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

SOUTH AFRICA’S prosecuting authority will charge national police chief and head of Interpol JackieSelebi with corruption, a spokes- man said last night.

The president of Interpol is to be charged with corruption in his native South Africa.

SOUTH African prosecutors said yesterday they had obtained an arrest warrant for national police chief and Interpol president Jackie Selebi, as one of his friends appeared in court on murder charges.

South African police today unearthed a large arms cache on a farm in the north of the country, believed to belong to a right wing group plotting to overthrow the government.