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South Africa’s Worst State-Sponsored Massacre Since Apartheid
Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...
Research reveals how apartheid-era sexual violence has been 'collectively unremembered' by South African society
A generation of women in South Africa have collectively pushed from their memories apartheid-era sexual violence in a ...
How ‘Casualties of Truth’ drew on a novelist’s experience in South Africa
Lauren Francis-Sharma talks about approaching a traumatic story when “we’re uncomfortable with other people’s pain” ...
White South Africans gather in support of Trump and his claims that they are victims of racism
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Some white South Africans showed support for President Donald Trump on Saturday and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their ...
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Apartheid’s Stratcom agents viewed influential US Trump ally Edwin Feulner ‘as source of advice’
Stratcom steered the apartheid regime’s propaganda war against democracy. A former cop tied to it alleged that its agents were in contact with US figures, one who appears influential in Donald Trump’s ...
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ — Poignant documentary explores life and work of exiled South African apartheid photographer
Cole’s work was inspired by French humanist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The People of Moscow.” These were photographs of ordinary people doing ordinary things in ordinary environments. Cole ...
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How Trump's pledge to punish South Africa reflects Musk's criticism of his homeland
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a ...
Why is Trump punishing South Africa and who are the Afrikaners he wants to give refugee status to?
U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights ...
Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Groups representing some of South Africa's white minority responded Saturday to a plan by ...
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Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution
There have been gruesome murders of white farmers, the focus of the Afrikaner grievances, but police statistics ... action” on South Africa since 1994, when the apartheid regime lost power ...
The Boston Globe10d
Confronting difficult moral questions in ‘Casualties of Truth’
It’s 1996, and the apartheid regime has been toppled ... questions — how to uncover buried truths, such as the South African police and military’s pervasive tactics of torture, rape ...
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Cradock Four: Why apartheid victims are suing South Africa’s government
Apartheid police officials surveilled CRADORA constantly ... Four described their happiness at the decision, believing the South African government would then prosecute the accused men.