Rob Turrell
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Rob Turrell examines a work on the South African soldier, statesman and Prime Minister.
Published March 31 1987
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The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. Published April 30 1986
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