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83Gandhi in South Africa - racism and non-violence
Gandhi landed in Durban, in what is now kwaZulu-Natal Province, in May 1893, a newly-qualified barrister sent to do some legal work for a Bombay legal firm which had some interests in South Africa.
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73Top 10 South African jazz albums – Tony's picks
Tony McGregor picks ten top South African jazz albums of the last 50 years
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75Blythswood: a unique South African mission station
Blythswood Missionary Institution in the former Transkei, South Africa, was unique in that the people it served asked for it and contributed to the cost of setting it up.
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70Writing against forgetting - 16 June 1976
I became aware as I drove home along Umbilo Road and bought, as I did every afternoon, my copy of the Daily News from a street vendor. Only when I got home and opened the newspaper did I start to get an inkling of just how different that day was.
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83Caster Semenya in a new role – as “glamour girl”?
Caster Semenya is being exploited again - this time by a glossy gossip magazine
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85Soot in my eye – a nostalgic steam train ride
Steam trains were iconic in days gone by, but now the steam experience is mostly reduced to excursions with steam train preservation enthusiasts.
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76The journey of my life
The reason for my being born in Cape Town rather than in the then Transkei where my father was a teacher, was Hitler. He overshadowed my life from the start and in some ways still does.
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71Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - genius of a country, icon for the world
In the midst of the darkest days of apartheid, when the mostly white troops of the South African army were permanent features in the black townships outside the major cities of South Africa, when black anger was palpable in the streets and the oppressive machinery was working with frightening and arbitrary efficiency, one man whose voice had not been heard publicly in almost three decades, the lineaments of whose face were unknown to most, and whose image and words were banned, was the focus of
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76Top 10 albums of the South African jazz diaspora – Tony's picks
Exile was a two-edged sword for the South African musicians who left their homeland for the freedom of Europe and the United States. This is a selection of some of the finest albums to come out of the greaat South African jazz diaspora
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70"I write you from afar" - Wopko Jensma enigmatic poet of Africa
In 1993 a disheveled man walked out of the Salvation Army Men's Home in downtown Johannesburg and was never seen again, as far as anyone knows. This not too unusual event would be unremarkable, except that the man in question has been called the "first South African poet", an artist of whom it has been written that "he used his words as his jazz instrument and his expression is his rhythm."
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