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South Africans protest Uganda law criminalising LGBTQ identity

Reuters 31 Mar 2023
PRETORIA/CAPE TOWN, March 31 (Reuters) - South Africans took to the streets of Pretoria and Cape Town on Friday to protest against a Ugandan law passed last week that makes it a criminal offence to be openly LGBTQ ... outside the United Nations Information Centre in Pretoria.
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Oscar Pistorius parole: Early release to be considered

Yahoo Daily News 31 Mar 2023
The former amputee sprinter is currently in a low-security prison in rolling fields just outside the city of Pretoria ... law stipulates that he should be released under supervision. This would be most likely at his uncle's home in Pretoria, pending the result of any review or appeal.
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Oscar Pistorius: from ‘Blade Runner’ hero to convicted murderer

FX Empire 31 Mar 2023
14 – Pistorius kills then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, when he fires four shots through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day ... 15 – Pistorius is charged with murder in a Pretoria court ... uncle’s home in a wealthy suburb of Pretoria.
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Oscar Pistorius: from 'Blade Runner' hero to convicted murderer

Reuters 31 Mar 2023
14 - Pistorius kills then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, when he fires four shots through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home on Valentine's Day ... 15 - Pistorius is charged with murder in a Pretoria court ... home in a wealthy suburb of Pretoria.
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South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius denied parole

The Irish Times 31 Mar 2023
Photograph ... Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, when he fired four times through the bathroom door of his high-security Pretoria house in February 2013. The parole board’s decision was taken at a hearing at the correctional facility on the outskirts of the capital, Pretoria, where the 36-year-old is being held ... READ MORE.
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Oscar Pistorius denied parole over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

The Guardian 31 Mar 2023
Pistorius killed Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, when he fired four times ...
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Cilliers Brink elected as new mayor of Tshwane

Business Day 28 Mar 2023
Brink, a University of Pretoria law graduate, is no stranger to the municipality, having served as a councillor in 2011 and as group corporate and shared services MMC from 2016 to 2019 ... TimesLIVE .
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You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock, You Will Be Crushed

Scheerpost 28 Mar 2023
When the racist regime tried to enforce policies and laws to restrict the movement of Africans, she entered the world of politics and fought the ... On 9 August 1956, 20,000 women marched to South Africa’s capital of Pretoria and demanded the abolition of the apartheid pass laws.
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No Billion-Dollar Bailouts For Africa

Consortium News 27 Mar 2023
When the racist regime tried to enforce policies and laws to restrict the movement of Africans, she entered the world of politics and fought the oppression ... 9, 1956, 20,000 women marched to South Africa’s capital of Pretoria and demanded the abolition of the apartheid pass laws.
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PSC: Law enforcement officials account for over 60% of suspended public workers

Eye Witness News 24 Mar 2023
PRETORIA - The Public Service Commission (PSC) said officials at law enforcement agencies account for more than 60% of precautionary suspensions in the public service ... The officials, whose suspension includes full pay, are in hot water for a range of transgressions, including accusations of fraud, corruption, and abusing state resources ... READ ... .
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In crises, women are always the resistance leaders—in Africa and everywhere else

People's World 24 Mar 2023
When the racist regime tried to enforce policies and laws to restrict the movement of Africans, she entered the world of politics and fought the oppression ... 9, 1956, 20,000 women marched to South Africa’s capital of Pretoria and demanded the abolition of the apartheid pass laws.
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More than 550 arrested during national shutdown protest in South Africa

China.dot.org 21 Mar 2023
Law enforcement officers have also confiscated 24,300 tyres throughout the country, which were strategically placed for acts of criminality, the statement said ... SAPS Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said the protests, especially in the country's administrative capital Pretoria, were peaceful.
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Police arrested 550 protesters during EFF’s national day of action

Business Day 21 Mar 2023
Natjoints spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe commended “the swift response by members of the SA Police Service and other law enforcement agencies to pockets of opportunistic criminality” ... Mathe also thanked community police forums, neighbourhood watches and other community groups who supported law enforcement authorities.
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EFF protest | The latest developments

Business Day 20 Mar 2023
Members of the military, police and Tshwane metro police department are out in full force at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, as protesters taking part in the EFF protest descend on the area ... Pretoria’s Church Square.
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Europe Unlikely to Mediate Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks by Recognizing ICC Warrant - Expert

Urdu Point 20 Mar 2023
Last week, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, alleging potential war crimes related to Russia's special military operation in Ukraine ... Pretoria argued that it saw "no duty under international law and the Rome statute to arrest a serving head of state of an ICC non-state-party." Pretoria repeated its legal argument about Putin last Sunday.

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