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'We want Hitler': Johannesburg politician threatens to wear Hitler shirt • Mar. 16, 2025, 7:49 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
16 are dead and dozens are hurt after a bus flips on a highway in South Africa • Mar. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM ET (AP)
South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92 • Mar. 10, 2025, 7:20 AM ET (AP)

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