An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa’s painful colonial history, which still echoes today.


Gershwin Wanneburg is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa, with over 20 years of experience working for national and international organisat...ions, including Reuters news agency and the African Development Bank.
An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa’s painful colonial history, which still echoes today.

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