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...visitor to Harvard’s campus in 1985, Themba Ngcobo had hoped he would have reason to return in the future. This weekend, he fulfilled that wish when he flew from South Africa to Cambridge to visit his son for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. The array of College-sponsored events focusing on the first-year experience allowed parents like Ngcobo—marked by their ubiquitous crimson nametags—to explore the many facets of freshman life. Many parents praised the wide range of events for providing them with a glimpse into their children?...
...times, you go to funerals for eight weekends nonstop. At times, you have two a day, so you have to divide the family up so that one can go to one funeral and one to another." THEMBINKOSI NGCOBO, head of parks and cemeteries in Durban, South Africa, where the aids pandemic is forcing the city to recycle graves...
Another debate between preachers casts Selby Ngcobo of Rhodesia as an apologist for African nationalism and neutralism against Harry Rudin of the Yale Faculty. Ngcobo comes off the worse for it, largely because although neither talks either to each other's points or to those of their critics, Professor Rudin writes more specifically and less windily. The exchange is a magnificently fatuous one, and the editors should blush...
...bloody 1906 uprising of the conquered Zulus, a 26-year-old Zulu warrior named Mdhlani Ngcobo remained loyal to the whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
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