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Zimbabwe Bans Child Smacking
High Court outlaws use of corporal punishment by parents and teachers against children; Patients trapped as Johannesburg hospital roof collapses; FESPACO film preview.
(Photo: Zimbabwean children sit in a classroom at a school in Norton, in January 2009. Credit: AFP.)
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