cultural legend
THE death of Dr Zuleikha Mayat last week, at the ripe old age of 97, brought an era of grandness to a close.
Her loss to the Muslim community in particular and the Indian community in general throughout the diaspora, from Australia to Canada, the UK and the US, wherever South African Indians have settled, will be felt for a long time.
The name Zuleikha Mayat, that of a pioneer freelance journalist and author, is synonymous with the Women’s Cultural Group and the birth of its oldest and most successful project on South African Asian cuisine, Indian
