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South Africa’s long-awaited apartheid crimes probe hits legal snag on opening day
South Africa’s long-awaited inquiry into claims that successive post-apartheid governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was delayed on its opening day after a dispute arose over one of its lead lawyers. The inquiry, commissioned by President Cyril Ramaphosa in April, follows years of frustration from families of apartheid victims who argue that successive administrations…
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Decades after apartheid-era murder, Cradock Four inquiry reopens long-buried wounds in South Africa
Forty years after the gruesome killings of four Black South African activists by apartheid...
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How Alvin Boutte founded America’s largest Black-owned bank and helped MLK, Mandela
Alvin J. Boutte Sr. became the owner of one of the biggest Black-owned banks in the United...
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Is Julius Nyerere Africa’s most important personality in human history?
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has declared Tanzania’s founding father Mwalimu...
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Nelson Mandela International Day Launched
In honor of Nelson Mandela’s life long commitment to leadership and service, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has officially launched the Nelson Mandela International Day Campaign. The...
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From Slavery to Lumumba to Mandela, Pan Africanism Has Been Integral to Our Freedom
“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.” – Steve Biko “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves...
