Helen joseph biography 1956 pontiac coupe

Helen joseph biography 1956 pontiac coupe: , at 10 oclock A.t M.

He must goand he knows not where nor for how long. British-born Helen Joseph was a champion of black rights who was regularly victimized by the South African government for her involvement with various liberation organisations. She became politically active in her forties in some of the largest anti-Apartheid protests of the day. She helped found the South African Congress of Democrats and was one of the speakers who read out clauses from the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown in She took a leading part, together with Lilian Ngoyi, in organising the Womens March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, which drew 20, women from around the country.

Joseph became the voice of the banned people of South Africa after she was put under house arrest in for a period of five years. She became the first white woman to be given this form of punishment. In a moving article Cry of the Banished, Joseph painted a grim picture of the plights suffered under this inhumane law. She endured a series of bans throughout her life, with the final ban only being lifted when she was Joseph requested in her will to be buried in Sowetos Avalon Cemetery next to her friend Lilian Ngoyi.

The double grave has since become a site of pilgrimage and a key heritage attraction.