Venessa Burger

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Our country’s battered human rights record was dealt another blow on the evening of 22 March, when anti-mining activist and Amadiba Crisis Committee Chairperson, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, was gunned down in another seemingly state-sponsored hit.

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‘I couldn’t stop the blood. It was coming out of his head like a broken tap. I put my hand over it but it just wouldn’t stop.’

“In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer in our midst, setting house against house, and eating away at the precious ties that bound us together. This strife among ourselves wastes our energy and destroys our unity.

19 July 2015

On Friday night 3 July, three more women fell prey to Glebelands warlord. After threatening letters stating “If you want to die, stay in your room,” were shoved under their doors, they were shot at and forced from their rooms in Blocks 45 and 48.