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Mighty beacon of hope and unity – gone but legacy liv...

Ahead of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s funeral, scheduled to take place on Saturday at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, Daily Maverick spoke to a few of the late icon’s esteemed colleagues and admirers. What emerged was a loving portrait of a humble man dedicated to freedom and dismantling. ....

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France is confronting its history in Algeria

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N MARCH, BENEATH the chandeliers of the Elysée palace, four adult cousins met Emmanuel Macron, France’s president. What really happened, they wanted to know, to their grandfather, Ali Boumendjel, a lawyer and nationalist, who died in colonial Algeria after his arrest by French troops in 1957? Officially he committed suicide. In fact, Mr Macron acknowledged, Boumendjel was tortured and killed by the French army. His body was thrown from a window to disguise the cause of death.
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The president and the lawyer’s grandchildren all of the same generation engaged in an “extraordinary dialogue”, says Benjamin Stora, a historian who was present. The cousins’ discomfort, he says, focused on a question: “How can we live in the country that assassinated our grandfather?” Although a French general had confessed 20 years ago to ordering the murder of Boumendjel, the government had never admitted th ....

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