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/ 25 November 2007
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On December 16, delegates to the 52nd national conference of the African National Congress will meet in Polokwane to decide if President Thabo Mbeki should have a third term as party president and, with it, power over the party’s MPs. In the meantime, every day brings more intrigue in the succession race.
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/ 2 September 2007
”All the refugees who remained — the old, women, children and the feeble — were killed and burnt.” Eleven years ago, thousands of children and adults were left stranded by the Ulindi River in what is now the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as troops, hellbent on avenging the Rwandan genocide, closed in. Ruaridh Nicoll returns to a country he left in 1996, to reveal a horrific story of rape and slaughter.