Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Zipporah Noisey Nawa (1 March 1945 – 5 November 2007) was a South African teacher, politician and Member of Parliament. Zipporah Nawa was born in 1945 in the rural village of Wallmansthal in Pretoria. She became active in the liberation struggle in Louis Trichardt (Makhado) in the early 1970s, doing ANC underground work whilst teaching and emerged into the open public in the early 1980s as a union and civic movement activist in the North West Province. A school principal for 14 years, Nawa served in the branch executive committee of the South African Democratic Teachers Union - SADTU and took part in various community activities, including the anti-Bophuthatswana campaign between 1980 and 1990 after she had initially took part, much against her will and political conviction, in the Bophuthatswana Teachers Union before the advent of SADTU. When the African National Congress was unbanned together with other anti-apartheid organisation in 1990, Nawa became involved in structures of the organisation, including those of the ANC Women’s League in the North West province. She held a number of positions within both the ANC and the ANCWL, including those of secretary, deputy secretary and ex officio of various branches of the ANCWL. Nawa also served as an executive committee member of the ANCWL Eastern Region and as a member of the Gender Commission in the North West.As a professional, she started teaching in the 1960s after she had undergone training at Emmarentia Teachers College in Bela-Bela. She reached the level of school principal in 1993 until 2006 at Lefofa Primary School, from where she resigned as the principal to become a Member of Parliament in July 2006, where she served in the portfolio committee on Correctional Services and her constituency of Moretele. Zipporah Nawa died in 2007 and is buried at Hammanskraal cemeteries. At the time of her death, she had just completed building a house within the Royal Kraal of the Baphuting-Ba-Ga-Nawa in Lebotloane village in Moretele, North West Province.She left behind two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Lebogang Lance Nawa, is also a political activist, scholar and writer of note (poet, short stories and music lyrics)."@en }
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- Zipporah_Nawa abstract "Zipporah Noisey Nawa (1 March 1945 – 5 November 2007) was a South African teacher, politician and Member of Parliament. Zipporah Nawa was born in 1945 in the rural village of Wallmansthal in Pretoria. She became active in the liberation struggle in Louis Trichardt (Makhado) in the early 1970s, doing ANC underground work whilst teaching and emerged into the open public in the early 1980s as a union and civic movement activist in the North West Province. A school principal for 14 years, Nawa served in the branch executive committee of the South African Democratic Teachers Union - SADTU and took part in various community activities, including the anti-Bophuthatswana campaign between 1980 and 1990 after she had initially took part, much against her will and political conviction, in the Bophuthatswana Teachers Union before the advent of SADTU. When the African National Congress was unbanned together with other anti-apartheid organisation in 1990, Nawa became involved in structures of the organisation, including those of the ANC Women’s League in the North West province. She held a number of positions within both the ANC and the ANCWL, including those of secretary, deputy secretary and ex officio of various branches of the ANCWL. Nawa also served as an executive committee member of the ANCWL Eastern Region and as a member of the Gender Commission in the North West.As a professional, she started teaching in the 1960s after she had undergone training at Emmarentia Teachers College in Bela-Bela. She reached the level of school principal in 1993 until 2006 at Lefofa Primary School, from where she resigned as the principal to become a Member of Parliament in July 2006, where she served in the portfolio committee on Correctional Services and her constituency of Moretele. Zipporah Nawa died in 2007 and is buried at Hammanskraal cemeteries. At the time of her death, she had just completed building a house within the Royal Kraal of the Baphuting-Ba-Ga-Nawa in Lebotloane village in Moretele, North West Province.She left behind two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Lebogang Lance Nawa, is also a political activist, scholar and writer of note (poet, short stories and music lyrics).".