"She sacrificed so much for our liberation. Her loss is a loss for the nation," Thloloe said.
He recalled being detained alongside Mayet, who was against the injustice of the apartheid regime, which led to her being banned in the 1970s. "The former minister of justice Jimmy Kruger banned her, sent her to jail, [and] took her away from her eight little kids but in the end he couldn't put her down," said Thloloe."She was surprisingly very jolly about her illness. She was making jokes about life. When I went to see her, I was told that she was critically ill and she said 'do I look critically ill?' And she was laughing.
Former journalist Oupa Ngwenya said Mayet was a courageous journalist who was a star in the darkest of times. Mayet's granddaughter Sophia told Sunday World it was too early to comment further as the family was grieving the loss of their matriarch.
Loved to read her column in Drum magazine. May her soul rest in peace.
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