Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg

Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg, born on 17 December 1937, in Cape Town, is a white South African involved in the internal resistance to apartheid. After adopting a mute black child and assisting black people on various occasions, she exiled herself to the Netherlands, and then to New Zealand, where she continued her fight.

She returned to South Africa in 2004.

Biography

Youth and first actions She was born on 17 December 1937, in Cape Town. Her troubles with the authorities began in 1956, when she adopted a mute black child and decided to send him to a specialized school in Worcester, a neighborhood in Cape Town.