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metronews.ca WEEKEND, July 12-14, 2013
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A detail of a painting of Nelson Mandela, which has been in Klerksdorp prison since it was made in 2011 by a prisoner, who was later released. The painting has been donated by prison authorities to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital, where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated. Ben Curtis/the associated press
Mandela hospital visit ‘traumatic’ South Africa. Ahmed Kathrada, of the antiapartheid struggle, gets short time to see his critically ill comrade Ahmed Kathrada, a warhorse of the anti-apartheid struggle, was allowed just a few minutes at the hospital bedside of his critically ill comrade, Nelson Mandela. It was, he said, a traumatic experience to see the former president, physically robust during their prison years together, in such a fragile
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Nelson Mandela, 94
“Here you see a person who’s different. A shell of himself.” Ahmed Kathrada, in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press
state. Mandela could not speak but his face “changed” and he recognized his visitor “through his eyes,” Kathrada said of the July 1 encounter, which was overseen protectively by Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel. This is the image of Man-
dela that South Africans, and many people around the world, find hard to accept. The man who withstood 27 years in jail and led his country from conflict toward reconciliation, is as vulnerable as anyone his age, and monitored around the clock by doctors. The 94-year-old was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on June 8 for a lung infection. The government said Thursday he is in critical but stable condition, and responding to treatment. Legal filings by Mandela’s family have said he is on life support. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Police prepared for possible protests or even violence as a high-profile U.S. trial in the murder of an unarmed black teen neared its end Thursday. Neighbourhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty in the shooting of 17-yearold Trayvon Martin, saying he fired in self-defence during a nighttime confrontation in February 2012 in his Florida gated community, where Martin was visiting family. Zimmerman says Martin was slamming his head into the concrete pavement when he fired his gun. The case drew national attention and protests when Zimmerman, 29, wasn’t arrested for weeks after the shooting, and racial tensions have been exposed. Jurors could begin deliberating as early as Friday. The defence was expected to give closing arguments Friday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Crime. DNA links longtime suspect DeSalvo to final Boston Strangler victim Investigators helped by advances in DNA technology finally have forensic evidence linking longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, leading many of the case’s players to hope that it can finally be put to rest. DeSalvo’s remains will be exhumed after authorities concluded that DNA from the scene of Mary Sullivan’s rape and murder produced a “familial match” with him, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said. Conley said he expected investigators to find an exact match when the evidence is compared with his DNA. Sullivan, 19, was found strangled in her Boston apartment in January 1964. Sullivan, who had moved from her Cape Cod home to Boston just three days before her death, had long been considered the strangler’s last victim. The announcement represented the most definitive evi-
Confessed, then recanted
• Albert DeSalvo, married with children, a workingclass army veteran, confessed to the 11 Boston Strangler murders, as well as two others. But he was never convicted of the Boston Strangler killings. • He had been sentenced to life in prison for a series of armed robberies and sexual assaults and was stabbed to death in the state’s maximum security prison in Walpole in 1973 — but not before he recanted his confession.
dence yet linking DeSalvo to the case. Eleven Boston-area women between the ages of 19 and 85 were sexually assaulted and killed between 1962 and 1964, crimes that terrorized the region and made national headlines. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS