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  "en": "On Being South African — Zubeida Jaffer (author's own website)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "مقال زبيدة جعفر عن هويتها بقلمها: «وُلدت في أسرة مسلمة كيبية. لست بيضاء ولا سوداء… أنا إنسانة… أنا امرأة وصحفية وراوية قصص».",
  "en": "Zubeida Jaffer's own essay on her identity: 'I was born into a Cape Muslim family. I am neither white, nor black, nor pink, nor blue. I am a human being… I am a woman, a journalist and a story-teller.'"
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  "kind": "primary",
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  "title": "On Being South African",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Jaffer",
    "given": "Zubeida"
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  "publisher": "zubeidajaffer.co.za (the author's own website)",
  "URL": "https://www.zubeidajaffer.co.za/on-being-south-african/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Jaffer's own words on her own site, read in full on 26 October 2026. Her self-description is a statement of the family she was born into — family background, which is never an attestation of a school of law — and she names no school anywhere in the essay.",
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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