HRTS 500 · Anti-Apartheid Resistance, Memory & Gender-Based Violence Advocacy, Mudzunga Farisani

Mudzunga Farisani was intimately involved in the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Her draft memoirs shed new light on the movement by focusing on how a mother and wife held her family together while her husband was imprisoned and tortured. She had to rally international pressure on the South African government while facing extreme threats from the secret police and others.

Mudzunga now devotes much of her work to inclusive education and to addressing gender-based violence in South Africa. She currently serves as Director of the Department of Education, Limpopo Province.