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• Shaka's Bracelet for Zulus: Gift to New Museum

  The news report features information about a donation of an ivory bracelet once worn by Shaka, the Zulu king. It was acquired at a charity sale by Sir Shane Leslie, who returned it to the Zulu nation in Natal to be placed in a national museum in honor of Sir Marshall Campbell. Roy Campbell is a distinguished member of the same family.
• Roy Campbell honoured

  Mr. Francois Viljoen, the South African Ambassador in Lisbon, has laid a wreath on the grave of Roy Campbell, the poet who was killed in a motor accident in Lisbon 10 years ago today. Roy Campbell, one of South Africa's outstanding poets, spent the latter years of his life in Portugal. He fought on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
• Poetry Gala

  Julian Jebb recounts the evening of poetry recitals that occurred in celebration of William Plomer's 60th birthday. He served as the President of the Poetry Society, and his introduction ended "with a tribute to two South African poets who had committed suicide."
• Human vultures move into rotten heart of Zaire

  "The grandiose steel and concrete needle that should have been a memorial to the nation's icon, Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister that was murdered and martyred in 1961 has been forgotten, and the gardens at its base have been submerged in a wilderness of weeds."
• Police hold 280 after apartheid sit-down

  "On Friday, black youths rampaged through the streets of Johannesburg after a memorial service for the excuted Benjamin Moloise."