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Abhik Kumar Chanda

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/ 19 June 2006

China to cement ties with South Africa

Wen Jiabao this week embarks on the first visit to South Africa by a Chinese premier in 50 years as the continental powers join forces to push the developing world’s agenda in the global arena. The landmark visit on Wednesday and Thursday underlines the importance Beijing accords to Pretoria eight years after they established diplomatic relations.

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/ 13 June 2006

June 16 ‘an excuse to go drinking’

South Africa this week marks the 30th anniversary of a watershed in its anti-apartheid struggle when hundreds of children in Soweto protesting the forced teaching of Afrikaans died in a brutal police crackdown. The June 16 youth protest began in the black township of Soweto, spreading like wildfire across the country and marking a turning point in the liberation movement.

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/ 17 November 2005

Angolan war orphans start new lives, reunited with kin

Teresa Nandulo (13) mothered her three siblings for three years after losing her father during Angola’s 27-year war and her own mother soon after. Reunited with relatives, she yearns for a role change. One of the estimated 18 000 people still separated from their families after the war, Nandulo and her sister and two brothers, were reunited with their paternal uncle last weekend by the Red Cross.

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/ 20 October 2004

Unions protest visit by Israeli ‘hate-monger’

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality embraced by President Thabo Mbeki’s government. Olmert is the most senior Israeli official to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123892">SA govt defends Israeli leader’s visit</a>

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/ 31 July 2003

Troops head for Liberia ‘in days’

Hopes for a break to the fighting in Liberia’s besieged capital were on the rise on Thursday as a west African military team assessed the situation for the proposed deployment of peacekeepers, due to be discussed at a meeting of regional leaders in Ghana.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=18070">West Africa’s advance team</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=18056">Scramble to gather troops for Liberia</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=18028">’Treat me right'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=18041">Monrovia’s civilians rally for peace</a>

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