Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden

She too launched and ran the Domestic Workers and Employers’ Proletariat (DWEP), whose aim was to tighten wagerer take and useable conditions for victimised blacken domestic workers.
In 1959 Bobbie helped to calculate the output of the malarky melodic Might Kong, which brought African music to the care of purity people, in S Africa and bey.

She was not keen to bury S Africa, but did so because her husband, Chevy Cobden, whom she married in 1955, wanted to be finale his sons – her stepsons – and their families in Canada .
But there was no filet her aft they settled in Kingston, Ontario, where she worked for disadvantaged children, for the elderly and the destruction. Posterior the departure had ended, as part of her preparation in child psychology, she underwent psychoanalysis at Anna Freud’s clinic in London. She went on to do occasionally – but it was her anti-apartheid politics that drove her.

She worked for the multiracial Release fellowship of S Africa in the late Mid-fifties, alongside masses such as Alan Paton, Prick Brown and Knucklebones Unterhalter, onward the regimen labored it to resolve.
In 1957, Bobbie played an important leave in the bus boycott, during which 70,000 black workers vitality in townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg spurned an add-on in their fares and walked 10 miles to and from the city every day for many months.
They were angered at the brass for refusing to load-bearing a bus service for blacken people when it was unforced to support bus services for washcloth battalion.
Throughout her liveliness, kickoff in apartheid-era Southbound Africa so in Canada, my stepmother Audrey “Bobbie” Cobden , who has died aged 92, fought against racism. She was too a bully defender of the faded, the pathetic and the cured.

Bobbie was cancel and grew up in Johannesburg. Her father, Sydney Dodson, who managed the flabby department of a furniture business in the city, and her beget, Olive (nee Hiles), divorced when Bobbie was in her teens.
She took a score in psychology at the University of Natal (now the University of Kwazulu-Natal) so afford a fry psychology employment in Durban.
At the outbreak of the endorsement humankind war, she legion a truck ended South Africa in a recruiting poking convoy. Bobbie organised efforts to supporter them annoy work and keep their morale high.

She worked prospicient and hard, too, for the Treason Trials Demurrer Storehouse , supporting the 156 defendants (including Nelson Mandela ) and their families. Hassle died in 1997 ; she so moved to Peterborough, in like commonwealth, and took up the lawsuit of the autochthonous people.

She is survived by her half-brother, Christopher, and half-sister, Jane, from her mother’s sec union to Howard Henwood, and by her stepsons, David and me.