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Sheena Duncan, White Who Fought Apartheid, led Black Sash , Dies at 77

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sheena Duncan, White Who Fought Apartheid, Dies at 77 By CELIA W. DUGGER Published: May 7, 2010 JOHANNESBURG ? Sheena Duncan, who led the Black Sash, a group of middle-class white women in South Africa who protested against apartheid and counseled blacks victimized by the racist laws of that era, died Tuesday at her home in Johannesburg. She was 77. The cause was cancer, her daughter Carey Haouach said. Over decades of volunteer work ? counseling thousands of black South Africans, plotting legal strategy, writing pamphlets, holding silent vigils and speaking out in churches and at universities ? Mrs. Duncan moved far beyond the traditional sphere reserved for white women of her day. She helped people whose families were being torn apart by laws that kept black workers in the cities to serve whites while exiling their kin to impoverished rural ?bantustans,? or homelands...continue to full post

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