Mary Burton, National President of the Black Sash 1985–1990 and TRC Commissioner

“The Eastern Cape, for all its rugged landscape and cruel apartheid divisions, worked its way into the heart and head of a young English social worker. Facing its challenges, she nurtured her family, threw herself into working for justice and peace, and found herself dealing with forced removals, detentions of political activists and the viciousness of the state security system. Smith’s book reveals her as a woman of warmth, courage and strength.”