Marion Sparg

Marion Monica Sparg is a South African activist, former guerrilla and public administrator.

Struggle years Marion Sparg was one of the few white women to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress during South Africa's apartheid era. A Sunday Times journalist, she was prompted into action after 32 ANC members and 19 civilians were killed by the South African Defence Force in an attack on Maseru, Lesotho. She would spend the years between 1981 and 1986 in exile where she received training in guerrilla warfare and worked in the ANC's Communication Department on a publication named Voice of Women and thereafter joined the Special Operations Division of Umkhonto We Sizwe. and later wrote a book about her anti-apartheid experiences Susan de Lange, political prisoner and wife of the guerilla Damian de Lange Barbara Hogan, political prisoner Janet Love, Operation Vula operative Ruth First, ANC activist and wife of Joe Slovo, killed by apartheid government assassins in 1982 Muff Andersen, former Sunday Times journalist Hélèna Passtoors, Belgian citizen