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The Sharpeville massacre, when police killed 69 people protesting against apartheid's pass laws on 21 March 1960 is now commemorated as Human Rights Day. But that wasn't the only human rights violation on that day.

The road safety campaign for the busy Easter weekend is already underway. It was launched on Thursday and will run until 2 May.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is calling on South Africans to tone down the welcoming home of expelled ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool.

US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at "eliminating" the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free from the federal government.

Britain's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest, was shut down early Friday after a major fire at an electrical substation supplying power to the sprawling facility west of London, officials said.