Frances Baard
Frances Goitsemang Baard OMSS OLG (1 October 1909 – 1997) was a South African (ethnic Tswana) trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming of the Diamantveld District Municipality (Kimberley) as the Frances Baard District Municipality. Schoeman Street in Pretoria was also renamed in her honour. This heroine is the reason we celebrate National Women's Day today in South Africa.
Quotes
[edit]- 1959 was declared Anti-Pass Year by the ANC in honour of the women because we fought so bravely against the passes
- Who is Frances Baard?, retrived 2025-04-03
- I don't know what you mean by "tired". I can't give up because the spirit is still there. I can't help it, even if I wanted to give up. Although I can't do everything physically, the spirit still wants what I have always wanted.
- My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner,(13/01/2012), retrieved 2025-04-03
- A pass is this little book you must get when you are 16, and it says where you can work, and where you can be, and if you have got work. You can't get a job without this book. And you can only get a job where they stamp your pass to say 'Johannesburg' or 'Pretoria' and so on. You must carry it with you all the time because the police can ask you, 'Where is your pass?' any time, and then you must show them. If you haven't got your pass, they put you in jail for some days or else you must pay some money to get out.
- People, Locations, Episodes, (10.01.1909), retrieved 2025-04-03
- My spirit is not banned — I still say I want freedom in my lifetime.
- People, Locations, Episodes, (10.01.1909), retrieved 2025-04-03
