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The First President: The Life Of John L. Dube Founding President Of The ANC, by Heather Hughes
The First President: The Life Of John L. Dube Founding President Of The ANC, by Heather Hughes
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John Dube is mostly remembered today as the founding president of the African National Congress, yet little has been written about the sheer breadth of his achievements. Inspired by the struggles of African Americans for political and socia quality, he became the leading campaigner for Africans' rights in South Africa through the first half of the twentieth century. Dube was the founder of the Ohlange Institute near Durban 9where Nelson Mandela cast his vote in the first democratic elections of 1994), and of the newspaper Ilange laseNatal - both of them still operational today. In this slendid biography, Heather Hughes traces the story of his life revealing much about the man and his world that has been either hidden or forgotten.
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