South Africa church programme steers ex-combatants from violence


	South Africa church programme steers ex-combatants from violence

hayesstw

1-18-2008 5:52 AM

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hayesstw says:

This looks like an interesting programme, but one wonders what the ex-combatants have been doing for the last 14 years, and how they have managed to survive for all that time.

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