Our Generation : review by Antjie Krog

This is one of the stories one always knew existed, but never expected it to surface with such force of tenderness and beauty; such power of self-discovery; such courageous pain. Every story of neglected parts of South Africa's liberation found Zubeida Jaffer.

 

Our Generation : review by Nadine Gordimer

There's a historian's history: and there's history as lived and made everyday by the people. Those in pursuit of human justice who, as Zubeida Jaffer writes "puts their jobs on the line. Those who helped without seeking glory or any financial reward. People of all colours, creeds, shapes and sizes."

Those who put on line: their lives. She is one of them and her story as a woman of Cape Muslim background, a journalist and an activist in the South African struggle, a mother bearing and rearing a child while enduring harassment, torture and prison, is vivid, essential testimony in that compliation of alternative history, invaluable to us, which can come only from those remarkable people to whom South Africa owes its freedom.

Our Generation : the book 
ISBN: 0-7957-0148-9
Kwela Books