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As an editor and publisher, Katjavivi significantly contributed to
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Jane
Katjavivi's first job was a scholarship officer at a scholarship charity in London at World University Services in 1975. While she was at this position she managed to raise funds for Southern African students who were deprived their rights to education because of their race or political
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In addition to her publishing and writing, Katjavivi supported environmental and wildlife initiatives. In 1992, she was a
Founding Board Member of the
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themselves from the sense of inferiority which was forced upon them by the racist policies of the then South
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