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- Amina_Cachalia abstract "Amina Cachalia, OLB (née Asvat; 28 June 1930 – 31 January 2013) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and politician. She was a longtime friend and ally of former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. Her late husband was political activist Yusuf Cachalia.Cachalia was born Amina Asvat in Vereeniging, South Africa, on 28 June 1930. She began campaigning against Apartheid and racial discrimination as a teenager. She became a women's rights activist, often focusing on economic issues, such as financial independence for women.Amina and Yusuf Cachalia were friends of Nelson Mandela before his imprisonment at Robben Island in 1962. She became a staunch anti-apartheid activist. She spent fifteen years under house arrest throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was the treasurer of the Federation of South African Women (Fedsaw), a leading supporter of the Federation of Transvaal Women, and a member of both the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and Transvaal Indian Congress during the Apartheid era.In 1995 Mandela asked Cachalia to marry him. At the time his was separated from his current wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Cachalia turned down Mandela's proposal because she said that "I'm my own person and that I had just recently lost my husband whom I had enormous regard for". Mandela divorced Madikizela-Mandela a year later and married Graça Machel in 1998.Cachalia was elected as an MP to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 1994 South African general election, the country's first with universal adult suffrage. In 2004, she was awarded the Order of Luthuli in Bronze for her contributions to gender and racial equality and democracy.In March 2013, 37 days after her death, her autobiography When Hope and History Rhyme was published.".
- Amina_Cachalia alias "Asvat, Amina".
- Amina_Cachalia birthDate "1930-06-28".
- Amina_Cachalia birthPlace South_Africa.
- Amina_Cachalia birthPlace Vereeniging.
- Amina_Cachalia birthYear "1930".
- Amina_Cachalia deathDate "2013-01-31".
- Amina_Cachalia deathPlace Johannesburg.
- Amina_Cachalia deathPlace Parktown.
- Amina_Cachalia deathPlace South_Africa.
- Amina_Cachalia deathYear "2013".
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- Amina_Cachalia alternativeNames "Asvat, Amina".
- Amina_Cachalia birthDate "1930-06-28".
- Amina_Cachalia children "Ghaleb Cachalia, Coco Cachalia".
- Amina_Cachalia dateOfBirth "1930-06-28".
- Amina_Cachalia dateOfDeath "2013-01-31".
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- Amina_Cachalia placeOfDeath "Parktown West, Johannesburg, South Africa".
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- Amina_Cachalia comment "Amina Cachalia, OLB (née Asvat; 28 June 1930 – 31 January 2013) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and politician. She was a longtime friend and ally of former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. Her late husband was political activist Yusuf Cachalia.Cachalia was born Amina Asvat in Vereeniging, South Africa, on 28 June 1930. She began campaigning against Apartheid and racial discrimination as a teenager.".
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- Amina_Cachalia name "Amina Cachalia".
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