Item 0748 - For their triumphs and for their tears : Women in apartheid South Africa

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ZA COM RCB-0748

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For their triumphs and for their tears : Women in apartheid South Africa

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Printed matter ; 136 pages
Publisher: International Defence and Aid fund for Southern Africa
Place of publication: London
Date: First published 1975, Revised 1985
ISBN: 0 904759 58X

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(15 May 1915 - 8 September 2006)

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Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party (SACP), founding member of the Federation of South African Women. In 1953 she was banned by Ministerial decree from 26 organizations and all meetings, including bans on writing and being published. In 1960, she was detained under the State of Emergency without charge following the Sharpeville shootings.

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Acquisition method: Resource Centre ; Accessioned by: Boniswa

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This historic and educational book: For Their Triumphs and for Their Tears Women in Apartheid South Africa , it explains how the oppression and exploitation of the majority of South African women--as women, as workers and above all as black people--is an integral part of the apartheid system.

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  • English

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NMCM ; Reading Room ; RC-B

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Nelson Mandela Foundation

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