Diana Andringa
Diana Andringa was born on August 21, 1947, in Dundo, Angola, into a conservative family sympathetic to the regime. In 1958, she settled permanently in Portugal.
After studying at the Ramalhão Catholic School and the Oeiras High School, she entered the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon in 1964, which she would later abandon to dedicate herself to journalism. She joined the propaganda section and participated in her first demonstration in 1964, demanding the release of Saldanha Sanches. In the wake of the January 1965 arrests, she deepened her political activity, participating in demonstrations, the Support Committees for Political Prisoners, and producing posters and bulletins.
In 1968, she took the first journalism course created by the Journalists’ Union and joined Vida Mundial. During this period, she wrote an article, cut by the censorship, about the colonial war in Angola, establishing contact with various elements of the Angolan liberation movements. After some of them were arrested in Angola, Diana Andringa was arrested in January 1970 at the advertising firm where she worked. Sent to Caxias, she spent two and a half months in solitary confinement. Tried in the Lisbon Plenary Court in February and March 1971, she was sentenced to 20 months in prison. She was released in September and returned to her career as a journalist, working for RTP, RDP, Diário de Notícias,
Diário de Lisboa, and Público. She directed several documentaries in which anti-fascist and anti-colonial resistance are central. She is a Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator and Grand Officer of the Order of Liberty, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Aljube Museum, with which she regularly collaborates.
Date of Collection: 19.04.2017
Keywords: Women, Journalism, Family, Prison, Students, Student Movement, PIDE, Commission to Support Political Prisoners, Liberation Struggle, Colonial War, MPLA, Isolation, Plenary Court, Class Difference, Caxias, Interrogations.
