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The beauty queen and the xenophobes
Beauty pageant contestant Chidimma Adetshina officially withdrew from the Miss South Africa competition following a public outcry questioning her citizenship.
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Thabo Bester saga reveals the dangers in South Africa’s prison privatization
The fugitive saga of South African criminal Thabo Bester is eye-catching for its Bonnie and Clyde-style drama, but is really about the dismal state of the country’s prisons.
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