It's mid-winter in South Africa - a season of clear skies, bone-chilling temperatures, and deep, tetchy gloom.

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Farrakhan's activities in Libya, Iran and Iraq are a chilling indication of his deep-seated loathing of this country and his determination to make common cause with its enemies.

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The one-time prison also offers a chilling look at the apartheid regime, where deep racial inequalities permeated even the penal system.

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