‘If I Can, We Can’: Honouring Myrtle Witbooi and the History of Domestic Worker Organising
Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement, died on January 16 in Cape Town at age 75. Under South Africa’s apartheid rule, she began to organise women in the garage of her employer and went on to become president of the first global union led by women. For 52 years she advo...
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University of Johannesburg
2023-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/2680 |