Artist Sanna Naidoo has been involved in organizing women artists in South Africa to support each other and share ideas.

Many of the women are self-taught artists: mothers, grandmothers, ex-students and working women. "We paint and draw for different reasons. There are women painting for the sheer pleasure of having a hobby, some use art as therapy to get over depression and personal problems, to survive the trauma of detention."

Our works are a reflection of life under apartheid South Africa. Our artists use their art as a way to express the enormity of the struggles in South Africa. Our work tells of our life of equalities and abnormalities above all, it tells of our life of hopes, of a vision for a better tomorrow."

These artists have taken the responsibility of showing through art forms the country's struggle against apartheid. Art and apartheid are interwoven in their work.

Source: SPEAK, No. 41,July 1992, P.O. Box 261323, Excom 2023, South Africa.