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Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza was born at King Edward Hospital, Umbilo, Durban, in June 1967. The second child of Zizile Cothoza, Nontsikelelo Cothoza, or Nstiki, as her family refers to her, was raised in Lamontville, a township south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Cothoza attended Lamontville High School where she excelled academically.
We worked frantically through the night to call together out activists and put all the logistics in place for a normal rally: designed and printed pamphlets and posters, distributed them, organised transport, sound systems, marshals to control the crowd, all the usual things.
But because we only heard about the release on Saturday evening, we were just not able to track down any of the companies from which usually hire walkie talkies, so we had no means of communication the next day – and it was long before the days of cell phones!
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South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty driest regions in the world. On average the country receives 500 mm rainfall in a year. [1] As water is a limited resource, governments in the past have allocated it to specific groups. In 2002 there were still 14 million Black South Africans without running water as previous laws made it difficult to access natural resources.[2]
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Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School.