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RhodesMustFall has become a headline story and frequently used hash-tag in social media It is has become the label given to a raging debate around curricula race white privilege and colonialism at institutions of higher learning in South Africa The Rhodes Must Fall campaign began at one of Afri
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Parliament erupted into a brawl just a few sentences into the president's speech
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In recent weeks South Africans have once again witnessed xenophobic violence The violence broke out after a Somali shop owner in Soweto shot a 14-year old local dead The shop owner claims that the boy part of a gang of youths was trying to steal from him One of the youths dropped a gun in the p
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Benedict Daswa, a layman, was killed for his opposition to the use of traditional medicines.
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Notorious apartheid-era death squad commander given parole after 20 years behind bars.
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On May 7, 10 days after the celebration of the anniversary of their nation’s first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africans went to the polls in the first vote since the death of Nelson Mandela last December. The African National Congress gained a 62 percent majority to retain p
On May 7, just 10 days after the celebration of the anniversary of the first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africans will got to the polls. These will be the first elections after the death of Nelson Mandela six months ago. Although the ruling African National Congress (A.N.C.) will undou
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Nelson Mandela not only forgave; he wanted the injured to forgive and the offenders to accept responsibility and with it the forgiveness he offered to them.