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For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org/. Page 1 of 38 Alternative title Sechaba Author/Creator African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Publisher African National Congress (Lusaka, Zambia) Date 1984-01 Resource type Journals (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1984 Source Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA) Rights By kind permission of the African National Congress (ANC). Format extent 36 page(s) (length/size) Page 2 of 38 SECHABA JANUARY 1984official organ of the african national congress south africaTHE YEAR OF THE WOMENAlbertina Sisulu Page 3 of 38 ALGERIA5 rue Ben M'hidi LarbiALGIERSINDIAFlat 68 - Bhagat Singh Market.NEW DELHI - 1ANGOLAPO Box 3523.LUANDAITALYVio S. Prisco 15o00153 ROMEBELGIUM9c Rue de Russie. 1060BRUXELLESMADAGASCARPO Box 80TANANARIVECANADAPO Box 302. 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There is ample reason for this. Tiledeclaration of 198-3 as The Year of theWomen is a tribute to the militant struggleswaged by the \vonlen of South Africa thatmighty detachment of our re\olutionarwstruggle for national liberation and socialemancipation.The year also marks the 70th anniversaryof the founding of the Federation of SouthAfrican Women on April 17th. 1914. "riteFederation heralded the beginning ot a unitedfront of democratic \women's oreanisationsof the oppressed black women and demo-cratic white vonlen. a front that cuts throuellartificial barriers created b\ a1lartheid.Who are these womlctt"They constitute more than #0 per centof the population. lhe\ earn less than theirmen. The black then carts less than the \\hiremen and there are different %wa:e scales forblack then of different nationalities Col-oured, Indian and African. It is thereforeobvious that the African \\omen are paid theleast. They are the most o%cr%\orked and themost underpaid section of the society.They suffer triple oppression. as tnetn-bers of the national]\ oppressed black major-ity, as members of the \workin_ class and aswomen. Therefore, their sttw_;ele for 'cyualrights' is closelw intcrlinke,l with the strugglefor national liberation atld social entancil1at-ion. It is an aspect of it. sir. if %~,it like. it is'subordinate' to it. \\e hasten to sa\ that h\'subordinate' \we do not ttlean it ha. It, \%aitfor freedom da\. \\'e must start nt#\ Its %-ehave not started) to tree oursekes from 'tiialechauvinism' and its coutuerpatt. 'tcntinism.'Women do all sorts of menial and de-grading jobs such as taking care of childrenof white \vonlen, while nobody looks aftertheir own children. Tlle\, work on the whitefarms. while their children are being snatchedto \work as child labourers on other whitefarms. Their husbands work on the mines infile bowels of the earth, while they remain atluttne. Phyllis Ntantala has described the lot(+t these women in these moving words:"It is the tragic story of thousands ofyoung women who are widows long be-fore the\ reach the age of thirty; youngmarried - \vonlen who have never beentnotllers: young women whose life hasbeen one long song of sorrow - buryingone baby after another and lastly bury-ing the husband that lover she hasnewer known as husband and father. Tothem both men and women - adult-hood means the end of life; it meansloneliness. sorrow, tears and death; itmeans a life without a future becausethere is tit) present."What about the v nnen political prisoners?I'lle banned ;~ banished? And those'widowws' whose husbands have been forcedinto exile" Those women and girls whosehusbands and fathers are either in gaol -some serving life sentences - or have beenmurdered,There are scores of women who are dailyharassed by the racist regime. If there is one\\ otnan \we have to single out - as an exampleof man\ it is Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu(tit our front co\er picture).Faith in the inevitable destruction ofapartheid has given Albertina Nontsikelelo Page 7 of 38 Women in South Africa Jet4-h water Jrmn a communal tapSisulu strength and courage for forty dears.No person could be said to have sufferedmore persecution for their political viewsand activities than this inspiring woman.Albertina Sisulu was banned for IS_vears- longer than any other person. Site has beendetained and gaoled several tithes. her husband has been in gaol for twenty years,sentenced to life imprisonment, tw() of herfamily have fled into exile while others limebeen detained and banned. !how she faces im-prisonment for trumped-up charges becausethe apartheid authorities have been unableto silence her by other means.Albertina was born in the Transkei andtrained as a nurse and midwife. Her politicalactivity began in 1944 after she marriedWalter Sisulu. In 1948 she joined the ANCWomen's League and became active in thisand the Federation of South African Women.In 1963 she was elected Provincial Presidentof the Transvaal branch of the Federation ofSouth African Women. Page 8 of 38 A queue of unenrplv.ved women workers inCape TownIn 1964 she received her first banningorder. This was renewed in 1969, 1974 and1979. The terms of her orders have changed,but all the time she could not be quoted norenter a school or factory or take part in anysocial gathering without special permission.She was also required to apply for permissionto visit her husband, Walter, on R )bbenIsland.Despite the attempts of the regime tominimise her influence. when her ban waslifted in July 1983 she had become one ofthe best-known anti-apartheid campaigners.Within a month she assumed a leading posit-ion in the Transvaal section of the UnitedDemocratic Front, and in August 1983 waselected one of the three presidents of thenational United Democratic Front.The regime's latest attempt to silenceher will be about as successful as previousones. Albertina will not be cowed by a prisonsentence - no matter how long. Neither willher influence wane: she has become one ofthe martyrs of our revolution.In this Year of the Women, let ushighlight the situation of the women underapartheid.CALENDAR1984 - YEAR OF THE WOMENAfrican National CongressA3 illustrated monthly calendar3-colour graphic description of the womens strugglein South Africa with commemorative datesAvailable from African National Congress Womens Section,PO Box 38, 28 Penton Street, London N 1ORDER FORMName _Address -Please send (number) at f;2.50 each (includes p&p) enclosed E___Please make cheque&IPOs payable to ANC Womens Section (address above) Page 9 of 38 Page 10 of 38 On the occasion of the 72nd anniversarr ()fthe ANC, PaUo Jordan cornntcmorates thisevent with an article on one of his heroes, DrW B Rubusana, a founder-member of theANC. In the light of the massacres, torturesand arrests in Mdantsane, the tribute is afitting one.The 21st September 1910 will long beremembered in the annals of the ('ape Prov-incial Council.