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Notes
“You have struck a rock, you have touched a woman” was a slogan coined by black South African women on August 9, 1956, during a protest against the imposition of passes on women. SeeForward to Freedom: Women and Apartheid in South Africa (San Francisco:AAWO Discussion Papers, July 1985) for discussion of the resistance to apartheid by black South African women.
Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa,South Africa: Time Running Out (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).
Ibid..
The Africa Fund,South Africa Fact Sheet (New York: American Committee on Africa, 1984).
Washington Office on Africa Educational Fund, “Fact Sheet: Education and Employment Opportunities for Women Under Apartheid” (Washington, D.C.: Washington Office on Africa, 1985).
See also Sanford Wright, “Struggling Against Apartheid: The Use of Economic Sanctions on South Africa” inReview of Black Political Economy 13, no. 3 (Winter 1984–85) for a discussion of the vulnerabilities of the South African economy.
The Africa Fund,South African Fact Sheet.
Mamazane Xulu, ANC Women’s Section, Interview, October 1985.
The Africa Fund,South Africa Fact Sheet.
Washington Office On Africa Educational Fund, “Fact Sheet.”
Ibid.
Joseph Lelyveld,Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (New York: New York Times Books, 1985).
Mamazane Xulu, interview.
Hilda Bernstein,For Their Triumphs and for Their Tears: Women in Apartheid South Africa (New York: Africa Fund, 1978).
Washington Office on Africa Educational Fund, “Fact Sheet.”
Mamazane Xulu, interview.
Ibid.
The Africa Fund,South Africa Fact Sheet.
Joseph Lelyveld,Move Your Shadow.
Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa,South Africa: Time Running Out.
Ibid.
Ibid.
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Malveaux, J. You have struck a rock: A note on the status of black women in South Africa. The Review of Black Political Economy 14, 277–284 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02689894
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