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1. IOL : Anglo American hit by apartheid lawsuit
www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_ - [Cached]Published on: 4/4/2003 Last Visited: 4/5/2003
By Wambui Chege
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Johannesburg - An American lawyer campaigning for compensation for victims of apartheid said on Friday he was filing suit for damages of up to $6,1-billion (about R48-billion) against mining giant Anglo American Plc and its diamond business De Beers.
The long-threatened case against South Africa's biggest company, on behalf of hundreds of thousands of black people, sent its shares skidding as much as 3,3 percent in Johannesburg and pulled the overall Johannesburg bourse lower. -
2. IOL : Mau Mau rebels rewrite Kenyan history books
www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_ - [Cached]Published on: 3/28/2003 Last Visited: 3/29/2003
By Wambui Chege
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Nyeri, Kenya - Seventy-year-old and dreadlocked, Muthoni recalls with a mix of nostalgia and bitterness how she spent the best years of her life in central Kenya as a Mau Mau fighting for independence.
For that she was branded a terrorist and had a price on her head.
Like many of her compatriots, Muthoni is not regarded as a heroine.
'We bought our land and freedom with our blood'
Instead, nearly 40 years after independence she remains haunted by the controversial legacy of the Mau Mau uprising - the bloodiest in Kenya's history against colonial ruler Britain.
Were the Mau Mau terrorists or national heroes who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for independence and the fight to regain their stolen lands?
