Sad loss of a steadfast stalwart
DEVIKARANI Priscilla Sewpal Jana, the deputy chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and an anti-apartheid Struggle lawyer, died on Saturday. She was 76.
Panyaza Lesufi, the MEC for Education in Gauteng, wrote on social media: “I was just 19 years old when the apartheid regime picked me up from my hiding spot. For three days, no one knew where they kept me. It took this brave woman to force the regime to declare my whereabouts after they’d tortured me … Without her determination, the regime was hell-bent to harm us and who knows what was going to happen to us.”
Levi Singh, a relative from Durban, wrote on Facebook: “Not many
