My mother, Adelaide Joseph, who has died aged 89, was an activist in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, before settling in London and continuing her fight with the Anti-Apartheid movement.
Born in Boksburg in the Transvaal, now called Mpumalanga, Adelaide grew up in Barberton in a Christian and deeply conservative Indian family. Her father, Manikum Ramiah Changelryan, was a gold miner, an unusual occupation for Indians –most miners were African. Her mother, Salome (nee Sebastian), was a homemaker who died when Adelaide was 15.
