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The Nordic Africa Institute

"I have retraced my life many a time before, since coming back to South Africa trying to carve a niche for myself, amidst all the challenges that also many others like me are facing!

My father, George Monare, was forced to go into political exile in 1962, long before I was born after having been very active in the Trade Union movement and the ANC as a dedicated organiser. He escaped into neighbouring Swaziland leaving my mother behind who followed him a year later, with all my brothers and sisters. In the mid 1980’s the pressure of the South African Defence Forces into neighbouring “frontline states”, particularly Swaziland, became unbearable, so many ‘exile parents’ sent their children to SOMAFCO. This was also influenced by the Nkomati Accord of 1982 between South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland.

I was a student in SOMAFCO between 1984 and 1989.

As much as there were many things that one desired and missed, being at SOMAFCO and receiving the holistic education that I did, was the highlight of my life! The ‘life influence’ that I find we received there set us to perceive ourselves as part of the human race family in the sense that we were very informed about the world around us, whose shaping we were a part of!

Alongside all the educat

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Albertina Sisulu

South African anti-apartheid activist (1918–2011)

Albertina SisuluOMSG (néeNontsikeleloThethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was the founding co-president of the United Democratic Front. In South Africa, where she was affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, she is often called a mother of the nation.

Born in rural Transkei, Sisulu moved to Johannesburg in 1940 and was a nurse by profession. She entered politics through her marriage to Walter Sisulu and became increasingly engaged in activism after his imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. In the 1980s she emerged as a community leader in her hometown of Soweto, assuming a prominent role in the establishment of the UDF and the revival of the Federation of South African Women.

Between 1964 and 1989, she was subject to a near-continuous string of banning orders. In addition to intermittent detention without trial, she was subject to criminal charges on three occasions: she was acquitted of violating pass laws in 1958, convicted of violating the Suppression of Communism Act in 1984, and acquitted of violating the Internal Security Act in the 1985 Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial.

After the end of aparthei