Franz Fanon taught us that "each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it". These prophetic words uttered many years ago came to describe the generation espoused by Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa, better known as Nat Nakasa, for it discovered its mission and pursued it.
Nakaza was born at a time when the majority had no rights and suffered oppression. Those who dared oppose the unjust system would suffer the wrath of the apartheid state. He knew this, but like Nelson Mandela and Bram Fischer among others, he dedicated his career to actively oppose an unjust system. As a journalist he understood the power of information and used his pen to tell the world about gross human rights violations.
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