Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… political at the time of its founding in Durban and Johannesburg, and supportive of Gandhi`s passive resistance … their families because of the high incidence of children born out of wedlock (about 50 per cent of all African births) … repeatedly imprisoned. In 1954, 2,000 were arrested in Johannesburg, 4,000 in Pretoria, 1,200 in Germiston, and 350 …