Education
She was brought up in a liberated Islamic environment and she attended Trafalgar High School in District Six.
She was brought up in a liberated Islamic environment and she attended Trafalgar High School in District Six.
She is well known for the role she played in the national uprising of women on 9 August 1956. Moosa was also a shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers Union. Rahima Moosa was one of identical sisters born in the Strand, Cape Town in 1922.
She dropped out of school with little formal education.
They moved to Johannesburg and had four children. Together they played a role organising the 1955 Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter.
Rahima, Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, Helen Joseph and Lillian Ngoyi led 20,000 women on 9 August 1956 to demonstrate against the further strengthening of Pass Laws. This day is now celebrated annually as National Women"s Day.
Rahima Moosa was listed by the Apartheid regime despite becoming ill after a heart attack in the 1960s.
She died on 26 May 1993, a year before South Africa"s ninth democratic elections in 1994.
Both of them were very active in the South African Indian Congress and later the African National Congress. Her husband and her children remained active in the African National Congress after her death.
