[news24] BLUF: As much as we can admit the involvement and influence of external sources in African ethnic conflicts, at the end of it all, it is the locals themselves who choose to take up arms against their fellow brothers for whatever end. I believe any culture which doesn't teach its devotees to respect and live in harmony with others should be detested, no matter what race or how powerful it may be.| Matuma Letsoalo is a senior politics reporter at the Mail & Guardian. He joined the newspaper in 2003, focussing on politics and labour, and collaborated with the M&G's centre for investigations, amaBhungane, from time to time. In 2011, Matuma won the South African Journalist of the Year Award and was also the winner in the investigative journalism category in the same year. In 2004, he won the CNN African Journalist of the Year prize – the MKO Abiola Print Journalism Award. Matuma was also a joint category winner of the Mondi Shanduka SA Story of the year Award in 2008. In 2013, he was a finalist for Wits University's Taco Kuiper Award. |
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