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Political violence
Bolivia on a razor’s edge
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Egypt is using the Africa Cup of Nations as an opportunity to test surveillance technologies on politically conscious fans
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Communities, mining corporations and corruption in South Africa
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Afghan media’s “deadliest day” exposes the resolve, resilience and vulnerability its journalists
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Land and housing activists: “We will take the land because it belongs to us”
There has been an increasing number of land and housing activists that have been murdered lately. Mthunzi “Ras Moziah” Zuma was shot and killed during a road blockade next to the land they were occupying near Khayelitsha Mall. Less than a month later another land and housing activist in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay 41 kilometres west of Khayelitsha was shot by the police during a housing protest and later died in hospital.
Land and housing activists have pledged to continue taking and occupying vacant land despite brutal repression by the state and the killing of those who fight for land. The commitment was made at seminar in Khayelitsha Monday night where different groups of organisations representing activists from Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town met to share their experiences of state and police brutality.
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