in Johannesburg. Rahima Moosa was one of identical sisters born in
Strand just outside
Cape Town in 1922. She was brought up in a liberated
Islamic environment and she attended
Trafalgar High School in
District Six. Both of them were very active in the
South African Indian Congress and later the
African National Congress. Together they played a role organising the 1955, she was also on the forefront of the womans day march representing indian woman during apartheid
Congress of the People and the
Freedom Charter. Rahima,
Sophia De Bruyn,
Helen Joseph and
Lillian Ngoyi led 20,000
women's march on 9 August 1956 to demonstrate against the further strengthening of
Pass Laws. This day is now celebrated annually as
National Women's Day. Rahima Moosa was listed by the Apartheid regime despite becoming ill after a heart attack in the 1960s. She died on 26 May 1993, a year before South Africa's
first democratic elections in 1994. Her husband and her children remained active in the African National Congress after her death. ==References==