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| The coffin containing the remains of black South African soldier Private Myengwa Beleza is carried by officers during a reburial ceremony, in Longueval, northern France. [PHOTO: AFP] |
LONGUEVAL, FRANCE: A black South African soldier who died nearly a century ago during World War I was on Sunday reburied alongside 600 of his white compatriots at the South African war memorial in northern France.
Private Myengwa Beleza was one of the first black South African soldiers to be killed in France during the 1914-1918 war.
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