Fatima Meer [SEP] cause of death
Death.
Fatima Meer died at St. Augustine's Hospital in Durban on 12 March 2010, aged 81, from a stroke which she suffered two weeks earlier.
See also.
- List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid
External links.
- Biography in Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography on SA History online
Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 – 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.
Early life.
Fatima Meer was born in Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family of nine, where her father Moosa Ismail Meer, a newspaper editor of "The Indian Views", instilled in her a consciousness of the racial discrimination that existed in the country. Her mother was Rachel Farrell, the second wife of Moosa Ismail Meer