Anti-apartheid activist and former Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods File photo: Fiona Hanson Anti-apartheid activist and former Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods File photo: Fiona Hanson
Durban - Internationally acclaimed anti-apartheid activist and former Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods has been reburied, alongside his wife Wendy and their infant son Lindsay, at Woods’s ancestral home in Hobeni in the former Transkei.
Woods, whose perilous friendship with Steve Biko was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film Cry Freedom, died on August 19, 2001, aged 67. His ashes had been interred at the Cambridge Cemetery in East London.
After the death of his wife, Wendy, on May 19 last year, the Woods family decided to establish a family burial plot at the Donald Woods Centre in Hobeni, the original site of the rural trading store where Woods was born and spent his formative childhood years.
The site has since been developed into a multi-purpose community development centre by the Donald Woods Foundation.
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