Stella Sigcau, the South African Minister of Public Works, died about 10 pm on Sunday 7 May 2006 at the age of 69.
She didn't waste much time in getting online in her new abode, because on
the following Tuesday she sent this e-mail:
First, let me start by introducing myself as Mrs.Stella Sigcau, a mother of three children and the Minister of Public Works in South African Government (17 June 1999) to date under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR THABO MBEKI. You can view my profile at my website:
http://www.gov.za/gol/gcis_profile.jsp?id=1068 After the swearing in ceremony making me the Minister of Public Works in South African Government (17 June 1999) , my husband Mr Edelebe Sigcau died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1996.After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$20.5M with a South African bank .
This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed
with the Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting this
contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that
the government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date.If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definetely affect my political career in Government.
The message also included the following:
J'ai une nouvelle adresse mail
Vous pouvez maintenant m'?crire ? :?stalla_sigcau06@yahoo.fr
Perhaps Yahoo! should use this in their advertising -- "You can use Yahoo!
e-mail from ANYWHERE!" Here's the proof -- an e-mail from hell (or heaven, as
the case may be).
Or are we to believe rather that France is hell, or heaven?