Oral history interview with Saro Naicker (wife of M P Naicker) and Barbara Wahlberg

Oral history interview with Saro Naicker (wife of M P Naicker) and Barbara Wahlberg. Naicker provides basic biographical information before giving details about her marriage to M P Naicker. She discusses her husband’s role in the NIC and Communist Party and his commitment to Luthuli as his speech writer, which brought her into contact with the Chief and Nokukhanya on a few occassions. She reveals details about her own arrests and imprisonments during the Defiance Campaign and how harrassment by the special branches eventually forced her and MP to seek refuge in London. The Passive Resistance Campaign, Treason Trial and Rivonia Trial are also subjects raised during the interview. Naicker concludes the conversation by sharing her lasting impressions of Luthuli and Nokukhanya. | Naicker, M P; Naicker, Saro; Wahlberg, Barbara; Luthuli, Chief Albert; Luthuli, Nokukhanya; Tambo, Oliver | Luthuli Museum: Barbara Wahlberg