February 15 marks 20 years since the bookseller and revolutionary AKM Docrat passed on.
A few among old newspaper vendors might recall the old communist, head down hurrying along Grey Street in his signature black beret and wisp of white chin hair.
It is unlikely that many among us will remember his death anniversary.
Phyllis Naidoo would have. She had an uncanny manner of honouring the living, the dead, and random acts of kindness.
Her mountain of personal papers archived in the Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal are a poignant record of the people and events that must remain in memory.
Recalling Abdul Khalek Mohammed Docrat takes me back to one Saturday morning two decades ago. The unfashionable beige plastic phone at the end of the passage…
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Post (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-01-18