Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa

by Diana E . H . Russell (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

  This book charts the role of women in South Africa who fight apartheid and its cruel apparatus - banning, detention, house arrest, imprisonment, torture. In 1987 and 1988, the author visited South Africa, the land of her birth, to interview 24 women about their struggle against apartheid. These women tell of the price they and their families have paid for their activism, the difficulties of being a woman in a racist and sexist society, the terrors they have endured and the dreams they nourish for a new South Africa. From world-famous leaders to trade unionists, members of radical organizations, and students activists - black and white, Asian and coloured , young and old - their fighting spirit, courage and conviction in the face of the state's gross inhumanity permeate every page.