Fatima Seedat, the twin sister of Rahima Moosa, was a firebrand revolutionary who could match her activist husband pound for pound in courage and oratory. This past week marked the centenary of her birth, writes Imraan Buccus.
Fatima Seedat was among those to take part in the Women’s March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on August 9 1956. Photo: Gallo Images
The year was 1946, straight after the Second World War and colonial repression at its most rampant, yet still two years before the Nationalist Party swept to power on the apartheid ticket. who could match her activist husband pound for pound in courage and oratory. Born in the year of the historically significant 1922 Rand Revolt when white miners seized Johannesburg, and some eventually met their fate at the gallows, Seedat was fearless in confronting injustice.
This past week marked the centenary of her birth. Her identical twin, Rahima Moosa, is more recognisable in the annals of the struggle for South African freedom as one of the women at the head of the 1956 Women's March on the Union Buildings in Pretoria. "Women from all over the world are playing an increasingly important role in the life of their countries. We women in South Africa, too, have the duty to play a great role in our beloved country. Let us women stand together and build a mighty Federation of South African Women so that we can all march forward to free South Africa from racial prejudice," she remarked in reference to that momentous period.
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