THANDI, liberation: my struggle for South Africa as an exile in America, edited by Elizabeth Enloe and Gloria Gaines

215pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Africa World Press, Trenton, 2024

ISBN: 9781569028223

"Thandi’s story told with her characteristic simplicity and humility, inspires us to recall those who confront the Goliath of racism on behalf of a multiracial world. This is a truthful narration by Mama Thandi.  She pulls no punches. The outright opposition and the double dealing of those who do not want to overthrow the apple cart come out. These were the true challenges she faced in her own strategic and quiet way as she forged ahead with the struggle to liberate South Africa." Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo, Executive Dean, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, from his foreword

Thandi Luthuli-Gcabashe, daughter of Nokukhanya and Albert Luthuli, was born in 1934 in KwaZulu/Natal, went into exile in 1970 and played an active role in anti-apartheid organisations in the USA, including the American Committee on Africa, based in New York City, the Washington Office on Africa and the Congress of the United States Government. In 1981 she was appointed Director of the Southern Peace Education Program of the American Friends Service Committee in Atlanta, Georgia, a post she occupied for 15 years. She returned to South Africa in 1996, joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1998, and is currently the South African Ambassador of Venezuela, Latin America and the West Indies.