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in a track meet at
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Officials presented Pirie with a plaque to mark his visit and he brusquely handed it over to Muleya. Said Negro Leader
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Muleya thus became the first
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Yotham Muleya Road and Yotham Muleya
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Muleya became an instant hero as joyful spectators, black and white alike, bore him from the track in triumph on their shoulders, with one white tobacco farmer stating: "He may be black, but, by God, he's a
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