The woman some hate to love - from outspoken feminist, anti-apartheid activist and human rights commissioner to Trump supporter - Rhoda Kadalie died on Saturday in Los Angeles.
It is fitting that Rhoda Kadalie’s copy of Christopher Hitchens’ excoriating 1999 take-down of the Clintons, “No One Left to Lie To – The Values of the Worst Family”, should be the one I had forgotten to return to her.
I shall leave the Rhoda I had not engaged with for a while in peace in LA. Should we have remained in contact, I know we would have fought. And that is not how I want to hold her in mind. Reverend Fenner and his wife, Joan , a machinist, and their then five children Rhoda, David, Charles, Reuben and Paul moved from District Six in 1961.
Reverend Fenner served as the Life President of the City Mission until his death in 2011. Such was his reach that his City Hall memorial service was packed, with spillover crowds outside. She had set up a Gender Studies Unit at the University of the Western Cape, a first, and was one of those strong black women of the time who spoke out and was heard. She was funny, she was unafraid, she was provocative.
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