Jenny's Hot Takes : Episode 34 : "My Land Obsession" by Bulelwa Mabasa

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Author and lawyer Bulelwa Mabasa says the seeds of advocacy were planted in her mind when she was a young child looking up at a sad painting on the wall in her family's home.

Her non-fiction book titled "My Land Obsession" is up for this year's Sunday Times Literary Awards in partnership with Exclusive Books.

It delves into the burning issue of land dispossession during Apartheid and the land questions that remain decades later.

HOT1027's Jenny Crwys-Williams takes a look...
18 Oct 2023 English South Africa Entertainment News · Documentary

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