MEER, Fatima

... where we hear testimonies from relatives of assassinated Durban academic, Doctor Richard Turner, and evidence of attempted assassinations on Fatima Meer and Harold Strachan. We also hear about incidents of police brutality in the Western Cape (from the Winelands HRV hearings, 14 to 16 October) ...

In 1977, the very next year, an assassination attempt was made on me. We were at home, my husband and I, telling stories to my nieces who had been staying with me at the time, when my daughter Sheraaz sounded the alarm that our garage was on fire. This immediately got me rushing to the door. ...

I think Rick was very vulnerable because of his innate honesty and the fact that he approached everything very frankly. He hid nothing about himself or about what he did. But more than that I think it was his profound gentleness that made him so vulnerable. The rest of us, we would fight back and ...