As per our current Database, Fatima Meer has been died on Mar 12, 2010 (age 81).
When Fatima Meer die, Fatima Meer was 81 years old.
| Popular As | Fatima Meer |
| Occupation | Civil Rights Leader |
| Age | 81 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 12, 1928 (South Africa) |
| Birthday | August 12 |
| Town/City | South Africa |
| Nationality | South Africa |
Fatima Meer’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Fatima Meer was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Visible during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s as an opponent of the apartheid regime, this South African Activist also had a prominent career as a scholar and Writer. Her publications include Race and Suicide in South Africa, Passive Resistance, and a Nelson Mandela biography titled Higher than Hope.
After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand, she earned a graduate degree in sociology from the University of Natal.
Her numerous honors include the 1994 Vishwa Gurjari Human Rights Award and the 1975 Union of South African Journalists Award.
She and her siblings grew up in Durban, South Africa, in a family of Indian descent. She later gave birth to a son named Rashid.
Her anti-apartheid work in collaboration with Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko resulted in her being imprisoned and denied a trial.
