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The Autobiography of Helen Joseph Side by side: The autobiography of Helen Joseph http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.ESRSA00028 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Side by side: The autobiography of Helen Joseph Author/Creator Joseph, Helen Publisher Zed Books, Ltd. (London) Date 1986 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1956-1985 Source Enuga S. Reddy Description Table of Contents: Twenty Thousand Strong We Marched; Partners in Protest; My Very Ordinary Life; Becoming an Activist; South Africa Belongs to All Who Live in it; HEAR US!; Democracy?; Treason-South African Style (1); Treason-South African Style (2); Trial by Detention; Witness for Freedom; Can We Be Free?; Journey to the Banished: End of an Era; House Arrest; Learning to Live a Half Life; More of the Same; The World Outside; A Meaningful Life; Acts of Conscience; A Strange Kind of Gaol Bird; the 1980's; The Mandelas-family extraodinary; Return to my Faith; Final Word; Postscript; The Freedom Charter; Index Format extent 271 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.ESRSA00028 http://www.aluka.org "ELEiV "ELEiV Side by Side The Autobiography of Helen Joseph ziBøok LtId, Side by Side was first published by Zed Books Ltd. 57 Caledonian Road, N. 913U, in 1986, Copyright © flelen Joseph 1X Cover design by Lee Robinson Printed by The Bath Pres. Avon All rights reserved British Library Cataloguing to Publkalon Datm Joseph, Helen Side by side, 1. Joseph, Helen 2. Raicih --wdi (it Biography 3. Blacks- South Aftica Srgtqamm I. Title 322.4'4'0924 D*1779t8,3 ISBN 0.86232-5(4-1 ISBN 0-86232-565-X Pbk US Distributor Biblio Distribution Center, 81 Adamnn Drive Totowa, New Jersey, 0712 'The author is donating A royalti &fom this book 't the South African Council ot Chur.. To Nelson and Winnie Mandela "These Freedoms We Will Fight For, Side by Side, Throughout Our Lives, Until We Have Won Our Liberty" The ANC Freedom Charter Contents Acknowledgenients PART ONE Chapter I Chapter 11 Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV PARWT TWO Chapter I (.hapter 11 Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter Vt Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Twenty thousand strong we marched Partnens in protest My very ordinary life Becoming an activist South Africa belongs to all who live in it IEAR USI )emocracy? Treason - South African style (1) Treason - South African style (2) Trial by detention Witness for freedom Can we be free'? Journey to the banished End of an era House arrest Learning to live a half life More of the same Ile world outside A meaningful life Acts of concience A strange kind of gaol bird The 1980's 'rhe Mandelis - family extraordinary Return to my faith Final word Postscript The Freedom Charter Index 133 143 154 165 176 186 197 208 226 235 239 247 Acknowledgements My thanks are due to all the friends who have helped mie to i:roduce this book - to one more than any other, but all gave me the contidence to undertake this work. In other circumstances I would have wihed to acknowledge their help and assistance by name. They know who they are. *k i t 1.. sidt i Side by Side ro * , ,, . * -.. :, ! : : , . " ' :;i:: .. : c 0 i* ' 0 ' " ! å j Sie by Side On a country-wide tour In July 1956 with other leaders, organising for women's protest to the Union Buildings, Pretoria, L to R: H.J,, Robert Resha, Norman Levy and Bertha Mashaba Going from Marshall Square Police Station to the Johannaburg Magistrate's Court In December 1056 at the starl of the Troason Trial Side by Side Executive members of the Federation of South African Wotmer, R to L: Philippa Levy (COD), Francis Baard, ANCWL (PE), Mrs Naidcoo (Transvaal Indian Congress), Unknown, Lilian Ngoyi (Natiovnil President of ANCWL and FSAW), Amina Kachalia (Transvaal Indian C-o ngress), Violet Weinberg (COD), Ruth Matserane (ANCWL), Esme GodbrJ (COD). H.J. was National Secretary but could not attend the National Conference in August 1961 at Port Elizabeth because of banntnig orders, Sidt Il Side bY Side Standing at the garden gate, beginning of house arrest. October 1962. IM Photograph taken for jackot of If This Bo Trezison, W6,2 sidI'll. svide Eli Wi lrborp Side by, Side SI 0.) r<, v I, 35 Xitiý 11,1 Side i1~ il i' li II 'i Side 4y Sie *IN Winnie Mandela interviewing Wits students on HelonJosoph's v~jrfmdcg~i, Side kv Side Addressing Wits University students on campus during schools boycott (last campus meeting before being banned). Giving the Academic Freedom Lecture at the Univerety of Cape Town, August 1983 Side by Side United Democratic Front Rally on February 10 1985 in Jabulani, Soweto, when Zinzi Mandela read her father's declaration rejecting the Prime Minister's offer of conditional release, to the 15,000 present. Picture shows HJ and Zinzi Mandela sitting together on the platform with Bishop Tutu's daughter on Zinzi's right. Morris Zwi Side b.y Side ø° N i Side kv Side i v At home in Norwood. May 1985. Paul Weinberg Part One Chapter I Twenty thousand strong we marched We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental right to freedom, justice and security. I shall never forget what I saw on 9 August 1,956 - thousands of women standing in silence for a full thirty minutes, arms raised high in the clenched fist of the Congress salute. Twenty thousand women of all races, from all parts of South Africa, were massed together in the huge stone amphitheatre of the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the administrative seat of the Union governent, high on a hill. The brilliant colours of African headscarves, the brightness of Indian saris and the emerald green of the blouses worn by Congress women merged into an unstructured design, woven together by the very darkness of those thousands of faces. They had marched, that 20,000, pressed solidly together, not in formal ranks, from the lowest of the Union Buildings terraced gardens, climbing up those many steps, terrace by terrace, behind their leaders. Lilian Ngoyi, Rahima Moosa, Sophie Williams and I, Helen Joseph, together with four women from more distant areas, had led the women up to the topmost terrace and into the amphitheatre. I turned my head once as we came up. I could see nothing but women following us, thousands of women marching, carrying letters of defiant protest against unjust laws, against the hated pass system, against passes for African women. We represent and we speak on behalf of thousands of women - women who could notbe with us. But all over this country, at this moment, women are watching and thinking of us. Their hearts are with us. We are women from every part of South Africa. We are women of every race; we come from the cities and the towns, from the reserves and the villages - we come as women united in our purpose to save the African women from the degradation of passes, Raids, arrests, loss of pay, long hours at the pass office, weeks In the cells awaiting trial, forced farm labour - this is what the pass laws have brought to African men... punishment and misery, not for a crime, but for the, lack of a pass. We African women know too well the effect of this law upon our homes, upon our children. We who are not African women know how our sisters suffer.. We shall not ret until all pass laws and all forms of permits restricting our Side by Side freedom have been abolished. Wexha1l not rest until we have won for our children lheir fundamental right to freedom, justice and security. We took those letters of protest into the Union Buildings, to the offices of the Prime Minister, Johannes Strijdom. He was not there. We flooded his office with them and returned to the thousands of women waiting for us, packed so tightly together, overflowing the amphitheatre. We stood on the little stn rostrum, looking down on the women again, and Lilian Ngoyi called on them to stand in silent protest for thirty minutes. As she raised her right arm in the Congress salute, 20,000 arms went up and stayed up for those endless minutes. We knew that all over South Africa, women in other cities and towns were alt gathered in protest.
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