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Reflections on reporting during a time of mourning

BEYOND one’s call of duty as a journalist to write and inform the public, one indirectly records history.

That was the case for me from March 12 to 18, and April 29 to May 8.

The process of indirectly archiving history started on March 12, when King Goodwill Zwelithini, the longest-reigning Zulu monarch, died at the age of 72, throwing the monarch and the Zulu nation

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