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	Fatima Meer
		Fatima was brought up in an atmosphere that was highly conscious of racial discrimination and that shaped her into a tireless defender of the oppressed.
		Fatima Meer as also won numerous awards for her activities, to name a few: Union of South African Journalists in 1975; Imam Abdullah Haroon Award for the Struggle against Oppression and Racial Discrimination in 1990; Vishwa Gurjari Award for Contribution to Human Rights in 1994 and 'Top 100 Women Who Shook South Africa' in 1999.
		Fatima Meer continues with her work with non-governmental bodies, however she has since democracy in 1994 served in a number of advisory positions for the government.
	literature.kzn.org.za /lit/51.xml (0 words)

	IslamOnline - Views Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Meer's upbringing was not ordinary, and was certainly unlike that of Muslim girls who were her contemporaries.
		Meer subsequently fashioned a reputation as a tireless and determined defender of the oppressed, ceaselessly fighting injustice and discrimination.
		Meer was high on the list of nominations for the South African parliament in 1994; however, she declined because of her interest in non-governmental work.
	www.islamonline.net /English/Views/2006/03/article02.shtml (1400 words)

	Fatima Meer
		Fatima Meer (28 August 1928 -) is a South African writer and academic and was a prominent anti-apartheid activist.
		After the National Party gained power in 1948 and started implementing their policy of apartheid, Meer’s activism increased; she was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women, which spearheaded the historical women’s march on the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956.
		Meer was on the staff of the University of Natal from 1956 to 1988 and was also a visiting professor at a number of universities in South Africa, the USA, India, Mauritius, the Caribbean and Britain.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fa/fatima_meer.html (686 words)

	Fatima Meer — eThekwini Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fatima became politicised at an early age largely due to the influence of her father Moosa who was editor of the Indian Views newspaper.
		Fatima Meer's vociferous opposition to apartheid led to her banning by the National Party Government in 1952.
		Fatima was married to another struggle veteran the late Ismail "IC" Meer, with whom she shared a passionate abhorrence of injuctice.
	www.durban.gov.za /eThekwini/Community/history/famous_durbanites/politics/fatima_meer (494 words)

	Fatima Meer
		Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on the 28 of August 1928.Her father, Moosa Meer was the editor of the Indian Views, a weekly newspaper aimed at Gujarati-speaking Muslim communities.
		Fatima has also won herself numerous wards for her activities, to name a few: Union of South African Journalists in 1975; Imam Abdullah Haroon Award for the Struggle against Oppression and Racial Discrimination in 1990; Vishwa Gurjari Award for Contribution to Human Rights in 1994 and “Top 100 Women Who Shook South Africa” in 1999.
		Fatima continues with her work with Non-governmental bodies, however she has served in a number of advisory positions for the government.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/people/meer-f.htm (0 words)

	Fatima Moreira de Melo bloot naakt bij bekend-bloot.nl
		Fatima Moreira de Melo bloot naakt fotos van Fatima Moreira de Melo op bekend-bloot.nl
		Fatima Moreira de Melo naakt fotos op bnaakt.nl
		Fatima Moreira de Melo helemaal naakt op bbloot.nl
	fatima-melo.bekend-bloot.nl (110 words)

	Bewoner \| Buurt \| (Ver)Ken de Buurt \| Wijk Oost \| Fatima \| Tiwos
		Anna Berkdijk Zorgvlied Wijk Oost Leyendaal Jeruzalem Fatima Vogeltjesbuurt Centrum Groenewoud De Reit Wijk Noord Padua Berkel Enschot Noord Ruiven Hoogeind Goirke Hasselt Hoefstraat St.
		Fatima ligt ten zuid oosten van het Tilburgse centrum, waar u binnen 5 minuten naar toe fietst. In de buurt liggen zowel koop- als huurwoningen.
		De geldende regels zijn geen strak keurslijf, maar het is fijn als iedereen daar een beetje op zou letten.
	www.tiwos.nl /WijkOost/Fatima_285.html (0 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: FATIMA MEER, LIVE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dr Fatima Meer, director of the Institute of Black Studies, University of Natal, Durban, will attempt to answer these questions when she chats about South Africa, its past, present, and future.
		Meer has been closely associated with the African National Congress and its charismatic leader, Nelson Mandela.
		Meer, a sociologist, has also authored Apprenticeship of a Mahatma, a book on the transformation of Gandhi into Mahatma, and which was made into a movie by Shyam Benegal.
	www.rediff.com /chat/fatima.htm (292 words)

