[from Zapiro.com] 13 July 2014: Writer, political activist and nobel prize laureate, Nadine Gordimer( 90) died peacefully in her sleep. Gordimer wrote 15 novels as well as several volumes of short stories, non-fiction and other works. She was published in 40 languages around the world. Friend of Nelson Mandela, Gordimer was an unwavering critic of apartheid and an outspoken advocate of black majority rule. Her fiction, which she saw as part of the struggle against apartheid, documented the havoc that institutionalised racism wrought on private lives. Three of her works were banned by the government for varying periods because of their outspoken messages. In an 1990 interview she said Gordimer said “I used the life around me and the life around me was racist,” In a 1990 interview she said “I would have been a writer anywhere, but in my country, writing meant confronting racism.