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ISBN: | 9780981439839 0981439837 9780992187576 0992187575 9780620394871 0620394870 9780620394901 0620394900
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Published in association with African Morning Star Publications. "First published by Ravan Press 1987"--Title page verso. Print version record.
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Summary: | Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writerís Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins. Yet diversity was hardly being ce.
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Other form: | Print version: Mattera, Don, 1935- Memory is the weapon. Rev. ed. Grant Park, South Africa : African Perspectives Pub., 2009 9780620394871
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