• BORN TO STRUGGLE, a biography of Fatima Meer, South African, Indian Muslim, anti-apartheid, human rights activist

BORN TO STRUGGLE, a biography of Fatima Meer, South African, Indian Muslim, anti-apartheid, human rights activist

: Wajid (A.)

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276pp., illus., paperback, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2024

ISBN: 9780190700553

 

South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and anti-apartheid activist, Fatima Meer (1928-2010) was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women. She was on the staff of the University of Natal from 1956 to 1988. Her books include Portrait of Indian South Africans, Race and Suicide in South Africa, Documents of Indentured Labour, Resistance in the Townships and Higher than Hope, the first authorised biography of Nelson Mandela.

Arjumand Wajid was born in Pakistan in 1948 and moved to Britain in 1968. She worked as a journalist for the Essex Chronicle and as a broadcaster for the BBC World Service. Between 2000 and 2016 she also worked as a freelance trainer, training journalists in over 25 countries.