Joyce Sikakane
Joyce Nomafa Sikakane, later Sikakane-Rankin (born 1943), is a South African journalist and activist.
Biography
Born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sikakane grew up in Soweto, the daughter of a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand.[1] She was the first black woman to be hired by the Rand Daily Mail.
She fell in love with a Scottish doctor,[2] Ken Rankin (1939–2011),[3][1] and as interracial marriages were illegal, they couple planned to emigrate. However, she was arrested on 1 December 1969 for political activity and detained for 17 months, until she was acquitted and allowed to leave.[4] She and Rankin eventually married in 1974 and subsequently moved to Scotland.[3] Sikakane became an anti-apartheid activist, continuing to work for the African National Congress (ANC) while in exile.[1]
In 1977 her autobiography A Window on Soweto was published in London by the International Defence and Aid Fund.[4] She served as a technical adviser on the 1988 film A World Apart, about Ruth First, and continued to work as a journalist in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
In 1994 she returned to South Africa, being employed by the South African Broadcasting Corporation until 2001.[2]
Sikakane is among the writers featured in the anthology Daughters of Africa.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b c Jeeva (8 October 2011). "Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin". South Sfrican History Online. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ a b Kathleen E. Sheldon (2005). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5331-7.
- ^ a b "Professor Kenneth Rankin", The Herald, 23 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Sikakane, Joyce Nomafa (1943—)", Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Margaret Busby (1992). Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-38268-9.
- ^ "Joyce Sikakane" at Goodreads.
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