FILE: Former ANC Women's League president, Gertrude Shope. She died at the age of 99. Picture: @TamboFoundation/X. JOHANNESBURG - Former educator, trade unionist and the first African National ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the eulogy at the late African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Gertrude Shope’s funeral at Wits University on 31 May 2025. Picture: X/GautengANC ...

While writing Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, a biography of the American writer whose name now immediately evokes the golden age of 1920s Paris, I often felt like a detective, searching through the ...

ANC veteran and freedom fighter Gertrude Shope passed away peacefully at her home in Gauteng at the age of 99. Picture: Supplied President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the eulogy at the ...

Daniel Strollo, a lawyer for Murphy, said the town leadership is targeting Murphy because he has opposed some past Reilich-supported measures. For instance, Murphy did not back a move by Reilich ...

Gertrude “Perk” Smith Perkins Givens, 90, of Pearisburg, VA. went to be with the Lord on Monday, May 26, 2025. Perk was born on August 12, 1934, in Petersburg, VA and was the daughter of the late ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid homage to the late African National Congress stalwart Gertrude Shope and all women in South Africa while delivering the eulogy at her funeral on Saturday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that the late Gertrude Shope will be honoured with a special official funeral category 1 on Saturday. Shope passed away at the age of 99 on May 22. She ...

The memorial service for anti-apartheid activist Gertrude Shope is under way on Thursday. Shope died last Thursday, aged 99. Shope, who was one of the oldest members of the ANC, ...