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In the 1940s, a South African woman named Albertina Sisulu made a choice that changed history. While her husband Walter fought apartheid in the streets, she did something harder: she held the line at home. She raised five children alone. She worked double shifts as a nurse. She organized underground networks. And she fought—for nearly fifty years.
But history remembers Nelson Mandela. History forgets Albertina.
Born on October 21, 1918, in Transkei, Albertina worked as a nurse and encountered apartheid's brutality firsthand. In 1941, she met Walter Sisulu. In 1944, Nelson Mandela himself served as best man at their wedding. When Mandela told Albertina, "You have married a married man—Walter married politics before he met you," he was warning her about the life she was choosing.
She chose it anyway.
While Walter was arrested eight times and eventually imprisoned for 26 years on Robben Island alongside Mandela, Albertina became South Africa's hidden pillar of resistance. She joined the ANC Women's League in 1948, helped launch the Freedom Charter, and marched with 20,000 women to protest pass laws in 1956. She was detained, banned for 18 years—longer than almost anyone else in South Africa—yet never stopped fighting.
Her home in Orlando, Soweto became the headquarters of the anti-apartheid movement. She turned it into an underground school, taught resistance strategy, and organized a network of young activists that reignited the movement when it seemed dead.
In 1989, Walter was released. In 1990, the ANC was unbanned. In 1994, Albertina formally nominated Nelson Mandela as President of a free South Africa—a moment her biographer called "one of the proudest of her life."
Nelson Mandela called her "one of the greatest South Africans." The nation called her Ma Sisulu—Mother of the Nation. She died on June 2, 2011, at 92 years old, having lived to see the democracy she fought for her entire life.
But textbooks never mention her.
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