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Along with Jenny Schreiner and Gwen Ansell she edited Comrade Jack, a memoir of the late Marxist activist, Jack Simons, who lectured on politics in Umkhonto we Sizwe training camps in Angola and Tanzania.
Other white women who contributed to South Africa's liberation struggle include:
- Conny Braam, Dutch journalist who assisted with Operation Vula and later wrote a book about her anti-apartheid experiences
- Susan de Lange, political prisoner and wife of the guerilla Damian de Lange
- Barbara Hogan, political prisoner
- Janet Love, Operation Vula operative
- Ruth First, ANC activist and wife of Joe Slovo, killed by apartheid government assassins in 1982
- Muff Andersen, former Sunday Times journalist
- Helena Pastoors, Dutch citizen
- Trish Hanekom, who served four years in prison in the 1980s and was deported to her native Zimbabwe on her release.
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