Rate of political violence falls

Cape Town - Political violence in South Africa has plummeted to a quarter of the peak rate recorded in 1993, the country's independent…

Cape Town - Political violence in South Africa has plummeted to a quarter of the peak rate recorded in 1993, the country's independent

Human Rights Commission said yesterday.

The HRC said in its report for 1996 that it had identified many positive signs three years after the first all-race elections brought

President Nelson Mandela's African National Congress to power.

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