	Fatima Meer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She completed her schooling at the Durban Indian Girls High School and subsequently attended the, where she completed a Masters degree in Sociology.
		After the National Party gained power in 1948 and started implementing their policy of apartheid, Meer’s activism increased; she was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women, which spearheaded the historical on 9 August 1956.
		She is also a member of Jubilee 2000, an organisation that was formed to lobby for the cancellation of all third-world debt.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fatima_Meer (720 words)

	rediff.com US edition: A South African Prison Diary
		Meer, who has published extensively on a range of issues, is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle.
		Meer's latest book, Prison Diary -- 113 Days 1976, reflects on the political upheaval in the wake of the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976, largely regarded by many as the catalyst that led to the eventual return of democracy to South Africa almost two decades later.
		In her diary, Meer, an avid writer, kept details of not only the squalid conditions at the prison, but also of the relationships that developed between the political detainees.
	specials.rediff.com /us/2001/aug/07sa2.htm (342 words)

	Fatima Meer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on the 28 of August 1928.Her father, Moosa Meer was the editor of the Indian Views, a weekly newspaper aimed at Gujarati-speaking Muslim communities.
		Fatima has also won herself numerous wards for her activities, to name a few: Union of South African Journalists in 1975; Imam Abdullah Haroon Award for the Struggle against Oppression and Racial Discrimination in 1990; Vishwa Gurjari Award for Contribution to Human Rights in 1994 and “Top 100 Women Who Shook South Africa” in 1999.
		Fatima continues with her work with Non-governmental bodies, however she has served in a number of advisory positions for the government.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/meer-f.htm (595 words)

	No Headline - New York Times
		Meer, a Mandela family friend, political activist and sociologist at the University of Natal, gives us the fullest published picture to date of Mr.
		Meer's biography does not bend much to accommodate foreign readers unfamiliar with the twists and turns of racial conflict in South Africa during the consolidation of Afrikaner nationalist power after 1948.
		Meer, with ''coloreds'' (those of mixed race) and even, by the mid-1950's, with democratically minded whites.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D91339F932A25750C0A966958260&sec=&pagewanted=print (1331 words)

	I M B O K O D O - W o m e n ' s S t r u g g l e i n S o u t h A f r i c a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fatima Meer was born in Durban in 1928.
		In the 1970s when the Black Consciousness Movement was at its height and Fatima Meer was the president of the Black Women's Federation (BWF) she was again banned and was subsequently detained for trying to organise a rally with Steve Biko.
		Shortly after her release in 1976, Fatima survived an assassination attempt, when her house was petrol bombed.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/womens-struggle/meer-fraser.htm (533 words)

	Ismail Meer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to Meer, it was this Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946 by Indian South Africans against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act that laid the seed for the 1952 Defiance Campaign, the 1956 Congress of the People, the birth of the Freedom Charter, and the Treason Trial of 1956.
		Meer states chat this campaign highlighted the two key issues of political protest in South Africa, these being the issue of land and property rights and of the vote.
		Meer discusses the above events in detail in this descriptive and richly anecdotal autobiography, which has a foreword by Nelson Mandela and was posthumously completed by Meer's wife.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/meer,i_book-review.htm (771 words)

	Ismail Meer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to Meer, it was this Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946 by Indian South Africans against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act that laid the seed for the 1952 Defiance Campaign, the 1956 Congress of the People, the birth of the Freedom Charter, and the Treason Trial of 1956.
		Meer states chat this campaign highlighted the two key issues of political protest in South Africa, these being the issue of land and property rights and of the vote.
		Meer discusses the above events in detail in this descriptive and richly anecdotal autobiography, which has a foreword by Nelson Mandela and was posthumously completed by Meer's wife.
	sahistory.org.za /pages/people/meer,i_book-review.htm (771 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Fatima Meer
		Meer and her husband were good friends with Nelson Mandela in the 1950s, but she became even closer to Winnie when they were imprisoned together in 1969.
		FATIMA MEER Fatima Meer is an author, professor of sociology, and political activist.
		Fatima Meer, well-known sociology professor and detainee of the apartheid regime, describes torture during political detention as well as more personal memories of ‘shame', while Paul Verryn, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Johannesburg, and activist priest in the apartheid era, speaks of his personal role in the TRC hearings.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=253291236 (330 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition
		South African sociologist, historian and political activist Fatima Meer, 73, was born in Durban, where her father was the editor and publisher of India Views, a weekly paper.
		Meer took active part in the South African liberation struggle and was a founder-member of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW).
		Meer has received many awards for her role in the struggle against apartheid and has recently published a book on the life of Nelson Mandela.
	www.newsindia-times.com /nit/2003/01/17/tow-22-top.html (1282 words)

	Cape Times: Fatima Meer exhibits her paintings smuggled out of prison
		Durban: Paintings that Fatima Meer did as a hobby during the five months she spent in prison will soon be displayed at Constitution Hill in Gauteng.
		Meer said she began drawing what she saw around her in prison because she was looking for ways to keep herself busy.
		Meer said although prison life was hard, she appreciated the experiences she had there.
	www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2527575 (413 words)

	TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
		Dr Meer, just for the benefit of those people in the audience who don’t know you - and there can’t be very many people here today who don’t know you.
		Dr Meer, thank you very much, you’ve painted a very vivid picture of your life and the life of political activists like yourself during the 50’s right up to the 80’s.
		When Ms Meer was saying she said that she was first banned in - when she said it now - she said that she was first banned in 1954 whereas in the statement she says 1952.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/hrvtrans/hrvdurb3/meer.htm (3417 words)

