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Gertrude Fester is an academic, a gender and political activist and writer. In May 1988 Fester was detained for the recruitment to and promotion of the African National Congress.
She was put on trial with thirteen other political activists in a trial that had come to be known as 'The Yengeni 14'.
In March 1990 charges were dropped and Fester was released.
Fester initiated the Women's Education Artistic Voice and Expressions (WEAVE), a black women's writing collective that encourages and facilitates women's writing as a means to deal with challenges that are specific to the situation of women in South Africa.
It is within these contexts that this paper, which was written in July/August 2001, is to be understood.