Michel Temer, Brazil's president, listens during an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Temer and ministers announced that the federal government was handing over an area of Campo de Marte airport in Sao Paulo to the city hall for the construction of a park. Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg
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There is a clear political connection between the new South Africa and what happens in countries on the continent immediately to its west.
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There is a clear political connection between the new South Africa and what happens in countries on the continent immediately to its west.
External signs are rather obvious. South American revolutionary 'Che' Guevara enjoys iconic status in SA. "Viva" is part of the political lexicon. And for all his physical remodelling, SA's politics' enfant terrible Julius Malema favours the same red beret as his hero, Venezuelan populist Hugo Chavez.
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