Her family became a target of South Africa’s security police, facing “constant surveillance, death threats, phone bugging,” but she fought on. By Alan Cowell Nyameka Goniwe, an activist, politician ...

“She was a person who would go out of her way to help others even if it was to her own detriment,” was how Nyameka Goniwe’s family described her on Monday after her sudden death on Saturday at the age ...

Born: June 3rd,1951 Died: August 30th, 2020 Nyameka Goniwe, an activist, politician and social worker who survived the death of her husband in one of apartheid-era South Africa's most brutal ...

Shortly before anti-apartheid activist Matthew Goniwe was murdered, a police officer stopped his car on the N10, pulled him out of the car by his shirt, pointed his gun at him and shouted: “One day I ...

All he wanted was to send Matthew Goniwe back to teach in Cradock — a move ex-apartheid deputy education minister Sam de Beer thought might ease the unrest caused by resistance to white minority rule.

Nyameka Goniwe has been described as a selfless leader who had unyielding courage. The Inxuba Yethemba municipality speaker, who was the widow of anti-apartheid activist Matthew Goniwe, died on ...

The former mayor from Cradock spent her life advocating for those in her community and fighting for justice for her husband and the rest of the Cradock Four. In June, Nyameka Goniwe was not feeling ...

Nyameka Goniwe, an activist, politician and social worker who survived the death of her husband in one of apartheid-era South Africa’s most brutal extrajudicial killings and went on to campaign in ...