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The Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet album was released in 1968 and then… vanished. 08 December 2021 | Matthew Brennan | WSWS In December 2020 Matsuli Music, a small record label specializing in overlooked and suppressed South African music, re-issued a striking 1968 album composed by the jazz pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab. Featuring a talented group…
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Casual history has not been kind to de Klerk, but here you will see that he actually personally orchestrated the end of Apartheid. But his defense of some state actions would haunt him forever. 12 November 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media South Africa’s former president Frederik Willem de Klerk has died at the…
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Johnson & Johnson had been criticised for shipping doses to countries in Europe, which have already immunised large numbers of people and have even donated vaccines to other countries. Photo: Strive Masiyiwa. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA 02 September 2021 | ODNEY MUHUMUZA | AP KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Vaccine doses produced by a plant in South…
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