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Feroza Adam

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227:"It is important for us to unite women committed to a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic South Africa. Otherwise we will find ourselves in the same situation as women from other countries in the post-liberation era. After having struggled together with their men for liberation, women comrades found their position had not changed. We need to assert our position as women more strongly now than ever before, and we can only do that as one, unified, loud voice." 267: 33: 258:
sponsors an annual Feroza Adam Memorial Lecture, named in her memory. The iTouch Foundation is dedicated to working for Adam's interests in supporting young South Africans and alleviating poverty.
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Feroza Adam died from injuries sustained in an accident on 8 August 1994, when she drove her car the wrong way onto a freeway exit in
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and other organizations. She was elected to Parliament in 1994, shortly before she died in a car accident.
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from 1992 to 1993. In 1990, she gave a speech to a national conference of women, saying:
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List of members of the National Assembly of South Africa who died in office
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Feroza Adam taught school after finishing college. She joined the
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In 1994, she was elected a Member of the National Parliament, in
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the first democratically elected government in South Africa
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National Assembly
Lenasia
Transvaal
Cape Town
Western Cape
United Democratic Front
African National Congress
apartheid
African National Congress
Lenasia
University of Witwatersrand
Transvaal Indian Congress
Azanian Students' Organization
Institute of International Relations Clingendael
Federation of Transvaal Women
Federation of South African Women
United Democratic Front
African National Congress
Women's National Coalition
ANC Women's League
the first democratically elected government in South Africa
Cape Town
Johannesburg
UNISA
List of members of the National Assembly of South Africa who died in office
"Feroza Adam"
"Celebrating the Life of Feroza Adam"
"Freedom for Women: Mainstreaming Gender in the South African Liberation Struggle and Beyond"
"In Memory of Feroza Adam"

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