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TOM MACWEBA’S ADVENTURES

MOVE over, Huckleberry Finn.

It’s time to hear about the adventures of a man known as Tom Macweba, of the Maphumulo clan, who was born in Inanda and later lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg.

In between, he worked as a gold digger in Australia, came close to the action in the Crimean War, was arrested for disturbing the peace in London, was shipwrecked, he thinks, off South America and had to escape

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