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The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, 1)

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You Weren't Meant to Be Human

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Katabasis

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The Bang-Bang Club, movie tie-in: Snapshots From a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich

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Under the pass laws more than 17 million black people were prosecuted from 1916 to 1981. The apartheid dream was to force most blacks, 80 per cent of the population, to be legal citizens of the nominally independent ethnic homelands ...more