	Fatima Moreiro de Melo wordt boegbeeld Rabobank · Marketingfacts
		Fatima Moreiro de Melo volgt Vincent Rietveld, beter bekend als Jochem de Bruin, op als het gezicht van de Rabobank.
		Fatima had als speelster in het Nederland hockeyelftal al een relatie met de Rabobank, maar zal dus nu ook in de commercials verschijnen (voor het eerst op Eerste Kerstdag).
		Ik betwijfel toch of Fatima Moreiro de Melo een slimme zet is van de Rabobank.
	www.marketingfacts.nl /berichten/20061219_fatima_moreiro_de_melo_wordt_boegbeeld_rabobank (528 words)

	Triumph of the human spirit - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She has championed the cause of human rights from the age of 17, fought against apartheid, and led several protest marches for which she was arrested, jailed, and persecuted repeatedly.
		Fatima has authored several books such as Portrait of Indian South Africans, Apprenticeship of a Mahatma, Race and Suicide in South Africa, Higher than Hope (the first authorised biography of Dr Nelson Mandela, published in 13 languages) and The South African Gandhi: The Speeches and Writings of M K Gandhi, among others.
		Fatima suffered a stroke a few weeks ago and is wheel-chair bound.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan302004/she1.asp (789 words)

	Mahatma was phenomenal success in South Africa: PIO
		New Delhi: Refuting the views of Nobel laureate V S Naipaul on Mahatma Gandhi, African National Congress leader Fatima Meer on January 11 said the 'Father of the Nation' was a "phenomenal success" in South Africa where he laid the basis of his political struggle against colonial governments.
		Fatima, who was among the 10 persons of Indian origin (PIOs) honoured by the Indian government on the 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' and has written the script for "The Making of the Mahatma", disagreed with Naipaul, who said Gandhi "was a failure in South Africa and did nothing there for 20 years".
		Fatima, who raised funds for the film based on her book "The Apprenticeship of a Mahatma", said South Africa was the base of his political struggle and he mobilised people to take on colonial governments.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/01/11/11refute.html (254 words)

	Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace
		Fatima Meer (1990-'91): Professor of sociology at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, and author of Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela.
		Meer has been prominent as an opponent of apartheid and has published extensively on apartheid as well as cross-cultural and women's issues.
		Meer taught two courses during her term at the University of Oregon, "Women in South Africa" and "Current Issues in Peacemaking: Focus on Conflict and Change in Southern Afri ca, the Middle East, India, and Trinidad." Meer's public address was titled "The Peoples Search for Peace in South Africa."
	international.uoregon.edu /savage/past_professors.htm (1197 words)

	ever-fasternews.com
		He rose gingerly to publicly embrace his friend, Fatima Meer, after she delivered a devastating public attack on the party he had dedicated his life to building.
		Meer is the author of Mandela's first "authorised" biography.
		Guest of honour Meer, who is confined to a wheelchair after a stroke, sat stoically before the central lectern as her granddaughter Nadia Meer-Krige read her address.
	www.ever-fasternews.com /index.php?php_action=read_article&article_id=379 (504 words)

	Script - Akbar Khan's TajMahal
		Fatima Meer first met Akbar Khan whilst attending a conference on Mahatma Gandhi in Calcutta.
		Meer holds Akbar in high esteem and describes him as a man with integrity "highly hospitable with a passion for filmmaking and a passion for the Mughals".
		Fatima Meer has been a great inspiration to me; without her I wouldn't have been able to structure this script.
	www.akbarkhanstajmahal.com /script.htm (482 words)

	Meer Jan Van Der: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		...August 1988, Van der Meer moved his job from...indebted to Bart van Ark, J.C. Blom, Kees...typed drafts; and Jan Smit and Youngbong...Russia, and the USA (Van der Meer 1983a and 1983b...0 Source Van der Meer (1983b: 46, 48...
		Journal article by Theo Van Der Meer; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.
		Architect Kaufmann, van der Meer Partner, Zurich Project team Chuker Azalez, Hansjorg Betschart, Jan Bollag, Bernhard Friedl, Kathi Gering, Hubert Gessler...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/meer-jan-van-der.jsp?l=M&p=4 (811 words)

	Yoga in Daily Life - Official international homepage
		One of the world's most respected scholars, Paramhans Swami Maheswarananda, of Vienna, Austria, paid a surprise visit to Professor Fatima Meer who is recovering from an illness at her Durban home yesterday.
		Meer, who is not receiving visitors, made an exception when she received a request from the scholar who is presently attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
		Fatima Meer is one of South Africa’s strongest advocates of peace and a close friend of Nelson Mandela.
	www.yoga-in-daily-life.org /articles/show.asp?id=20020922001 (326 words)

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