First saw This Film In High School

This extract is taken from Donald Woods' obituary in The Guardian (20th August 2001):

After 13 years in exile, he finally returned to the new South Africa in 1990, though he continued to live primarily in Britain. He later made several visits to his homeland - the last in May for the wedding of Biko's son, Nkosinathi. Up until his death, he had been working on a project to erect a statue of Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square, once a symbolic focus of anti-apartheid protests because it housed the hated South African high commission.

London was not as exciting but it was busy. They settled in Surbiton, south London and Donald raced around the world campaigning against apartheid, while Wendy saw to the children, worked for the Canon Collins educational trust and Amnesty International, collected books for Fort Hare, Nelson Mandela's old university, and wrote articles for the cause.

As a trustee of the Mandela statue fund, initiated by Donald before his death, she unveiled the statue with the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Parliament Square, London, in the presence of the former president. The Donald Woods Foundation, which she founded, has built clinics in the impoverished rural Eastern Cape. Wendy and her family are repaying a debt to the country that allowed them to play a small but significant role in its developing story.