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I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

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The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

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The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.

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They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

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I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years.

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It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

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Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

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I never talk about my private life.

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It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

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The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Activist

Born: September 26th, 1936

Died: April 2nd, 2018

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