Helen Joseph
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Helen Beatrice Joseph OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Born in Sussex, England, Helen graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927 and then departed for In
Helen Joseph 1941
Grave of Helen Joseph in the Avalon Cemetery
Durban Sign 1989
National Women's Day
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National Women's Day is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women of all races to the Union Buildings in Pretori
Helen Joseph
…of 20,000 women on August 9, 1956, to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the pass laws. This day is still celebrated as South Africa's National Women's Day. Joseph's opposition to the State had not gone unnoticed and she was a defendant at the 1956 Treason Trial. Justice Rumpff stated, "On all the evidence…
Women in Lesotho at a National Women's Day protest against violence against women at the National University of Lesotho