Anne Hope
South African anti-apartheid activist
About Anne Hope
Lived 1920 – 2015 (aged 95). Anne Hope was a South African.
Anne Hope (12 February 1920 – 26 December 2015) was a South African activist and a member of the Catholic women's organisation The Grail (women's movement). She worked closely with Steve Biko to introduce the methods of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in South Africa. She met Freire at Harvard in 1969. In 1971, at the invitation of Biko, she began running workshops on Freirean methods with the South African Students' Organisation (SASO).
Publication Together with her partner Sally Timmel she wrote the four volume Freirian training manual Training for Transformation which was widely used in the United Democratic Front and other progressive anti-apartheid organisations in the 1980s.
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Who was Anne Hope?
South African anti-apartheid activist
When was Anne Hope born?
Anne Hope was born on 12 February 1920.
When did Anne Hope die?
Anne Hope died on 26 December 2015.
What nationality was Anne Hope?
Anne Hope was South African.
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