Born in Johannesburg, she was the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members of the ANC and the South African Communist Party.
In 1976 she was placed under a banning order that limited her to Johannesburg and confined her to her home at night, on weekends and during holidays.
[1] She later testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the fire bombings and interference with vehicles that had taken place during this time against white activists such as herself.
[1] When the ANC was unbanned in 1991 she began working in its North East Johannesburg branch which was named after her father who had died in exile in Dar es Salaam in 1982.
She belonged to The Coalition of Women for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine and was involved in its vigils to protest violence in the Middle East in both Cape Town and Johannesburg in December 2001.