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U.S. consulate worker stabbed to death in South Africa
A woman stabbed to death an American man who worked at the US consulate in South Africa in the early hours of Sunday, police said. A guard at a residential complex in upmarket Johannesburg suburb Illovo heard a woman screaming around 3:00 am (0100 GMT), said police spokesman Lungelo Dlamini.…
South African photographer who chronicled apartheid’s fall died at 82
South African photographer Alfred (Alf) Kumalo, who chronicled his country’s transformation from apartheid to democracy, died Sunday in Johannesburg at the age of 82, local media reported. Born in 1930 in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, Kumalo became a photojournalist at the age of 21. During his career, he covered…
15,000 miners take part in new S. African mine strike
Around 15,000 workers have downed tools in South Africa at a Gold Fields mine west of Johannesburg, just under a week after a strike ended at another part of the same mine, the company said Monday. “Employees of the west section of the KDC Gold Mine … on the West…
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