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Amina Cachalia

Who was she ? What were her fights ?

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BIOGRAPHY

- June 28th 1930 in Vereeniging, South Africa - Muslim Indian family of activists : close to Ghandi - Communist influence by her tutor - She stopped the school to get a job in politics - She has two children -January 31st 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa

HER FIGHTS

1954 : creation of Federation of South African Women & she was the treasurer leading support of Federation of Ttransvaal Women August 9th 1955 : women march in Pretoria to protest against the government After the treason trial, she spent 15 years in house arrest.

1952: germiston march by ida Mntwana supported by Amina Cachalia

Member of the United Democratic Front Elected to the National Assembly of South Africain 1994

Of all Amina Cachalia’s distinctions and achievements, the greatest is her identity, lifelong, active in past and present, as a freedom fighter, now needed as much, believe me, in the aftermath of freedom as in the struggle”.

- Nadine Gordimer ( Amina's friend )