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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Dirk Coetzee, who led an apartheid-era death squad and later sought protection from the resistance movement that brought down South Africa's white minority government, has died, a hospital said on Thursday.
reuters.com (2 months and 15 days ago)

Not all black South Africans at the time were opposed to Thatcher, but her economic policies helped sustain apartheidDepending on which side of South Africa's struggle for liberation one wason, one either loved or loathed Margaret Thatcher. Her legacy, particularly the question of whether she prolonged apartheid or brought the system to an earlier end, still continues to...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 7 days ago)
Dirk Coetzee, the former commander of an apartheid-era death squad in South Africa, has died of kidney failure at the age of 57. Granted amnesty for his crimes (including murder) by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997, Coetzee co-founded and ran the notorious Vlakplaas, a covert intelligence unit of the South African Police (SAP) which was involved in the...
ibtimes.com (2 months and 15 days ago)
Albie Sachs helped forge South Africa's constitution after losing an arm in a car bomb attack during the apartheid era.
cnn.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
In Hogsback, South Africa, a mountaintop village surrounded by mist and a primeval forest, the legacy of apartheid still permeates relations between white and black residents.
nytimes.com (13 days ago)
South Africa’s anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela has avoided the public spotlight for years -- but now two of his granddaughters, Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, are putting the minutia of their day-to-day lives on American television for millions to see. The two women, both professionals in their 30s, will star in a new 13-episode reality series called “Being...
ibtimes.com (3 months and 10 days ago)
Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans remain passionately divided over the role Margaret Thatcher played in their country: Did she help or hinder the racist apartheid system and prolong the jailing of Nelson Mandela? The heated discussions triggered by Thatcher's death show how influential South Africans believe she was on the fate of the last bastion of...
foxnews.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A former anti-apartheid activist will talk at Yale University about South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy.
thehour.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former anti-apartheid activist will talk at Yale University about South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy.
boston.com (2 months and 18 days ago)

Quite apart from Britain's historic role in apartheid, cutting aid does nothing for its own interestsUnder British rule in 1900, 50 years before apartheid was formally institutionalised in South Africa, most of its features were already in place in the bustling gold-rush city of Johannesburg: Africans were prevented from walking on pavements, had to carry "passes" to work in...
guardian.co.uk (19 days ago)
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