Nosipho Dastile
Nosipho Dastile (1938–2009) was a community and anti-Apartheid activist in the small town of
Early life
Nosipho Dastile was born in 1938 in Uitenhage, where she attended her junior and secondary school education. After completing her education, she began working as a community activist in the Uitenhage area, particularly focused on education. Part of her community work was that she volunteered as a teacher at the Roman Catholic Mission School and later moved on to the Little Flower Primary School, where she worked as a full-time teacher. During the high tide of political activism in South Africa, after the institutionalization of Apartheid as the official political governing system, she became active in politics and was one of the founding members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Uitenhage. Her political activism grew from strength to strength and in an election held at the Uitenhage Town Hall, she was elected the inaugural president of the Uitenhage Women’s Organisation.[1]
Political life
Soon after the unbanning of political parties and exiled freedom fighters constituting the liberation movement in 1990, Nosipho was elected as the chairperson of the
Honours
The
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References
- ^ Red Location Museum Staff [Accessed 3 August 2017]
- ^ Msila, V. (2014) A Place to Live: Red Location and its history from 1903 to 2013. Sun Media Metro.
- ^ "Florence-matomela-house". www.heraldlive.co.za. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ "Florence Matomela by Nombulelo Dassie". fineartamerica.com. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "Story of anti-apartheid struggle on show at Red Location Museum". Retrieved 4 December 2017 – via PressReader.