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No criminal charges in 1993 Highgate Hotel massacre after 30-year investigation
EAST LONDON – More than three decades after gunmen opened fire at the Highgate Hotel in East London, a court has ruled that no one can be held criminally responsible…
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Court overturns 58-year-old ruling: ANC Nobel Laureate Albert Luthuli was murdered by apartheid police
JOHANNESBURG – In a landmark ruling that rewrites a dark chapter of South Africa’s apartheid history, a court declared Thursday that African National Congress leader Albert Luthuli was murdered by…
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Afrikaner enclave faces legal battle over unauthorised land use
The Afrikaner-only settlement of Kleinfontein is embroiled in a heated legal dispute with municipal authorities who consider the community illegal and are demanding residents pay property rates 300 times higher…
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Steve Biko death inquest court date announced, exactly 48 years after his death
GQEBERHA – Nearly five decades after the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko shocked the world, a South African court has reopened the inquest into his killing, with prosecutors…
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Biko murder inquest reopens nearly five decades after his death
South African prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they will reopen the inquest into the death of prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, marking the latest development in a growing effort to…
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Minister approves joint inquest into 1993 SADF killing of five students in Mthatha
The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development has approved the National Director of Public Prosecutions’ request for the holding of a joint inquest into the deaths of five youths killed by the…
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SA calls US welcome for white Afrikaners ‘apartheid 2.0’
Washington’s preferential treatment of white Afrikaners for resettlement into the United States is “apartheid 2.0”, South Africa’s foreign minister said.
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McKenzie wants return of apartheid-, colonial-era remains to South Africa
Johannesburg – South Africa is determined to repatriate the remains of its people taken abroad during the colonial era and those who died in exile as anti-apartheid activists, the Minister…
