Gertrude Shope, who turned 95 this month, is a humble yet firm leader who has been fearless in pursuit of justice for the vulnerable and equality for women and girls.
This is a tribute to a life well-lived, dedicated to our anti-apartheid icon, Mma Gertrude Shope, who turned 95 on 15 August. The month of August is celebrated as Women’s Month in South Africa. It is a time to honour and highlight the enormous courage and contribution of women to the Struggle against apartheid and to acknowledge their self-sacrifice, commitment and high political ideals.
Mma Shope fully deserves the tribute we present today. She is a humble yet firm leader who has been fearless in pursuit of justice for the vulnerable and equality for women and girls. During her lifetime, she has carried out these exacting roles with exemplary fortitude and rare commitment. In this sense, she is among the pioneers who not only fought against the sociopolitical practice of gender erasure, but also posited both the possibility and desirability of gender equality as a presupposition of the very definition of the idea of freedom. She, therefore, resolved to break down the invidious social mould that sought to define women as perpetual underlings.
She continued to be an avid exponent of gender agenda and workers’ rights during her exile travails, during which she lived all over the world, including Prague, Botswana, Tanzania, Czechoslovakia, Zambia and Nigeria.
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