Edito : Gisèle Wulfsohn is a well known South African photographer who lives in Greenside, Johannesburg with her husband and twin sons. She grew up in Rustenburg. Our family used to visit hers when I was a child. I remember swimming in the little water reservoir they had on their propery.   I have two anecdotes about Hilda Bernstein. At the age of four or so I went to Mrs Barnett's kindergarten in Observatory and one day went to play with a friend. His house was on Regent Street, which backed onto the kindergarten land. We climbed into their apricot tree and stuffed ourselves full of ripe and unripe apricots. That evening I was so sick I've never forgotten it.  Many years later I ran away from home and was living in Trematon Place while attending Wits University. The house we were in was to be torn down and I went looking for an empty house to start a 'commune'. I found one on Regent Street and then realised it was the house where I'd climbed into the apricot tree and that my kindergarten friend was the Bernsteins' son.  This was the house from which Rusty Bernstein escaped by climbing out through a basement window when the Special Branch came to arrest him. Hilda called out with their agreed signal and Rusty got away just in time. Hilda once contacted me much later when I was living in France as she had been asked to write a book about South African exiles. I replied that I didn't feel my political past was interesting enough to feature in a biography and that was the last I heard of it. I then told her that I'd rented her house and asked whether she remembered the incident with the apricot tree and she did.

This is what I found on Wikipedia about Hilda. I'm sorry to hear of her death.

Hilda Bernstein (May 15, 1915 – September 8, 2006) was an author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights. She was born Hilda Schwarz in London and emigrated to South Africa at the age of 18 years and became active in politics. She married fellow activist Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein in March 1941, and together they played prominent roles in the struggle to end Apartheid in South Africa. After her husband was tried and acquitted in the Rivonia Trial in 1964, government harassment forced them to flee to Botswana, an ordeal described in her book The World that was Ours. They lived in Britain for some years where she further established herself internationally as a speaker, writer, and artist. She returned with her husband to South Africa in 1994 for the South African election in which fellow activist Nelson Mandela was elected President. She died at the age of 91 in Cape Town, South Africa.