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White Girl Running: Melanie Verwoerd
Friday 22 February 2008 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)
The story of the extraordinary political journey of a white Afrikaner woman.
Raised in the leafy suburb of Stellenbosch, Melanie Fourie married the grandson of Henrik Verwoerd, the assassinated South African Prime Minister credited as being the architect of apartheid. Their studies abroad convinced them that change was necessary, and a meeting with Nelson Mandela in 1991 prompted Melanie to take the leap and actually join the ANC. She went on to be elected as an ANC member of parliament.
