Cissie gool biography samples

Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool (6 November 1897 – 1 July 1963) was an anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader in South Africa. She was the daughter of prominent physician and politician Abdullah Abdurahman and mother Helen Potter James. Gool founded the National Liberation League and helped to create the Non-European United Front (NEUF). She was known and loved as the "Jewel of District Six" and "Joan of Arc" by South Africans as a champion of the poor.^[1]

Life

Zainunnisa Gool was born on 6 November 1897 to Abdullah Abdurahman, leader of the African Peoples Organisation (APO) which he had helped to form in 1902 and was also the first Indian South African to be elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1904,^[2] and Helen Potter James.^[1]

Education

Gool came from a radical background and she was tutored by both Olive Schreiner and Mahatma Gandhi. Gool and her sister, Rosie, attended the Trafalgar High School in District Six