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When Hope and History Rhyme – Amina Cachalia's autobiography

Polity speaks to Amina Cachalia's son Ghaleb about his late mother's autobiography 'When hope and history rhyme'. Camera: Darlene Creamer & Shane Williams. Editing: Darlene Creamer. Recorded: 26/03/2013.

27th March 2013

  

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The ninth of eleven children born to political activists Ebrahim and Fatima Asvat, Amina Cachalia’s political activism and championing of women’s rights was almost a preordained path with her father’s connection with Mahatma Gandhi and a family tradition that started with her father’s explanation of racial discrimination.

When Hope and History Rhyme explores Amina’s remarkable life from her early childhood to the women’s march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956, when a heavily pregnant Amina was one of 20 000 women to march against the pass laws for black women, to her banning, in 1963, for 15 years and the trials and tribulations when her husband, Yusuf, was placed under house arrest and banned for a total of 27 years.

The book includes details of Amina’s close relationship with Nelson Mandela, from their first meeting to their poignant encounters after his release from prison in 1990, and allows the reader to experience the people, places and events that have been a part of Amina’s extraordinary life journey.

Polity spoke to Amina's son Ghaleb Cachalia about his mother's autobiography.

'When Hope and History Rhyme' is published by Picador Africa, an imprint of Pan Macmillan South Africa

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