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Farewell Zoë Wicomb, the vivid voyager who wrote SA into the world

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By Mark Gevisser Verified
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South African Author Zoë Wicomb, born in 1948, died last week in Glasgow, Scotland, at the age of 76. When Zoë Wicomb arrived in Britain at the age of 22 in 1970, just off the SS Southern Cross from Cape Town, the first thing she did was make her way to Carnaby Street where she bought herself a big black hat.
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Fragile Unity in South Africa

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By Mark Gevisser Verified
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1. On July 18—Nelson Mandela’s birthday—the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, opened a parliament where, for the first time since the advent of democracy thirty years ago, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was not in the majority. The ANC had led Black South Africans in the struggle against apartheid and brokered the historic settlement that brought the party to power in 1994.
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Fragile Unity in South Africa | Mark Gevisser

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By Mark Gevisser Verified
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1. On July 18—Nelson Mandela’s birthday—the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, opened a parliament where, for the first time since the advent of democracy thirty years ago, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was not in the majority. The ANC had led Black South Africans in the struggle against apartheid and brokered the historic settlement that brought the party to power in 1994.
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