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WomenThis section recognises the role played by women in the struggle for democracy and freedom. Women led important struggles against the pass system and apartheid and capitalism in the 1950s. The section also discusses important uprisings led by women in Natal. For example in 1959-60 there was a mass upsurge of resistance by women, which began in Cato Manor in protest against deportations and intensified liquor raids, and spread into the rural areas as resistance to cattle-dipping. The section goes on to show that women took part in the 1973 Durban strikes, which led to the formation of the modern labour movement. In the sectors that employed women as workers, there were women that took leadership of trade unions. Unions such as CCAWUSA were important in introducing the struggle for women’s right within COSATU and other unions. Publications |
Women's Day Pamphlet The exhibition focuses on women’s struggles in the 1950s because this was a decade when women waged major struggles and campaigns against women’s oppression under the apartheid government. As part of the struggle against apartheid women formulated their demands such abolition of passes, maternity rights and so on. Click here to open this publication in pdf. |
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