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South Africa’s fading rainbow The country’s anti-immigrant violence is not just a national crisis — it threatens the future of Pan-African solidarity
Til politics do us part A decade after civil unions, Italy still doesn’t allow same-sex marriage — a sign of a political system unable to keep pace with its own society