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Maureen Isaacson Reviews Alf Kumalo: Through My Lens

December 8th, 2009 by Ben - Editor

Alf Kumalo: Through My LensVerdict: carrot

He is every bit as dedicated now as he was 50 years ago to documenting the roller-coaster history of our nation, she says, and any discussion with him “reveals a dogged determination that has not been eroded by the passage of time”.

To contain the long and full life of Kumalo, a colleague at Independent Newspapers of many years, is surely no small enterprise. This book, which not only relates Kumalo’s early beginnings in Utrecht in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, later Wakkerstroom, where he was sent under the care of his uncles, to the present day, tells the history of South Africa, vividly.

It tells also of Kumalo’s bravery and his indomitable spirit.

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