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Gershwin Wanneburg

As Israel struck Qatar, South Africans saw echo of last decade of apartheid

Apartheid South African military forces cross the border between Namibia and Angola under a banner saying 'Welcome Winners', on August 30, 1988 [File: Walter Dhladhla/AFP]

Cape Town, South Africa – Gonda Perez remembers the day South Africa’s apartheid regime bombed a refugee camp in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, during an air raid.

It was in the mid-1980s. Perez was working as a dentist at a local hospital at the time and saw about 10 victims brought in on trucks serving as makeshift ambulances. One of the victims is etched in her memory.

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