Zimbabwe led by Joshua Nkomo.
1961, and helped to form LAPU.
women's liberation.
The colonial phase southern Africa has done quite a bit of damage to women, just as it has damaged all our people. In the case of my parents, mother because if my father work in town or on a farm she remained at home.
When the colonialists started destroying their fields and cattle and removing her from one place to another it was my mother who carried all this burden of seeing the destruction of her little bit of property.
are reactionary facets in our tradition, and this has quite a part in suppressing us. since the bolitical country, even the struggle, wonel thinking and understanding rights.
Before that it wasn't easy woman to get any education. She and her parents agreed that the boy in the family should be given education and he was treated like a little king. Even if they he privileges, much more than the girls.
Ilhe that my father teacher played a part in my being sent to school. By then quite a number of parents were really awake; although my mother was one of the very few who could read and write.
Curriculum Women have paved way. have seen seriously say: *You join From school I was not very happy wher went separately from other children. I was not craving to be in the same school with white children, but I wanted to know if we were having the same type of curriculum. Nobody could give me tHe answer. FOR the past 18 years, Jane Ngwenya has been the only woman on the central committee of ZAPU, the wing of the liberation movement in Her political involvement began in the 1950s, when she became a member of the African National Congress, which was banned in 1939. She then joined the National Democratic Party, which was banned in Here JANE NGWENYA describes the problems she has faced as a woman in the struggle for national liberation, and her views on in my affected went to played Jane Ngwenya But struggle in our When armed SECO their for a must spoke started happened to be one of those elected the delegation of the African Teachers Association, and so attended a conference.
I had thought that when you grow up to a mature age if things are wrong, you muş something.
¡criticise found that the lea a or the teaci could not accept criticism. I was expected to nice and be English-mannered, being submissive.
I didn't want to lose my job, so I went softly. I went back to school. I continued to go to church person brought up Christian home — I got married in church. But I still was not very happy, because there was never a place for questions.
Arrests When: I attended a moching sometime formation of the African National. Congress, I felt I had found the right thing that I wanted. These others same things I had doubted in my mind for a long time My husband was not happy at all about my political involvement and this brought serious unhappiness in the family, to such an extent that we separated.
My husband was a supporter of the political movement, but he didn't like my taking a leading part, because that meant arrests. I was arrested for • fiTSI time had swept the whole of the Central You people couldn't distinguish between speak by surrender my own political be think he would have accepted very nicely, or as long as I continued to be arrested and continued to believe what I was doing, he preferred to be political the baby — my little girl was five months In all I've served jail sentences tive times. others in Gwanagwazingwe and Wha Wha for nearly ten years. Eight and a half years in one stretch. finally got out the last time in 1972, 1 culture. Some parts of our tradition we shall keep, and those reactionary ones of course we will not keep, those which we think are suppressive to the natural thing that one must do, get a family nicely, bring up these children OUl La lot of change. In the most recent struggle, the armed struggle, where conflict, there is so much change. Men really understand and see the published magazine. The magazine is available from bookshops and from: Southern Africa Committer, 17 West 17th St York, NY 10011, S1. de arrested When I was arrested in 1959 l YET. representative;
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