330:, in which Chibambo and others opposed Hastings Banda. Issues included Banda's decision to charge for health services and to move slowly in Africanization of the civil service. This was coupled with a general feeling that Banda was becoming increasingly autocratic. Chibambo was dismissed from the cabinet the next day. Banda declared that the rebel leaders were traitors to the state and threats to national security. Chibambo and the others were suspended from the party, which prevented them from attending party meetings and prevented members of the party from attending their meetings, giving Banda full control of the MCP. She and her husband faced constant harassment until they fled to
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that this was the one who composed those songs for us to sing. No, it was just general singing. Just as we are here. You could start a song, and our songs in most cases, our
African songs, they are traditional. They are not difficult to sing. We could easily pick it up, and then we would all sing". She was quite clear that singing and dancing was not the primary purpose of the women's meetings. She said "I had this feeling ... women should be part and parcel of the whole movement, even of running the country. Women should be involved in decision making. That was my aim".
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magazine reported: "The top woman leader of the outlawed
African National Congress, Mrs. Rose Chibambo, 29, who was arrested after giving birth to her fifth child, has taken the infant with her to jail". She had been allowed to remain at liberty until the child was born. The British later accepted
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In a 1999 interview, Rose described the use of song at the women's meetings. She said "In most cases, our singing, like in the woman's league, we would take some of the songs sung in the villages, then we put in political words to suit the occasion... There wasn't any particular person at that time,
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Rose
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and with that federation, unfortunately for them, that time, they had already started removing people in the areas where they thought it was best for
Europeans or it was best for farming ... They wanted to make room for Europeans to settle. I said, you can see all these things. Now, we are being
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colonial authorities, in a
January 1959 Congress meeting it was agreed that if Banda was arrested or deported a general strike would be called. Rose Chibambo would become a member of a four-person executive committee to conduct the affairs of the congress in Banda's absence.
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She once stated: "ou know, we are the mothers. We are the ones who bring out children and these children are employed by Wenela at that time. They go to Wenela and most of them die there. They don't come back alive. And then there's a lot of oppression. There's this
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to form the
Nyasaland African Women's League, closely associated with the NAC. Executives of the Women's League would select fabric from which they made matching outfits. The purpose was to show solidarity at public occasions, identifying members as a group.
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Public Works department. She completed her secondary education at night school in Zomba in 1948 while pregnant with her first child. She had another child in 1951, and four more later. The youngest was born in 1961.
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removed in our rural areas. We are being pushed here and there. And the women understood. They said, oh yes, then we must do something".
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were arrested for sedition. Her group was arrested and fined after they travelled by bus to the High Court in Zomba singing:
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declared a state of emergency. Over the next 24 hours, almost all the MCP leaders were arrested. In April 1959,
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