Quotations
We have excerpted highlights from each narrator’s interview. Please click through to read their insightful and inspiring words.
And then in the early ’80s, when the South African government decided to open the space a little bit and create some means of political representation for some other groups [besides] whites in the country, a real deep mobilization across the country started; and that’s when I got involved in “politics-politics.” And at that time, the question of women’s rights was highly contested, but I would say it was nowhere on the national agenda.
—Barbara Klugman
