When Hope and History Rhyme

‘Of all [Amina’s] distinctions, achievements, the greatest is her identity, life-long, active in past and present, as freedom fighter, now needed as much, believe me, in the aftermath of freedom as in the Struggle.’ – Nadine Gordimer

The ninth of eleven children born to political activists Ebrahim and Fatima Asvat, Amina Cachalia’s political activism and championing of women’s rights was...