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Published on: Friday 17 July 2026
In the late 1700s, in what is now South Africa’s Eastern Cape, a girl named Sarah (Sara/Saartjie) Baartman was born into a world already shaped by colonial violence. Her mother died when she was two.
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Published on: Thursday 25 September 2025
Through the window, I can see a group of rhinos grazing in front of my room. I go outside for a closer look. A few yards away, on the other side of a knee-high electric fence, stands Rodney, a large ...