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The Times (London): ‘Black Boers’ clear townships by force

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The Times (London)

November 22, 2013 Friday

'Black Boers' clear townships by force;

South Africa

Ruth Maclean

Nelson Mandela's successors are driving slumdwellers out of their homes at gunpoint and killing those who resist in a violent campaign that human rights groups compare to the evictions of the apartheid era.

Bulldozers are regularly sent to demolish the homes of Durban's poorest communities in President Zuma's home state of KwaZulu Natal. More than 3,000 people have been evicted from their homes in the city's informal settlement Cato Crest this year. At a protest against illegal evictions on Tuesday, slumdwellers sang the freedom songs Mr Mandela once led them in and shouted: "Down with the black Boers."

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