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309:Die Toorn van die Voorvaders
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203:and intellectual pioneer of
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127:Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan
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530:9 September
391:Towards an
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89:Nationality
60:Cape Colony
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555:7 December
479:6 December
427:References
215:Early life
153:Alma mater
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305:Afrikaans
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241:BA Degree
221:Pondoland
108:Novelist
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