Connections
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
16 PEOPLE
- Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) AbrahamsAnti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist
- Frances BaardOrganiser of the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League and Trade Unionist.
- Hilda BernsteinMember of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist…
- Helen JosephTeacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade…
- Baleka Mbete-KgositsileTeacher, member of SASO and the ANC, head of the Medu Arts Ensemble (Gaborone), Member of…
- Elizabeth MafekengTrade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the…
- Barbara Mosima Joyce MasekelaTeacher, poet, head the ANC's Department of Arts and Culture, ANC's NEC member, executive…
- Florence MatomelaTeacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of…
- Thandi ModiseMinister of Defence and Military veterans, Former anti-apartheid guerilla, Chairperson of…
- Rahima MoosaShop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal…
- Leon LevyTrade unionist, Author, SACTU Leader and 1956 Treason trialist
- Norman LevyMember of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South African Congress of…
- Sophia Theresa Williams de BruynExecutive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the…
- Lillian Masediba NgoyiPolitician and anti-apartheid activist, Treason Trialist and President of the African…
- Thembi Shange NobadulaMember of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), one of the organisers and…
- Selloane Ethel LeisaAnti-apartheid activist, member of the ANCWL and FEDSAW, founding member of ASHA, played…