Reader\'s Digest Australia - 07.2019

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE

42 | July• 2019

court opened. A shop assistant quickly
outfitted her, telling her to come back
when she could to pay.
As the judge began to give judg-
ment, it was clear that he was finding
100 per cent in their favour. “I started
yelling ‘Yeah!’” says Liz.
“Soon everyone was jumping up
and crying,” says Makoma.
Not only did the court rule the deal
illegal, but also that the considerable
court and legal costs were to be paid
by the government.
The women’s actions and perse-
verance and accomplishment were
recognised when they were awarded

the 2018 Goldman Environmental

Prize, which recognises ‘grassroots

activists’, considered the Green Nobel.

“Liz and Makoma epitomise

what the prize stands for: Courage,

vision and hard work in the name

of environmental justice,” says Susie

Gelman, president of the Goldman

Foundation in San Francisco.

After their court victory, Makoma

Lakalekala returned to the dress shop

to pay. The shop assistant, like the

rest of South Africans, was elated at

her role. He told her: “There is no

need for you to pay. You have done a

good job.”

BEDTIME STORIES

We asked readers to share their craziest sleep-talking stories.

Some of these might keep you up at night.

I dreamed I was rocking a baby to sleep. In the morning, my

husband, who is bald, told me I patted his head for 30 minutes

while repeating, “Go to sleep, baby.”LEIGHANN PHILLIPS

My husband sat up in bed and announced, “Eileen, I believe

I can kill about 20 chickens.” He then went back to sleep,

leaving me wide awake.E.S.

As a kid, I was at a sleepover, and I watched my friend stuff the

bedsheet into her mouth, pull it out, and say, “That was good,

Mum; what’s for dessert?”SHIRLEY YANACHIK

Turning to me with some urgency, my sleeping husband stated,

“I have to do the cat’s taxes!”CANDACE R.