SHEENA DUNCAN

255pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2015

Introduction by Desmond Tutu.

A biography of anti-apartheid activist Sheena Duncan (1932-2010). Sheena Duncan was President of the Black Sash from 1975 until 1978 and again from 1982 until 1986. She edited the Black Sash magazine, managed the Johannesburg branch of the Sash's advice office, was National Coordinator of the Advice Offices, a member of the National Executive and a founding member of the Black Sash Trust. She was also a member of the National Coordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, the Independent Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression and a Patron of the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. She worked with the End Conscription Campaign. She was Vice-president of the South African Council of Churches from 1987 until 1990 and Senior Vice-President from 1990 until 1993.