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South Africa frees apartheid-era death squad leader ‘Prime Evil’

By Jasmine Wright

Eugene de Kock, a former South African police colonel responsible for the torture and deaths of dozens during South Africa's apartheid government, will become a free man after South Africa’s government granted him parole Friday, according to The Associated…

Protecting South Africa’s artwork of democracy and reconciliation

By Victoria Fleischer

When the Apartheid regime fell in 1994, South Africa established the Constitutional Court. One of the original justices began collecting artwork for the court, with prominent South African artists donating the majority of pieces.

South African Justice Edwin Cameron on the Constitutional Court art collection

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Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90

By Margaret Myers

Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90.