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	<title>OBF2025: Book Lounge Feminist Book Club with Michelle Myeko Kekana</title>
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	<title>OBF2025: What the Water Gave Me</title>
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In this event Veruska De Vita, Traci Kwaai and Malika Ndlovu speak to Zolani Mahola about the work of reclaiming ancestral and intimate connections to our rivers and oceans.&#160;



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	<title>OBF2025: Recovering from Childhood</title>
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	<title>OBF2025: Facing Death</title>
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In this event Siphokazi Jonas and Vusumzi Ngxande speak to Vuyo Koyana about reclaiming a spiritual inheritance and returning to the heart/core of Isintu.&#160;



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