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Nelson Mandela ‘Proven’ to Be a Member of the Communist Party After Decades of Denial

For decades, it was one of the enduring disputes of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle. Was Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, really a secret Communist, as the white-only government of the time alleged? Or, as he claimed during the infamous 1963 trial that saw him jailed for life, was it simply a [...]

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Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor

Andrew Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor (1894-1921) was South Africa’s highest-scoring fighter pilot during World War One, with 54 victories. “Proccy” (as he became known) was born in Cape Province on 4 September 1894 and was studying engineering at the University of Cape Town when war broke out in August 1914.  He promptly dropped his studies and [...]

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Fighting White Genocide

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SAfrican Gets Life for Killing White Supremacist

A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in a case that has been a source of racial tension in the city of Ventersdorp. About 100 protesters sang anti-white songs outside the courtroom in the city just west of Johannesburg to [...]

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Jacob Zuma Faces Losing £1.2 Million Support for Four Wives

Mr Zuma, 70, and his family currently benefit from a spousal support allowance that is almost double that of his predecessors. His wives take turns to travel with him and otherwise divide their time between individual, luxury thatched huts in his rural homestead and homes in South Africa’s cities. But amid growing anger about the ANC’s [...]

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Eugene Terre’Blanche murder: farmworker found guilty

A black farmworker has been found guilty of murdering Eugene Terre’Blanche, the white supremacist whose death rocked South Africa. Chris Mahlangu, 29, was convicted in a court in the small town of Ventersdorp. His co-accused, Patrick Ndlovu, 18, was found guilty of housebreaking. Terre’Blanche, co-founder of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), who wanted to [...]

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S’Africa: Court to Deliver Terre’Blanche Murder Verdict

A South African court is to deliver its verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of two black farmworkers accused of killing white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche in 2010, reports AFP. Terre’Blanche’s former employees Chris Mahlangu, 29, and an 18-year-old youth are charged with murder, attempted robbery and house breaking and aggravated robbery. The two have [...]

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Race War Rocks Grabouw

Grabouw was “very tense” as thousands of coloured and black residents guarded their schools late last night against attack from either side, following a day when racial tensions exploded. This followed violent protests over overcrowding at the town’s only black school in the morning. The protest spread to a neighbouring coloured community, closing three schools, [...]

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Heads Roll as Racism Boils over on Facebook and Twitter

A Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) student who wrote on Facebook that black people were “f*****g brain dead monkeys” has been suspended from the institution. And security company Bidvest Magnum says one of its employees is also facing disciplinary measures after posting derogatory, racist and threatening comments on Twitter during the outcry over racist [...]

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The Few

‘The Few‘ was the name given to pilots who fought against the Germans in the Battle of Britain. The word ‘few’ was used by Winston Churchill in his famous speech at the end of the battle - “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” The following table does show that many [...]

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