Meet the FAJ Team: Searatoa van Driel

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Searatoa Van Driel is a young black feminist activist who became active as a Wits student during the #FeesMustFall movement in 2015. Since then, Searatoa has done facilitation, political education and capacity-building work with in- and out-of-school youth, reclaimers, Community Healthcare Workers, casualised workers, and community and social movements activists. She is currently the coordinator of the Forum of Activist Journalism project and editor of Karibu newspaper, a small but growing publication produced by and for the working class of South Africa. Searatoa also has a great love for all cultural and artistic forms, particularly theatre, because of its magical and transformative power.

This article was submitted as part of the Imbila Yesu publication produced daily for the duration of the Winter School in 2022 (17-22 July 2022). It appeared in Edition No. 1, released on 22 July 2022.

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