South African billionaire assets placed under curatorship, and other brief reports...

* More than 54 detainees have escaped from a prison in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to a security failure. The escapees smashed the building's rear protective windows, while guards were distributing the inmates' breakfast. The prison was short of five guards at the time of the breakout on Saturday. - News24 * The sister of Hector Pieterson - the boy whose image made headlines of the Soweto uprising - Lulu Pieterson, has joined the Democratic Alliance. Hector was killed when police opened fire on protesting students in Soweto on 16 June 1976. - The Times * Images of deformed p enises on a website slamming botched traditional circumcisions in South Africa have raised the ire of cultural commentators who have called for the site to be shut down. Dingeman Rijken, a Dutch doctor, set up the Ulwaluko.co.za website after scores of boys and young men died last year when their initiation ceremonies into manhood went wrong. But critics say it betrays their culture and should have been handled differently. - Business Day * Zimbabwe's High Court on Thursday released on bail three opposition activists who have been detained for two and a half years over the death of a police officer. The trio was freed on $1 000 bail each. Kumbirai Mafunda, spokesperson for Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights the court has 'ended the agonising misery of three political activists who had endured prolonged detention'. - News24