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Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about finding a foothold in a foreign land grappling with its own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past. Rosemary Smith could never have imagined the trajectory her life would take the day she met her husband. She would find herself in Grahamstown, at a crucial point in South Africa's struggle. Joining the Black Sash, the white, women-led anti-apartheid organisation of which she would one day become a national vice president thrust her into the middle of a country convulsing, often violently, into a transition to democracy.…mehr

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Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about finding a foothold in a foreign land grappling with its own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past. Rosemary Smith could never have imagined the trajectory her life would take the day she met her husband. She would find herself in Grahamstown, at a crucial point in South Africa's struggle. Joining the Black Sash, the white, women-led anti-apartheid organisation of which she would one day become a national vice president thrust her into the middle of a country convulsing, often violently, into a transition to democracy.
Autorenporträt
Rosemary Smith started working with the Black Sash in about 1967, first in the Advice Office and then holding various positions in the organisation, including being a Vice President. At the dissolution of the membership organisation, she was employed as Director of the Grahamstown Black Sash Advice Office for five years. She is currently on a number of local boards and trusts and is chairperson of the Grahamstown Friends of the Library. She still lives in Grahamstown with her husband, Malvern van Wyk Smith, where they raised their four children. Swimming with Cobras is her first book.