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Election 2021: 49.3% of voters expected to vote for ANC but DA, EFF to get double-digit figures - poll | News24
According to an Ipsos poll, the ANC will get the lion’s share of votes in the local government elections next month.
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Rwanda: Court to Deliver Ruling on Ntaganzwa's Genocide Trial Next Week
The High Court Chamber for International Crimes in Nyanza will on Thursday June 4, deliver judgment in the case of Genocide suspect Ladislas
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“The Yellow Rose of Texas”: The Ironic Origins of a Popular Song
While many Americans are familiar with the song, The Yellow Rose of Texas, few know the story of Emily West, the African American woman who was the inspiration for its creation.  In the excerpt below from a longer article that first appeared in 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Outrage as hoodlums rape, kill college student in Nigeria [PRESS REVIEW]
On the Punch newspaper, we find the headline Outrage as hoodlums rape, kill UNIBEN undergraduate in
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Veasey, Marc (1971– )
Veasey is a lifelong resident of Fort Worth, Texas, having been born there on January 3, 1971. His parents, Joseph and Connie Veasey, divorced when he was ten, prompting Marc, his brother Ryan, and his mother to move in with his maternal grandmother. Prior to this move, the family had been
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‘I dedicated my whole adult life to the ANC’ – Carl Niehaus bemoans suspension | News24
MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus has decribed his suspension from the ANC as "a painful situation".
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Uganda: Teenager Fighting for Children and Girls' Rights
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ANC pleads for 3-month extension to sort out finances, but workers are ready to down tools | News24
ANC staff members are planning to picket outside Luthuli House and other party offices next week over its failure to pay them.
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Serial rapist sentenced to 15 life sentence plus 30 additional years
Herman Harker, who the police termed a serial rapist, was sentenced for four counts of abduction and sexual
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ANC vs Ace: Luthuli House reacts to court victory against Magashule
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South Africa: Elections 2021 - Xolobeni Voters May Kick ANC Out
[GroundUp] In the coastal region of the Amadiba Tribal Authority, a community's resistance to a controversial mining development is being channelled towards a new campaign: vote the ANC out.
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South Africa: 37-Year Sentence for Taxi Driver Found Guilty of Rape
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DA lays criminal charges against ANC over alleged unpaid UIF contributions | News24
ANC staffers got help from an unexpected source, the DA, in the ongoing labour dispute with their party.
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The Dilemma for the Black Pastor and Racial Reconciliation In The Future.
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Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age
Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age 76 whiel a patient at the Bronx Community Hospital. Norris was one of nine African American teenagers accused of the 1931 rape of two white prostitutes in Alabama. The case was tried several times between 1931 and 1937
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South Africa: ANC's Jessie Duarte Puts Out Red Alert Against Calls for 'Second Wave' of Unrest
[Daily Maverick] The ANC has warned that it would not allow people to 'instigate violence' as it studies another SMS doing the rounds just as some of former president Jacob Zuma's supporters started their planning for his in-person court appearance in Kwa-Zulu-Natal next week.
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The trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, on charges of crimes against humanity began at a UN criminal court at The Hague in 2007. He was charged with abetting the violent rebel group in Sierra Leones civil war that was responsible for atrocities, which included hacking off the
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(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States.  What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January
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‘It’s sickening’: Indiana Republican faces furious backlash over racist Facebook post about Black children
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Retired cop handed life sentence for raping granddaughter 18 years ago
A 78-year-old retired police captain was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Sterkspruit Regional Court on Wednesday for raping his then-10-year-old granddaughter more than 18 years
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Pierre Nkurunziza: Burundi rebel leader turned controversial president
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza died of a heart attack, according to a government statement released June 9, a day after he passed away in a local
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NDAHINDA: What to expect when Kabuga faces justice
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Youth Day: Steenhuisen blitzes ANC - using Western Cape comparisons
John Steenhuisen gave a fiery Youth Day speech on Wednesday, and asked voters to compare the DA-run Western Cape with the rest of the country.
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Burundi: I Cry, Not for Nkurunziza, but for the Lives He Broke
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