She is also a lot more significant to South Africa and the world than the dear departed reggae artiste. Anyway, Nokutela Dube, this year’s winner of South Africa’s highest civic honour, the Order of the Golden Baobab, was one of the founding parents of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. More relevant to me, however, was the internationality and, shall we say, the “Africanity” of Nokutela Dube’s story. Even after their return to South Africa, the Dubes continued to receive unwavering moral and material support from their American friends. The collaboration culminated in the deportation from South Africa and eventual bankruptcy of the Wilcox family.

Source: Daily Nation May 05, 2017 19:45 UTC