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SA needs indabas across historic divides
The Citizen
|August 28, 2025
Get involved in the National Dialogue to play a constructive role, writes Dawie Jacobs.
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Given our divided past, we need dialogues or indabas across historic divides. The Cillie commission of inquiry into the Soweto riots, on which I served in my 20s, was in effect such a dialogue.
We invited people to tell their stories and held hearings across the country. It raised awareness about the circumstances and pain of black people under apartheid.
This story is from the August 28, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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