Jacqueline Arenstein


Jacqueline Arenstein was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the South African Communist Party from the age of 21, she was a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial and repeatedly banned from the 1960s through to the 1980s. In 1984 she was appointed as a legal adviser to Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

Life

Arenstein is Jewish, and is a cousin to the former Minister of Intelligence Services Ronnie Kasrils.