Pamela dos santos biography

Pamele dos Santos (nee Beira) was born in Johannesburg on 19 June 1942 to Banny and Golda Beira. She attended Houghton Primary and Johannesburg Girls High. Around 1959 she started frequenting social and music clubs which brought her into contact with people involved in the political struggle.

In 1961, dos Santos participated, together with other equally motivated young people, in numerous demonstrations, rallies, poster hangings, graffiti writing and so on, calling for support for the African National Congress (ANC) and its leaders, their release from prison and a national convention.

In November, 1961 dos Santos and Joe Louw were arrested under the Immorality Act.

They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was found guilty under the section pertaining to ‘indecency with the intent to commit immorality’.

From about the middle of 1961 dos Santos worked for Helen Joseph, a veteran in the anti-aparthei Pamela Santos Wikipedia, Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Facts COJ