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Penuell Maduna Constitutional Court Oral History Project Int This is an interview with Dr. Penuell Maduna and it’s the 3rd of February 2012. Dr. Maduna, thank you so much for taking the time to participate in the Constitutional Court Oral History Project. We really appreciate the generosity of your time and your patience! PM (laughter) Int I wondered if we could start at the very beginning, early childhood memories, where you were born, a bit about family background and what were some of the key experiences of social injustices that may have prompted you to take the life path that you took? PM I grew up in Soweto, in a place called Rockville; I was actually born here in Johannesburg. I grew up in my grandmother’s house. That was her house and eventually of course, my uncle, the main man in the house, Richard Maduna, took over, ja. My grandmother, though a domestic worker like my mother was quite politically active and conscious. She had a banned friend, we used to call Gogo Ntombela, grandmother Ntombela and I used to do errands for the two of them. So, as a banned person and my grandmother was also known to be quite conscious and quite active, ja. So, obviously, the two of them were seen together, the system, as we used to call it were able to put one and one together and the two of them would be detained. So, I would do errands and I became aware of what was happening. But besides my grandmother died a card-carrying member of the African National Congress.
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