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Report shows women migrants continue to live in fear (05.06.2009)

By Romi Sigsworth It has been just over a year since the few weeks of seeming madness in May 2008, when xenophobic violence broke out across South Africa, shocking the nation and attracting ...

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Political Risks Seen For Zimbabwe's MDC In Central Bank Row (28.05.2009)

By Patience Rusere The fight within Zimbabwe's national unity government over control of the central bank took a new and troubling twist this week as military and security agency chiefs weighed in ...

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Pardon? (12.05.2009)

By Faranaaz Parker Last week's ruling on the presidential pardons process could have far-reaching implications and, some say, affect the president's power to grant pardons in future. In early 2008, former president ...

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Angola: No law to stop domestic violence (07.05.2009)

By Louise Redvers LUANDA — Teresa Barros' problems started last year with the death of her baby. "Our youngest daughter died," Barros explained. "My husband blames me, and now he drinks a lot ...

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Pardons ruling a measure of comfort (06.05.2009)

By Faranaaz Parker. At a press conference held in Cape Town yesterday, families of the victims of the 1996 Worcester bombing, in which six people died and 65 were injured, expressed their ...

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Court Clears Way for Prosecution of Cases from Apartheid Era in South Africa (05.05.09)

Comfort Ero, Cape Town A court decision today confirming the obligation of prosecutors in South Africa to investigate cases from the apartheid era, especially those involving persons who have been denied ...

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No thanks to the opposition for brake on special pardons (03.05.09)

By Rebecca Murdoch and Hugo van der Merwe The High Court’s ruling this week interdicting the President from granting pardons in terms of the special dispensation for political pardons raises important questions ...

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