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France politics
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1 week agoIt's going to give us closure': could there finally be justice for the murder of Patrice Lumumba?
Patrice Lumumba's assassination symbolizes the suppression of pan-African liberation by colonial forces, with a Belgian diplomat now facing trial decades later.
LGBT
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2 weeks agoSouth Africa was on the cutting edge of LGBTQ+ equality. Why hasn't it banned conversion therapy? - LGBTQ Nation
Conversion therapy has damaging effects on transgender individuals, and Africa's historical acceptance of queer identities contrasts sharply with current intolerance.
Social justice
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2 weeks agoIt's time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slavery trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama
Ghana calls for UN recognition of transatlantic slavery as a crime against humanity and seeks reparatory justice with global support.
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Canada news
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3 weeks agoWhy South Africa is sending soldiers into cities
South Africa experiences approximately 64 daily homicides across the country, with gang violence and organized crime concentrated in densely populated townships like Mitchells Plain, prompting military deployment to combat illegal mining and crime.
SF politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks agoSegregation': Multimillion-dollar crime wall causes uproar in S Africa
Cape Town's proposed N2 highway wall to combat crime highlights inequality, as residents lack basic services while authorities fund security infrastructure instead of housing and sanitation improvements.
Russo-Ukrainian War
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1 month agoOur children were sold off': The South Africans sent to fight Russia's war
African men, including South Africans, were deceived into traveling to Russia for security training but were instead conscripted into paramilitary forces and sent to fight in Ukraine, with African soldiers reporting worse treatment than others on the front lines.
Social justice
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4 weeks agoHistory longs to heal': how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice
The African Union declared 2025 the year of reparations and extended it through 2036, advancing a continental push for justice and redress for colonialism, slavery, and their lasting impacts.
Right-wing politics
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1 month agoSouth Africa's president calls Trump's policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners racist'
South African President Ramaphosa criticizes Trump's refugee policy for white Afrikaners as racist, citing Trump's false claims about white genocide and land seizure in South Africa.
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1 month agoFamily at centre of protest deported back to South Africa
Ireland deported 63 people including nine children to South Africa on a charter flight, including a family who fled xenophobic violence and had their asylum application rejected despite safety concerns.
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1 month agoTrump appoints Leo Brent Bozell III, a defender of apartheid in the 1980s, as ambassador to South Africa
In the 1980s he was known for his defense of apartheid and his criticism of the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in Pretoria, which he accused of terrorism. In 2013, five days after the death of Nelson Mandela, the great South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he said that the media idealized his figure.
US politics
Mental health
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2 months agoQuote of the day by Nelson Mandela: "It always seems impossible until it is done" - Silicon Canals
Perceived impossibility often reflects mental magnification and fear; reframing challenges as uncomfortable permits small initial steps that enable major life change.
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2 months agoMarwan Barghouti, Palestine's Mandela', to publish book from prison
A collection of writings by the imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti will be published in November, bringing together prison letters, interviews, personal material and documents from the last three decades of Barghouti's political life and incarceration. As deadly attacks on Gaza continue despite a nominal ceasefire, the 66-year-old is seen by many as the best hope for a leader of any future Palestinian state.
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