360º PERSPECTIVES | ISSUE 7 | 2020/2021
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Appointment of an activist minister » In 1980, UWC alumna Yvonne Dausab was only five years old. She did not know what ‘human rights’ meant nor did she know that a system called apartheid attempted to regulate and limit every aspect of her life in the violent, impoverished black neighbourhood of Katutura outside Windhoek.
O WHEN SHE EXPERIENCED the brutal killing of her aunt in her parental home at that tender age, she didn’t understand all of what happened, but the outrage and anger of her relatives and neighbours made an immediate and lasting impression on her. As she grew up, she became determined to fight the injustices of poverty, crime and colonial occupation. >>
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