S African-Indian activist Amina Cachalia dies

February 01, 2013 00:17

Amina Cachalia, a South African-Indian political activist and long-time friend of ex-President Nelson Mandela, died of age related illness at a hospital Johannesburg today.

She was 82. Cachalia, a recipient of 'Pravasi Bharatiya Samman', was elected as a lawmaker in South Africa's National Assembly in the first democratic elections of 1994.

Cachalia spent 15 years under house arrest, following three consecutive banning orders by the apartheid regime. During this period, she and her activist husband Yusuf Cachalia, who died in 1995, had to apply for special permission to see each other.

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