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Items by Leigh-Ann Naidoo
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Women’s Boats to Gaza Diary 3
Day 3 – Saturday 24 September Today is a busy admin day. We meet the Women’s Boat to Gaza participants who have arrived so far, some from home and some from the first 2 legs of the Zaytouna’s journey from Barcelona. They have travelled 700 nautical miles to get here....
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Women’s Boat to Gaza Diary 2
After a night of flying to Dubai and a midday flight from there to Rome, I started feeling excited to be making my way finally to Messina, where I hope to join the boat Zaytouna, which means “olive” in Arabic. I felt like I was already closer to Palestine...
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Women’s Boat to Gaza Diary
Day 1, Thursday 22 September 2016 It was very hard for me to leave Johannesburg, and the current struggles in South Africa around free higher education. Most of my day was spent reading, thinking and responding to the struggles raging on university campuses across the country and spilling out into...