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I found the photos both interesting and very touching.Full of feeling and as my husband was in SA for quite a while it reminds me of him too
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thank you dear friend. It means a lot and that you have a connection with South Africa all the more poignant
Peace ✌
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Yes,I remember copying newspaper articles in South Africa House in London in 1970 as my husband was writing an article about Torture in SA for an intelligent Catholic journal.We were both scribbling away as there was no photocopier and I felt somewhat nervous I admit. I do feel a connection even though I never went to SA myself.Someone said my husband belonged to the ANC but he never told me.He climbed in the Drakensburg mountains and loved his students though while supposedly teaching symbolic logic he was also teaching things that could have put him in jail,he once said.
So a connection across the world.Katherine
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It’s an absolute pleasure to be in contact with you. Your husband and your commitment to the anti-Apartheid cause by being actively engaged in the ‘struggle’ – I have been told by my parents about the unending pickets outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square and how those displays of ardent solidarity were an inspiration at a time when the jackboot of Apartheid was firmly entrenched. That your husband may have been a member of the ANC is amazing while being in South Africa “teaching”. He would have to have been involved in the underground structures of the ANC and yes, that took tremendous courage because had he been “found out” by the Apartheid authorities he would have definitely has been arrested at the very least, and suffer further torture and unspeakable acts of horror. We salute you and your husband for your solidarity and your active fight against Apartheid. The struggle continues! Respectfully, Afzal
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At the time it seemed the only thing to do.And when Nelson Mandela was freed we could hardly believe it.My husband was secretive so he didn’t tell me much in detail.When he said he could have been arrested,he was smiling.Well, he was very old by then and not long for this world.
I had a student from SA who had been tortured and he had escaped to maybe Mozambique.He said when he was a child my husband had played football with him and his friends.Strange how these connections come up now and then.I sadly lost touch with this student.Katherine
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it just gets more and more amazing and on my behalf please accept my gratitude for the solidarity you extended in the struggle against Apartheid’s racial discrimination and brutality. I am quite sure your husband was involved in the underground structures of the ANC, especially his being so secretive and that your student had to flee after being arrested and tortured also points to the fact that your student was also involved actively so I am sure your husband was amongst the courageous and principled and brave human beings who not only spoke out against Apartheid but were engaged actively in to struggle for freedom. Yes these strands that connect us are just so unbelievable in a world of so many souls. I salute you and your husband with gratitude and the humblest thanks.
Peace and Equality for all ✌ ✊👍
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I have been very happy to share our experiences with you and only wish my husband was here to tell me a bit more about his adventures.He was a kind of artistic quiet type who had many friends. and I still miss him but was fortunate to have him for a long time.If there is an afterlife I am sure he will be happy to see our connection.All my kindest wishes to you and all those you love.Katherine
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Thank YOU, Katherine, for sharing your beloved husband’s truly inspiring and principled life and his being a true internationalist by coming to South Africa and for doing the work he did at great risk to his life. He is a part of the unsung heroes and heroines who contributed to the struggle that led to the vanquishing of Apartheid and the advent of democratic rule. All my kindest wishes to you and yes if there is an afterlife may you and your dear husband continue the journey of love and companionship that you shared together here. Lots of respectful greetings and warmest love to you and those dear to you. I remain respectfully, Afzal
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Thank you so much.I found it really nice to meet you and to know although he died his life was a good one in helping in his way with the people whom he had come to love while teaching there.It’s not often we see a wonderful change like the peaceful ending of the apartheid regime.I thank you for all your good wishes.Katherine
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Thank you as well and may your dear husband rest in peace. Warmest wishes and regards from the southern tip of the African continent.
Peace ✌ always
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thank you dear friend.
Peace ✌
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I wish people in my country could remember how bad Apartheid was for South Africa, and how hard so many people worked to get rid of it. Or maybe they could remember how damaging the Jim Crow era was for our own country, instead of doing all they can to reinstate it.
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Sometimes photos convey what a million poems might not. 🙂
(though, I believe, your poems might keep me indulged)
thanks for sharing, I love this blog.
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thank you ever so much for your very kind and generous words. yes, photos can make stark when words fail to do so. I treasure these and other photos from a time and places of what seems like another world altogether. Thank YOU, again for visiting this blog and for your warm comments. Peace ✌
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Your photographs are a treasure chest of personal memories, and also historically important. Thanks for sharing!
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