NewAfricanWoman Issue 49 - Flipbook - Page 29
FEATURE
30 years, Helen Suzman was
“ Foroneover
the few white liberals who used
her privilege in parliament to challenge
South Africa’s brutal apartheid system
and devoted her entire life 昀椀ghting
white supremacy and racism.”
| WOMEN in HISTORY
famines, droughts, slavery, colonialism; and
we have to celebrate this ability to survive
the worst that has been unleashed on us for
most of modern history. We have wonderful
nurturing traditions...when there is pain,
we run to catch, to nurture, to comfort. We
have kept these abilities and strengths, and
even in our societies, we are the caregivers.
From our foremothers we have inherited
wisdom in healing, music and the arts, and in
conflict resolution. And of course, there is our
dignity as African women, which we proudly
pass on to our daughters. These are the
treasures which cement the African Women’s
Movement.”
Here is to saluting the African heroines that
still watch over us from the ancestral realm.
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Top left to right: Queen Nefertiti, Ann Zingha,
Queen of Matamba, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti,
Helen Suzman, Albertina Sisulu, Rahima Moosa and
Victoria Mxenge Main Photo: Winnie MadikizelaMandela and Helen Suzman Below top to bottom:
Lilian Ngoyi, Frances Baard and Yaa Asantewa.
Photography:AssociatedPress /AlamyStockPhoto
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