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South African celebs tip-toe in the footsteps of George Bernard Shaw
Tourist of the Revolution – George Bernard Shaw (with freshly washed beard ) on his way to Moscow in August 1931 By Trevor Grundy The BBC’s Shinhai Nyoka… Read more >
Russian and Zimbabwean media grow closer – but is this to tell the truth or just a propaganda exercise to hide the failures of out-of-touch and incompetent leaders?
Russian schoolchildren at the Khatyn Massacre Memorial in Belarus. The German Army’s atrocities at Khatyn are not be confused with the Katyn Forest slaughter of 20,000 Polish Army officers on… Read more >
Zimbabwe 1983-1987: Gukuruhundi and the little known rape of tens of thousands of women
Robert Mugabe with ‘liberation’ leaders during the Rhodesian War. But when his guns stopped blazing against Europeans who built Rhodesia, they opened up again on people whose only home was… Read more >