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Airtel Africa, one of Africa's largest telecom companies, has announced that it will sell off its cellular towers in all 14 regions where it provides internet and telecommunication services.

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new democracy constitution in South Africa

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South Africans voted in their first all-race local government elections, complet

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Soweto Uprising

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1976

Akuetteh, Cynthia Helen (1948- )

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Joseph, James A. (1935- )

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At South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve

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Johnson, Robert Louis (1946 - )

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Waldon, Alton Ronald, Jr. (1936–)

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Gossett, Larry (1945-- )

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Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) (1990- )

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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