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Anti-Apartheid Activist Passes

Renowned Muslim Anti-Apartheid Activist Passes !
The most popular and recognizable Indian South African Muslim woman over the past five decades” and “a true Gandhian,” Fatima Meer passed this week at the age of 82.
 
She combined oppositional activism with a politics of bridge-building. In 1946, Meer joined other South African Indians in a passive resistance campaign against apartheid.