Amina Cachalia

Who was she ? What were her fights ?

Amina Cachalia

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- 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

BIOGRAPHY

Member of the United Democratic FrontElected to the National Assembly of South Africain 1994

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 governmentAfter the treason trial, she spent 15 years in house arrest.

1952: germiston march by ida Mntwana supported by Amina Cachalia

HER FIGHTS

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 )