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Fatima Meer
South African writer and activist (1928–2010)
Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 – 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.
Early life
Fatima Meer was born in the Grey Streets of Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family of nine, where her father M.I. Meer, a newspaper editor of TIV(The Indian View),[1] instilled in her a consciousness of the racial discrimination that existed in the country.
Her mother was Rachel Farrell, the second wife of Moosa Ismail Meer.
Higher than hope fatima meer biography
Her mother was orphaned and of Jewish and Portuguese descent. She converted to Islam and changed her name to Amina.[2][3] When she was 16 years old in 1944, she helped raise £1 000 for famine relief in Bengal, India.[4] She completed her schooling at the Durban Indian Girls High School.
When she was still a student she mobilized students to found the Student Passive Resistance Committee to gather fund