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BOOK Hearing female Struggle voices

BY DINT of their gender and race, black women are predisposed to be victimised twice by any scourge afflicting society.

Political systems designed to dehumanise their foes take the cake in the effrontery stakes.

This is how black women were brutalised by apartheid if you read the harrowing stories of those in this book – by Shanthini Naidoo – or those who did not make the pages of the book, who were once jailed by

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