HARRIET TUBMAN DAY RALLY AGAINST APARTEID in Commemoration of International Women's Day Sunday, March 10, 1985
HARRIET TUBMAN DAY RALLY AGAINST APARTEID in commemoration of International Women's Day Sunday, March 10, 1985 ARRESTS The following women are being arrested today in the name of South African women who are representative of all the women who, throughout South Africa. , are carrying forward the bannar of the freedom struggle in the townships, the houses, farms and factories of their employers, the regime's prisons and detention camps, in the bantustans, and from places of exile throughout the world. ZENKO DAYTON South African woman. Lived under the apartheid system for 25 years before coming to the United States. MARYAMU ELTAYEB Coordinator, Church Council of Greater Seattle Southern Africa work. Steering Committee member, Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid. Being arrested in the name of RITA NDZANGA - Trade Union activist. Was active in the South Africa Congress of Trade Unions. Imprisioned for 17 months beg inning in December 1969. Immediatly banned for 5 years upon her release. Secretary, General Allied Workers Union. BUNNY WILBURN Member and founder of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Child Development Institute of Seattle. Community activist concerned with children for over 25 years. Being arrested in the name of CHARLOTTEE MAXEKE - A Founder of the African National Congress Women's League. A vigorous and outspoken opponent of the South African government over many years. She was at various times a college president, a social worker, a teacher and lecturer, a journalist, a prison visitor and probation officer, and a widely-known and respected church and community leader. ZAKIYA STEWART Member, Seattle Chapter of the National Black Child Development Institute of Seattle.
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