South Africa's long-serving former defence minister and former Robben Island prisoner dies

South Africa's former defence minister and anti-apartheid campaigner Mosiuoa Lekota has died at the age of 77, his party said. Lekota died after a "period of illness", the Congress of the People (Cope) said in a statement. He played a key role in the struggle against the racist system of apartheid...

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