The following names have something in common with Juby Mayet: Ruth First, Bessie Head, Todd Matshikiza, Bloke Modisane, Gwigwi Mrwebi, Can Themba, Jim Bailey, Hugh Margolies, Zeke Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi and Alf Kumalo. Known as "The Drum Generation", these activist communicators used their creative gifts to speak truth to the oppression of the apartheid regime.
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Decades ago, it was not unusual to find a police detective by the bedside of a woman about to die from a failed abortion. Coroners reports from that era provide a window into a story that one historian says repeats itself wherever women are denied access to safe abortions.