A statue of a bearded Boer trekker gazes sternly across Potchefstroom, a South African university town named after the man who brought the settlers to the area in 1838.
But to the chagrin of the Afrikaners who are Andries Potgieter’s descendants, the ANC-controlled city council yesterday renamed it Tlokwe after the original inhabitants of the region.
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Would it surprise you to learn that according to official Pentagon figures, at least 118 U.S. military personnel in Iraq have committed suicide since April 2003? That number does not include many unconfirmed reports, or those who served in the war and then killed themselves at home (a sizable, if uncharted, number).
While troops who have [...]

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