Ayesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa … a call came from a trade union movement to stage a one-day strike, she decided to throw in her weight against the unjust … oppressed. In 1961 Asa married Yusuf who had followed her back to South Africa from India. Together they had a daughter …