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Made in Mzansi: The wild, defiant story of Herman Mashaba's Black Like Me

IOL · 19 September 2026 at 12:00

Made in Mzansi: The wild, defiant story of Herman Mashaba's Black Like Me

From a 200-litre drum in a dusty township workshop to a household name that defined Black hair in South Africa: this is the wild, defiant origin story of Black Like Me.

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