Gertrude Shope
Names: Shope, Gertrude
Born: Johannesburg
Shope got to know Bram Fischer very well, and in 1966 the ANC convinced her to leave South Africa and join her husband, Mark Shope, in exile. While in exile, Gertrude and her husband moved around a lot as representatives of the ANC. They lived in Prague, Botswana, Tanzania, Czechoslovakia, Zambia and Nigeria.
References
- ‘Soweto’ supplement, The Leader
