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        DUDU                                                                                           Occupation:











                                                                                                        Author and
                                                                                                         journalist.
        BUSANI-DUBE                                                               “What drives me is





       G                                  While KwaMashu is today associated       the support I have
                                                                                      received from
                      rowing up in KwaMashu in the late
        1980s, one of the biggest things I  with big names and great success stories,   many South
        experienced as a child was watching a  growing up the
        helicopter landing at Princess Magogo  perception was that we are angerous and  Africans, the ability
        Stadium to deliver Brenda Fassie for her  violent. Today at 37-years-old, I tell
        wedding. We didn’t have many things  people where I come from with pride  to be in full control
        then, not the booming businesses, proper  because I was raised by everyone in my
        roads or recreational centres.   neighborhood, and those are the same          of my art and
                                         people who continue to celebrate me and
        I’'m a journalist by profession as well as an  are never shy to announce how proud I  earnings.”
        author of four bestsellers. I was born at  have made them.
        Ohlange Clinic in Inanda and grew up at
        H-Section on Mthini Road, where my
        family still lives today.



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