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...meditative boy in Thailand, earned first prize in the People category. Megan E. Camm ’07 won best in show from 220 submissions, gaining a $75 gift certificate from Eastern Mountain Sports. Her piece “Remembering Our History,” shot in Joza, Grahamstown, South Africa, portrayed a local fruit stand, with undertones provided by a photo in the background showing a victim of apartheid. “A picture can help you sort through some of the emotions you can’t really express,” Camm said...
...THAT THE WORLD HAS O.D.'ED ON O.J., I cannot wait for the next macabre episode to grab the public's fascination. Will it be another serial killer, government scandal, celebrity crime? What will the media dish out for us next? ROBIN KALMEK, Grahamstown, South Africa...
...trial in Grahamstown lasted 78 days, and there were emotional pleas for mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered...
Biko, 30, leader of a new generation of black political activists, had been arrested on Aug. 18 near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district and, under the country's tough Terrorism Act, detained in Port Elizabeth without trial. On Sept. 11, he was transferred to Pretoria's Central Prison, 750 miles to the north; the next night he was found dead in his cell...
...black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...