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Fatima Meer. Fatima Meer
FATIMA
About the Layout
When Time Leaves
Foreword
Introduction
I. A PART OF ME
CHAPTER 1. India to South Africa
CHAPTER 2. My Parents
II. Bluer Than the Blue Sky
CHAPTER 3. Jeewa’s Building: 1928–1931
CHAPTER 4. Wentworth Days: 1931–1932
CHAPTER 5. A Growing Family: 1933–1934
CHAPTER 6. Convent Lane: 1934–1937
CHAPTER 7. School Days: 1937–1939
CHAPTER 8. Ritson Road: 1939–1944
CHAPTER 9. Pinetown: 1944–1946
III. A Heart Aflame
CHAPTER 10. University Days: 1948–1950
CHAPTER 11. Falling in Love: 1950–1951
CHAPTER 12. Umgeni Road: 1951–1952
CHAPTER 13. Starting Our Family: 1952–1956
CHAPTER 14. Treason Trial: 1956 – 1958
CHAPTER 15. Burnwood Road: 1958 – 1969
IV. Glimpses:
CHAPTER 16. A Trip to India – 197052
CHAPTER 17. 197654
CHAPTER 18. Fragments from a Violent Struggle61
CHAPTER 19. The Joy of Grandchildren
CHAPTER 20. Our Son Rashid
CHAPTER 21. Thoughts of Ismail: 11 March 2002
Glossary
My Family
Chronology
Endnotes
Summary
About the Author
Praise for Fatima Meer
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Memories of
Love and Struggle
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Mohamed’s brother Moosa left India and joined him in Natal for a time. He was followed by his brother Ismail (my paternal grandfather) who arrived in 1890 to manage a second shop Mohamed had opened in the Talana area of Dundee. The following year Mohamed’s youngest brother, Chota (my husband Ismail’s father), arrived and was placed under the tutelage of the manager of Mohamed’s Waschbank shop.
It is reported that Moosa arrived with a pair of fine bulls, which the brothers presented to the government in Pretoria. It is a family legend that the bulls, used for breeding, were classified genus Meer, but we have never found any evidence of this. Whatever Moosa’s plans for his future, these were prematurely terminated when he drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritius while on his way back to India.
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