Freedom writer, freedom fighter
Juby Mayet did something no ‘Malay girl had ever done’ in reporting for a ‘naytiff paper’. Her memoir tells her story
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Juby Mayet did something no ‘Malay girl had ever done’ in reporting for a ‘naytiff paper’. Her memoir tells her story
Despite being one SA’s greatest prose stylists – as these excerpts from her autobiography, Freedom Writer, attest – the reporter has been widely overlooked. The following extracts are from different chapters of the book and therefore different periods in the author’s life.
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