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In South Africa, Burial Traditions Upended by Coronavirus
Restrictions on travel have disrupted a deeply important cultural practice for many Black residents in Cape Town: returning the body for burial hundreds of miles home in the Eastern Cape province. -
Elsa Joubert, 97, Dies; Afrikaans Writer Explored Black Reality
Her novel “The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena” was compared to Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country” in arousing white opinion against apartheid. She had Covid-19.