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ZA COM ASColl-181
Title
If this be treason
Date(s)
- 1963 (Creation)
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Item
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Book ; Printed matter
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(1905–1992)
Biographical history
Teacher, social worker and anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist. Founding member of the COD. National secretary of Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW). Leading organiser of the Women’s March of 20,000 women to Pretoria’s Union Buildings. An accused in the 1956 Treason Trial. Placed under house arrest in 1962. Helped care for Zindziswa and Zenani Mandela when their parents were both imprisoned. Awarded the ANC’s highest honour, Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe, in 1992.
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NMCM ; Reading Room ; AS-J
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Note
Helen Joseph (Author)
Note
Albert Luthuli (Foreword)
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Walter Sisulu (Foreword)
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Subject access points
- Treason Trial, 1956–1961
- Defiance Campaign, 1952
- Congress of the People
- Security Branch
- Passive Resistance
- Congress Movement
- Pass Laws
- Umkhonto We Sizwe
- Natives Land Act (Act No 27 of 1913)
- Natives Land Act (Act No 27 of 1913)
- Asiatic Tenure Act 'Ghetto Act'
- Prison
- Women
- Potato Boycott
- Indian Congress Bulletin
- Nobel Peace Prize
- 1946 Miners Strike
- Bus Boycott
- Bantustans
- 1956 Treason Trial
Place access points
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Johannesburg » Soweto » Orlando
- Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Port Elizabeth
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Pretoria
- Pretoria Central Prison
- Johannesburg Prison
- Soviet Union
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Pretoria » Palace of Justice
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Johannesburg » Sophiatown
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Johannesburg
- Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Ladysmith
- Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town
- Africa » South Africa » North West Province » Klerksdorp
- Europe » Italy
- Europe » Germany
- Europe » United Kingdom » London
- Africa » Sudan
- Africa » Kenya
- Africa » Egypt
- Africa » Uganda
- United States
- United States » Chicago
- Rhodesia (use Zimbabwe)
- Africa » South Africa » Durban
- Midhurst
- Africa » South Africa » Free State » Bloemfontein
- Schweizer-Reineke
- Africa » South Africa » Ciskei
- Africa » Zambia » Lusaka
- Africa » Zambia
- Moroka
- Africa » Lesotho
- Africa » Tanzania » Morogoro » Mazimbu
- Africa » Tanzania
- Europe » Switzerland
- China
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Johannesburg » Soweto » Dube
- Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town » Tokai » Pollsmoor Prison
- Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town » Robben Island
- Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts » Boston
- Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Port Elizabeth » New Brighton
- Korsten
- Africa » Morocco
- Bisho (use Bhisho)
- Middledrift
- Europe » Germany » Berlin
- Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Sharpeville
- England
- Africa » Botswana
- Africa » Swaziland
- Pimville
- Sussex
- Zakhele
- Nylstroom Prison
- St Paul's Cathedral
- Lady Selborne
- Freedom Square
- Evaton
- Idutywa
- Sekhukhuneland
- University of Durban-Westville
- Madras
- Hampstead Hospital
Name access points
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (Subject)
- Sisulu, Walter Max Ulyate (Subject)
- Joseph, Helen (Subject)
- Luthuli, Albert John (Subject)
- Slovo, Joe (Subject)
- Bernstein, Lionel (Subject)
- Fischer, Bram (Subject)
- South African Communist Party (SACP) (Subject)
- Treason Trial Committee (Subject)
- Collins, John (Canon) (Subject)
- Welsh, Rex (Subject)
- Osborn, David (Subject)
- Special Branch (Subject)
- Bekker, Simon (Judge) (Subject)
- Resha, Robert (Subject)
- Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman (Judge) (Subject)
- Pirow, Oswald (QC) (Subject)
- de Vos, J (Subject)
- African National Congress (ANC) (Subject)
- Mwkayi, Wilton Zimasile (Subject)
- Nokwe, Philemon Pearce Dumasile 'Duma' (Subject)
- Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso (Subject)
- Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) (Subject)
- Tyeki, Simon (Subject)
- Mathole, Philemon (Subject)
- Watts, Hilda (Subject)
- Mtwana, Ida (Subject)
- Berrange, Vernon (Subject)
- Murray, AH (Professor) (Subject)
- Hoexter, G (Subject)
- National Party (NP) (Subject)
- Hodgson, Rica (Subject)
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa (Subject)
- Kathrada, Ahmed Mohamed (Kathy) (Subject)
- Mashaba, Bertha (Subject)
- Ngoyi, Lilian (Subject)
- Baker, Julius (Subject)
- Goldberg, Vic (Subject)
- Kantor, James (Subject)
- Moolla, Moosa (Subject)
- Levy, Leon (Subject)
- Ngakane, WB (Subject)
- Molete, Zachius Botlhoko Molete (Subject)
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- Nye, Mark (Rev) (Subject)
- Sisulu, Albertina Nontsikelelo (Subject)
- Stanton, Hannah (Subject)
- Ngoyi, Edith (Subject)
- Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch (Subject)
- Bunting, Brian Percy (Subject)
- Garvey, Marcus (Subject)
- Blom-Cooper, Louis (Advocate) (Subject)
- Hambo, Edward (Subject)
- Sibande, Gert (Subject)
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- Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB' (Subject)
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- Austen, Jane (Subject)
- Morgan, Charles (Subject)
- United Democratic Front (UDF) (Subject)
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- Ruskin College (Subject)
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- National Union of Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing Workers (Subject)
- Healdtown College (Subject)
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- Molaoa, Patrick (Subject)
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- Nkadimeng, John Kgwana (Subject)
- St Paul's Cathedral (Subject)
- USSR Academy of Sciences (Subject)
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- University of Venda (Subject)
- Zion Church (Subject)
- Nene, Mangisi Phineas (Subject)
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- Mkalipi, Simon Pakama (Subject)
- Makiwane, Tennyson Xola (Subject)
- Masina, Louisa (Subject)
- Bunting, Sonia (Subject)
- Ntsangani, Milner Bonakele Fred (Subject)
- Matanzima, Kaiser Daliwonga (Subject)
- Conco, Wilson Zamindlela 'Zami' (Dr) (Subject)
- Marianhill Institution (Subject)
- Reichstag (Subject)
- World War I (Subject)
- Xuma, Alfred Bitini (Subject)
- African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) (Subject)
- Programme of Action (Subject)
- Congress of Democrats (Subject)
- British Labour Party (Subject)
- Matthews, Z. K. (Subject)
- World Peace Council (Subject)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Subject)
- Harvard Law School (Subject)
- Schreiner, Oliver Denys (Judge) (Subject)
- Bopape, David (Subject)
- Mzamane, Godfrey IM (Subject)
- Congress of the People (Subject)
- Parkington, Michael (Subject)
- Reeves, Ambrose (Bishop) (Subject)
- O'Dowd, Tony (Subject)
- Plewman, Chris (Subject)
- Freedom Charter (Subject)
- Christian Action (Subject)
- Athill, Diana (Subject)
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- Weinberg, Violet (Subject)
- Newlands Police Station (Subject)
- Snyman (Colonel) (Subject)
- Church Square (Subject)
- Muller, Shulamith (Subject)
- Long, Ken (Subject)
- Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka (Subject)
- Maloao, Patrick M (Subject)
- Transvaal Clothing Industry Medical Aid Society (Subject)
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- Atlantic Charter (Subject)
- South African Coloured People's Organisation (Subject)
- Times of London (Subject)
- Bunting, Rebecca (Subject)
- Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) (Subject)
- Kampeni, Kay (Subject)
- National War Memorial Health Foundation (Subject)
- National War Memorial Health Foundation (Subject)
- National War Memorial Health Foundation (Subject)