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Ray Alexander Simons, the Glossary

Ray Alexander Simons (née Alexandrowich; (31 December 1913 – 12 September 2004) was a South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, campaigner and trade unionist who helped draft the Women's Charter. She moved to Cape Town in 1929 to escape the persecution of Jews and communists.^[1]

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Jewish South African politicians
Latvian emigrants to South Africa
South African atheists
South African women in politics

African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.

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Anti-Apartheid Movement

The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) was a British organisation that was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African apartheid system and supporting South Africa's non-white population who were oppressed by the policies of apartheid.

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Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.

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Bar and bat mitzvah

A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism.

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Boland, Western Cape

The Boland (meaning "highland") is a region of the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated to the northeast of Cape Town in the middle and upper courses of the Berg and Breede Rivers, around the Boland Mountains of the central Cape Fold Belt.

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C. R. Swart

Charles Robberts Swart (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first state president of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Cheder

A cheder (חדר, lit. 'room'; Yiddish pronunciation: khéyder) is a traditional primary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language.

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Civil society campaign

A civil society campaign is one that is intended to mobilize public support and use democratic tools such as lobbying in order to instigate social change.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Communist Party of Latvia

The Communist Party of Latvia (Latvijas Komunistiskā partija, LKP) was a political party in Latvia.

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Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie

Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie (German East Africa Line, or DOAL) was a shipping line, established in 1890 as an alternative to the existing shipping services to East Africa, including German East Africa (1891–1919), then dominated by United Kingdom shipping lines.

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Federation of South African Women

The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was a political lobby group formed in 1954.

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Florence Mkhize

Florence Grace Mkhize (1932 – July 10, 1999) was an anti-apartheid activist and women's movement leader.

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Food and Canning Workers' Union

The Food and Canning Workers' Union (FCWU) was a trade union representing food processing workers in South Africa.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gugulethu

Gugulethu is a township in the Western Cape, South Africa and is 15 km from Cape Town.

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Helen Joseph

Helen Beatrice Joseph OMSG (née Fennell) (8 April 1905 – 25 December 1992) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

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Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union

The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass-based popular political movement in southern Africa.

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Internal resistance to apartheid

Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

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Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe

Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe, until 1994 known as the Isithwalandwe Medal, also known as the Isithwalandwe Award and also spelt Isithwalandwe and Isithwalandwe/Seaparankwe, is the highest award given by the African National Congress (ANC) "to those who have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle", that is, those who resisted the apartheid regime in South Africa (1949−1991) in various ways.

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Jack Simons (academic)

Jack Simons (1 February 190722 July 1995) was a South African university academic and anti-apartheid activist.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kgalema Motlanthe

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (born 19 July 1949) is a South African politician who served as the 3rd president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Legendary Heroes of Africa

Legendary Heroes of Africa was a series of postage stamps simultaneously issued and released as a joint issue by the countries of Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in March 2011 to celebrate Jewish heroes of the South African Liberation struggle.

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Leib Yaffe

Aryeh Leib Yaffe (June 5, 1876 - March 11, 1948) (אריה לייב יפה) was a Hebrew poet, journalist and editor of Haaretz newspaper.

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Lillian Ngoyi

Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, "Mma Ngoyi", OMSG (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

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Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

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Order for Meritorious Service

The Order for Meritorious Service is a South African National Order that consisted of two classes, in gold and silver, and was awarded to deserving South African citizens.

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Pass law

In South Africa under apartheid, and South West Africa (now Namibia), pass laws served as an internal passport system designed to racially segregate the population, restrict movement of individuals, and allocate low-wage migrant labor.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Communist Party

The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa.

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South African Congress of Trade Unions

The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was a national trade union federation in South Africa.

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South African Railways and Harbours Union

The South African Railways and Harbours Union was formed by black workers of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration after they had been expelled from the National Union of Railway and Harbour Servants.

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South African Trades Union Congress

The South African Trades Union Congress (TUC) was a national trade union federation in South Africa.

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Suppression of Communism Act, 1950

The Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 (Act No. 44 of 1950), renamed the Internal Security Act in 1976, was legislation of the national government in apartheid South Africa which formally banned the Communist Party of South Africa and proscribed any party or group subscribing to communism, according to a uniquely broad definition of the term.

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Alexander_Simons

Also known as Rachel Alexandrovich, Rachel Esther Alexandrowich, Rachel Simons, Ray Simons.

, University of Manchester, Varakļāni, Women's Charter, Zainunnisa Gool, Zambia, Zionism.

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See also

Jewish South African politicians

Latvian emigrants to South Africa

South African atheists

South African women in politics

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