Caesarina Kona Makhoere

Caesarina Kona Makhoere (born 1955) is a former South African anti-apartheid activist and prison writer, known for her work No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid.

Biography Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955 and attended Vlakfontein Technical High School. Her father was a policeman and her mother worked in domestic service, and Makhoere was one of seven children. She was arrested in October 1976 as an "agitator" under the Terrorism Act, in order to resist legislation that school classes throughout South Africa were to be taught in Afrikaans. and to improve their living conditions. This was denied, but she was released from prison in October 1982. In the book, she describes her time imprisoned, represents her body as a weapon in political battles (both inside and outside prison), and uses the plural pronoun we to identify herself with other incarcerated activists. According to Ryan, Makhoere 's book "epitomized" the South African "writing of resistance."