Textile Workers' Industrial Unions in South Africa by Bettie Du Toit with Nancy Dick. c1930-1978

Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014

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Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa in 1923. At age 13 she began her writing career, her first writings appearing in the children's section of the Johannesburg Sunday Express. Since then she has written novels and countless short stories, articles, etc. which have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Many of her works reflect the political and social dilemmas of living under apartheid in South Africa and consequently, several of her books have been banned in that ...

Dick Nancy fl 1978

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Du Toit, Bettie, fl 1930-1978

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Bettie Du Toit began working as a trade unionist in the textile industry in the 1930's, first in the Transvaal and later in the Cape. She was active in the Communist Party. In the 1950's she worked closely with the African National Congress and was imprisoned several times. She was one of the few whites who participated in the Defiance Campaign, 1952. In the 1960's she went to Ghana where she lost her sight through an eye infection. She went to London for treatment and remained there, writing th...