This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Albertina Sisulu" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Albertina Sisulu
The University of Johannesburg confers an honorary doctoral degree (Doctor Litterarum et Philosophiae (honoris causa)) on Albertina Sisulu in acknowledgement of her revolutionary role in pre-1994 South Africa.
Born
Nontsikelelo Thethiwe
21 October 1918 (1918-10-21)
Died
2 June 2011 (2011-06-03) (aged 92)
Known for
Anti-apartheid activist
Spouse
Walter Sisulu
(m. 1944; died 2003)
Parent(s)
Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe
Part of a series on
Apartheid
Events
1948 general election
Coloured vote constitutional crisis
1956 Treason Trial
Sharpeville massacre
Rivonia Trial
Soweto uprising
Church Street, Pretoria bombing
Vaal uprising
Trojan Horse Incident
Khotso House bombing
Cape Town peace march
CODESA
Assassination of Chris Hani
Saint James Church massacre
Shell House massacre
Organisations
ANC
APLA
IFP
AWB
BBB
Black Sash
CCB
Conservative Party
DP
ECC
FOSATU
PP
RP
PFP
HNP
MK
PAC
UDF
Broederbond
National Party
COSATU
Security Branch
SACC
SADF
SAIC
SAMA
SAP
SACP
State Security Council
People
Vernon Berrangé
P. W. Botha
Steve Biko
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
F. W. de Klerk
Ruth First
Bram Fischer
Arthur Goldreich
Chris Hani
Bantu Holomisa
Joel Joffe
Ahmed Kathrada
Albert Luthuli
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Mac Maharaj
D. F. Malan
Nelson Mandela
Govan Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki
Raymond Mhlaba
Benjamin Moloise
Albertina Sisulu
Walter Sisulu
J. G. Strijdom
Joe Slovo
Robert Sobukwe
Helen Suzman
Adelaide Tambo
Oliver Tambo
Eugène Terre'Blanche
Desmond Tutu
H. F. Verwoerd
B. J. Vorster
Jacob Zuma
Places
Bantustan
District Six
Robben Island
Sophiatown
South-West Africa
Soweto
Sun City
Vlakplaas
Related topics
Afrikaner nationalism
Apartheid in popular culture
Apartheid legislation
Cape Qualified Franchise
Disinvestment campaign
Freedom Charter
Internal resistance to apartheid
Kairos Document
Music in the movement against apartheid
Nostalgia for apartheid
Project Coast
Sullivan Principles
Category
v
t
e
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu OMSG (néeThethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011)[1] was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and the wife of fellow activist Walter Sisulu (1912–2003). She was affectionately known as "Ma Sisulu" throughout her lifetime by the South African public. In 2004 she was voted 57th in the SABC3's Great South Africans. She died on 2 June 2011 in her home in Linden, Johannesburg, South Africa, aged 92.
^Barry Bearak (5 June 2011). "Albertina Sisulu, Who Helped Lead Apartheid Fight, Dies at 92". The New York Times.
Nontsikelelo AlbertinaSisulu OMSG (née Thethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and the wife of fellow activist...
pending his appeal. He went underground in 1963, resulting in his wife, AlbertinaSisulu, becoming the first woman to be arrested under the so-called 90 Day...
(ANC). Sisulu is the son of Walter and AlbertinaSisulu, both prominent anti-apartheid activists in the ANC. Sisulu has been a member of the National Working...
Sisulu is a surname. People with this surname include: AlbertinaSisulu (1918–2011), anti–apartheid activist Lindiwe Sisulu (born 1954), South African...
2023). Sisulu was born to revolutionary leaders Walter and AlbertinaSisulu in Johannesburg. She is the sister of journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu and politician...
was shot dead in his clinic, and he died in the arms of his nurse, AlbertinaSisulu. His death has been linked to that of Stompie Seipei four weeks earlier...
of Albertina and Walter Sisulu. Sisulu was born in 1948 in Soweto in the former Transvaal Province. After her mother, Rosabella Lockman (née Sisulu), died...
her husband. Joffe was subsequently also approached by AlbertinaSisulu (wife of Walter Sisulu), Annie Goldberg (mother of Dennis Goldberg) and Winnie...
science and mathematics. In 1944, along with Nelson Mandela, and Walter Sisulu, Tambo founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National...
south and Kensington to its east. The main road through the suburb is AlbertinaSisulu Road, which connects the CBD to Johannesburg's eastern suburbs and...
Rahima Moosa, Sophia De Bruyn, Motlalepula Chabaku, Bertha Gxowa and AlbertinaSisulu of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings of Pretoria in protest against...
Socio-Economic Transformation. 2018: The Year of Nelson Mandela and AlbertinaSisulu: Liberators for Reconciliation. 2019: The Year of Indigenous Languages:...
published a biography about her husband's parents, entitled Walter and AlbertinaSisulu: In Our Lifetime, which received the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa...
The first presidents of the UDF were Archie Gumede, Oscar Mpetha and AlbertinaSisulu; patrons were Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr Allan Boesak, Helen Joseph...
Congress members Walter Sisulu and AlbertinaSisulu. He was the brother of Max Sisulu, Speaker of the National Assembly, and Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Public...
10,000 people at the Cape Showgrounds in Goodwood, where he invited AlbertinaSisulu and Allan Boesak to give political speeches. Tutu moved into the archbishop's...
befriended Walter's girlfriend Albertina, whom he met in 1941 and married in 1944. Mase was a bridesmaid at the Sisulus' wedding. Writing in his later...
David Philip Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86486-677-6. Sisulu, Elinor (2003). Walter & AlbertinaSisulu: in our time. Abacus. ISBN 978-0-86486-639-4. Mandela...
Mandela Govan Mbeki Thabo Mbeki Raymond Mhlaba Benjamin Moloise AlbertinaSisulu Walter Sisulu J. G. Strijdom Joe Slovo Robert Sobukwe Helen Suzman Adelaide...
1943 he led Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Jordan Ngubane, Ellen Kuzwayo, AlbertinaSisulu, Lembede's friend A.P. Mda, Dan Tloome, and David...
the African Congress Youth League (ANCYL), such as Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo, took power. The African National Congress (ANC) also "adopts...
Mandela Govan Mbeki Thabo Mbeki Raymond Mhlaba Benjamin Moloise AlbertinaSisulu Walter Sisulu J. G. Strijdom Joe Slovo Robert Sobukwe Helen Suzman Adelaide...
Global Information
