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A tyrant is born, the Red Baron bags his last kills, a deadly attack becomes a byword for school mass shootings, Swaziland gets a name change, and George Floyd’s killer convicted
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Significant and interesting snippets of news, with a South African angle, from this day in history
Randlord falls overboard; Queen Elizabeth II crowned; brutally violent football match; Covid behind things like George Floyd’s murder; and jury decision in Amber Heard/Johnny Depp defamation case
Red Square landing causes commotion; deadly cyclone; moves to end apartheid; Harambe shot; more protection for woman; and mass grave found
Hard evidence appear of George Floyd’s murder; Arsenal coach’s crowning achievement; war criminal brought to justice; and another ‘widow-maker’ crashes
The 45-year-old rapper had made the claim despite Floyd being murdered by a police officer suffocating him by placing a knee on his neck for more than nine minutes.
Roxie Washington, who is the mother of Gianna Floyd, is taking action against the 45-year-old rapper.
The Premier League said it supported the captains' decision, and would elevate anti-racism messaging as part of its “No Room for Racism” campaign.
Limpopo government spokesperson Ndavhe Ramakuela said there were no findings or recommendations in a report, after the grievance was lodged, to substantiate allegations made against Singh.
The matter involves a message allegedly posted by Singh on a work WhatsApp group in June 2020 during the height of the lockdown which read ‘I can’t breathe’ followed by three laughing emoticons.
Educating the young is the most effective way of combatting racism as armed with the facts they can challenge their peers, West Indies cricket legend and anti-racism campaigner Michael Holding has said.
In a bid to prevent police misconduct, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday ,on the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd while further pledging to tighten gun laws.
Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd, the killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill said during a motion hearing that the joint trial for Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao would be moved to March 7, 2022.
The 50-year-old actress opened this year’s event in the absence of a traditional host.
Late night TV hosts addressed the verdict to the George Floyd murder trial on Tuesday night.
For the family of George Floyd, the murder conviction of the former police officer who killed him was a confirmation of something they knew but feared the justice system might never validate: that their loved one's life mattered.
In a joint statement the NBA chief Adam Silver said the league would continue to campaign for criminal justice and police reforms in America following the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin.
The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin announced its verdicts, convicting the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Murder accused Derek Chauvin’s lead lawyer repeated a single phrase scores of times, saying Chauvin behaved as a ’reasonable police officer’ would in dealing with a man as ’large’ as George Floyd.
Over and over again, prosecutor Steve Schleicher repeated a phrase: ’Nine minutes and 29 seconds,’ — the length of time Derek Chauvin was captured on video on May 25, 2020, kneeling on the dying George Floyd's neck.
Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin waived his right to testify to the jury at his murder trial for the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd.
A medical expert testifying in defence of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin told the jury he believed that George Floyd's death during his arrest was the result of heart disease making his heart beat erratically.
Defence attorneys in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin called an expert witness who testified that the former Minneapolis police officer was justified and reasonable in his use of force during his arrest of George Floyd.