Lindiwe modise biography of albert
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The Nordic Africa Institute
"I have retraced my life many a time before, since coming back to South Africa ansträngande to carve a niche for myself, amidst all the challenges that also many others like me are facing!
My father, George Monare, was forced to go into political exile in 1962, long before I was born after having been very active in the Trade Union movement and the ANC as a dedicated organiser. He flydde into neighbouring Swaziland leaving my mother behind who followed him a year later, with all my brothers and sisters. In the mid 1980’s the pressure of the South African Defence Forces into neighbouring “frontline states”, particularly Swaziland, became unbearable, so many ‘exile parents’ sent their children to SOMAFCO. This was also influenced by the Nkomati Accord of 1982 between South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland.
I was a student in SOMAFCO between 1984 and 1989.
As much as there were many things that one desired and missed, being at SOMAFCO and receiving the
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The Nordic Africa Institute
Tor Sellström: You came to Sweden in 1979 as ANC Chief Representative to the Nordic countries. How did you find the anti-apartheid movement in the Nordic area at that time?
Lindiwe Mabuza: I did not want to leave Africa. I had lived in the United States from 1964 until the beginning of 1977 and I just wanted to be part of what was happening on the African continent. I then realized that the decision of the ANC National Executive Committee to send me out had been well considered. I would let many people down by not accepting it. But I did not understand what I was going into. I was just afraid. There was apprehension about going to—first of all—a white world. I had lived under apartheid and racism in South Africa and in the United States. What was now going to happen? But, fortunately, so much had been done prior to my coming to Sweden by other people from South Africa that I found a very receptive and accepting climate. A climate that was conducive to
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Albertina Sisulu
South African anti-apartheid activist (1918–2011)
Albertina SisuluOMSG (néeNontsikeleloThethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was the founding co-president of the United Democratic Front. In South Africa, where she was affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, she is often called a mother of the nation.
Born in rural Transkei, Sisulu moved to Johannesburg in 1940 and was a nurse by profession. She entered politics through her marriage to Walter Sisulu and became increasingly engaged in activism after his imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. In the 1980s she emerged as a community leader in her hometown of Soweto, assuming a prominent role in the establishment of the UDF and the revival of the Federation of South African Women.
Between 1964 and 1989, she was subject to a near-continuous string of banning orders. In addition to intermittent detention without tr