A WOMAN from Kilmarnock has been posthumously honoured for fighting apartheid in South Africa.
Eleanor Kasrils, below, was the first woman recruited by the African National Congress's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
She died in 2009, aged 73. Her daughter Brigid accepted the Luthuli award for valour from South African President Jacob Zuma on her mother's behalf.
Eleanor became an activist after the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 when police killed 69 black demonstrators. In 2000 she received an amnesty for bombing a police office during the anti-apartheid struggle.
She was born Eleanor Logan, in Kilmarnock, and moved as an infant to Durban. She was married to Ronnie Kasrils, a member of Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid government.
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