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Group of 160 lawyers write to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for an investigation

The ANC will today back Cope’s Colleen Makhubela for the position of speaker of the Johannesburg council despite the instability in her party that could cost her the council seat, the party’s Johannesburg leader Dada Morero has said.

Thirty years ago, a majority of White South African voters approved a referendum supporting the dismantling of apartheid, the country’s harsh institutionalized system of racial segregation.

Hector Pieterson Museum Hector Pieterson Museum The museum is named after one of the first casualties of the march through Soweto on 16 June 1976, when police were ordered to shoot at a crowd of demonstrating students. Sam Nzima's photograph of the mortally wounded Hector Pieterson carried by a horrified youngster and his wailing sister came to symbolise the contribution of the youth to the liberation struggle. The museum is next to the Hector Pieterson Memorial, and the whole area has been declared a national heritage site. Visitors move along a series of ramps and look through strategicall...