Murder of a reggae star sparks reflection in South Africa
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The Christian Science Monitor - He was a man like any other, a 40-something father gunned down while dropping off his teenaged children at a relative's house. But the murder of reggae star Lucky Dube last Thursday, in an apparent carjacking attempt, has forced South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to make a statement.
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The murder created a South African icon. On Sept. 12, 1998, a crowd of young men fatally beat Gugu Dlamini, 36, in her village in rural KwaZulu-Natal province after she revealed that she carried HIV.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - Crime-ridden,  snarled with traffic and studded with architectural eyesores,  Johannesburg is not a classic holiday spot.
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A violent backlash over the murder of film-maker Theo van Gogh puts Dutch multiculturalism under pressure.
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South Africa may have gone a long way to addressing racial injustices but there is a growing acceptance that its huge wealth gap threatens to derail the achievements of the post-apartheid era.
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David Rattray died in one of the senseless killings that have become all too common in crime-ravaged South Africa. Will his killing be a turning point in the nationâs fight against violence?
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The maker of a film that criticised Islam&#39;s treatment of women was murdered in an Amsterdam street yesterday. The killing stoked the vexed debate in the Netherlands about immigration
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 12 -- A shootout in which police killed 11 gunmen apparently planning to rob a truck transporting money has prompted widespread applause in South Africa and spurred calls to lift a 12-year-old prohibition on the death penalty.
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AMSTERDAM  - Some 20,000 people gathered in Amsterdam to pay homage to controversial Dutch filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh who was murdered in the street.
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An island community is to gather to say goodbye to backpacker Karen Aim who was murdered in New Zealand.
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AMSTERDAM  - Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of controversial Dutch director Theo van Gogh, killed by a suspected Islamic radical in an attack that has shocked traditionally tolerant Dutch society and fueled ethnic tensions.
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African leaders have expressed their sadness at the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. South Africa&#39;s President Thabo Mbeki said Mr Arafat&#39;s life was defined by unflinching sacrifice for his cause.
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INGOGO VILLAGE, South Africa  - Thousands of fans bade an emotional farewell on Sunday to South Africa's top reggae star Lucky Dube, whose murder in an apparent botched carjacking stunned even a nation hardened to violent crime.
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People are protesting outside a court in South Africa over the mauling to death by lions of a boy last month.
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Australian wrongly convicted of murdering baby sees 'mirror image' of her ordeal.
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Nelson Mandela has led South Africa in mourning Adelaide Tambo, the widow of former African National Congress chief Oliver Tambo and herself a stalwart in the apartheid struggle.
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South African reggae star Lucky Dube was shot in an apparent carjacking attempt and died as he tried to drive away and crashed into a car and a tree, police and news reports said Friday.