Caesarina Kona Makhoere

Caesarina Kona Makhoere (born 1955) is a South African anti-apartheid activist and prison writer. Quotes - Prison cannot break the spirit when the cause is just. My body became a weapon. No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid (1988) - During my first year at Silverton, I learned from another prisoner, Mama Dorothy Nyembe, of the long history of women's resistance in South Africa. No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid (1988), reflecting on detention 1976-1977 - If I continued to study under the educational system that he had been killed fighting against then I would not be fulfilling his wishes. Interview on 1976 Soweto Uprising and decision to seek military training - I was forced to go into hiding, and it was my own father who revealed my hiding place to the police. SA History Online biography About Caesarina Kona Makhoere - Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother worked as a domestic worker. At a young age she was forcibly removed in terms of the Group Areas Act and relocated to Mamelodi with her family. SA History Online - She attended Vlakfontein Technical High School, where two-thirds of the teachers were members of the South African Defence Force (SADF). In early 1976, the authorities decreed that classes throughout South Africa were to be conducted in Afrikaans. SA History Online - She was arrested in October 1976 under the Terrorism Act, and held for ten months in the Silverton Police Station near Mamelodi while awaiting her trial. In 1977, she was convicted for attempting to undergo military training. SA History Online / Wikipedia - She then spent two years in Kroonstad Prison, two years in Pretoria Central Prison and one year in Klerksdorp before her release in October 1982. SA History Online - After her release, she worked for the Black Sash counselling victims of discriminatory laws and detention. Makhoere wrote a book about her experiences in prison, entitled No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid (1988). SA History Online - Makhoere's book "epitomized" the South African "writing of resistance." Ryan, cited in Wikipedia External links Category:Women from South Africa Category:Anti-apartheid activists Category:Prison writers