Several months ago, KwaZulu-Natal pupil Pumla Mlondo (20) didn’t think twice when her father told her to dispose of old oil and batteries in the nearby Tugela river. When her mother told her to throw the dirty laundry water into the river – she went straight ahead. When her fellow pupil, Elvis Xaba (18), told […]
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/ 2 November 2003
South Africa’ impoverished amaHlubi nation is demanding multimillion-rand restitution from the British government in terms of a nearly forgotten 128-year-old proclamation by Queen Victoria. The 1875 proclamation promised to compensate them after imperial troopers executed 200 people and torched scores of villages.