Profiles in diversity
Subtitle: women in the new South Africa
By: Patricia W. Romero.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: East Lansing, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Women -- South Africa -- Social conditions; Women -- South Africa -- Interviews; Apartheid -- South Africa; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: Three Afrikaner women, including one in her late twenties, speak about growing up in South Africa and articulate their concerns for a future that, in some respects, differs from the predictions of their English-speaking or black sisters. Two now-deceased members of the South African Communist Party provide disparate accounts of what led them to lives of active opposition to the discrimination that marked the lives of people of color, long before apartheid became embedded in South Africa's legal system.

Also included is an account by Dr. Goonam, an Indian woman who grew up in relative comfort in the then province of Natal, while Ray Alexander discusses how she witnessed the tyranny visited on the Jews of her native Latvia before immigrating to the Cape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.