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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

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	Disasters at Sea: The Loss of the Troopship Mendi
		The 4230 GRT Mendi was 370 ft long with a beam of 46 ft. She served on the Liverpool to West Africa run until chartered by the British Government in 1916.
		There are numerous Mendi references in South Africa, The Mendi Memorial, which is situated in Mendi Road, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, was erected "In memory of the servicemen who lost their lives at sea when the troopship S.S. Mendi foundered near St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight".
		SAS Mendi in PE On 23 August 2004, HMS Nottingham, representing the Royal Navy and SAS Mendi rendezvoused at the site of the wreck and laid wreaths in remembrance of those who lost their lives for their country and the allied forces.
	www.allatsea.co.za /shipwrecks/mendiwreck.htm (1497 words)

	Sketches of the Amistad captives
		He was born at Maw-ko-ba, a town in the Mendi country; his father was a gentleman, and after his death, his king took him for his slave, and gave him to his son Ban-ga, residing in the Bullom country.
		He has a wife and two children; was caught in the bushes by a Mendi man, belonging to a party with guns, and says he was ten days in traveling to Lomboko after being a slave to the man that took him, less than a month.
		She says her parents are living, and has four brothers and four sisters; she was put in pawn for a debt by her father which not being paid, she was sold into slavery, and was many days in going to Lomboko.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMI_SLAV.HTM (3089 words)

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		From Mendi, the media group was flown to Nipa by helicopter to meet with 17 councillors from 31 council wards from the Huli area, and the local people who openly expressed their disappointment with the state of affairs, at the meeting at the Nipa field.
		The National, on a recent trip to Mendi, was informed by eye witnesses of the fighting that a fourth man was brought in to Mendi and he was also killed on the first day of the fighting.
		SEVERAL buildings of the Mendi High School were burnt to the ground at midday yesterday as the fighting in Mendi between the Erep Urum and the Runjup tribes intensified.
	www.exkiap.net /news/shp.htm (5244 words)

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