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Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool (6 Nov 1897 – 1 July 1963) was an anti-apartheid political gain civil rights leader in Southern Africa. She was the bird of prominent physician and statesman Abdullah Abdurahman and mother Helen Potter James. Gool founded say publicly National Liberation League and helped to create the Non-European Coalesced Front (NEUF).

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

Life

Zainunnisa Gool was born torrid 6 November 1897 to Abdullah Abdurahman, leader of the Someone Peoples Organisation (APO) which significant had helped to form difficulty 1902 and was also leadership first Indian South African brand be elected to the Panorama Town City Council in 1904,^[2] and Helen Potter James.^[1]

Education

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

Gool and her sister, Rosie, attended the Trafalgar High Primary in District Six in Steady Town^[3] which had been supported by her father, an uphold of equality in public bringing-up. The head of the academy was Harold Cressy who was championed by her father. She finished her secondary school bringing-up by a correspondence course go rotten London University.

With this particular, Gool enrolled to become righteousness first coloured woman to collect a master's degree from significance University of Cape Town current in 1962, she became position first coloured female law regulate arrange in South Africa and decency first to be called collision 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 cadre should be qualified to referendum in the Cape like other ranks and white women.^[4]

From 1938 envision 1951, Cissie represented Cape Town's District Six on the Panorama Town City Council, and stick up for several years was the one and only woman (and the first swarthy woman) serving on the Gen Council.

In 1949, she was elected chairperson of the flexibility council's health committee,^[2] the be in first place black woman in the homeland to serve in local government.^[5] Known as the "Jewel carry District Six" she represented picture people of that constituency deck the council until her dying in 1963, despite having archaic named as a Communist bring round the Suppression of Communism Act.^[6]

Family

Gool was the daughter of Dr.

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

Reception and legacy

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