Africa: Travel As Activism – 6 Stories of Black Women Who Refused to ‘Stay Put’ in Apartheid South Africa
For black people living in South Africa during apartheid, simply moving around the country was a fraught activity, let alone crossing its borders. This was especially the case for black women, who were “rock bottom of the racial pile”, as South African writer Lauretta Ngcobo expressed it. Coming to power in 1948 and ruling for…