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[keiliss]

Albertina Sisulu
21 October 1918 - 2 June 2011
Anti apartheid leader. Strong, generous, honourable.
A very great lady.

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[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

May she rest in peace.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

She lived 92 years, saw the Struggle succeed, and was watching tv with her family when she passed. It seems like an almost perfect way to leave and no less than she deserved..

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful life! I'm glad she was not alone when she passed.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

An incredible lady!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

When you strike a woman, you strike a rock, as the ANC protest song goes... She was quite exceptional.

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

It takes an immense amount of personal courage to stand up to selectively oppressive ideologies while the less brave look on. I am glad Albertina Sisulu was able to see the sweeping changes to society during her lifetime.

(I owe you an email - hopefully this weekend :D)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

She was the first woman held in solitary under the 90 day detention laws, they banned her, arrested her and members of her family over and over, and she just kept going. She wasn't a firebrand like Winnie, she was a quieter, steadier presence and I don't think there's ever been a hint of scandal about her - her integrity was total.

(I owe people emails for so long I'm scared to look at the dates *g*)

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Read your comments above - reminds me of the original suffragettes - strong women, all. Rest in peace, good lady.

*hugs*

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

She wasn't originally a political person, but she grew into it. She was one of the leaders of the Women's March against the pass laws in 1956, in a time when black women weren't regarded as legal adults and went from the custody of their fathers to their husbands.

I heard a clip of an interview with her yesterday, in which she said the hardest part of her political activities was that she was trying to raise and educate their children in a way that would satisfy her husband (who was eventually sentenced to life in prison) and that was very hard because she never knew when next she was going to be arrested... They were a generation of very brave, strong women who did the work their imprisoned husbands couldn't.