Update 7.09pm: Lawyers for the young model who claims Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe assaulted her in a Johannesburg hotel have said that her family has been approached with an offer of money to drop the allegation.

HE is well-known for shooting from the hip, but Bono has caused a stir in South Africa by giving his support to the rendition of an anti-apartheid song that includes the lyrics “shoot the farmer”.

The former head of South Africa’s police was jailed for 15 years today for corruption, but immediately given bail to appeal.

A South African white supremacist leader was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent wage dispute, police said, but his followers today blamed a fiery youth leader for a “hate speech” which they claim led to his killing.