From my photo album: Was it the early 1990's when exiles first tried to find their feet back home? Here at Harlene and Charley Jassat's home in Johannesburg.
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The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF). I worked for it from 1979 until its dissolution in 1991. From 1983 until its closure I served as its Director.
INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE AND AID FUND FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (IDAF).
From 1979 till 1991, when we shut IDAF down, its purpose having been served, I worked for IDAF, the last nine years as its Director.
The Board of IDAF comprised members from several countries whose Governments financially contributed to the organisation.
Renate Pratt was a prominent civil society activist in Canada and Board member of IDAF. She died on 10 March 2018. Visit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-anti-apartheid-activist-renate-pratt-led-campaign-for-divestment-from/ to read her obituary.
Renate Pratt was a prominent civil society activist in Canada and Board member of IDAF. She died on 10 March 2018. Visit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-anti-apartheid-activist-renate-pratt-led-campaign-for-divestment-from/ to read her obituary.
Dulcie September (left), then Janey Love, Ramni Dinat, Zodwa Dabengwa and Barry Feinberg at an IDAF staff party ca 1985 at the offices in Essex Rd., Islington, North London.
Dulcie moved on to become ANC Chief Representative in Paris. She was assassinated on 29 March 1988. Her apartheid assassins have never been identified.
| Dulcie September was assassinated by apartheid agents in Paris 29 March 1988. The French organisation Arcueil commemorated Dulcie's murder in 2018. |
Horst, 1979 representing IDAF at the Frankfurt International Book Fair, supported by West German Anti-Apartheid activist Doris Peschke. |
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