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SOUTH AFRICAN Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has travelled to neighbouring Lesotho to help resolve the deepening crisis there.
The Southern African Development Community said in a statement yesterday that President Jacob Zuma had decided to dispatch Mr Ramaphosa following last week’s assassination of former Lesotho Defence Force commander Lieutenant General Maaparankoe Mahao and an exodus of political opposition leaders to South Africa.
Gen Mahao, a supporter of former prime minister Tom Thabane and his All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, was shot dead by soliders outside his home last Thursday.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
