Janub Gool, also known as 'Jane', was a founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the Anti-CAD (anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement) in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sister of Goolam H. Gool and a college graduate. Banned in October 1961 after helping to found the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, she fled South Africa in 1963 with I. B. Tabata and lived in Zambia. In 1966 she wrote a short pamphlet. The Crimes of Bantu Education.
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Janub Gool

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- 01Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977)
Last updated · 14 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2019, September 2). Janub Gool. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149500
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"Janub Gool." South African History Online, 2 Sept. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149500. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.
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