South Africa: Nat Nakasa - an Inquisitive and Tortured Mind

The remains of Nat Nakasa, journalist, short-story writer and exile, were returned to South Africa today. AAISHA DADI PATEL set out to find out more about the apartheid era icon.

Nakasa was buried in New York almost 50 years ago. He had left South Africa on a one-way exit permit during apartheid, a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship, and studied at Harvard University. Today, his repatriated remains will be buried at Heroes' Acre in Chesterville, KwaZulu-Natal.

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