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Where was Ah Tong buried?

ON THE streets of Joburg, Ah Tong took a bullet, not for a cause, but because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That bullet fired nearly a hundred years ago came from either the barrel of a striking miner’s rifle or the gun of a soldier or policeman.

How Ah Tong came to be shot, and where his final resting place lies, has been lost to history, but now

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