South Africa
Today in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo
October 27, 2015Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.
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South Africa: miners’ killing marked with call for unity
August 19, 2015President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to remember the 44 people killed at the Marikana platinum mine.
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South African Communists reassess country’s national democratic revolution
July 13, 2015The South African Communist Party's Special National Congress took stock of a range of problems besetting South Africa's young democracy.
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Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
June 25, 2015The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
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Today in people’s history: Nelson Mandela released from prison
February 11, 2015Today marks exactly 25 years since the day in 1990 when anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison to become a free man in South Africa.
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