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Resources
Online books, reviews, articles, interviews etc

Online Books

Woman Today
A Celebration: Fifty Years of South African Women Compiled by SAfm's Hilary Reynolds and Nancy Richards click here

My Spirit Is Not Banned - Frances Baard as told to Barbie Schreiner
Sita, Memoirs of Sita Gandhi - Edited by Uma Duphelia-Meistrie
Married To The Struggle: 'Nanna' Liz abrahams Tells her Life Story - Edited by Yusuf Patel and Philip Hirschsohn
Side by side: an autobiography - by Helen Joseph
A Life's Mosaic - The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
The Diary of Maria Tholo
Women and gender in Southern Africa to 1945 - Edited by Cherryl Walker
   

All My Life and All My Strength
An autobiography by Ray Alexander
Edited by Raymond Suttner
1-919855-12-2
230 x 150mm; paperback w/ black & white photographs
STE Publishers (PTY) Ltd.
Autobiography
R160
August 2004



Bettie Cilliers-Barnard. Towards infinity , by Muller Ballot. A Review
left: Bettie on her 85th Birthday. Photo supplied and taken by Lily Krugel


 

Articles and Documents

WOMEN'S LIBERATION by Zanele Mbeki - Sechaba, Volume 6, No. 9, September 1972

NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA

YEAR OF WOMEN OF SOUTH AFRICA
By ES REDDY

WOMEN IN THE APARTHEID SOCIETY(1)
by Fatima Meer

NOW YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE WOMEN (1)
African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960
by Elizabeth S. Schmidt

WOMEN AND APARTHEID
information supplied by ES Reddy

WOMEN'S RESISTANCE AGAINST THE PASS LAWS


Speeches and Statements

Ms. Florence Maleka (ANC Women's Section)
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia, August 9, 1983

Miss Barbara MASEKELA (ANC Women's Section)
Speech at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, August 9, 1982

Mrs. Gertrude Shope
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, August 11, 1981

 

Interviews

Hector Peterson's mother gives an interview

An interview with Ray Alexander

Four interviews: March Veterans

 

Sources of research

1. The Leader Vol. 61. no. 36- 9 August 2002

2. Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. (2000). Women Marching into the 21st Century.: Wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokodo. Shereno Printers.

3. Gastrow, S. (1985). Who’s Who in South African Politics. Ravan Press. Braamfontein.

4. Gastrow, S. (1992). Who’s Who in South African Politics: Number 4. Ravan Press. Braamfontein

5. Gastrow, S. (1987). Who’s Who in South African Politics.Number 2. Ravan Press. Braamfontein

6. Joyce, P. (1999). A Concise Dictionary of South African Biography. Francolin Publishers. Cape Town.

7. Human and Rousseau. (1999).They Shaped Our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Human and Rousseau. Cape Town.

8. www.anc.org.za

9. www.gov.za

10. Walker, C. (1982). Women and Resistance in South Africa. Onyx Press. London

11. Benson, M. (1963). The Struggle for a Birthright. Penguin. London

12. Meer, S. (1998). Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles. Kwela Books. Cape Town.

13. Public Education Department of Parliament. (1996). Parliamentary Directory: Directory of the South Africanm Parliament. 1996.

14. Interview by Giselle Wolfson (2002)

15. Interviews by SAHO staff (2002-2003)

16. Natal Organisation of Women administrative documents

17. Black Women’s Federation Conference newsletter

18. Historical Documents. SAHA. University of Witwatersrand.

19. Jeffery, A. (1997). The Natal Story: Sixteen Year of Conflict. South African Institute of Race Relations. Johannesburg.

20. Truth and Reconcilliation Commission. (1998). TRC report, Volume 3. CTP Book Printers. Cape Town.