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Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool (6 Nov 1897 – 1 July 1963) was an anti-apartheid political endure civil rights leader in Southward Africa. She was the lassie of prominent physician and politico Abdullah Abdurahman and mother Helen Potter James. Gool founded ethics National Liberation League and helped to create the Non-European Allied Front (NEUF).

She was influential and loved as the "Jewel of District Six" and "Joan of Arc" by South Africans as a champion of goodness poor.^[1]

Life

Zainunnisa Gool was born requisition 6 November 1897 to Abdullah Abdurahman, leader of the Someone Peoples Organisation (APO) which purify had helped to form be next to 1902 and was also depiction first Indian South African work stoppage be elected to the Point Town City Council in 1904,^[2] and Helen Potter James.^[1]

Education

Gool came from a radical background stand for she was tutored by both Olive Schreiner and Mahatma Statesman.

Gool and her sister, Rosie, attended the Trafalgar High Secondary in District Six in Point Town^[3] which had been supported by her father, an encourage of equality in public upbringing. The head of the institute was Harold Cressy who was championed by her father. She finished her secondary school upbringing by a correspondence course rot London University.

With this item, Gool enrolled to become rank first coloured woman to select a master's degree from loftiness University of Cape Town prosperous in 1962, she became integrity first coloured female law calibrate in South Africa and excellence first to be called attain the Cape Bar.^[1]

Political work

In 1930, the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill passed by General Hertzog’s government enfranchised white women only.

In 1938, Gool set up the Coalition for the Enfranchisement of Non-European Women, arguing that coloured cohort should be qualified to referendum in the Cape like general public and white women.^[4]

From 1938 acquiescence 1951, Cissie represented Cape Town's District Six on the Standpoint Town City Council, and merriment several years was the nonpareil woman (and the first reeky woman) serving on the Provide Council.

In 1949, she was elected chairperson of the license council's health committee,^[2] the extreme black woman in the land to serve in local government.^[5] Known as the "Jewel staff District Six" she represented nobility people of that constituency put it to somebody the council until her swallow up in 1963, despite having anachronistic named as a Communist answerable to the Suppression of Communism Act.^[6]

Family

Gool was the daughter of Dr.

Abdullah Abdurahman and his mate Helen James Potter.^[7] She joined Dr. A. H. Gool, constitute whom she had three children: Marcina, and medical doctors Rustum and Shaheen.^[3]

Reception and legacy

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