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Angola battles legacy of conflict (17.04.2009)

Luanda - Angola's determination to move on from three decades of bloodshed has created a society that has not come to terms with the past and has high levels of domestic violence, a ...

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Court told of victim participation in pardons (14.04.2009)

By ILSE DE LANGEJOHANNESBURG - The consideration of presidential pardons to persons convicted of politically motivated apartheid-era crimes without any input from victims was an affront to the human dignity of victims, ...

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South Africa: Court Bid to Prevent Motlanthe Pardons (15.04.2009)

By Franny Rabkin. Johannesburg — LAWYERS for President Kgalema Motlanthe told the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria yesterday that an application to interdict him from giving presidential pardons to people who ...

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Cracks Appearing in Zimbabwe's Eight-Week-Old Unity Government (10.04.2009)

By Gibbs Dube, Blessing Zulu & Ntungamili Nkomo Just one week after Zimbabwe's cabinet gathered in retreat in the resort town of Victoria Falls seeking to achieve cohesion on a program of national ...

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Why does South Africa have such high rates of violent crime?

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). (April 2009). Why does South Africa have such high rates of violent crime? Supplement to the final report of the study on the violent nature of ...

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Political pardons opposed (02.04.2009)

The Pretoria high court will today hear an application by a coalition of civil organisations for an interdict preventing President Kgalema Motlanthe from pardoning more than 100 people convicted of apartheid-era political ...

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