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A selection of the local press headline posters, collected in the streets of Cape Town this week.

Chinese-not Black like me

Top Striker for Downs

Cop gun trained on Cops

Boete-skok kom vir Haastiges

Riot to save the kids

Crunch! Two buses crash!

Inititation Bloodbath

Najwa se wuis "nie te Koop"

Verminkte lyk in veld gekry

Anger grows over flooding

New twist in city scholl sex saga

Baboon family causes city chaos

20 years under a tree

rescued by team in Che Guevara t-shirt

First news this morning, Ingrid Bétancourt was freed yesterday.

After 6 years in captivity in the arms of the FARC guerilla group, she and 14 other hostages were released thanks to an audacious and impeccably executed rescue operation by Columbia's army.

Soldiers posed as members of a fictitious NGO sympathetic to the rebels and pretended to fly the hostages by helicopter to meet with rebel leader Alfonso Cano.
The rescue, carried out without a shot fired.

Ingrid Bétancourt was captured in 2002 during her campaign for the Presidential election in Columbia.

Here is a video of her after their landing in Bogota:

Ingrid Betancourt : "C'est un miracle !"
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