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"I dont know what you mean by "tired". I cant give up because the spirit is still there. I cant help it, even if I wanted to give up. Although I cant do everything physically, the spirit still wants what I have always wanted."
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Frances Goitsemang Baard OMSS OLG was a South African trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming of the Diamantveld District Municipality (Kimberley) as the Frances Baard District Municipality. Schoeman Street in Pretoria was also renamed in her honour. This heroine is the reason we ce
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"My spirit is not banned — I still say I want freedom in my lifetime."
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