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Flawed system that is failing all South Africans

IT STARTED with a scripture reading and a prayer – and ended with a police van being upended and torched. More than 1 000 people turned up to protest at Senekal, in eastern Free State, earlier this week, ostensibly to show support for the family of Brendin Horner, the young

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