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Walk in their shoes

A South African's legacy and war and more

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Mindy Belz
May 06, 2022
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Francis Wilson once walked 550 miles from Grahamstown (now Makhanda) to Cape Town, South Africa, a grueling trek that was his way of drawing attention to the pain endured by migrant workers. The university professor, a son and grandson of missionaries who founded a Christian newspaper, published his first article on black laborers in South Africa’s gold…

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