Zipporah Nawa

Deceased Person

1945 – 2007

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Who was Zipporah Nawa?

Zipporah Noisey Nawa was a South African teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Zipporah Nawa was born in 1945 in the rural village of Walmansthal in Pretoria. She became active in the liberation struggle in Louis Trichardt in the early 1970s, doing ANC underground work whilst teaching and emerged into the open public in the early 1980s as a union and civic movement activist in the North West Province. A school principal for 14 years, Nawa served in the branch executive committee of the South African Democratic Teachers Union - SADTU and took part in various community activities, including the anti-Bophuthatswana campaign between 1980 and 1990 after she had initially took part, much against her will and political conviction, in the Bophuthatswana Teachers Union before the advent of SADTU. When the African National Congress was unbanned together with other anti-apartheid organisation in 1990, Nawa became involved in structures of the organisation, including those of the ANC Women’s League in the North West province. She held a number of positions within both the ANC and the ANCWL, including those of secretary, deputy secretary and ex officio of various branches of the ANCWL. Nawa also served as an executive committee member of the ANCWL Eastern Region and as a member of the Gender Commission in the North West.

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Born
Mar 1, 1945
Died
Nov 5, 2007

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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