A Time and a Place
Wife, mother, teacher and social worker, Ellen Kuzwayo describes her country upbringing on her grandparents' farm in Orange Free State in the 1920s and her subsequent move to Johannesburg after her professional training. She talks about her life in Soweto and the political situation at home, ending with a plea that people should "open their eyes and stop, look and listen" to the problems of South Africa.
With the establishment of a free and democratic South Africa in 1994, Ellen Kuzwayo was elected as an ANC member of the country's first multiracial parliament. On her retirement in 1999, Nelson Mandela awarded her the Order of Meritorious Service. She died in 2006 aged 91.
