Biography of a person who helped build democracy in south africa

Rahima MoosaOLS (13 October - 29 May ) was a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress and later the African National Congress. She is well known for the role she played in the national uprising of women on 9 August Moosa was also a shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers Union.

Her life

Rahima Moosa was one of identical sisters born in Strand just outside Cape Town in She was brought up in a liberated Islamic environment and she attended Trafalgar High School in District Six.^[1] She dropped out of school with little formal education.^[2] Annoyed by the policies of the Apartheid government she and her twin sister Fatima campaigned for change. Rahima was a shop s Rahima Moosa House - Wikipedia!