Following several months of fruitless attempts to track him down, he was arrested on Wednesday evening at the Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton-Johannesburg following a tip-off.

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The Butcher Shop and Grill on the edge of Nelson Mandela Square, a public courtyard and shopping centre in Sandton, is a favourite of tourists and locals alike.

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He kept his main home in Britain where just recently he had been campaigning to have a statue of Nelson Mandela erected in Trafalgar Square.

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