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Donald Woods was born in 1933 at Hobeni in the Transkei region of rural Eastern Cape, and was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his Matriculation Examination, he enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to pursue a law degree.\u00a0As a young adult, Woods initially supported the idea of\u00a0separate development, but was critical of the way the National Party-led government implemented the policy.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]However, he became increasingly disillusioned with the ideology itself.\u00a0After two years as a law apprentice, Woods gravitated towards journalism, and in 1957 he entered formal politics by contesting for a parliamentary seat under the banner of the Federal Party, which rejected apartheid.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”2776″ css=”.vc_custom_1458648146060{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column]

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\nHe returned to South Africa and rejoined the Daily Dispatch in 1960, eventually becoming editor of the paper in 1965. Woods and his wife Wendy Bruce, whom he had married in 1962, had six children, but tragically lost an infant son, Lindsay, to meningitis at the age of 11 months.
\nAs editor of the Daily Dispatch, Woods\u00a0integrated black, coloured and white editors by making them sit in the same working area in violation of the government\u2019s policy of segregation. The editorials of the Daily Dispatch became increasingly critical of the government and as a result Woods began attracting the attention of the security police. During his 12-year stint as editor, he was prosecuted\u00a0seven times under the apartheid government\u2019s publication laws and sentenced to jail for exposing the brutality of the security police. On eight occasions, he successfully sued the apartheid government for defaming him by implying that he was disloyal to South Africa.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1458658942229{padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column]

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\nAfter witnessing the death of our friends and the excesses of our enemies, we knew only one rational purpose in life from that moment \u2013 to raise as much alarm as we could; to convey as much outrage as possible and to help hound the guilty ones out of power.”
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\r\n [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1458647782725{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1458649306106{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.71) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;border-radius: 10px !important;}”]In 1977, Woods’ close friend Steve Biko \u2013 the visionary leader of the \u201cblack consciousness\u201d movement \u2013 was killed while in police custody, aged only 30. Woods was arrested and served with a banning order to prevent him from writing and campaigning. Following attacks on his home and family by the security police, he fled the country with his wife and children, arriving in London in 1978. The story of his escape is told in Richard Attenborough\u2019s award-winning 1987 film,\u00a0Cry Freedom.
\nIn exile, he wrote eight books and campaigned ceaselessly against apartheid. He spent the last year of his life campaigning to erect\u00a0a statue of Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square outside the South African High Commission in London, where anti-apartheid campaigners had demonstrated during the period of the apartheid regime.\u00a0In 2001, shortly before succumbing to cancer, Donald Woods was awarded a CBE for his services to human rights.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”2802,2803,2804,2805″ img_size=”500×333″ onclick=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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\nThe Donald Woods Foundation emerged in 2003 with the aim of driving and facilitating rural upliftment and empowerment, and improving rural communities’ access to health and education. It engaged in extended consultation with rural communities in the Eastern Cape, where Woods was born, about what specific interventions these communities needed to recover from the effects of systemic and long-term deprivation. This has given rise to the development of extensive health, education and rural development programmes, all of which are the product of close partnerships with local communities and traditional leadership, to ensure not only direct relevance but also long-term sustainability.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3372,"url":"https:\/\/www.donaldwoodsfoundation.org\/donald-woods-centre\/","url_meta":{"origin":2760,"position":1},"title":"Visit or use the Donald Woods Centre at Hobeni","date":"April 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text css_animation=\"left-to-right\"] Not only does the Centre provide a comfortable base for accommodating conferencing, training, strategic planning sessions or conducting fieldwork and research in the wider area, but it is also located in a scenically beautiful area. The Centre is close to the famous Wild Coast, with the pristine\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2829,"url":"https:\/\/www.donaldwoodsfoundation.org\/where-we-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":2760,"position":2},"title":"Where we work","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" parallax=\"content-moving\" parallax_image=\"2550\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1461087152340{padding: 30px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_single_image image=\"3621\" img_size=\"large\"][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1461083865053{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #21566f !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}\"] Training & Enterprise Centre Hobeni, Xhora District Mbashe, Eastern Cape Head Office P.O. Box 13402, Vincent 5217 East London, Eastern\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4021,"url":"https:\/\/www.donaldwoodsfoundation.org\/location-and-purpose-of-dwc\/","url_meta":{"origin":2760,"position":3},"title":"Purpose of the Centre","date":"May 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1463741347602{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f2f2ed !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Location and Purpose of the Donald Woods Centre Location The Donald Woods Centre is one hour from Mvezo, where Nelson Mandela was born and Qunu, where he has been laid to rest. 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