Farmer fined for painting labourer

Johannesburg - A white farmer who had a black labourer stripped naked and painted for allegedly trespassing on his land was yesterday fined 3,200 rand (€500) by a South African court, a news report said. Frederick de Beer, a farmer from Mpumalanga province, was also given an 18-month jail sentence, suspended for four years, after being found guilty of kidnapping and assaulting the labourer, Mr Moses Nkosi, in July last year, SABC television reported.