Our Generation

by Jaffer, Zubeida

• ISBN13: 9780795701481
• ISBN10: 0795701489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Independent Pub Group

Summary

Intertwined with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa is the personal story of a courageous woman who strove to make a difference on her own terms. In this compelling autobiographical account, Zubeida Jaffer, one of the most senior black women in the South African media, documents her struggles during a 15-year spanfrom 1980 when she was a young reporter to post-1994 and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings where she testified. Her political experiences in the Western Capeof activism, harassment, torture, and detention, once while she was pregnantare interspersed with talk about babies, her passionate love for her husband, and her problematic relationship with Islam and its sexist rules. In her story, driven by an impulse toward joy, Zubeida Jaffer triumphs as an individual, a woman, a freedom fighter, a writer, and a mother.

Author Biography

Zubeida Jaffer has been a journalist for more than 20 years. She is a political analyst for the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation and the founding editor of the Parliamentary Bureau for Independent Newspapers, which represents 14 newspapers. She was the first South African woman to receive the U.S.A.'s Foreign Journalist Award and has received an award from the New York Foreign Press Association for outstanding academic and professional achievements.