Collection:History of Women’s Struggle in South Africa×
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ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective…
Oral historyRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
My Background When I look back at those activities of 1980, I think of it as the time when I got introduced to the realm of political…
Josie Mpama - 1903–1979
This study discusses the life and political struggles of Josie Mpama (1903–1979), a leader in the resistance against colonial oppression…
Black Politics 1992 E
Speeches and Public Statements”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
In speaking of Bantu women in urban areas, the first thing to be considered is the Home, around which and in which the whole activity of…
School bookThe Legacy Series - Celebrating Women in South African History (Department of Education booklet)
ArticleWomen and migration in South Africa: historical and literary perspectives by Kalpana Hiralal
Online bookIndentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora edited by Amba Pande
ArticleMemories of indenture by Brij V. Lal
ArticleDaughters of the Gujarat Diaspora: Immigrant Women, Identity and Agency in Natal by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleHistory of Migration and Contributions of Indian Women in Zambia: Comparison with South African Indian Women by Kamini Krishna
ArticleWomen Of Indian Descent In Southern Africa by Kamini Krishna
ArticleAcross the Kala Pani: Untold Stories of Indentutred Women of Christian Origin in South Africa by Rowanne Sarojini Marie
ArticleThe coming of Indentured Labourers from India to South Africa with Specific Reference to Mr Dhani Jiawon by R. Pursotham
ArticleFemale Consciousness and Feminism in Africa by Allison Drew
United Women’s Congress Constitution
Constitution of the Women's Congress
Women's Organisations in the Western Cape
African Women's Voices
ArticleElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
This article was made possible with the support of the British Academy Elizabeth van der Heyden, known as Betty or sometimes Liz, was…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
she's going to travel very far I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, Edenvale district, Orange Free State. My father was…
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
The Poor White problem spread to the factories and the slums of Johannesburg and was soon felt in the offices of the union. There was a…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm workers, chafing under…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged…
Indian women’s demonstration in Pretoria on Human Rights Day, 10 December 1963
Indian Women and Liberation Struggle
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
Graeme Innes: Hello and welcome to Podrights, or this week Vodrights, a series of podcasts from the Australian Human Rights Commission. I'm…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the Charlotte Maxeke Memorial Lecture hosted by the ANC Women`s League to launch Women`s Month
Ms. Florence Maleka (ANC Women’s Section)
Organizing Women Now by Natal Organisation of Women, 1985
For their Triumphs and for their Fears: Women in apartheid South Africa by Hilda Bernstein, August 1975, South Africa
Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cherryl Walker, 1982, South Africa
Document 44 - “The Revolt of the Women”, The Soyan, December 1959
Speech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime…
Statement by Mass Democratic Movement on Winnie Mandela
Statement made by the Mass Democratic Movement on Winnie Mandela at the press conference which was called after the culminating of…
Stop harassing our mother : Winnie Nomzamo Mandela
Poster issued by the Winnie Mandela Support Committee. Photo of Winnie Mandela. White poster with black lettering.
Article'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. …
Strijdom you have struck a rock
Women In Twentieth Century South African Politics
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer pdf
Some Remarkable European Women Who Helped Gandhiji In South Africa
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were very…
ArchiveWomen in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
Police Dogs and the Indian Community by The Black Sash, December 1963 - February 1964, Pretoria
ArticleWomen in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner
The involvement of women in liberation struggle tends to attract controversy. This relates mainly to the extent and character of women's…
ArticleThandi Modise, a Woman in War by Thandi Modise and Robyn Curnow
Thandi Modise, a Woman in War Author(s): Thandi Modise and Robyn Curnow Source: Agenda, No. 43, Women and the Aftermath (2000), pp. 36-40…
The Trial of Winnie Mandela
The Mistrial of Winnie Mandela: a problem of justice
Women: march to freedom
Black, white, green and yellow poster. ANC 75 year logo. 1912-1987. Photograph of Winnie Mandela and women protesting.