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… I Live Where I Like, a graphic novel history series on women’s organized resistance to slum clearance in Crossroads … Portuguese colonial rule. Hundreds of girls and young women also became engaged as guerrilla fighters in FRELIMO’s … though the category of ex-combatant closely binds these women to the state, their experience of Mozambique is not …

… the crowd. 31 March 1946 The Delhi Branch of the All India Women’s Conference passes a resolution assuring all out … the first batch of 17 passive resisters, including seven women, pitch five tents on a piece of vacant Municipal land … Some resisters are injured in the scuffle, including women from the Transvaal. Police take no action. 18 June 1946 …

… sorghum, pumpkins and legumes, which were cultivated by women on fields allocated to them when they married. Women hoed and weeded; did pottery and built and decorated … was also handed over to professionals or tractor owners. Women were then left to perform all the other agricultural …

… Whereas in the early 1990s the major national youth and women's organisations became part of the ANC, SASCO … 75% of students in higher education are black and 54 % women. Thousands of poor students are supported financially … Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). However, black and women enrolments mask inequalities in their distribution …

… in the colony. The Law stipulated that a minimum number of women in every ship load and ships often waited for days … relations between officers and crew of the vessel and women passengers as well as rules governing the conduct of … additional clothing be provided for emigrants, men and women, travelling to Natal and clearly listed these items.  …

… medicine. San Bushmen Image Source In the San society, the women would go out and pick the plants and herbs for food, … them, for example thin branches, grasses and rocks. The women were in charge of building the shelters. A shelter … underground to keep the liquids cool. Plant Medicine Women would collect different herbs and bulbs for use in the …

… of Johannesburg.   1955 The government announces that women must carry passes. February, Moses Kotane and Maulvi … minutes and tape recorders. 27 October, Two thousand women of all races stage a march, co-ordinated by FEDSAW, to … Buildings in Pretoria to deliver to protest passes for women. December, Moses Kotane returns home to a welcome party …

… Congress of Democrats, the Federation of South African Women , the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the … of Africans, Indians, coloureds and whites as well as women, youth, workers, and to a lesser extent, peasants and …

… growth, development and enlightenment of many Black women and men of South Africa in the early 1950s and 1960s, … teachers, nurses, pastors, interpreters, businessmen and women received their education from mission schools. As the …

… Archaeia series and began to publish. [54] 1984 Namibian Women, a quarterly magazine published by the SWAPO Women’s Council, was launched. [55] 1984 The Windhoek … 1986 “It’s Like Holding the Key To Your Own Jail”: Women in Namibia by Caroline Allison was published. [62] …

… in South Africa, where thousands of our people – men, women, and children – are now in jail” [xix] (Makeba, 1988). … the shipments of arms… [that] will be used against African women and children” [xx] (Makeba, 1988). After her first … interview with Barnett, L., (2007). I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 26 …

… Cape farms,slightly more than half of farm workers, mostly women, are seasonal and are employed via labour brokers.   … in Keurboschkloof Farm was organised predominantly by women and was a reaction to new farm owners who wanted … workers from pursuing their tasks, an 8 hour working day, women demanded equal pay to men and paid maternity leave …

… a new white minority state in which blacks and white women were denied the right to vote. During negotiation to … after a spirited struggle the vote was extended to White women. And in 1936 the Coalition Government made up of …

… un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC Women's League and Mkhonto-We Sizwe in 1993 and ANC …

… grassroots style of the COP campaign was taken up by women: ANC members, church congregants, trade unionists and … the COP was getting under way. They adopted a charter of women’s rights, resolutions embodying the demands of women “who came forward to tell of their hardships, their …

… The ANC congress resolves to review its position on women membership. Soon after I.B. Tabata's criticism of the … Charter drafted by Churchill and Roosevelt. The ANC Women's League is formed as women are officially admitted as ANC members. Charlotte …

… to phone in advertisements and a daily page targeted at women was inaugurated. The daily page for women was created as a reaction to the feminist movement that …

… "An End to Waiting". He has also done an essay on Working Women for the Worker's College in 1995, which is still being …

… took place in the ANC in the 1940s: for the first time women were admitted as full members of the ANC in 1943, leading to the establishment of the ANC Women’s League; and the ANC Youth League was formed in 1944. … . 1941 The ANC congress resolves to review its position on women membership. Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected as the Chairman of …

… rural households are currently headed by widowed or single women. If we were to assume that in the 1850s an equivalent number of women could have become widows and were thus absorbed into … changed substantially over the past five generations, as women also began to enter the ranks of an industrialised and …

… Guards, private armies of the Robby Leibrandt type, and women's Pistol Clubs. All these are in battle readiness; the … Also important to note is the fact that passes for women are now compulsory. This means that the anti-pass … campaign will be a joint struggle for both men and women. Our volunteers must be put on a war footing. A …

… mass meeting in Johannesburg, held on 17 March. 5 000 men, women and children came from all corners of the Transvaal to … was formed. This was composed mainly of young men and women and gave full support to the Passive Resistance … defiance of the "Ghetto Act". The resisters included four women from Johannesburg who had earlier contravened the law …

… were present. In one such attack on 16 June 1962 three women, Magriet (17), Sarah Kamos (21) and Susie Noriet were … had warned hosts that the party should be off limits to women. The bodies of the three women were found hacked and with stab wounds. Magriet …

… through a walled front courtyard, which was used by the women of the household for a variety of social and household … replacement with some elements of matrifocality. Ndebele women thus responded to these forces threatening the survival … it stands as a tribute to the ability of Ndebele men and women to come together and combat the combined threats of …

… the cheap labour system was maintained on the backs of the women and children left behind in the reserves. Thus, while … struggles of the Amafelandawaye or the die-hards, mostly women from the umanyano or women's fellowship of the Methodist church, used prayer …

… and convicted by May, after which he was jailed for life. Women from Leherutshe, under the leadership of Gertrude … teachers were posted to schools far away, while the women were taken to Zeerust and jailed. Kgosi Moiloa was … up a clinic. Freedom Park was established in 1986 after women set up shacks to sell liquor to mineworkers. Their …

… transmission of AIDS. 1983  January, Reports of AIDS among women with no other risk factors suggested the disease might … by WHO on 1 December. UNAids reports that the number of women living with HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa exceeds that … two years and was expected to double in 1993. A survey of women attending health clinics indicated that nationally some …

… immigrants to provide shelter for children of Indian women working in fields. Gandhi paid tribute to G. A. Natesan … Natal Indian Congress to alter Natal law and exempt Indian women from payment of £3 tax. February 20, Chairman, BIA, … Smuts would favourably consider question of providing for women and children of persons lawfully resident, but regarded …

… migrating during this period is significant. Although women migration was in evidence from the 1920s, Sophiatown … in the early part of the 1930s. The exception was Basotho women who were attracted to Newclare as opposed to …

… diseases were a serious problem especially amongst single women.  It was recommended that stricter checks be made at … before 8a.m.  The Commission was vague on the status of women who did not work, leaving the door open to …