African Oral Narratives
Military Intelligence in Apartheid-era South Africa

An interview with widowed pensioner Nomvula Paulina September of Sebokeng, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.

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Nomvula September, a widowed pensioner from Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.
Nomvula September, a widowed pensioner from Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava. (2007)
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Creator: McKinley, Dale
September, Nomvula
Veriava, Ahmed
Contributing Institutions: SAHA; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Contributors: Joseph Matutoane (Translator)
Moses Moremi (Transcriber)
Biography: Sixty-four years old at the time of the interview, Nomvula Paulina September was born in nearby Evaton. She left school at an early age and became a domestic worker. She married and moved to Sebokeng in 1970. Her husband worked at the SAMANCOR plant and she became a mother of three children, a housewife, and an informal seller. Her husband fell ill in 1999 as a result of his work at SAMANCOR and was then retrenched in 2000. He subsequently died in 2003. Nomvula lives in a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) house and survives on a government pension and help from her adult children.
Description: This interview with widowed pensioner Nomvula Paulina September was conducted by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava in Sebokeng in 2007 as part of the South African History Archive's Alternative History Project, titled 'Forgotten Voices in the Present'.
Date: September 9, 2007
Location: Sebokeng, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
Format: Audio/mp3
Language: Tswana
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: SAHA
Source: SAHA collection AL3280

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