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Only their bones remain: An impression of a Neolithic  village. The genes of a whole people vanished in the shift from the late Stone Age to the Bronze Age.

The riddle of the missing genes

The roots of group violence in the deep past may explain the atrocities that are committed today

Media crackdown in Burkina Faso intensifies

More foreign news outlets are gagged over massacre reports accusing soldiers of killing at least 223 people in revenge attacks in February

White crosses mark the location of the Marikana massacre.

We are on the right side of history, says Froneman of  Sibanye’s response to Marikana

The mining company hosted its fourth annual Marikana memorial lecture on Monday to mark the 11th anniversary of the massacre

Thobile Mpumza was shot dead in Marikana in 2012. The family is fighting for compensation as Thobile was their breadwinner.

Finding justice 10 years after the Marikana massacre

The family of one of the victims of the shooting has received neither money nor an apology

Retired judge Ian Farlam says a personal apology from Cyril Ramaphosa would help families of the dead to heal.

Marikana: There should have been disciplinary proceeding, says Ian Farlam

The chair of the commission of inquiry says a personal apology from Cyril Ramaphosa would help families of the dead to heal

Members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) dance and sing around Wonderkop Hill during the 4th anniversary of the Marikana shooting in Rustenburg, South Africa. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

10 years later, not all Marikana widows have received promised houses

Eight out of the 44 widows are still waiting for their houses but Sibanye-Stillwater says they are ‘under construction’

Week of hell: Armed residents gathered around fires at a ‘road block’ they’d set up in Phoenix on 15 July. Guillem Sartorio/AFP/ Getty Images

Phoenix hearings lay bare tensions between Black and Indian residents

Indian residents deny ‘massacre’ label; black survivors claim violence and orchestration

Community members hold pangas as they stand at a road block in Phoenix Township, North Durban, on July 15, 2021 to prevent looters from reaching the community. – Armed community members and vigilante groups have stepped in to tackle unrest in South Africa, taking matters into their own hands and sometimes stoking violence as security forces struggle to restore order.
Understaffed and heavily reliant on private security companies, the police was rapidly overwhelmed when riots and looting first flared last week in the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), sparked by the jailing of graft-accused former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)

Survivor of Phoenix massacre describes how he was called a monkey, assaulted and shot twice in the back

On day three of the SAHRC hearings into the July unrest, victim Ntethelelo Mkhize disputes the testimony of activist Sham Maharaj

A local man walks through a burnt-out restaurant on May 11, 2019 that was destroyed in fighting between armed Anglophone separatists and Cameroonian military forces in Buea, Cameroon.  In 2017, separatists in Cameroon’s Anglophone territories declared an independent state of Ambazonia, an area formerly known as Southern Cameroons, and took up arms against the Cameroonian government. The violence has forced hundreds of thousands from their homes and, according to the UN, left more than a million people in need of humanitarian assistance. (Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)

Cameroon concedes that soldiers committed Valentine’s Day massacre

Official inquiry found that the Cameroonian military was responsible for deadly attack on civilians

The two known targets were the Masjid al Noor in central Christchurch, and a second mosque in suburban Linwood. (Gallo)

40 dead in New Zealand mosque shootings

40 people have been killed by an Australian extremist at two mosque shootings in New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch

Students hold signs during a march and rally at the Texas State Capitol demanding gun safety measures to protect schools. (Jon Herskovitz/Reuters)

Trump panel recommends guns in schools to keep US students safe

The commission rejected calls to increase the minimum age required for gun purchases

Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille.

Patrollers in Marikana, Philippi East, live in fear after mass shooting

After dark, they would take to the streets of one of Cape Town’s most dangerous communities, often armed with only determination.

People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after hearing the sound of gunshots.
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After Las Vegas massacre, Trump silent on gun control

President Trump has declared the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history as an "act of pure evil" but avoided addressing gun control

Human Rights Watch has conducted an investigation into the dozens of bodies found in a river in the city of Aleppo

Bodies in a Syria river: How did they die?

Human Rights Watch has conducted an investigation into the dozens of bodies found in a river in the city of Aleppo, Syria, earlier this year.

Witnesses have given testimony by video link from southern Afghanistan in the pre-trial hearing of a US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers.

Police: Afghan massacre too big for lone US soldier

A lone shooter could not have committed the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers blamed on a US soldier, a witness has testified.

Over 3 000 killed in South Sudan violence

Over 3 000 people have been killed in South Sudan’s brutal massacres last week in an explosion of ethnic violence forcing tens of thousands to flee.

Shongweni murder accused pleads guilty

Shongweni massacre accused Sandile Ndlovu surprised his lawyer by pleading guilty in the Pinetown Regional Court.

Philippine media demand justice after murders

Philippine press organisations demanded justice after reporters were among 21 people murdered on Monday in a massacre in the lawless south.