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STILL BLACK AND PROUD

Memories of my student days came flooding back as I walked through the museum at the Steve Biko Centre in King William’s Town: the heated discussions, the protests against detention without trial and, saddest of all, walking down Grahamstown’s High Street to the cathedral and back to Rhodes University campus carrying a wreath for Bantu Stephen Biko, after security police tortured him to death in

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