Krishna Rabilal

Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN).

A quiet and unassuming person, Rabilal was a brilliant student, excelling in both mathematics and physical science. He hated the Afrikaans language, calling it the language of the oppressor. He felt so strongly about this that he refused to study Afrikaans on principle.

South Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022

To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember.

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