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Palace plots and fights with both the ANC and apartheid
14 March 2021 - 00:00
King Goodwill Zwelithini was born on July 14 1948, three months after apartheid came into force. Therefore, his whole life experience was shaped by living both as a black man and as a Zulu monarch in a racist environment. He prevailed despite the vicious, dark apartheid cloud that was continuously hovering above every black person's psyche...
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