Albertina Sisulu - Definition and Overview

Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (born 1919) is a black South African anti–apartheid activist, and the widow of fellow activist Walter Sisulu (1912 - 2003). In 2004 she was voted 57th in the Top 100 Great South Africans ( see List of South Africans)

Quotation

Sisulu said the following in 1987, referring to Soweto, the urban area southwest of Johannesburg constructed for the settlement of black people.

"Women are the people who are going to relieve us from all this oppression and depression. The rent boycott that is happening in Soweto now is alive because of the women. It is the women who are on the street committees educating the people to stand up and protect each other."[1]

External link

• [1] Quotation by Albertina Sisulu (http://www.bartleby.com/66/28/54228.html) from The Columbia World of Quotations (1996)