146:. In describing her political awakening, Ntantala-Jordan says "I always tell people that it was my experience in the Free State that really roused to anger my social consciousness...Most of our students in Kroonstad did not see a future beyond their school. They remained in school because it was a better place than life in the location. I knew that something was wrong somewhere." When her family moved to Moshesh Avenue in the
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73:, I did not leave home without the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I came from a family of landed gentry in the Transkei". Ntantala-Jordan started her schooling at the tender age of four years. Six months later, she lost her mother. After completing Standard 6 (Grade 8),then aged 12, Ntantala-Jordan was sent to Healdtown.
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Emergency. Against this background, the Jordan opted to moved to the United States of America. In early in 1961, AC Jordan was awarded a Carnegie Travel Grant to visit universities and colleges in the US. When
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In 1957, Ntantala-Jordan was asked to contribute an article for a magazine called Africa South on "African women" by Ronnie Segal she chose to write about the "other women whom nobody ever hears about, whose story had never been told, because they are not the `pillars' of their societies". According
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During her first five years in Cape Town, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, while she was raising their children, she "was busy with political work and in the Cape
African Teachers' Association".The issues that CATA focused in the early 1950s revolved around the condemnation of the Group Areas Act
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October 1946, after months of house-hunting in the then white areas (under Group Areas Act), the Jordans wrote to Governor General Mr Brownlee, requesting permission to purchase a lot from a Mr Guttman in Fleur
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celebrations at the Grand Parade in Cape Town in 1952 and the Bantu
Education Act of 1953. Ntantala-Jordan wrote "Ukwayo:Isikrweqe nekhakha", an isiXhosa translation of I.B Tabata's "Boycott as a weapon of struggle", which was widely distributed by the Society of Young Africa (SOYA) in
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to her, these "were some of the girls I had grown up with, now married and living the lives of widows, as their menfolk were away in the cities". Her second article in this magazine was entitled "The Widows of the
Reserves" which was later translated to Flemish, French and Dutch.
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Council, iBhunga and her mother, Ida Balfour, was a descendant of the earliest African Christian community, founded by the prophet Ntsikana during the second decade of the 19th century in the Eastern Cape. In describing her upbringing, Ntantala-Jordan said, "Like
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Healdtown students were treated equally despite their background and smaller than Lovedale. At 15, Ntantala was awarded the Transkeian Bhunga Scholarship to study at the
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Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan has robbed South Africa and the world at large of an astute, inquisitive and inspiring mind. We have lost a champion of gender equality for African women in particular..."
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