Zipporah Nawa
South African activist (1945-2007)
Zipporah Noisey Nawa (1 March 1945 – 5 November 2007) was a South African teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.
Life
Zipporah Nawa was born on 1 March 1945 in the rural village of Walmansthal in Pretoria. She received her teaching training education at Emmarentia Teachers College in Bela-Bela, Limpopo Province. She taught for a while in Hammanskraal and Pankop (Masube) areas until she left for Louis Trichardt (Makhado) to teach at a local school. In between teaching, she became active in the liberation struggle in the area, carrying out ANC underground work.
On her return home to Hammanskraal, she found that the area had become part of the newly established Bophuthatswana government that did not allow multi-party democratic participation in parliament and civic life. As a result, she was forced to join the Bophuthatswana Teachers Union, but secretly continued to carry on with her ANC underground operations with the likes of the local second-hand furniture shop dealer Mr Deboy Mokoena. Together, they established underground uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cells around Hammanskraal. Among some of the people they recruited into the cells were Mokoena's son, Dithupe, otherwise known by his nom de guerre as Stix after he had skipped the country. There was also Monageng Patrick Xoliso Mmakou who later died on 4 June 1980 in Swaziland in a bomb blast orchestrated by the South African security forces.
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