The Nobel peace prize stolen from the Soweto home of South Africa's leading anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu was returned to his wife Saturday, police said. The peace prize, together with other stolen goods, were identified by his wife Leah and handed over to her at the Orlando police station in Soweto, police spokeswoman Thembi Nkwashu told AFP.
Apart from the Nobel gold medal, which the former archbishop of Cape Town won in 1984, electrical goods including two television sets and a DVD player, jewellery and other awards stolen from the house were returned to her, she said.
Five men - aged 21 to 39 - were charged last Tuesday with theft and the illegal possession of stolen goods taken during the burglary of the cleric's home and are to appear before magistrates Wednesday in Johannesburg, she added. The items taken during the break-in last weekend in the Soweto township on the outskirts of Johannesburg were recovered on Monday.
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