Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

Mother’s Day for some
A young organisation, not all the members of SAWISE will be on the receiving end of Mother’s Day, obviously. Some of them are new to motherhood.

Diane Wilcox, a UCT mathematician and prominent SAWISE member, will be celebrating her first Mother’s Day. Her son Aidan is seven months old. Diane was in the news a few months ago when she swam for nearly three hours from Robben Island to Blouberg in honour of her father Robert, sent to the island as a terrorist when Diane was still in nappies, and her mother, for keeping them all together.

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