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Sky News Africa Gambia govt bans protests, silences critical media

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Gambia govt bans protests, silences critical media

Andrew Mbeki - January 27, 2020

GAMBIA Gambia’s government on Sunday banned the group that has been mobilising the populace to demand departure of President...

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skynewsafrica Zindzi Mandela read his letter rejecting the offer at a packed public meeting that was broadcast around the world. Last year Mandela stirred controversy by calling for the return of the white-owned land to South Africa’s dispossessed Black majority. “Dear Apartheid Apologists, your time is over. You will not rule again. We do not fear you. Finally #TheLandIsOurs,” she tweeted in June last year. South Africa’s foreign affairs minister Naledi Pandor has expressed shock at Mandela’s death, describing her as a heroine. “Zindzi will not only be remembered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, Tata Nelson and Mama Winnie Mandela, but as a struggle heroine in her own right. She served South Africa well,” said Pandor. She is survived by her husband and four children.

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