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  1. UNITED STATES: Rosa Parks: 'A life of being rebellious'

    rights movement is Rosa Parks. She died on October 25, at the age of 92. Her famous act of defiance ... — refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955 — and her subsequent arrest were the sparks that ... initiated the famous Montgomery bus boycott, the opening shot of activism in the war that smashed legal ...

  2. SOUTH AFRICA: Mhlengi Khumalo is gone

    Richard Pithouse, Durban On October 21, 16 shacks burnt down in the Kennedy Road shack settlement ... S'bu Zikode from the Kennedy Road Development Committee, "It all depended on who applied. If you ... police for four hours. There were 14 arrests. On March 21, 1200 people marched on the police station ...