South Africa’s foreign policy is supposed to be guided by the principle of ubuntu (humanness), so a visit to an aggressor is hard to explain.
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It is not hard to see the roots of 20th century apartheid policies in the legacy of the British settlers.
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
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