University students across the UK are demanding immediate divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism as a part of Apartheid Off Campus’s national day of action.
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The liberation struggle is saturated with images of men who fought against the apartheid state for our political freedom, to the exclusion of women. Besides the late – and great – Mam’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, here are five other women that fought against patriarchy and racism to give us our political freedom. SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA MOOSA commemorate these brave women this Freedom Day.
Albertina Sisulu
Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu was a nurse by profession. Through her political activism, she became one of the most important leaders of the anti-apartheid resistance. Mam’ Albertina is often referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”. Through Walter Sisulu, Mam’ Albertina attended the first conference of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League where she was the only woman present. She was one of the organisers of the historic anti-pass Women’s March in 1956. During the historic march, Sisulu and other activists sang the famou
Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid
The comparison rankles supporters of Israel, but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa
By Chris McGreal / The Guardian
Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968, when then-South African prime minister John Vorster banned a tour by the England cricket team, because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D’Oliveira.
After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until former South African president Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later.
The comparison rankles supporters of Israel but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa