Dube, Gandhi and how Phoenix was once the poster child for nonviolence
Phoenix has recently become a place name synonymous with death and division, but that’s not how it started out
31 October 2021 - 00:00
In 1924 the young novelist and poet William Plomer, while running a small trading station in the then Natal, sent some of his early poems to the Rev John Dube. Dube, the first president of the ANC, read them and published one in his newspaper Ilanga Lase Natal. When Plomer began a correspondence with Dube, the Zulu intellectual invited Plomer to visit him. ..
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