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| A-0099427 | article | The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria | 13 May 2015 | ✓ |
| A-0059678 | article | The 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0008468 | biography | Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba) | 1934-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0068085 | biography | Ruth Mompati | 1925-2015 | ✓ |
| R-0121555 | archive | Extracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March | 29 Jul 2016 | – |
| B-0008843 | biography | Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe | 1931-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0096556 | biography | Margaret Gazo | 1918-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0007909 | biography | Amina Cachalia | 1930-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0149949 | biography | Pixie Benjamin | 1976 | ✓ |
| B-0083813 | biography | Mildred Lesiea | 1933 | ✓ |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| B-0067957 | biography | Florence Mkhize | 1932-1999 | – |
| B-0149242 | biography | Nellie Jibiliza | 1926-1933 | ✓ |
| B-0095146 | biography | Amy Thornton | 1932 | ✓ |
| B-0009021 | biography | Dulcie Evonne September | 1935-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008641 | biography | Rahima Moosa | 1922-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0068443 | biography | Fatima Seedat | 1922-2003 | – |
| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0094432 | biography | Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka | 1938-2005 | ✓ |
| B-0096465 | biography | Vesta Smith | 1922-2013 | ✓ |
| B-0009229 | biography | Sophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn | 1938 | ✓ |
| B-0065389 | biography | Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu | 1918-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0080864 | biography | Mary Moodley | 1913-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0065504 | biography | Nöel Robb | 1913-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0093139 | biography | Jennifer Schreiner | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0150323 | biography | Mary Margaret Ngalo | 1973 | ✓ |
| R-0093490 | archive | Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006 | 10 Sep 2012 | – |
| B-0150940 | biography | Thembi Shange Nobadula | 1927-2021 | ✓ |
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria , South Africa constitutes an especially … Side by Side (Zed Books Ltd, 1986), 1-20.|Magubane, Peter. Women’s March …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… ‘Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.' So runs the song composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956 plans…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… However, her political activities soon turned to focus on women’s issues. She became a founding member of the Federation of … organized the historic women’s…
BiographyRuth Mompati
… for a white family, looking after their child because Ruth’s father had died when she was fourteen and her mother did … was elected to the National Executive…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… 2000, four young oral historians interviewed fourteen women who participated in the 1956 March. Here are extracts from three interviews (Q: Indicates…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… In 1954 she participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s League in Cato Manor and becoming Chairperson of the "Two … one of the leaders against the…
BiographyMargaret Gazo
… on 1 January 1918. She was one of the organisers of the Women's March to the Union Buildings. The women were protesting … against the extension of the pass…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… in 1921. ‘Palmer’ is the anglicised version of her father’s Zulu name, ‘Mpama’. She would later adopt the surname … in politics when she became one of the…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Thandray, later secretary of the TIC, who became Amina’s mentor. When she was fifteen years old, she transferred as … at the Industrial Council. In 1948, she…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
… supporters. [1] Upon her return to South Africa in 1956 she became a member of the Communist Party and became involved in the Federation of South African…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… Francina Pretorius, who was also from Ladybrand. Francina’s mother was an Afrikaner and the children were brought up … of the local branch of the African…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… the Defiance Campaign . Mnumzana was part of the anti-pass Women’s March of 1956 to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In 1960 she became … Department of Arts,…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… converted to Islam and took the name Amina. Fatima Meer's father, Moosa, was born in Surat, Gujarat and came from the … Mkhize (president of the African…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
… wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She participated … sent back. She next planned to…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
… in the 1950s as a member of African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), and was subsequently elected as regional … to the women’s march on the Union…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… the African National Congress (ANC) , the Coloured People’s Congress (CPC), and the South African Indian Congress … not make it to Kliptown. When the Treason…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… schooling at Klipfontein Methodist Mission, near Cape Town’s International Airport. Later, among the first group of … , then at Bridgetown East Primary…
BiographyRahima Moosa
… of the People, where the Freedom Charter was adopted. In 1956, while pregnant with her daughter, Natasha, she helped organise the Women’s March , under the…
BiographyFatima Seedat
… campaign and was sentenced to one month of hard labour. In 1956, Fatima participated in the historic Women’s March to the Union Buildings on August 9th…
BiographyLettie Malindi
… Athlone ANC branch, and was one of those charged in the 1956 Treason Trial . Lettie attended primary school in … was actively involved in the African…
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
… and in November 1958 he completed his Matric. Phokanoka’s political influence came from various places and … to political developments in the country…
BiographyVesta Smith
… her four sisters. Her mother was a seamstress. The family’s stay in Vrededorp did not last long as the government’s … 1955 Congress of the People in Kliptown…
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… father joined the army to fight in World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances Elizabeth moved out of the family house with … was already banned. Together they…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… as the flu was called in isiXhosa, was lethal to pregnant women and small babies, however, baby Nontsikelelo was born … call had not stipulated an age limit,…
BiographyMary Moodley
… She became politically aware as result of her father’s protection over his wife and children from the racism that … grassroots organiser for the Federation…
BiographyNöel Robb
… her father brought the family to Cape Town , her mother’s birthplace. The family stayed with her grandfather, the … sashes, confronted him. The movement was…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… was born in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys … Sash and National President of the…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
… (ANCYL) and was actively involved in the organisation’s activities. It was in Cradock that she also met and married … Ngalo. Soon, she joined the African…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Joyce Mujuru, Veterans of the 1956 Women's March and other senior citizens, Leaders and members of the … Mbeki, at the…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
… for all South Africans. An organiser of the iconic Women’s March that took place on 9 August 1956, Nobadula was one of the 20 000 women who made their way ……