(Bloomberg) -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to call an urgent joint sitting of parliament next week, his spokeswoman said.
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The session on Sept. 18 will be used to announce emergency measures his government will take to curb gender-based violence, Khusela Diko said by mobile-phone text message Friday.
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It’s the first time since apartheid ended a quarter of a century ago that an urgent joint sitting of parliament has been called.
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