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Eve Hall

1937 – 2007

German-South African anti-apartheid activist, gypsy journalist, and development worker

Journalist Anti-apartheid activist
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About Eve Hall

Lived 1937 – 2007 (aged 69–70). Eve Hall was a journalist and anti-apartheid activist.

Eve Hall ( Steinhardt; 20 March 1937 – 23 October 2007) was a French-born South African anti-apartheid activist, gypsy journalist, and development worker. She lived at Matumi, Nelspruit, South Africa, with her husband, Tony Hall.

Early life Eve Steinhardt was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a German mother. WWII broke out while her father was visiting South Africa. Her mother, Elise, refused to pin the yellow star on her half-Jewish daughter's clothes. Eve's paternal aunt and grandmother were both murdered during the Holocaust, the latter died in Treblinka. She and her mother went to reunite with Eve's father in South Africa after the war. She attended Witwatersrand University and Reading University, where she became an M.A. graduate. Eve and Tony Hall met at Witwatersrand University and together became gypsy journalists and development workers. The couple married and had three sons Philip, Andy, and Christopher.

Career Hall was the women's editor of the Daily Nation, one of the most significant national daily papers in Kenya. The couple worked in places such as London, Oxford, Nairobi, Delhi, and a few more. Hall returned to South Africa in 1991 when apartheid ended.

Death Eve Hall died of breast cancer in 2007 in Matumi, Nelspruit, South Africa, aged 70. Her widower died in 2008.

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Born
1937
Birth century
Died
2007
Education
University of the Witwatersrand, University of Reading

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Who was Eve Hall?

German-South African anti-apartheid activist, gypsy journalist, and development worker

When was Eve Hall born?

Eve Hall was born in 1937.

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Eve Hall died in 2007.

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Eve Hall was a journalist and anti-apartheid activist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Eve Hall

· Wikidata: Q63046252

· DBpedia: Eve Hall

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