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Anzac events in the US were once upbeat affairs, with New York’s 1942 Anzac Day dinner attracting the rich and famous. The mood is more sombre today.
Eleanor Roosevelt (left), with King George VI, Sarah Delano Roosevelt (the president’s mother), Queen Elizabeth and Franklin Roosevelt in New York, 1939.
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As First Lady during the Depression and second world war, Roosevelt was instrumental in how the US was run - and did much to advance women in that role.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The country’s national interest and human rights remain the two topics bedevilling South Africa’s foreign policy.
On paper, lives were lived, trysts arranged, manifestos mailed and wars waged.
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Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ or Émile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse!’?
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Scotland is in the late stages of deciding whether to become the first country in UK to outlaw all corporal punishment against children.