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SA's ANC Youth League says "Both organised labour and capital have failed the many dead, the injured and all of us, South African society."
9 September 2012
Last updated at 13:40 ET
Mali army kills 16 at checkpoint
The army in Mali says it has shot dead 16 people after their vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint in the central Segou region.
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