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by Gwen Lister (Tafelberg, R330)

Plenty of people tried to make sure that feisty activist-journalist and editor Lister wouldn’t be alive to tell this tale. We and posterity are lucky to have her account of the story behind Namibia’s troubled birth: squaring up to the Turnhalle Alliance, military atrocities, a fire-bombed newsroom, assassinations of key figures such

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