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She also spoke to a number of women's groups during her stay in South Africa. After several refusals, she and her husband were finally allowed to visit Chief Albert Luthuli , President-General of the African National Congress

NG 's anti-apartheid politics were formed by small personal experiences. The first was seeing, as a twelve-year-old, police destroying the backyard room of a black servant while the employers, her parents, watched impassively.

These three men (who continue to play significant roles in South African public life in the early twenty-first century) had been initially arrested, along with many others, in April 1985. The Delmas Trial, which escalated...

NG regarded it as an act of loyalty to be critical when appropriate of the African National Congress once it was in power, and of President Thabo Mbeki , who was the second post-apartheit president...

The novella Something Out There relates a successful strike against a power station by ANC revolutionaries, and explores the responses of government and of both racist and liberal whites to this act of terrorism...

This book maintains DM 's habit of noticing the seldom noticed: here the culture of poor whites, publicly parading with appeals for work, most of them drunk or stoned. The amount of information and cogitation...

Initially her political views coincided with those of another novelist, Nadine Gordimer , and both supported anti-censorship efforts in the Johannesburg PEN International Centre . Later Gordimer supported the African National Congress and the development...