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churches respectively. In 1939, black residents of
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council. They were built in five rows of 10, whitewashed inside and out, and contained flooring made of beaten ant heap. The new township of
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magisterial district by the apartheid government in 1973. In 1975, he founded Zimele Trust Fund and
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