Quote by Albertina Sisulu: “To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects the freedom of others.”

Freedom is not the end of the story. Once you have it, the real question is what you do with it. True freedom means not recreating the same hierarchies and oppressions you escaped. It demands that you act in ways that protect and honour the freedom of everyone around you, not just your own liberation.

The 1956 Women's March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, in which Sisulu was a key organiser, was one of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations in South African history. Twenty thousand women marched to protest the extension of pass laws to Black women. The event became a defining moment of the anti-apartheid movement.

South African anti-apartheid activist and nurse who became a leader of the United Democratic Front while her husband Walter Sisulu was imprisoned on Robben Island. She was repeatedly banned, imprisoned, and placed under house arrest by the apartheid government over decades of activism, and received the Order of Mapungubwe from the post-apartheid government.