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Today — 1 April 2026Main stream

Where Million-Dollar Coastal Homes Glitter Near Metal Shacks

A shortage of affordable housing in the coastal city in South Africa has forced many people to live far outside the city center, while tourists occupy prime real estate.

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Nicholas Haysom, Apartheid Foe Who Became a U.N. Peacemaker, Dies at 73

30 March 2026 at 06:03
As an anti-apartheid lawyer, he was jailed several times. Later, he was a top adviser to Nelson Mandela and held key posts at the United Nations.

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Nicholas Haysom at a U.N. Security Council meeting in 2019. The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, said Mr. Haysom had “devoted his life to justice, dialogue and reconciliation” in “some of the world’s most complex and fragile settings.”
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