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"I thought I knew about apartheid, but it’s different when you hear people’s memories about how this place impacted on their lives. It surprised me to find out how people were treated here." Young South Africans employed as tour guides at Constitution Hill have a revelatory take on recent history.
Many of Baghdad’s Shiite and Sunni Muslims on Wednesday rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces. Al-Sadr meanwhile called for power in Iraq to be handed over to ”honest men” and not to collaborators of the US-led occupation.
South Africa apologised to Rwanda on Wednesday for not ”crying out” loud enough when hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in 100 days of genocide in that country in 1994. ”We did not cry out as loudly as we should have,” President Thabo Mbeki told a commemoration ceremony in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.
About 20 Palestinians were lightly hurt on Wednesday as Israeli troops fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesters demonstrating against the West Bank separation barrier, medical sources said. At least one of the casualties was struck by a rubber-coated bullet while others suffered from the effects of tear gas.
Lawmakers in Côte d’Ivoire have begun debating revisions to a controversial law on the status of foreigners in the West African country, which has been blamed for sparking tensions that led to civil war in 2002. The National Assembly met on Monday and Tuesday in an extraordinary session to debate changes to the law.
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The ministries of safety and security and justice appeared to be ”ministries of mayhem and anarchy”, a Mondeor resident who endorses the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The Alive Campaign and the Suid-Afrika Teen Misdaad-Aksiegroep came out in a show of support for the DA in Johannesburg.
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Synthetic fuels group Sasol and PetroSA, the state-owned oil and gas exploration company, are to sign a heads of agreement document in Pretoria on Thursday to collaborate and possibly engage in joint projects relating to natural gas and chemical operations.
The squirrel on which author Beatrix Potter based her Squirrel Nutkin a century ago is facing extinction in its home in the English Lake District, scientists studying the red squirrel said on Wednesday. Peter Lurz of Newcastle University said fewer than 1 000 of the rare Cumbrian red still survive.