[wanabidii] Family of dead Gauteng psychiatric patient given the runaround by red tape (M&G Africa)

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Family of dead Gauteng psychiatric patient given the runaround by red tape   Sizwe Hlatshwayo may be the 38th patient to die after being moved from state-funded hospital care. It took almost a month for his family to find out.

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Gabon: no sign in sight of a family dynasty being displaced   Ali Bongo seems to have won Gabon's elections. Yet his contested "victory" has radically changed the political field in this soft democracy.

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