Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin holds a BSc Honours degree from the Open University in the U.K. and has over 40 years of experience as a journalist, playwright and author. She had started her career at The World Newspaper, Drum Magazine, The Sunday Post, and the Rand Daily Mail, covering the political realities of the country. After being in solitary confinement as a political detainee in Pretoria Central and Nylstroom prisons, she was forced to flee her motherland and spent nearly 20 years in exile, working for the ANC. She spent her time in exile writing various plays and books. Sikhakhane-Rankin was able to return to South Africa in 1995. She is currently working on her family biography.