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Ronnie Govender was a writer and theatre-maker.  Through the arts, he stood firm against the apartheid regime.  For this, he has received various commendations, the Order of Ikhamanga and Commonwealth Writers’s Prize. Writer and theatre activist Ronnie Govender died on Thursday 29 April 2021 aged 85.  While studying at the University of Cape Town, Govender paid his fees by working as a sportswriter for the New Age. In line with New Age’s politics against apartheid, Govender used his writings to encourage the Indian community to boycott segregated sporting events. A year after Govender joined the newsroom, government authorities shut down the publication. Now without an income, he went back home where he studied teaching at Durbans’s Springfield Training College. 

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