Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper examines the autobiographies of three South African females who because of their opposition against the apartheid regime were forced to live in remote areas around the country as forms of punishment for their resistance. I argue that the women continue their activism and their professional roles in places where they did not speak the indigenous African languages or that of the White minority regime and the Coloured speakers of Afrikaans. They negotiated the constraints of their geographical and social identities to reinvent themselves. Their experiences are captured in three phases: the cart-offs, the landings, and the politicization.