{"id":15880,"date":"2014-08-20T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/exiled-sa-writer-s-remains-go-home\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T06:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T06:55:19","slug":"exiled-sa-writer-s-remains-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/exiled-sa-writer-s-remains-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiled SA Writer’s Remains Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{The remains of renowned anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa have been returned to South Africa from the US.}}<\/p>\n

He was awarded a year’s fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in 1964 and took his own life a year later in New York at the age of 28.<\/p>\n

The apartheid government had refused to give him a passport so he had left on an exit permit, which meant he was unable to go home.<\/p>\n

“Nat would be very happy,” his sister Gladys Maphumulo said.<\/p>\n

Hero’s welcome<\/p>\n

She attended the memorial service for Nakasa on Saturday in New York, a day after his remains were exhumed.<\/p>\n

Nakasa started his career in Durban, and later moved to Johannesburg where he worked for Drum magazine and other publications.<\/p>\n

The late Nadine Gordimer knew Nakasa during his time in Johannesburg, and said he was a good talker and through his columns revealed a “a highly personal kind” of journalism which showed the daily reality of apartheid “for one man living through it”.<\/p>\n

His writing reflected the “gaiety of a serious man”, said the Nobel Prize-winning author, who died in July.<\/p>\n

“The truth is that he was a new kind of man in South Africa,” she wrote in an essay published in a collection of her writing, Telling Times.<\/p>\n

“He accepted without question and with easy dignity and natural pride his Africanness, and he took equally for granted that his identity as a man among men, a human among fellow humans, could not be legislated out of existence.”<\/p>\n

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