25 July 2011 Last updated at 09:12 ET

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South Africa: 'Dead man' wakes up inside morgue


A 50-year-old South African man woke up inside a mortuary over the weekend and screamed to be let out - scaring away attendants who thought he was a ghost.

His family presumed he was dead when they could not wake him on Saturday night and contacted a private morgue in a rural village in the Eastern Cape.

He spent almost 24 hours inside the morgue, the region's health department spokesman told the Sapa news agency.

The two attendants later returned and called for an ambulance.

The man - whose identity has been withheld - was treated in hospital for dehydration.
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Sizwe Kupelo Eastern Cape health spokesperson

"Doctors put him under observation and concluded he was stable," Eastern Cape health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said.

"He did not need further treatment."

Mr Kupelo said the man woke up at 1700 local time (1500 GMT) on Sunday, demanding to be let out of the chilly morgue in Libode village, frightening the attendants on duty.

"At first the men ran for their lives," said Mr Kupelo.

Officials have urged the public to contact doctors or the emergency services so they can they can pronounce someone dead before calling an undertaker.

"You begin to ask yourself how many other people have died like that in a morgue," said Mr Kupelo.

"We need to [get] the message across to all South Africans that it is very wrong for them to conclude on their own that a person has died," he said.

The Norway attacks

Manifesto of a murderer

Jul 24th 2011, 8:54 by C.M. | COPENHAGEN

EVER since Anders Behring Breivik fired the opening volley of the shooting spree that took the lives of at least 85 youngsters on the small Norwegian island of Utøya on Friday, every few hours has brought some new shock.

The latest revelation is that the 32-year-old Norwegian appears to have spent nine years planning the massacre. This, at least, is the claim in an extraordinary 1,500-page document Mr Breivik published on the internet a few hours before the first part of his two-pronged attack—the bombing of a government complex in Oslo.

Mr Breivik’s manifesto exposes his preparations as meticulous and obsessive. According to his own testimony he spent several years earning money to finance the attacks. He moved into his mother’s apartment to save money on rent and gradually distanced himself from friends and relatives in order to avoid suspicion.

During this time he read and contributed to far-right and Islamophobic websites, and spent many hours learning how to build a bomb.

He stage-managed his own image, taking dozens of self-portraits in which he appears in a variety of uniforms—police, paramilitary and traditional Norwegian costume—and publishing them online. His preparations for these photos included visits to tanning salons and beauty parlours.

The final phase involved leasing an isolated farmhouse. This gave him solitude, an excuse for buying the huge amount of fertiliser he needed for the bomb, and a barn big enough to store it.

Mr Breivik went to elaborate lengths to conceal his purpose. People who wanted to visit were told he was busy with the summer harvest, though he knew nothing of farming. He was apparently content to let a rumour circulate that he had dropped out of circulation in shame over a homosexual affair.

Mr Breivik's manifesto—“2083. A European Declaration of Independence”—also provides some insight into his motivations. His ideology appears to be a form of reactionary Christian fundamentalism, fuelled by hatred of Islam, Marxism and non-whites.

Page after page detail his thoughts on politics and society. He rails against the European Union, the United Nations and other transnational organisations. Norwegian politicians are castigated: the right-wing Progress Party (to which he once belonged) is condemned as too tame and the ruling Labour Party comes in for particularly vicious attack.

Mr Breivik’s hatred has stunned Norwegians. The country has a proud reputation as an international peace-broker, is home to the Nobel peace prize and has scant appetite for rightist radicalism. Even during its heyday under the Nazi occupation, Vidkun Quisling’s fascist Nasjonal Samling Party mustered no more than 2.5% of the vote. In 2009's general election, the neo-Nazi party Vigrid won just 179 votes.

The only serious far-right violent incident in recent years was the murder, in 2001, of Benjamin Hermansen, the 15-year-old son of a Norwegian mother and Ghanaian father. Two members of BootBoys, a neo-Nazi group, were convicted of the killing.

Following the murder anti-racism rallies took place throughout Norway, with some 40,000 people joining a candlelit procession through Oslo’s streets. This year, on the tenth anniversary of the murder, 5,000 people gathered for a vigil.

Far-right extremists have kept a low profile in recent years. Norway’s intelligence services have warned of a potential threat, but the population and the media were more focused on the possibility of Islamist violence.

What far-right activity there was seems to have occurred online. And although these were monitored by intelligence agencies, Mr Breivik's determined attempts to conceal his plans appear to have ensured he stayed under the radar until it was too late.

(Photo credit: AFP)

The Progress Party isn't "Far" right or even moderately right. If anything they lean left.

The media was quick to label him a Right Wing Extremist and yet they have shown not one bit of evidence that he is even remotely right wing. Much like they claimed the Oklahoma City Bomber, the Branch Davidians and the Arizona Shooter. were Right Wing also.

Actually he quotes and paraphrases the Uni-bomber's manifesto which points to an extreme left wing view.

this is a comic circus. anthonyc, due to the fact that most scholars who really attended school believe the unabomber to have espoused right wing views, please adumbrate, for the benefit of the unschooled, some of the views that you characterise as extreme left wing.

obviously neither fox news or the wall street journal labeled him as such or AC would have also. so predictable. most of the crimes against humanity does come from the right.

i have no idea what we have done to deserve the generous ministrations of one so learned as anthonyc. i mean, hundreds of scholars, academics, reporters, psychologists, psychiatrists, and historians, have labelled this guy as a right wing extremist. in comes the Headless Horse´s Ass, anthonyc, to save us from misinformation. he will assure us that ALL these guys are wrong in their assessments. their folks wasted precious money sending them to institutes of higher learning. they could all have saved the time getting educated, and simply come to him for all the knowledge a decent person could ever want. so, they are all wrong , labelling him a right wing extremist. he, Hannity, Rush, and such well revered academics, have solved it. he was a left winger. there, you have it from anthonyc, and his equine troupe.

That is your problem. You pay attention to twits who consider themselves scholars!

The Unibomber's main issue was the Commercialization and industrialization of society.

In what alternate reality is that not a Left Wing View?




Really?

Mao?
Stalin?
Hitler?
Pol Pot?
Castro?
Kim Il Jung?

Wow.....I never knew they were all Right Wing....

The more I think about it the more I realize that those on the left are really living in an alternate reality in which normal forms of conduct and natural human nature do not occur and History is what they can make up to suit their views.

anthonyc states

That is your problem. You pay attention to twits who consider themselves scholars!


better listening to scholars than semi literate buffoons who hold to the belief that FRD caused the great depression

Show us where I said FDR CAUSED the Great Depression!!!

Go ahead...I dare ya to show everyone where I stated that. Lets see if you have the Balls!!!

I said that FDR's policies extended and exacerbated the great depression and I had a Paper from an esteemed and highly regarded economist who's study backs up that claim.

So you just go and show me and everyone else where i said he CAUSED the Great Depression.

i am a patient guy. a pit bull. i never quit. i finally found it, the quote from anthonyc

It is pretty much the consensus that FDR turned the Hoover recession into the great depression with his policies.

remember that one, anthonyc?