January 1960 Mrs Mafekeng Talks To Drum Mrs Elizabeth

January 1960 Mrs Mafekeng Talks To Drum Mrs Elizabeth Mafekeng and her three month old daughter. We are in Basutoland. The woman is Mrs Mafekeng, victim of a South African banishment order. Our search is over. We are the first newsmen to find her and interview her since her deportation from Paarl in October last year. Mrs Mafekeng, 42 year old mother of 11 children, was the president of the South African Food and Canning Workers Union, until the government ordered her to leave her home and family for the barren part of Vryburg district, without charge, trial or explanation. So a few days after receiving the Union Government's banishment order Elizabeth bade farewell to her husband and 10 chidren and, with two month old Theresa Uhuru clutched to her breast, set off by car with friends for the wilds of ruggedly beautiful Basutoland. She spends many hours listening to radio in nearby store. (Photograph by Ian Berry Baileys Archives)

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Activists Apartheid Banished Basutoland Mafekeng

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