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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
THE Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) demanded yesterday the release of four of its members who have been charged with arson.
They were arrested following Sunday’s torching of four rondavel huts in the town of Siphofaneni in the Ka-Ngcamphalala aristocratic chiefdom of Mshikashika II.
CPS leaflets reportedly found at the scene were used to pin the attack on the communists.
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
A remarkable excavation in the Netherlands has raised hopes of locating the grave of Louis XIV’s famed captain of the King’s Musketeers. JOHN CALLOW introduces the real figure behind the hero of Dumas’s novels
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
