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Regular readers might recall I wrote a time back about a rock on the Wild Coast where a travelling crew of surfers had carved a message “First surfed 5-4-66 by 5 Aussies” (Saturday Dispatch, December 2 2021). I was thrilled when Stuart Bright and his son Cameron showed me the fabled rock. I first heard about the rock many years before from Kevin O’Brien and Andre Malherbe, but they had never seen it themselves.

What began as an African history doctoral thesis at Dalhousie University in Canada by academic and author Timothy J Stapleton in the early 1990s, has seen the birth of one of the most informative reads about the life and times of renowned 19th century Xhosa warrior, Chief Jongumsobomvu Maqoma.more Maqoma was one of Africa’s greatest resistance leaders during the colonial period.

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