Louis Freedberg is a veteran journalist, born and raised in South Africa. He reported on the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa in the 1980s and the transition to democracy in the 1990s, including the first democratic elections in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was elected president. He first met Albie Sachs on the day Albie returned to South Africa after 24 years in exile. Louis co-founded the U.S.-South Africa Sister Community Project in the 1980s, establishing linkages between 12 Black South African communities threatened with removal and 12 communities in the United States to support resistance against the removals.