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I have a BA HED (Higher Education Diploma), and a Tesol English 2nd Language Diploma. I have over 22 years’ teaching experience, and over 15 years’ writing experience, as a journalist in Johannesburg. For the past 3 years I have conducted tours of Joburg.

And when I’m not teaching or writing or conducting tours, I'll be taking in the Joburg vibes and events - it may be a book launch, an art exhibition opening, a touch of jazz, a talk on intriguing stuff . . . there's always something happening in this town, where I have lived for the past 36 years.

Come along on the journey with me - let's have fun exploring English and the city!

lucilledavie

Jun 27, 2005

The flame of freedom is lit in Kliptown

They were all there the second time around on Kliptown square: the president and his deputy, cabinet ministers, diplomats, officials, Albertina Sisulu, Adelaide Tambo, and of course, Nelson Mandela and several dozen veterans who were there with him 50 years ago. And several thousand ordinary citizens. To commemorate the drafting of the Freedom Charter, in a new square that will be the catalyst to the rejuvenation of the desperately rundown and poor Kliptown of 2005. “All of u

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lucilledavie

Jun 24, 2005

The charter of ‘singing tomorrows’

Nelson Mandela was there. Walter Sisulu was there. Helen Joseph was there. Father Trevor Huddleston was there. So were 3 000 ordinary citizens, demanding a better life for all under a new, non-discriminatory dispensation. It was on Saturday, 26 June, 1955, that people from around the country gathered on a dusty soccer field in the middle of Kliptown, to approve the Freedom Charter, in an atmosphere described by Nelson Mandela in his Long Walk to Freedom as “serious and festiv

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lucilledavie

Mar 20, 2003

Sophiatown land claim payments top R21m

Since June 2000 more than R21-million in land compensation claims has been paid out to ex-Sophiatown residents. This adds up to 544 claims of R40 000 each. The payments, considered by the national Land Affairs Department to be “restitution awards”, were paid as a “gesture of reconciliation” for the loss of homes and indignity suffered by residents at the time of removals. The Department’s unofficial tally of R21 760 000 has been paid for Sophiatown and the small neighbouring

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lucilledavie

Oct 1, 2001

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

On the first page of his book, Naught for Your Comfort (1956), the late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston recalls his response on being recalled to England after living in Johannesburg for 12 years. "I am in the process of dying," he said. "No one, I think, could call Johannesburg a lovely place," Huddleston wrote. "It is too stark and too uncompromising; too lacking in any softness of light and shade; too overwhelmingly and blatantly the centre of the Witwatersrand, to have much

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The flame of freedom is lit in Kliptown

The charter of ‘singing tomorrows’

Sophiatown land claim payments top R21m

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

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