation said it will challenge the new subpoena.
TOTAL LAND CLAIMS
THE closing date for the lodging of land claims was December 31 1998, and total land claims figures are now available. They are KwaZulu-Natal, 14090; Western and Northern Cape, 12010; Eastern Cape and Free State, 9615; Gauteng and North West, 9690; Mpumalanga and Northern Province, 8813. The total is 54218. Though some of these land claims represent individuals and some represent whole communities, as in the case of the claim for District Six. There, a single claim represents 1823 claimants, each of whom represents an entire household.