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[ 28 Feb 2012 | 2 Comments | 7,482 views]

Cameroon and South Africa will join The Women’s Olympics football tournament as the principal African representatives. Cameroon’s women’s football senior team qualified for the event by beating Nigeria on the October 22, 2011.
 
Earlier this year, the Cameroonian president of the African Football Federation , Issa Hayatou, was controversially appointed by FIFA as head of the  organising committee for the Olympics Football 2012 tournament  while he …

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[ 26 Feb 2012 | 42 Comments | 81,903 views]

It was public outrage over the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence and the ensuing removal of a longstanding legal principle that made the prosecution of Gary Dobson and David Norris possible. Lawrence, an 18-year-old sixth form student from Eltham, South London, was stabbed to death on the night of April 22, 1993, by a gang of white youths.
 
It was an unprovoked attack that saw him killed …