No easy choice to resist

Source 1

This is one of four books written by anti-apartheid activists who worked with the Black Sash in Worcerster.  In this extract from her book, Not the End of the World, Nothemba Ngcwecwe describes her initial unwillingness to get involved in the struggle against apartheid.

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Source 2

For her book, Lives of Courage Women for a new South Africa (1989), Diana Russell interviewed 60 South African women about their role in the fight against apartheid. Leila Issel, the youngest of those interviewed, was thirteen at the time. Diana wrote, “Leila is the eldest of Shahieda and Johnny Issel’s three children… In her interview, Leila describes how it has been to grow up from the cradle being harassed by the police, owing to her mother and father’s political activity”.

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Source 3

This is an extract from the childhood recollections of Rian Malan, the grandson of D.F. Malan (the first apartheid Prime Minister). It is from his book, My Traitor’s Heart, 1990.

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