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How a former ‘street kid’ is key to South Africa’s police corruption inquiry
Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, due to appear at the Madlanga Commission, grew up hustling to make a living.
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‘It wasn’t a dream, it was a threat’: the film festival celebrating pan-Africanism’s rich and complex history
Project a Black Planet: Film, a new season of screenings at the Barbican in London exemplifies how the movement was an act of solidarity, resistance and fierce creativity Algiers, 1969. What had, for seven years, been the metropolis of a newly independent country became, over the course of 12 days in July, the cosmopolitan centre…
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Diamond giant De Beers halts work at flagship South African mine as demand plummets
Production will stop for two years at the mine which employs more than 4,000 people.
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Mother and two daughters ‘murdered by IT expert father before he fled to South Africa’ died of blunt force trauma, post mortem finds
Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, has been accused of murdering his wife, Nothabo, 42, and their two girls and appeared in court today in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Wales captain Lake set to miss South Africa Test
Dewi Lake is set to miss his first game under Steve Tandy when Wales face the world champions in the Nations Championship on Saturday.
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Killings continue on Del Monte farm in Kenya, families say, after G4S hired for security
Exclusive: Three men killed in incidents over past year allegedly involving G4S guards, who replaced in-house team after previous deaths Bereaved families and politicians have raised alarm about continued killings on Del Monte’s pineapple farm in Kenya despite the company hiring G4S to replace its in-house security team after previous deaths were exposed by the…
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Police Investigate Death Of World Cup Player
South Africa’s Jayden Adams was discovered dead at a property in Cape Town, two weeks after helping his country reach the knockout stage.
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Husband accused of killing wife and children at £1.3m British home ‘was armed and dangerous’ when elite cops arrested him in South Africa – as he appears in court
A man accused of killing his wife and children at their £1.3 million home in Britain was arrested in South Africa after police treated him as armed and dangerous, and he has now appeared in court. The case matters because it involves the deaths of multiple family members, an international manhunt and the prospect of…
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Illegal migrant, 26, who attacked City workers outside Tube station to rob them of their phones, a laptop, and £600 family heirloom ring is jailed for five years
A 26-year-old man described in the article as an illegal migrant has been jailed for five years after attacking City workers outside Farringdon Tube station and robbing them. The report says he stole mobile phones, a laptop and a family heirloom ring worth £600. The case matters because it concerns violent street crime in a…