The African National Congress Women's League is an auxiliary women's political organization of the African National Congress of South Africa. This organization has its precedent in the Bantu Women's L
Viola Hashe, blind trade union leader, speaking at a 1952 rally during the "Defiance Campaign". Photo taken in Fordsburg, Johannesburg; poster designed for African National Congress South Africa in Lusaka, to commemorate 1984 as "Year of the Women"
Albertina Sisulu
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Albertina Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress, she was the founding co-president of the United Democratic Front. In South Africa, where she wa
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…Shope as ANCWL president. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela also stood for the presidency but was elected in a vote, receiving only 196 votes to Shope's 633; Albertina Sisulu had declined a nomination to stand for the presidency and had reportedly supported Shope's campaign, and she was elected ANCWL deputy president. Baleka…
Albertina Sisulu in 2007
Sisulu had a fraught relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
The Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, where Sisulu worked from 1994 to 1999
Albertina's wedding to Walter Sisulu in July 1944. Evelyn Mase is to the left of the groom, and Nelson Mandela is beside her on the far left. Anton Lembede is to the right of the bride. Walter's sister, Rosabella, looks out over the couple.