• FLASHES IN HER SOUL, the life of Jabu Ndlovu, with a new introduction by Debby Bonnin

FLASHES IN HER SOUL, the life of Jabu Ndlovu, with a new introduction by Debby Bonnin

: Fairbairn (J.)

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152pp., illus., maps, paperback, Second Edition, Fanele, Johannesburg, (1991) 2018

ISBN: 9781928232520

 

A biography of Jabulile 'Jabu' Ndlovu (b. 1947), a shop steward of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, a United Democratic Front activist, and a community leader in Imbali near Pietermaritzburg. Jabu, her husband and her oldest daughter were killed in an attack on their home in Imbali township in May 1989. According to the Truth and Reconciliation’s final report, they were attacked by Inkatha supporters.

"This book reminds us that before 1990 conditions on the ground meant that a determined union supporter such as Jabu could pay with her life for being a militant organiser. The new South Africa was not won cheaply." William Freund, Professor of Economic History, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Jean Fairbairn is the co-author of Asinamali, the life of Msizi Dube.

Debby Bonnin is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria.