Sadie Forman (1929 – 11 December 2014) was a South African teacher, librarian and anti-apartheid activist.
Sadie Kreel was from Johannesburg, the daughter of writer Bunim-Idel Krill, a Jewish immigrant from Rokiškis, Lithuania.
[1] Sadie Forman and her husband Lionel were active members of the South African Communist Party.
[2] As his wife, Sadie was under severe restrictions: under her banning order, she was not allowed to go far from her house, or to enter factories or schools, or work around other people.
They had three children, Karl, Frank and Sara, born before Lionel died in 1959, aged 32 years, from complications following a heart surgery performed by Christiaan Barnard.