"[2] She was an activist in the anti-apartheid Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) during the 1970s and spent 17 years in exile, studying and practising law in Australia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, before returning to South Africa in 1993.
[1] She was on the regional executive of the South African Students' Organisation and the Black People's Convention at the University of the Western Cape in the 1970s and was among the hundreds of student activists who gave up their studies during the 1973 walk-out to work more closely with the people,[5] which "mobilised communities to such an extent that the apartheid regime was forced to employ the first black vice-chancellor, Richard van der Ross.
Azania: Poems of an African Struggle (1979) and Heroes & other Treasures (1990), as well as editing the non-fiction anthology Women in Southern Africa (1987).
She is also the author of Who's Afraid of Affirmative Action: A Survival Guide for Black Professionals (1995) and her most recent book is Why We Are Not a Nation: Essays on race and transition in South Africa (2016).
[10][11] Qunta has also been a newspaper columnist,[6][12][13] and her work has appeared in many publications, among them the anthology Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 1992).