Federation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… for out of their own pocket (Mompati 311). On 9 August 1956, twenty thousand women from all over South African … and men fighting the same fight. Charged with treason in 1956, the leaders of FEDSAW were jailed, banned, exiled, and … stages of the apartheid’s rule. The Pretoria protest in 1956 helped give ‘ new organisations guidance with respect to …