"Having come here, being enslaved, then being resilient and working their way up, always being in survival mode and eventually naturalisation, getting citizenship status and getting their rights back – all this has been a long process, but a very painful one."
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Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi
Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi (née Thakur; born 17 November 1964) is a South African politician who has been the leader of the Minority Front since 2012. She has represented the party in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature since 1999.After two decades of practice as a pharmacist in Phoenix, Thakur-Rajbansi entered politics when she joined the Minority Front in 1998. In January 2012, she became leader of the party, succeeding her late husband, Amichand Rajbansi. Over the next two years, her position in the p
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