Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… freelance reporter. [x] She became a court reporter in the 1950s as well, and witnessed the political unrest and … in the Pan Africanist Movement, or the PAC, [xiii] in the 1950s, and the Liberal Party in 1961. [xiv] Regrettably, … due to an “infectious form of hepatitis.” [xv] In the 1950s, when harsh new apartheid laws were passed, Head was …