Bettie du Toit

Bettie du Toit (born Elizabeth Sophia Honman; 15 July 1910 – 31 January 2002) was a South African trade unionist, communist and anti-apartheid activist. About Bettie du Toit Bettie du Toit has more than earned national honour for her contribution to a non-racial, non-sexist, free and democratic South Africa. Source: Nadine Gordimer, “The life of a revolutionary for freedom”, City Press / News24 (19 May 2012). Quotes The women trade unionists were so courageous. The government and the employers thought they could be stopped by halting the work of individual women. But the movement was never one of individuals. The spirit of these individual women inspired us whether they were with us or were silenced. The government simply doesn’t comprehend the power of the desire for freedom and equality. That power can never be destroyed. Source: United Nations document A/CONF.94/BP/16 (background paper on women and apartheid, quoting Bettie du Toit). The middle-class Afrikaners had always supported such organisations as the FAK, and they recognised the threat to their established way of living and political thought if the Afrikaner worker did not remain tied to the Nationalist Party and the Dutch Reformed Church (1978:41). External links Category:Women from South Africa Category:Anti-apartheid activists Category:Trade unionists Category:communists Category:1910 births Category:2002 deaths