I have been a journalist since 1975 and it has taken me until very recently to tell the most important story of all... Who am I really? This is not a question I would have dared ask at any point in my career. There was an unwritten understanding that there was no interest and no audience for the answers.
The mainstream media in South Africa has been the first defence in the bastion of lies that propped up the colonial - and sometimes even post-colonial - version of my story.
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