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Lauretta Ngcobo (1931 – 3 November 2015)〔("Lauretta Ngcobo: author, teacher and activist" ), News24, 5 November 2015.〕 was a South African novelist and essayist.〔 After being in exile between 1963 and 1994, she lived in Durban.〔("Authorship & Ownership in TV Drama", biographical note ), ''Mail & Guardian'', 25 April–1 May 2008. Official Input 2008 Blog〕 Her writings between the 1960s and early 1990s have been described as offering "significant insights into the experiences of Black women of apartheid’s vagaries".〔 Angelo Fick, ("In memoriam, Lauretta Ngcobo (1931-2015)" ), eNCA, 6 November 2015.〕 ==Background== The daughter of teachers Rosa (''née'' Cele) and Simon Gwina, Lauretta was born in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal〔 and grew up there. She attended Inanda Seminary School, near Durban, going on to become the first woman from her area to study at the University of Fort Hare .〔Lyn Innes, ("Lauretta Ngcobo obituary" ), ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2015.〕 She taught for two years, then took a job with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria.〔 In 1957 she married Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo, a founder and member of the executive of the Pan Africanist Congress, who in 1961 was sentenced to two years' imprisonment under the Suppression of Communism Act.〔 In 1963, facing imminent arrest, she fled the country with her two young children, moving to Swaziland, then Zambia and finally England, where she taught school for 25 years.〔 She was eventually appointed head of the south London school where she was the only black staff member, and in 1984 she became president of ATCAL (the Association for the Teaching of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures.〔 She also found time to write two novels, ''Cross of Gold'' (1981) and ''And They Didn't Die'' (1990), as well as being the editor of ''Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women Writers in Britain'' (1987). Ngcobo returned to South Africa with her family in 1994, following the election in which the ANC came to power. Her husband died in 1997.〔 In South Africa she again taught for a while before becoming a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, where she spent 11 years before retiring in 2008.〔 She died in hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 3 November 2015, following a stroke.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lauretta Ngcobo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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