Zubeida Jaffer tells stories.

This award-winning journalist and acclaimed writer says she never imagined that her latest story will make such a big impact on her as a person.

In compiling this feature, one realizes that Jaffer is bringing one of the most powerful and inspiring messages to women across South Africa by telling the historic tale of Charlotte Maxeke.

She tells how this remarkable woman, political and educational icon believed in the power of women and how writing this book made her take stock on the role of South African women and how they can concur the problems facing the country at the moment.

Jaffer’s work has earned her numerous local and international awards. These include the Muslim Views Achiever Award as well as the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri in the USA. She is also the first woman in Africa to have won the coveted foreign journalist award from the National Association of Black Journalists in the USA.

Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism, from Rhodes University in Grahamstown in 1979. The South African authorities detained her for two months in 1980 after exposing police killings.

Source: sahistory.org.za