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Black Panther actress Connie Chiume passes away
The Black Panther actress, Connie Chiume, has passed away at the age of 72.
The South African actress took her last breath in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday, August 6th.
The news was made known by her family via social media, specifically through a post shared on her personal Instagram account.
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Controversial S. African businessman "had contact in Serbia"
In a report from the trial of Nafiz Modack, who is accused of racketeering and "shady dealings" around the security business in Cape Town's nightclubs, the South African website News24 said that one of the witnesses, a policeman, said there were "several recorded conversations Modack had, including with someone in Serbia."
BNP says Nelson Mandella statue in London should be taken down
The statue of Nelson Mandela in London’s Parliament Square should be removed because the anti-apartheid leader was not British, did nothing for the UK, and was a violent terrorist, the far-right British National Party (BNP) has said.
US appeals court rejects apartheid cases against Ford, IBM
Victims of apartheid in South Africa cannot sue IBM Corp. and Ford Motor Co. in New York because they cannot show that the companies' alleged offending behavior occurred in the United States, a federal appeals court said on July 27.
Omar al-Bashir and international law
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and war crimes, fled from an African Union summit meeting last Monday before the conference ended. The South African High Court was going to order him arrested and handed over to the ICC, but the South African government let him fly out of a military airport near Pretoria.
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Court gives S.Africa seven days to explain why it let Bashir go
The South African government has a week to explain to judges why it defied a court order barring the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country.