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Anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils still raging against injustice

His latest memoir reveals why he gave up a life of privilege to become SA’s most irrepressible rebel, writes Jonathan Ancer

17 November 2019 - 00:01 By Jonathan Ancer

He’s the erstwhile Red Pimpernel, the one-time revolutionary and a former cabinet minister, but Ronnie Kasrils is still a Yeoville Boykie (he lives in Greenside, but once a Yeoville Boykie always a Yeoville Boykie)...

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