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Art & the State in South Africa

Art & the State in South Africa

For Nadine Gordimer in 1983, the arts in South Africa were simply “the sum of various states of alienation.”

By Nadine Gordimer

July 14, 2014

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July 14, 2014
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Novelist Nadine Gordimer was among about 300 white liberals who visited a black township near Johannesburg on May 18, 1986, to lay wreaths at the grave of victims of political unrest. Gordimer passed away July 14 at the age of 90. (Reuters)

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