History of Women’s struggle in South Africa

Letta Mbulu

Krotoa (Eva)

A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator for the Dutch authorities. Her ...

Patricia De Lille

Patricia De Lille

Politician, former member of PAC, trade unionist, founder and a leader of Independent Democrats (ID) and Mayor of Cape T...

Joan Hoskyn Davies

Joan Hoskyn Davies

Davies was born on Robben Island in 1909, where her father was a doctor. In 1935 she started work at the Cape Archives D...

Conny Braam

Dutch anti apartheid activist and Operation Vula Operative

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

Anna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers

3 September 2019

Author, educator and first female principal of Huguenot University College

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

Cythna Lindenberg Letty

3 September 2019

Apartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s

Apartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s

The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declare...

Garment Workers Union (GWU)

Garment Workers Union (GWU)

Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of col...

Pass laws in South Africa 1800-1994

Pass laws in South Africa 1800-1994

Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to contro...

Alexandra Women’s Congress: Organising women for a new South Africa by SPEAK, 1990 – 1994, Johannesburg

Alexandra Women’s Congress: Organising women for a new South Africa by SPEAK, 1990 – 1994, Johannesburg

15 January 2019

Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett

Political activist

Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws

During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known...