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What are the chances that we will make it? 25 percent. And yet, I, the eternal optimist, think that we may make it

— Zukiswa Wanner

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Source: South African Author Zukiswa Wanner Documents the Resolve of Volunteers on Gaza-Bound Flotilla,18 September 2025
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