OBITUARY: Sheila Barsel, the dart-throwing strugglista who refused to be silenced
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Sheila Barsel spent decades fighting apartheid, advancing LGBTQIA+ rights and organising against exclusion, leaving a legacy of practical courage, political conviction and defiance.
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