Mary Kleinenberg

Mary Kleinenberg was born and educated in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). She lived in Malawi and England before settling in Pietermaritzburg in the seventies. Appalled by a political system that excluded most of the population and consistently committed crimes against humanity she volunteered in the Pietermaritzburg Advice Office and became a member of Black Sash, eventually chairing the Natal Midlands region and Advice Office committee. She remains a trustee of the Black Sash Trust; and is an advocate of women's rights, being a founder member of Pietermaritzburg Rape Crisis.